If the file is a global, no problem as it is at the root of the extracted files.īut if it is nested inside some folders, it is important that the exact same folder structure will be kept and dragged over PSARCTool exe. pak at once will occupy your CPU at 100% for some minutes and will fill about 33GB of your hard drive ! repacking a simple mod įor a mod, you often only edit a single file, or just a few of them. This means you won't really be able to use your computer for a few minutes, the time all the game assets will be extracted.īe also aware that you will need some free space on your hard drive as the 4.08 game version assets occupy 32.4GB !Įxtracting all the. pak files from the game PCBANKS folder and drag them over the tool icon.īe aware though that this will open as many instances of PSARCTool than there are. If you want to start modding, the first thing to do is to extract all the. drag and drop any group of files and folders over it and it will compress them into a 'psarc.pak' file.Įxtracting all the game assets.pak file over it and it will decompress the files and folders contained in the. pak files, a little program called PSARCTool was created by Periander at the early days of No Man's Sky, but as the format never evolved, you can still use PSARCtool to unpak mods created for the very first game version ! All No Man's Sky game assets are stored in compressed files, the.
