Mod installation on Linux

f0rkz · April 13, 2016, 5:58pm

deekay0;388997:

Its finish: https://github.com/TheCherry/ark-server-manager/blob/master/src/z_unpack.py
you can now decompress .z files with that:
python z_unpack.py "modfile.uasset.z" "modfile.uasset"
Hope it work correctly for bigger z files too, need some tests with decompressed files by the original ARK game.

At last there is a .mod file too. Its not hard to build it, but need to code that too.
Then you can start to develop your script.

Dude. You don’t even know how happy I am that I found this. You are a life saver to say the least.

I used your code and turned it into a class for my project:

github.com

f0rkz/ARKDaemon/blob/master/ARKDaemon/ZUnpack.py

import struct
import zlib


class ZUnpack(object):
    def __init__(self, src_file, dst_file):
        self.src_file = src_file
        self.dst_file = dst_file

    @staticmethod
    def str_to_l(st):
        return struct.unpack('q', st)[0]

    def z_unpack(self):
        with open(self.src_file, 'rb') as f_src:
            with open(self.dst_file, 'wb') as f_dst:
                f_src.read(8)
                size1 = self.str_to_l(f_src.read(8))
                f_src.read(8)
                size2 = self.str_to_l(f_src.read(8))

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Ok, so I am like 70% sure I have what you guys are looking for in my script. I am still developing the **** out of this program but I wanted to share it as I have had some hurdles to jump over to accommodate mods thanks to the backward way they are packaged.

There’s the script. As of this writing the (hopefully working) mod stuff is in the dev branch. I am going to do some minor testing to make sure that it all works and I will be ready to merge to master.

One thing I was wondering is if it matters between the WindowsNoEditor and LinuxNoEditor files. I’ve been using Windows for Windows and Linux for Linux, but I see arkmanager uses the Windows branch by default.

Edit:

Well, looks like LinuxNoEditor ends up with massive crashes. Switched to WindowsNoEditor and everything works! I installed Valhalla on my test environment and it is working. I can’t test if the other mods installed work without the mod file (so far I am guessing it does). I will update with more tonight.