What is the easiest PBO tool to use?

[meade95 0]

I have never used any of the ARMA PBO tools. However, I would like to be able to open a PBO mission.....in order to extract it over to my "mydoc/missions" folder..... So I can open and learn from it witin the editor?

What is the simpliest PBO tool for doing such? Thanks for the help.

[Jack_Ryan_ 10]

unPBO works for many missions, but some I can't open. CpBo works well for a friend, but I haven't figured it out.

[{G&L}ACF{SCOTDG} 10]

Use Eliteness I use it all the time to open missions :)

[kylania 568]

cpbo.exe by far. Double click to open, rclick a folder to create. Done and done.

(The only caveat is that OA itself steals the *.pbo extension mapping, so you need to do one quick registry edit to restore cpbo's control.)

[Wolfrug 0]

Could you remind me how to do that (make cpbo affiliated with .pbo files again instead of stupid OA): it annoyed me back in some Arma 2 patch or other (maybe 1.05?), but I forgot how to fix it... :mad:

Regards,

Wolfrug

[kylania 568]

Basically the -e ends up missing in all the extract commands, so make sure that:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.pbo\shell\Extract\command is set to: "C:\PathToWhereYouPut\cpbo.exe" -e "%1"

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.pbo\shell\extract PBO...\command is set to: "C:\PathToWhereYouPut\cpbo.exe" -gui -e "%1"

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\.pbo\shell\Extract\command is set to: "C:\PathToWhereYouPut\cpbo.exe" -gui -e "%1"

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\.pbo\shell\extract PBO...\command is set to: "C:\PathToWhereYouPut\cpbo.exe" -gui -e "%1"

[blackpulpit 10]

Could someone explain in more detail how to use the cpbo.

I left click it it opens the black box? it then says "do you wish to associate cpbo with PBO files and directories" , I click yes then what? were do I go from here in order to open a mission and change it in my editor? thanks all.

[Laertes 10]

After its installed just right-click on a .pbo file and click extract.

If there is no option to extract, then you need to change the file associations of the .pbo filetype, there are several ways to do that, Kylania's for one, I cheat and use a slightly easier way.

Open Notepad and copy and pasta this:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.pbo\AppsTable]

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\PBO_auto_file]
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\PBO_auto_file]
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.pbo]

And save it as a .reg file. Then go to where it has been saved and double-click the file. Then reinstall cPbo and it should work as advertised.

[kylania 568]

Could someone explain in more detail how to use the cpbo.

I left click it it opens the black box? it then says "do you wish to associate cpbo with PBO files and directories" , I click yes then what? were do I go from here in order to open a mission and change it in my editor? thanks all.

Yup, click YES to that and it makes the registry changes. Then make the chances I or Laertes suggested to fix the extract options, then you can just double click a pbo file to create a folder from it. Or right click on a folder and create PBO from it.

[BeerHunter 0]

PBOView I find the easiest to install and use. You can simply double click on sqf , html , cpp etc. files to view them in a window.

I simply associate the pbo files to PBO View then they open in PBO View rather than starting ArmA2.

[Wolfrug 0]

I can't get PBOView (also my fav) to work with .pbos ever since OA :(

Also, none of the registry dealios seem to work for me either, it's drivin' me nuts. At least Eliteness still functions, so it's not all lost...

Regards,

Wolfrug

[BeerHunter 0]

Odd....because I don't have any problems opening PBO's with it.

[kyfohatl 10]

Eliteness definately. Even a noob like me could use it without having to asked 20 questions.

[Dynamic Echo 10]

CBPO is the easiest I find for creating pbos, but I prefer Eliteness for unpacking.

[Birdseye 0]

another variation,

I use totalcommander, and files from http://dev-heaven.net/projects/mikero-pbodll

In the menu I've added

extract pbo

extract pbo and unrapify

create pbo and don't rapify

create pbo and rapify

also

covert cpp to bin

convert bin to cpp

In totalcmd, just select a pbo file, and select extract pbo and unrapify, and the pbo is unpacked and at the same time the .bin becomes a .cpp

files used:

Rapify1.71.rar

MakePbo1.73.rar

ExtractPbo1.75.rar

Derapify1.65a.rar

DePbo3.10.rar

if there's interest I can post the parameters I used.

Works very well, and files from mikero are portable

Edited August 15, 2010 by Birdseye

[sbsmac 0]

If you want a command-line tool which can extract all files of a given type from a pbo or automatically unrap config.bin files from a pbo ... https://sites.google.com/site/macsarmatools/pbo

One of these days I'll add a UI to it.

[Birdseye 0]

Looks very usefull and compact, and on your site there are other things to try!

Thanks for the link :)

[Fox '09 14]

Mikero's tools are by far the best in my opinion. mostly cause it un-bins CPPs , rvmats, etc.