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  1. pbornemeier
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    I installed PowerShell version 7.4.1 and it worked find for extracting the info from 'Stranded Alien Dawn".  For the other PowerShell rookies besides me this is a clear guide to getting PS to run:  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2035193/how-to-run-a-powershell-script.  Many thanks to the OP and all those that have commented.  Now I just need to find a beginner LUA guide!

    As a note, the title text is overwriting the image instructions in the OP.  I had to copy the image to a image editor to be able to read steps 2 thru 5. 
  2. ChoGGi
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    If anyone can provide free tools to reliably convert the DDS to png, please post in comments.
    https://github.com/microsoft/DirectXTex/releases

    texconv.exe *.dds -ft tga

    (or png)

    quote from devs about the dds files
    For the UI images shipped with the game we switched to BC7 compression format, which we store in DDS files. We use Intel's ispc_texcomp
    conversion library (on GitHub).
    Because BC7 works on 4x4 blocks of pixels, and thus requires image dimensions to be multiples of 4; we
    internally pad the images to 4x4, but still store the "real" dimensions
    in the header, because we need the exact original size to do UI layout.
    This probably makes them look corrupted to some tools.


    (I've mentioned this on my extract hpk files guide)
    1. jackalopefeet
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      Thank You, ChoGGi !!
      You're the best!
  3. Zellno
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    This tool also works in the new game of
    Haemimont Games the Stranded Alien Dawn, but so far no one has mod or cheated it.
    Thanks for the tool.
    1. kastian85
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      Hi mate. Sorry to bother you, but as you have said you got it to work, I thought i'd ask a question in case i'm missing something simple, Powershell7 keeps coming back with error: hpk.exe missing and error: unluac.jar missing despite both being in the same folder. Did you experience anything like this when you ran the unpackall.ps1 script?
  4. gromgor81
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    Hi, it don't work.
    C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Surviving Mars\UnpackAll.ps1:64 sign:20+ ...   $hpkList | ForEach-Object -ThrottleLimit $throttleLimit -Parallel {+                  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~    + CategoryInfo          : MetadataError: (:) [ForEach-Object], ParameterBindingException    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : AmbiguousParameterSet,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.ForEachObjectCommand
    1. jackalopefeet
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      be sure you're using the right version of PowerShell, it requires 7
  5. Soulinet
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    Hey, great tool !

    Maybe you should add a warning on the front page that this will not work with Power Shell 5.x

    Seems to work fine on 7.1.5. Haven't tested any version between those two.
    1. jackalopefeet
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      Thank you, I have added PowerShell 7 as a requirement per your suggestion.
    2. gromgor81
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      k
  6. orienrac
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    I had some problems trying to run the Script. Solved it by executing PowerShell 7 as Adm at the root folder, then executing ".\UnpackAll.ps1".
  7. Bl00d5p4tt3r
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    Octagon Texconv with Gmic?
  8. PiusAugustus
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    I"m using Paint.NET to convert DDS to PNG.