ARK: Survival Ascended

[DrakeH]

Nothing loads for me :/
Read the links you linked but all they say is "There's issues"

[Aifias]

I've attempted this as well with picking specifically Ark Survival Ascended in the drop down, and each version of UE 5.  Can't seem to get anything to open or export.  Opening doesn't seem to do much, and exporting gives the error in the screenshot attached.

Anyone have any ideas?  I would absolutely love to get this working for Ark Ascended!

[LegnaX]

Hello, guys. I am very sorry for necroing the post, but this is the perfect post for asking something like this.
I already managed to extract every dino from the game, with texture mapping and animations, for Blender, but the issue I am having now is extracting models from mods. We have a few mods that feature fully made dinos with custom animations and textures, but opening them returns this error:

Code:

Serializing behind stopper (4+D6A800 > B348)
FMemReader::Serialize <- FString<< <- FIoDirectoryIndexResource::Serialize <- FIoStoreTocResource::Read <- FIOStoreFileSystem::AttachReader <- TokArchive <- RegisterGameFile: C:\Users\LegnaX\Desktop\Moros_Indomitable_Duo\Content\Paks\WindowsServer/Moros_Indomitable_Duopakchunk0-WindowsServer.pak <- ScanGameDirectory <- appSetRootDirectory: dir=C:\Users\LegnaX\Desktop\Moros_Indomitable_Duo\Content\Paks\WindowsServer <- Main: umodel_build=1590

Is there a way to do this? I appreciate any help! I used the last version of UE Viewer, the 64 bits version, the material version, and the UE5 compatible version, always applying the ARK SE override, but it always crashed.

[LegnaX]

Hey, hello @spiritovod. Glad to talk to you again.

No, I am talking about Evolved, and I was trying to open this mod with UModel Viewer.


I guess the fact that has the "WindowsServer" thing on the name means it's a server asset, and therefore that makes it unviable to open with UModel Viewer, then?

[Aifias]

@spiritovod: Thanks for the reply, I will be giving that a shot today! =)

[spiritovod]

@Aifias: Could you try to open the mesh shown on the screenshot from the first post? If it works, but some other particular skeletal meshes are not, it can be umodel issue. If you can't load any skeletal mesh, it's rather user error and the only explanation I could think of are server files. Also, in case if you have mods applied, you can try to temporarily move them somewhere else to exclude from umodel's scope as well (but in general they should be supported).

[LegnaX]

@LegnaX: That link is leading to Ascended mods section - I suppose it's a ported version of original mod for Evolved. On the "Files" tab there you can see two download types: "windows" and "windowsserver". First contains graphics assets, while second one contains only stubs for them, as server doesn't render graphics anyway. It's not like you can't open server assets, it's just there are no umodel compatible assets among them. If you'll download client version of that mod, you should be able to open it in respective umodel build, just read the first post and linked there topics carefully. Also check if you're using latest specific build, as I added more intrusive error for missing global container, which is required in this case (it can be copied from base game). See attached example from this mod for reference.

Right. I used the mod from ARK: Survival Ascended instead of the one from ARK: Survival Evolved. I was 100% sure I used the correct mod, and that's why I didn't bother to double-check. Like, I checked everything except that I was using the Ark: SA mod instead of the Ark: SE one. I am very sorry for wasting everyone's time, and thank you very much for your help, once again, @spiritovod.