[UE4] Life Makeover

[Moonstrewn]

I've had zero issues until the most recent update. Since Xentax is gone where the OG dragon raja scripts were posted by their creator I'm unsure how to report the error! I religiously follow the info here alongside HarukaSakurai's guide for ripping the game and I've attached the error I'm now encountering when running the BMS script on the iguf dat files.

I've uninstalled/reinstalled the game and ensured all of the resources were downloaded, but I notice that between ripping it today vs on 2/4 iguf_09.dat is much smaller and there is now a iguf_0a.dat, but I have a feeling this doesn't matter but thought I should mention it!

If needed, I can provide the dat files, I would just need time to upload them since most are about 2 gigs a piece.
Unsure if anyone else is also having this issue!

[terminalgeek]

I've finally got most of the meshes ripped, but I'm missing 90% of the textures, are they in another iguf file? I've tried to extract ALL of them but that was taking 4+ days and I wasn't even half done...

[Lyws]

How can I browse these textures? After using the BMS script to extract game files, I was able to find the texture files for. ubulk and. uexp, but UModel is missing and I am unable to view and export them.I have uploaded these files to Google Drive, if you need them.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OkwmkITXIffp2IM8fFxJp5XNVbJ1Sov-/view?usp=sharing

[Lyws]

@Lyws: It's related to incomplete extraction or incorrect merging (respective uasset files are missing from assets). I can't help beyond what was already explained in the topic multiple times and in the tutorial, mentioned in the first post (which is summary for all that).

I am sure that I downloaded and extracted all the files of the game according to the tutorial, but I found that it is not a small part of the uasset files that are missing, but a lot of them are missing, and they mostly appear in the texture files. Although I can obtain these textures through ninjar ripper, is it possible that the BMS script did not fully extract the game files?

[Oleander]

Hello, I know there's been previous posts mentioning missing .uassets (which aren't my only issue) and that they aren't considered an issue with the script, but I wanted to mention something that I've been encountering just in case.

I've been getting the files successfully for a long time using the method described in this thread. I normally target configs.png, data.png, and ui.png (with ui.png being the most important to me). This was all totally fine when I was doing this regularly, and then I uninstalled Life Makeover around December. I recently came back and reinstalled in August, and wanted to get access to the contents of those files again. While I was able to perform the process properly as described here, I noticed that the PNGs seem to be missing .uassets in the ui.png files after a certain point. eg. In \ui\surfaces\atlasmakeup, the ui.png files only seem to have up until atlas153.uasset for those atlas files, but I can get up to atlas175.uexp from the iguf files. Or in \ui\surfaces\suit, it only goes up to suit554l.uasset, but I can get up to suit620l.uexp from the iguf files (which would be accurate to what has released). This repeats across all the ui.png files where I am unable to get .uassets from more recent patches. I've reinstalled the game multiple times while making sure to delete all remaining files from my system first, always verified my file integrity, but still no luck. I'm also using the version from Steam. I also do actively play this game, so it shouldn't be a matter of failing to download anything, either. It just seems like there's something missing from the PNGs now.

I'm recognizing this is likely not a script problem. But it does make me wonder if the game is handling files differently somehow. (I would love to be wrong about this and for it just to be user error.) Aside from the missing .uassets from the ui.png files, the files I would often check in configs.png (mostly configs\_lang_en\lottery_cfg.lua) and data.png (mostly data\_lang_en\fashion_essence.bcfg) also seem to stop having content from more recent patches after a certain point. I would usually check these for item types, descriptions, names, and Lightchase stories, but they just don't seem to be updating with new information anymore, either. So I'm not really sure what's going on with the files, if I'm doing something wrong, or if the game is just storing some information in a different location now. From what I can tell from looking at the files I can access, it seems like the .uasset files stop being present from around a patch in May 2025 for me (specifically the patch from April 23 - May 13 2025, as the last set images from ui.png in the \surfaces\suit\ folder that have .uassets were released in that patch). The same seems to be true for the configs and data files I would normally check, where they no longer seem to be updating for any patches since that time.

If there's any possible insight you could offer, or further recommended troubleshooting I should be doing, I'd be grateful.

[Oleander]

@spiritovod: Ah, okay. Your description here actually makes things much clearer for me by specifying that it's the extracted assets that are merged, thank you. The guide by HarukaSakurai made me think otherwise, which is why I was doing it incorrectly. I'll do what you've said instead.