UnrealPakTool VS nakama

Get https://github.com/allcoolthingsatoneplace/UnrealPakTool

Found this github repo which explains how to use the commands with the tool called UnrealPak. My plan was to unpack the assets, replace assets, re-pack assets.

Looks like this will have to be done on Windows using a tool like this https://github.com/allcoolthingsatoneplace/UnrealPakTool

Assets such as meshes, animations, textures and sounds can be ripped from the compiled project with something like Unreal Pak Tool, unless they are encrypted and you don't have access to the encryption key.

In regards to datamining, it starts with a solid foundation of computers and programming. Then compression, encryption, and reverse engineering. It is a difficult thing to learn, but there are some handy tools out there that work universally for some engines like the UnrealPAKTool and UtinyRipper. Look through their code and try to understand how they are dealing with files.

nakama: https://github.com/heroiclabs/nakama

To add more detail on the recent work on the ZHeap storage engine. We (Heroic Labs) sponsored work for the Cybertec team to bring it up to date with latest improvements and changes with Postgres' pluggable storage engine:

you can do that, but for what platform? html5? windows? android?, the most easiest way is use firestore a service from firebase (offer a free tier), it is the easiest way not the better, other way is use a service like nakama that is more professional and something in the middle can be mmm pocketbase or supabase.

I recommend the backend solution called Nakama since you’re using Godot: https://heroiclabs.com/

You could create all this yourself, or you can use existing solutions which handle all this (and much more I didn't mention). One that I'm aware of that works with Godot is Nakama. They have a paid hosting option, or you can host the application yourself.

I read using nakama server for this is convinient. https://heroiclabs.com/

Does anyone have recommendations on what to use? I've done a bit of research and found https://heroiclabs.com/. It's a bit unclear to me if it actually supports server side state because it talks about 'hosts' a bit, but I think it does...and it seems like you can host it yourself to avoid the $600 a MONTH! pricetag. But any other recommendations? Has anyone used heroic before?

You might be interested in Nakama server from https://heroiclabs.com/

Depending on how much effort you want to put in to this, you might consider something like Nakama: https://github.com/heroiclabs/nakama

There have been mentions of Normcore, Fish-Net, and Nakama as well.