Newbie looking to unpack .pbos

[KaBoNG]

Tried that Gunter - it works for A2 and OA pbos but not BAF or PMC pbos.

Are you able to unpack the BAF and PMC pbos?

I don't have high hopes, based on T_D's reply above, but would be happy to be surprised.

[Günter Severloh]

Sorry I dont own those other games, just everything to Arma2 and Arma2.
Surely theres a way.

[GadgetUK]

I've managed to unpack the PBO's via the command line only; which is fine. What I'd like to know is: where is the information within the PBO that states where the units will appear within the Editor unit tree? i.e. which side; whether is is USMC, US ARMY, BAF; and whether it is AIR, MEN, SHIP? I want to reorganise these because my unit tree is getting very fragmented with all the addons.

[Günter Severloh]

where is the information within the PBO that states where the units will appear within the Editor unit tree?

I want to reorganise these because my unit tree is getting very fragmented with all the addons.

Excellent question, and it would be a neat idea to do that, I mean if your in the editor imagine if you could reorganize the units ladder,
or the others related to where you want.

You know, come to think of it it wouldn't be a bad idea to have that feature in the editor to begin with.
I mean your going to be the only one using your editor why not have it organised the way you want, based on how you edit and or do things.

Well being outside of your question as to how to do it, I got to assume its a configuration file seperate from the addons or
pbos themself that takes the pbos and integrates them, just a guess really, but Im sure someone would know perhaps one of the addon makers.

Hope you figure it out.

[Jack_Ryan_]

Have you tried Eliteness? It works well for arma2, not sure about the DLC like baf though.

[Echo38]

Sorry for resurrecting such an old thread, but I have wasted nearly an hour searching through troubleshooting threads and trying out different PBO tools. I am a Bear of Very Little Brain and cannot get any of the PBO tools to work. I do not want to mess with my registry. Running cPBO from the command line isn't working, nor are any of the other non-registry-fiddly recommended fixes for any of the PBO tools I've tried. Can anyone help me get an easy-to-use PBO extractor tool working? I'm an artist, not a programmer. ("Damn it, Jim!") Oh--nearly forgot; I'm trying to extract default BIS PBOs from Arma 2 Free, not the encoded expansions' PBO files.

[Kildar]

I've seen your post earlier and I would personally recommend PBO Manager. It's easy to use, built into the context menu (when you right click in Explorer). After installing, simply move the PBO of choice into your A2 Profile\missions folder (available in My Docs) and extract the pbo into its own folder. When you're done editing, use the context menu again to repackage it.

[Echo38]

Hmm, the BIS community wiki doesn't seem to have an entry on PBO Manager. Any idea why?

[[APS]Gnat]

Because its not made by BIS.
Search for "WINSE"

[Snake Man]

There is page just for this PMC Editing Wiki: how to open arma2 files.