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PlasmaShop is a useful general tool for many age-related tasks that lie outside of what the PRP Blender Plugin can do: create PAK files, decompyle/compile Python scripts, sum age files, etc. It is maintained by Zrax.

Setting Up PlasmaShop

1. In the Python folder of your standalone URU installation, create a new folder named "src"
2. Download Python 2.2.3: http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.2.3/Python-2.2.3.exe
3. Run Python-2.2.3.exe to install it. Leave all the options selected.
4. Download PlasmaShop: PlasmaShop-2.2.zip
5. Unzip its contents to your desired target folder - there is no installer.
6. Download PRPTool: PRPTool-0.2.zip
7. Unzip its contents into the PlasmaShop folder - PlasmaShop uses this to explore PRP files.
8. Run PlasmaShop.exe. Choose Edit Games... from the Games menu.
9. In the Edit Games dialog, click on "Add Game..."
   1. Set "Game Name:" to "Standalone URU"
   2. Set "Game Type" to "URU" (for an URU:Ages Beyond Myst install) or "TPOTS" (for an UrU:The Path Of The Shell or URU:Complete Chronicles install:
   3. Set "Location" to your standalone URU Installation (e.g. C:\Program Files\Ubi Soft\Cyan Worlds\Myst Uru Complete Chronicles)
   4. Click Save
10. Close the Edit Games dialog. The left column of the PlasmaShop window should now list several folders.
11. Choose "Options..." from the File menu.
12. On the Options dialog, go to the Python tab.
    1. Set "Python 2.2 Interpreter" to the Python.exe located in your Python-2.2.3 installation
    2. Click the Save button
13. In the left column of the PlasmaShop window, expand the Python folder and double-click on python.pak.
14. After a few seconds, a dialog will appear with a list of the compiled Python files contained by python.pak.
15. Click "Extract All...". Then browse to the "src" folder in the Python folder of your standalone URU installation.
16. Exit PlasmaShop.