Population One Localizer

Locally cache assets that are normally streamed in POPULATION: ONE. Resolves numerous issues related to asset streaming & saves bandwith.

Installation

1. Install the latest version of Python 3
2. Install tqdm via pip (pip install tqdm)

Usage

You must perform this process after every game update

1. Boot your game up and go to the main menu at least once
2. Copy the .json file from C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\LocalLow\BigBoxVR\Population_ ONE\com.unity.addressables to the directory you extracted the localizer
3. Open pop1_localizer.py in a text editor, ensure that build_number is set to whatever is currently listed below
   • LIVE (non-playtest): v278
4. Run pop1_localizer.py, wait for the download to complete (this is about 35GB worth of assets, so it will take some time)
5. Copy all of the .bundle files from the newly created assets folder to your_pop_1_install_folder/PopulationONE_Data/StreamingAssets/aa/StandaloneWindows64
6. Copy the .json file from the newly created replacement_json folder to C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\LocalLow\BigBoxVR\Population_ ONE\com.unity.addressables and overwrite the existing file