Ns_sync is lost forever
badmofo
Join Date: 2002-01-28 Member: 121Members
<div class="IPBDescription">I'm suicidal</div>It almost doesn't seem real. After I put the past 3 months into ns_sync, I was so close to showing you all a new batch of photo's showing off the mess hall, first hive, second hive, landing pods, command center, and the improved sync transport. I was one day away. I set my computer to compile the other night...so eager to see everything fully lit and cohesive for the first time. so close to something that could be playable in the next beta test...and with delight i set my computer to compile the other night.
well guess what. My HD crashed. I've lost everything. And I mean everything. All my textures, all my designs, all the hours of freakin mapping and mapping and mapping. everyone probably thought i was dead because i've been mapping/texturing so god damn much.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the last backup of my PC i have is from march. All I have is basically the last update you all saw from me. how depressing is that...I don't even know where to start over again...I don't know if I want to start...I just want to go sit in the corner and cry. over 160 hours of work down the drain. because of some stupid ####### hardware crash. why couldn't it be my mother board or my RAM or something...why my damn Hard drive?<!--emo&???--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'><!--endemo-->? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!! what a horrid horrid day.
*throws the useless hunk of metal containing his finest work ever into the trash can*
well guess what. My HD crashed. I've lost everything. And I mean everything. All my textures, all my designs, all the hours of freakin mapping and mapping and mapping. everyone probably thought i was dead because i've been mapping/texturing so god damn much.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the last backup of my PC i have is from march. All I have is basically the last update you all saw from me. how depressing is that...I don't even know where to start over again...I don't know if I want to start...I just want to go sit in the corner and cry. over 160 hours of work down the drain. because of some stupid ####### hardware crash. why couldn't it be my mother board or my RAM or something...why my damn Hard drive?<!--emo&???--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'><!--endemo-->? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!! what a horrid horrid day.
*throws the useless hunk of metal containing his finest work ever into the trash can*
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If that doesn't work, then yeah, it's really gone. sorry man.
Take it into a computer shop and have them recover what's recoverable, I'm pretty sure you can always find somewhere that will do this service for you. It would deffinately be worth your while, just imagine how much you would have to pay someone to do the work you've done. At $15 an hour that's $2400, in comparison getting your hard drive recovered is cheap <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo-->
I really hope you'll be able to retrieve the data.
Good luck!
I can barely imagine how gutted you must be badmofo, I know how down I get when I only lost only two weeks work.
Badmofo, retrieve your hard drive immediately and get an expert to pull the data off of it for you. If you want, you can send it to me and my friend will do some work on it (he does it for a living and was able to recover lots of data for me).
Lastly, what about a .bsp decompiler? Would that let you get your map back, assuming you have any .bsps still that you sent anyone?
a bsp decompiler would not be a good solution because they don't really work all that well. he'd almost have to redo the map and just use the decompile as a guide.
I too recommend getting a hard drive data guru guy to yank off your rmf's (and don't forget that all important porn collection!) off the dead hard drive - it'll be a thousand times worth it as you'll save time and you'll be overjoyed that you don't have to start the map over.
Good luck...
That's horrible news, must be awful having to put up with it. :/ Best of luck.
as for the HD...I live with a computer tech (sp?). And all my friends are computer tech's. We all sat down and tried to recover stuff off the drive for like 12 hours straight. We got some stuff...mostly crap I didn't even need. I even got some of the rmf's back but unfortunately nothing of sync's was retrievable...i mean it looked like the HD was run over with a magnet...we're talking like 5% of the files were retreivable and that's it.
but still i know how you feel
All right everybody STAND BACK
*Clear, shock, thump*
Live, you SOB live!!!
/me goes looking for a gravestone <!--emo&???--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'><!--endemo-->
Your's is just plain ol bad luck, and I feel for ya buddy. Best of luck getting your files back.
we all pray for you hd to born again.
i have all the textures and models complete and all safe and sound but alll the mapping is almost lost with badmofos crash.
I will yust have to talk to badmofo and see if we will trye to restart something?
or i will go my own way with some other project its up to badmofo? <!--emo&:(--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':('><!--endemo-->
There may still be a chance though. Don't give up.
i recommend buying segates <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo-->
good luck on the new version, i'm sure it'll be better
I wish you a lot of good luck on
your next attempt to finish sync.
But do also look at the bright side,
You've learned yourself and probably
quite a few other people a worthy lesson.
Just don't give up, you can do this <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->