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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace Discussion => Topic started by: TrashMan on September 06, 2006, 03:13:03 pm
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Well, I finally summed up the losses of my HDD moving to the great case beyonnd.
They are quite serious. While I recovered a lot, what it lost is no caughing matter:
HLT Demon
HTL Typhon
HTL Athena
HTL Phoenix
SDF-1 Soldier mode & dedalus attack - lost both the finished POF and the scenes
high detailed veritechs
Large starbase (textured model)
Asteroid installation
Several new ship I was making
Vasudan Starbase
WH40K Terminator & Commander models for Dawn of War
All weapons for the KOTOR2 mod except for the greatsabers
3DMax scenes set up for animations (all I had to do is a few last tweaks and hit the renbder bottun):
- asteroid belt fighter chase
- sith attack on corrusant
- final fleet battle
- D-wing escape
The whole EV:Nova mod (maby I can find someone who has the OLD version of it)
My own JA2 mod (mostly a few weapons)
And probably a few more things I can't even remember.
I started work on the HTL stuff again from scratch...which reminds me - where can I get that terran cockpit model?
I can extract from one of hte HTL models, but I want the one where the pilot isn't merged with the cockpit.
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F*ck! Really makes one wish that online backup services didn't cost a hundred bucks a year.
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I say external hard drive.
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External Hard Drive FTW!
In order to put the contents of my hdb (my non system hdd) online, I'd need to encrypt the entire damn thing
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HLT Demon
HLT = Hard Light Tragedies ? ;)
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oh, c'mon, archive everything to DVD... That's cheapest and that won't just vanish :\
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HTL Typhon
Noooooooooooooooo!![/Vader]
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I found a backup version of the old htl typhon, but it will require a lot of work.
I also found the old htl athena model but again the older version without the cockpit. I already started redoing it. And in a few hours I'll have a little surprise for you!
p.s. where the hell can i find that cockpit model?
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Dang.. It seems I also lost that great TS plugin which shows you the scene hierarcy and let's you drag and drop things (I even forgot how it was called).
I've been searching for it on the net, but havn't found it...
Does anyone know where I can get it?... that, and the cockip+pilot model.
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You use TS 5 right?
Well for anything above TS3.2 PI-SceneTool (http://www.lunadude.com/rsrc_trueSpace.htm) is what you want.
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I can't see it on the tool list.
Someone here on the forums must still have that plug in in his Truespace TSX folder.
I think the plugin was trueview (I can't recall dammit!).
So if anyone has it PLASE send it to me :D
EDIT: And yeah - teh cockpit modle - I've looked all over for it! Where the hell is it?
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Is this it? I use TS 3.2, so this might be it...
[attachment deleted by admin]
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Truview is good for 3.2 but for anything above that you want SceneTool as it's just ever so slightly better :)
Unfortunately it looks like Primative Itch have quit taking the download of SceneTool with them. I'll have a look see if I can find my copy in a bit.
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Comisserations about that. I know you don't want to hear this but I've never had any hard drive crashes. Ever. I gotta say I'm expecting one at some stage soon cause I'm using a few drives for backup that were previously dodgey OS disks. But I got the stuff on em on hard copy, they're just for quick loading.
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Yeah...at the time of hte chrash my burner wasn't functionaing properly. I had 2 HDDs and was about to make a backup but I was late for a bus so I moved it for later... fatal mistake
Now I have a secondary disk in a USB case and a new DVD burner so I guess I should be OK from now on :D
Thanks for hte Trueview
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I've had a filesystem crash once, back in DOS days... There was a blahblah named folder in the root dir... When I entered into it, there was xactly the same there! blahblah folder and all others... That was chained... Then I pressed delete on the top most blahblah, it started to delete everything on my HDD :D
EDIT: Oh, yea, my old 40GB HDD is broke too, but that's cuz I've opened it cuz the comp didn't allways recognize it, then apperently it couldn't take that :P
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Yeah...at the time of hte chrash my burner wasn't functionaing properly. I had 2 HDD and was about to make a backup but I was late for a bus so I moved it for later...
Now I have a secondary dick in a USB case
:eek:!
(sorry)
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EDIT: Oh, yea, my old 40GB HDD is broke too, but that's cuz I've opened it cuz the comp didn't allways recognize it, then apperently it couldn't take that :P
This is usually caused by a loose cable... it took me a long time to figure out that I needed to push that IDE ribbon in harder.
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Oh yeah! Got the Athena back in shape :D
UV mapping the craft will take some time dough.
(http://img433.imageshack.us/img433/327/athenacockpitby7.th.jpg) (http://img433.imageshack.us/my.php?image=athenacockpitby7.jpg)
As you can see, the pilot model is still missing. Where can I download it?
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WHERE CAN I FIND THE COCKPIT AND PILOT MODEL??
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Oh **** trash. I feel your loss immensely :( Only to a different degree, i just lost data only, not any projects i was working on in any nature.
I have a 160gb hard drive, and i had a 130gb partition in ntfs. Dual booting with mepis and windows 2000 pro at the time. And, lets just say it's not good at all to format in ntfs at all unless it's going to be the windows partition only. High degree for **** ups if you have ntfs partitions. I only ever had trouble with ntfs on the 130gb partition, and i lost all of my music, games, ripped movies, etc. Just in an instant.
So yeah, i did what i have a feeling you may have done, what i reccommend. Formatting any big partition you have to ext3.
Great for linux, and even great for windows as a matter of fact.
http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/ext2.html (http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/ext2.html)
Good thing to have, if you don't know about it :D
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Oh **** trash. I feel your loss immensely :( Only to a different degree, i just lost data only, not any projects i was working on in any nature.
I have a 160gb hard drive, and i had a 130gb partition in ntfs. Dual booting with mepis and windows 2000 pro at the time. And, lets just say it's not good at all to format in ntfs at all unless it's going to be the windows partition only. High degree for **** ups if you have ntfs partitions. I only ever had trouble with ntfs on the 130gb partition, and i lost all of my music, games, ripped movies, etc. Just in an instant.
So yeah, i did what i have a feeling you may have done, what i reccommend. Formatting any big partition you have to ext3.
Great for linux, and even great for windows as a matter of fact.
http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/ext2.html (http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/ext2.html)
Good thing to have, if you don't know about it :D
Yeah... the Linux ntfs drivers aren't exactly reliable for writing yet. I dualboot Debian and XP Home, and the only way I can avoid weekly rebuilds of Windows is to set up my fstab to have the ntfs partition be read-only.
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Hey TrashMan, didn't you also have that Demon/Typhon hybrid thing?
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Alas, it's lost too... :(
But I can allwas make it from scratch.
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Yeah... the Linux ntfs drivers aren't exactly reliable for writing yet. I dualboot Debian and XP Home, and the only way I can avoid weekly rebuilds of Windows is to set up my fstab to have the ntfs partition be read-only.
When running a dual boot with Windows, ALWAYS LEAVE THE WINDOWS PARTITION ALONE. Never ever have Linux and Windows on the same partition.
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I dual-boot WinXP Home SP2 and Ubuntu Linux 5.10...
I didn't want to take space from XP, so I decided to steal the old hard drive I had in an old computer...
An 80GB hard drive (NTFS) runs WinXP off of it.
An 8GB hard drive (linux formats, IDR all three of em) runs Ubuntu off of it.
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WHERE CAN I FIND THE COCKPIT AND PILOT MODEL??
http://n.ethz.ch/student/ebuerli/download/terrancockpit.rar
that one?