It wasn't in game yet and the situation was more complicated then that. anyway. It was on a USB stick. I recently got an SSD, I had problems cloning the OS. So I found my product key and did a fresh install. This where it gets complicated. To install windows you either have to use a USB stick or a CD. I backed up my USB onto a hard drive I wasn't going to use once updated. The fresh install went fine, I really enjoyed using the computer. I moved all my files from the hard drive On to my new drive, which would have the blender files in them. I then formatted the hard drive that had all the stuff which I had placed on the SSD. Then of course it was time to go to bed, I used the operating system shut down button then made my way up to my bedroom. I don't exactly know what the computer did while I was going to my bed room, but I know for sure that it had downloaded updates. It has been known for a windows update to corrupt an MBR (master boot record). I don't know what actually happened, that is just a hypothesis.Anyway when I went to use the computer in the morning it wouldn't boot. I used my USB to try and repair the MBR but nothing was working, I also tried using CMD prompts but nothing I tried worked. After trouble shooting for what would have been over three hours I gave up, not remembering I had formatted the hard drive and decided to install windows again after formatting that SSD. Which is still working now and booting perfectly fine now. For what its worth I probably should have known that stuff was on the SSD, it's not like I shouldn't have tried to get back that stuff either. Before I used USB stick for blender and other files it had a portable version of windows 10 I could plug into any computer than work on my stuff, I could have done that managed hard drives/SSD's and got all my stuff back. But now that has happened I can't look back anymore, I must proceed.
Oh ok, well i guess that was a flop, but I wish you the best luck on either recovering, if possible and or continuing on
Maybe Piriform Recuva can help. You can see if you can recover what was lost on that usb stick of yours. You can also use it to find out whose sd card you had found on the ground by undeleting a bunch of files. Hopefully your files aren't trashed by now.
Efforts to start 3D modeling again are underway, I know it may come as a surprise to many of you I only started work again on this project today, this is because I need to feel confident again about doing this project. Anyway after about half an hour of work this is where I'm at. The design of this version will be more similar to the standard looking LMP1 cars but will keep the F1 style front nose. --- Post updated ---
In order to pressure myself to make progress on this project I will upload new images of this project every Monday, this will also be used to showcase progress of the project.
You should also make cloud backups in places like mediafire, dropbox, conversations on the forum or this thread, where you think is good, I have a alfa version of the skyline that is shared with a few users, and its not only a alpha version, its a backup too. you know, its a good ideia to have them "backuped" (trust me i did some things that made me lost a considerably amount of progress (now i look everytime that i export any mesh...), and a backup version closest to the one that is being worked helps a lot). Im sorry for the big text but is a tip from someone that had similar problems and is realy looking forward to see this mod done
I agree with you, backup is needed, also i could give you ideas: A big difusser, like the one in the aston martin. A different nose style(as a variant) A variety of engines(so we would simulate LMP1, LMP2 and LMP3 cars) Also more visuals(to simulate the classes)
Front wing is based of the Bmw f1-08, it isn't an exact replica of it as it has been widened to fit the rest of the vehicle better.
Here is the progress made on the project within the last week. I've decided to redo the front side of the aerodynamics, I'm unsure of how I should do the lights in the second photo. If you wish to leave suggestions for the light please do so, it will make my life easier to see what people want the lights to look like. The last photo is shot from a perspective within the stigs helmet at 120 degrees FOV. I have contacted B25 Mitch on permission about using the stig in the vehicle, he hasn't replied back yet but I figure that there's a pretty good chance I will be allowed to use him. --- Post updated --- What do you guys think of these lights? I need to know which are your favorites. There will be a pole at the top of this thread to vote on your favorites. Make sure you choose the correct photo to vote on as well! 1. 2. 3. 4.
Progress all from the last 5 days, the reason I'm uploading a progress report is due to the fact that I am going on holiday on Monday and therefore won't be able to post then. The car has been worked on entirely on the rear end and in my opinion looks absolutely great in the render. The exhausts are up for discussion and therefore there will be a poll to vote on your favorite style, the choices will be: 1. Single Exhaust 2. Dual Exhaust (As seen in the photo) 3. Quad Exhaust (As seen on Pagani Zonda) 4. Quad Exhaust (As seen on Corvette Z06) VOTE HERE: https://goo.gl/PXtbdf For those eagle eyed on this forum you may have been able to see the stig holding a steering wheel, the wheel is complete and is final for the car. Here are some photos
maybe a quad exhaust with a slightly bigger circumference than the pipes in the dual exhaust picture, the pipes seem a bit small for the opening, or is that just the angle it's at, it looks like you could fit slightly bigger pipes when I look above and below the pipes, other than that I feel the quad pipes will fit the rectangular shape perfectly
