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4 hours ago, Oban said:

Some bad news, 
My laptop died a death all of a sudden, (catastrophic motherboard failure) and with it pretty much all my raw files and textures that I've worked on for the past 5 years. 

As it stands now, there's 10% chance of some files being recovered, yeah I had some files backed up on a separate drive, but I'm without a working laptop, and the last one cost me £1600 only in January, I cannot afford to replace this right now, as I have to wait for the full report. 
I maybe able to claim on purchase insurance with my bank, but that's going to take a while.. 

Until then, everything is on hold, and possibly if it's not good news with file recovery, then I honestly don't know if I have the time and effort to begin everything again from scratch..

Bad news😞

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5 hours ago, Oban said:

Some bad news, 
My laptop died a death all of a sudden, (catastrophic motherboard failure) and with it pretty much all my raw files and textures that I've worked on for the past 5 years. 

As it stands now, there's 10% chance of some files being recovered, yeah I had some files backed up on a separate drive, but I'm without a working laptop, and the last one cost me £1600 only in January, I cannot afford to replace this right now, as I have to wait for the full report. 
I maybe able to claim on purchase insurance with my bank, but that's going to take a while.. 

Until then, everything is on hold, and possibly if it's not good news with file recovery, then I honestly don't know if I have the time and effort to begin everything again from scratch..

surely laptop is under warranty if its that new and the failure that bad ? and files will be on hard disk / ssd / nvme in it - so should be easy to get hold of.  

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17 hours ago, andyc said:

surely laptop is under warranty if its that new and the failure that bad ? and files will be on hard disk / ssd / nvme in it - so should be easy to get hold of.  

Warranty voided when I installed a second SSD for DCS world. 

Now to the potential good news.

Repairs called me yesterday, and said the issue was down to RAM, and that I should have the laptop back today(wed) and that the files I requested to be recovered if possible  were all recovered, won't know for sure until I get the laptop back 

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Well .... the news wasn't good, the files that I thought were recovered were not, and all of my 3ds Max source files are gone, too much lost to even contemplate modding again, way too much time and effort has been lost, and at my age, I really don't want to start from scratch again. 

Sadly, the Type 42 will no longer be. 

@Beldin has a copy of what was being worked on (edm's) but not the source files, if he feels up to it, and thinks it's good enough to release then he has my permission to do so. 

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That's too much bad news....  But that dose remind me to upload my current files to my G-Drive. 

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3 hours ago, joey45 said:

That's too much bad news....  But that dose remind me to upload my current files to my G-Drive. 

On a new laptop the last thing I expected was a total failure and the HD having to be wiped and re-installed. 
 

all the recovery did was recover folders, not contents, the loss is gut wrenching, 5 years of work all gone. 
 

all my other game files that relied on c:drive not working. 
 

no sounds or network connection either having to do this on my iPhone. 
it’s not even recovery to what I purchased it’s as basic as it comes. 
 

don’t risk it Joey, buy storage if you need to but back up EVERYTHING. 
 

I can’t even get DCS working just now 

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I had 10 yrs of stuff I acquired  wiped out do to a HDD Failure once so I know your pain....

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5 hours ago, joey45 said:

I had 10 yrs of stuff I acquired  wiped out do to a HDD Failure once so I know your pain....

It's enough to make a glass eye weep mate, horrendous

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It would be terrible if this mod and the excellent ship model were lost forever. Please, do everything you can to save this excellent work.

Unfortunately, I can't contribute anything because I have no idea about modding. 

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So..........all is NOT lost... I had another online storage that I had forgotten about and all my source files were backed up there, so work shall resume on the Type 42 shortly, I'm a bit busy with real life work 

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THATS GREAT NEWS OBAN ¡¡¡

Thanks mate

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1 hour ago, Oban said:

So..........all is NOT lost... I had another online storage that I had forgotten about and all my source files were backed up there, so work shall resume on the Type 42 shortly, I'm a bit busy with real life work 

My hero! 

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Just an update, been a bit busy with real life, but the Sea-Darts are still behaving erraticly, as are the Sea-Wolfs, the sea darts are too inconsistent, often detonating 3-5 miles from the ship, and before intercepting

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On 10/17/2024 at 2:39 PM, Oban said:

Just an update, been a bit busy with real life, but the Sea-Darts are still behaving erraticly, as are the Sea-Wolfs, the sea darts are too inconsistent, often detonating 3-5 miles from the ship, and before intercepting

From what I remember, the sea darts weren't particularly reliable during the Falklands war, so.... 😀

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I have been working on the Type 42 this week, and tidying up a few things, and trying to add a few more things, like working lights etc...and for this I need some help.

Does anyone know how the Navigation lights are configured on the Type 42 ?

I've also had a wee setback, after editing the damage parts on the lua, for some strange reason, the Seadarts have stopped firing, I think I might know why, and it's related to the damage parts, my laptop crashed so wasn't able to use Ctrl Z to undo, I might have a copy of the old lua elsewhere.


Seadarts - semi working, however they detonate at around 4 miles from launch, and don't seem to track, before I borked it, they were able to track up to 15 -20NM from the ship and have about a 30/70 success hit rate

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