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Is there a broad, overarching principle behind 'redesign' decisions? Or are we just going with whatever has the most visual appeal in any given case?
 
Is there a broad, overarching principle behind 'redesign' decisions? Or are we just going with whatever has the most visual appeal in any given case?
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Nothing very specific. Given the very low res originals it is hard to discern many visual details so we have to make it up as it goes. So basically what we think looks good. I guess that is the problem with people texturing their own work. There will be no consistency between the different modellers.

Oh and disregard the back wall on the above image. It needs alot more work.
 
Too much Crackage?
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There is never enough.
or rather, assuming that picture is a piece of a building in junon, a place where road literally shoots out of the ground to protect the buildings,
it would seem logical to say that the cracks would be minimal or unminimal?. It looks good nonetheless. Some of the larger holes look like gun wounds.
 
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Guys, Bad news.
I was trying to get my OSX/windows thing working and well, I installed a bootloader onto my Windows partition, where I kept all my stuff.
Only problem is, Now I can't boot into that partition, and according to OSX, it's slightly corrupted. Anyone know of any way at all to recover stuff from a corrupted NTFS formatted harddrive from OSX? To be honest I'm willing to go the whole hog and install linux if someone knows a way it'll help.

I might be out of action for a good while because of this, and unless I can recover stuff, I've more than likely lost all the stuff I had on it, including all my contributions to this project (Not as if there was much anyway)
 
you overwrote the bootloader? If you have windows 6 or 7 and maybe 5,
the install disc can build you a fresh bootloader.
 
Nono, if i just overwrote the bootloader, it wouldn't be unreadable via mac. That's irrelevant anyway - It's a laptop, and as such, it didn't come with the vista disc, So I can't even reinstall windows and format that partition.
 
Nono, if i just overwrote the bootloader, it wouldn't be unreadable via mac. That's irrelevant anyway - It's a laptop, and as such, it didn't come with the vista disc, So I can't even reinstall windows and format that partition.
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Put laptop in drive of another computer? and or boot to a Linux CD and access Windows partition, back up data then reload windows?
 
Yeah, I'm trying to do the linux thing now (although with a legitimate copy of Win7 instead)
I'll never be able to get vista back though - unless the "restore factory defaults" thing which I used to use to reinstall vista is transferrable. I'm not sure about this.
 
Currently Typing from Ubuntu - It's a lot better than I thought it would be.   :-D
At any rate, as soon as I figure out how to try recovering stuff from corrupted volumes on ubuntu, I'll get back to you guys aout how much stuff I've lost - I know I'm getting really off-topic here.
 
You really managed to rape yourself didn't you, Neo...

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Look familiar?
 
Yeah, I totally did D:
Linux is telling me that the disk isn't even corrupt. But I go into it and it just looks like a fresh install of vista - none of my stuff's there. This Pretty much means I'mma just have to reformat and lose everything, which is totally crap.

...That's the Temple of the Ancients, Isn't it? Looking epic so far :D
 
Guys, Bad news.
I was trying to get my OSX/windows thing working and well, I installed a bootloader onto my Windows partition, where I kept all my stuff.
Only problem is, Now I can't boot into that partition, and according to OSX, it's slightly corrupted. Anyone know of any way at all to recover stuff from a corrupted NTFS formatted harddrive from OSX? To be honest I'm willing to go the whole hog and install linux if someone knows a way it'll help.

I might be out of action for a good while because of this, and unless I can recover stuff, I've more than likely lost all the stuff I had on it, including all my contributions to this project (Not as if there was much anyway)
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Explain to me exactly what you have done.

Writing a bootloader to a partition, alone, should not 'corrupt' the drive. If the bootloader doesn't have an entry for the OS, it won't boot it, but writing a GRUB MENU.LST is pretty trivial...

First instinct would be to create a new partition in unused space, install GRUB to MBR, have the LST provide a Windows entry (via chainloader), and boot that way, but I'd prefer to know exactly what you've done before instructing you.

Tell me:
- which bootloader? GRUB? GRUB 2? LILO?
- where did you have it write its config files to?
- where's the bootloader? On the root of the Windows partition? On the MBR of the disk?
- why you didn't backup your work before making major modifications to your installation ; )
 
You really managed to rape yourself didn't you, Neo...

-snip- There used to a picture here but I killed it.

Look familiar?
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Maybe offset the bricks round the top rather than having them piled up like that, shift the middle rows along by half a bricks length, I've not reached the temple in my current playthrough so I can't really comment properly.
 
This Pretty much means I'mma just have to reformat and lose everything, which is totally crap.
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It happens. I did it myself a few weeks back. Treat it as a lesson learnt, it only takes a few megs of space to backup personal files. If Bosola can't help you then you'll have to build back up and ocme back twice as strong (:

Maybe offset the bricks round the top rather than having them piled up like that, shift the middle rows along by half a bricks length, I've not reached the temple in my current playthrough so I can't really comment properly.
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I can see what you mean. There are various inconsistencies between the two field backgrounds, so I'm pretty sure the originals were two completely different models. I want to render the two backgrounds with the same model naturally.





If you analyze the bricks you can see in the second image there appears to be 4 columns each side on the entrance, but in the first if you look at the back wall you can count 8 in total, leaving their no room to even put an entrance - if the front and back walls are consistent, that is... which I'm sure any level-headed, temple-building ancient would be sensible enough to do... saying that, building walls in columns of bricks is just asking for failure, no wonder the Temple of the Ancients is looking so shabby these days.   :D
 
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Hm, that's some pretty tricky design...

I'd say, make the temple rectangular like this: make the bricks on the left, right, and front a certain size, then make the bricks along the back wall 11/8 the size of the normal bricks. this will allow you three-bricks length to make the entrance.

Looking at it from the aerial view, it *does* look rectangular in this way, don't you think?
 
Looking at it from the aerial view, it *does* look rectangular in this way, don't you think?
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It is. I made a model in sketchup of the aeriel view and it came out as a rectangle but it's actually more square than it is percieved from that perspective. I can always tweak the bricks after I've made the temple, I also want to make them a little thicker.
 
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