Hullo all. It's me again. It's been a long while. I am sorry for that.
Here's why. Gather around for sad story time.
So when we last left off, I was trying to get back into developing this mod and was about to release a version with the Earth Brother and Burrow.
As I had mentioned back in those days, the PC I built had been giving me grief with mysterious hard-freezes. I searched and searched but could find no solution online. Eventually I took it to a local computer shop which also did tech support.
One of their attempts to fix the problem was to reinstall my OS. They backed up all my info to their hard drive, put on a clean install, and they thought they'd fixed it. I took it home to find that a) my files had not been put back, and b) the problem had not been fixed. Annoyed, I again kept my PC over the weekend, and tried to fix it.
I went back to the shop. I was informed that they still had my files (they had forgot to put 'em back). I was also told that although they didn't fix the problem the first time, I'd have to dish out another $70 for them to look at it again. I refused. I took it home and continued to try to diagnose and fix the problem myself, figuring that I might as well wait to get my files until the problem had been dealt with.
I never did get it %100, but my PC was a little more stable than before. Also, I was going to be moving soon for school. I took my PC back to the shop to retrieve my files.
It was then that I was informed (FOR THE FIRST TIME) that the policy of the store is to hold files on their hard drive for a limited amount of time. This is before I understood the wisdom of creating a backup of your work.
Whatever copy of Woodsmen is floating around on the internet is all that's left. All of my source files, textures, .blend files for each unit (with animations)...... gone.
That is why I have not posted in a while. It was a little bit crushing. All of my work on the Earth Brother (modelled, textured, animated, ready for glest) and the burrow are gone.
The moral of the story: CLOUD COMPUTING my friends. Back it up on the cloud.
God bless
-Madmanntis
Post Script(s):
With the course I'm taking now, as part of my project I'm making a website where I'm going to post some of sketches and things, including the concept drawings I could not share back in the day for lack of a scanner and camera. So I'll shoot a link over when that comes...
As far as the future of this mod, I am unsure. I have to think about whether I can and/or will get back into the swing of glest modding. It'll be like starting from scratch. There's a possibility I might just let the community have the mod to finish as it pleases. Like I said, I have to think about it. So more on that later.
