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[rmoor13]

So after being away from designing for awhile, I picked it back up again and was working on a course.  I nearly had it finished, when all of a sudden the power went out while I was doing a build.  Then when I re-started the project, CF was gone and all the meshes were grey.  Can anyone suggest how to get the project back?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Robert

[J.H.Buchanan]

Did you save the Scene and the Terrain ???

 

The very first thing you should do is open Unity and try to load a previously saved scene and terrain file. In order to do this read the area at the bottom part of this post Labeled in Red Instant Fix if that does not work then read all the stuff below.  So first try and load an older scene and terrain file if this does not work then back up your unity project folder remotely ... read all the info below. 

 

Ok I may not know what I am talking about but this should work. 

 

**** Do not delete or in other words uninstall unity UNTIL we find your Unity Project Folder 

 

Here is how to find it - When I start up unity it shows me where my project folders are see pic below 

 

unity 1 by Jim Smyth, on Flickr

 

So you need to click on Unity and hopefully it will show you the Project Folder Location. see pic below 

 

unity 1a by Jim Smyth, on Flickr

 

Ok, we will need to use this example to figure out the path to your Unity Project AND the Project Folder 

 

The path for my course project is F:\Bob\Games\Perfect Golf\2020\2nd Course 2020

so figure out what your path is. My location is on my F Drive in the folder Bob then the subfolder Games then the sub folder Perfect Golf then the subfolder 2020 then the folder 2nd Course 2020  

 

My Project Folder is "2nd Course 2020"  In this folder is among other things my scene file and my terrain file. In the even my computer blows up I can buy a new computer re download Unity then re install course forge then assuming I have this project folder saved on an external harddrive I can then simply load up my scene file and terrain file and I am back in business. ( what may have happened is the scene file and terrain file you were working on both got corrupted and ruined but we should be able to find another one perhaps in your project folder) 

 

Ok so let's assume you know how to find your project folder. 

 

so therefore find your project folder save it externally to some place such as a zip drive or a DVD R or something because let us assume when you unistally unity it is going to unistall any project you were working on or have anywhere on your harrdrive it may not do this but let us assume it will. YOUR PROJECT FOLDER MAY BE 7 GIGABYTES SO MAY NOT FIT ON A DVD R. 

So after you have backed up your project folder externally then do the stuff below:

 

(1) First we figure out where the project folder is on your harddrive. When started making a course UNITY made a folder and put everything in this folder (that also has subfolders in it )  that pertains to the course you were working on. So we need to figure out where this folder is. 

 

(2) Then there are various things we can do - we could simply open unity and reload course forge into it and then try and find and load the scene and terrain file but this may be a big waste of time because maybe the UNITY program got corrupted. 

 

(2 a ) Better thing to do would be to erase Unity off of your harrddrive then re download it and install it. Then re install or whatever its called - reinstall course forge into unity. Now you have Unity working and Course Forge Working as a fresh install so now we hopefully can find your scene file and terrain file of your course. In theory IF these two files are not corrupted they should open up fine into this fresh install of Unity and Course forge. 

 

Ok so let's assume you have deleted Unity because it may be corrupted (because unity was open when they power went out - course forge was also open because it is part of unity) so you have deleted unity let's assume that and you have re installed it AND you have re installed course forge into unity. 

 

Go to the Tutorials if you need help redownloading unity and re installing course forge 

 

>>>>> here is the link to the tutorials http://www.perfectpa...ideo-tutorials/  

Make sure you re download the correct version of Unity make sure you correctly re install course forge. 

 

 

Ok so assuming you have done this now let's see if we can find your course which should be on your computer somewhere which will be where you found your project folder it may still be on your computer if UNITY did not erase it when you uninstalled unity or it is where you backed it up externally - assuming you backed it up externally (the project Folder) simply copy it back to your harddrive. You have not at this time re installed unity and course forge so now open Unity

 

When you open unity you may see nothing but what is there is real important at this main page of unity click on OPEN !!!   See it there next to New 

 

unity 1 by Jim Smyth, on Flickr

 

 

Then it will look somewhere on your harddrive then click to where you copied your project folder that you backed up 

 

you must find your project folder the click on the folder when you do this you will then be able to click on "Select Folder" at the bottom right of this Unity Window.

 

Instant Fix 

 

this will load up your course project problem is it will try to load up the scene file and terrain file that may be  corrupted but it might  work because we have a fresh install of unity and course forge but it may not work - assuming it does not open up your course correctly then (this is the instant fix ) click on File then on OPEN  Scene  see the pick below

 

unit file by Jim Smyth, on Flickr

 

Then you need to click on a previous scene that HOPEFULLY you saved earlier before the power failure  see the pic below 

 

file saves by Jim Smyth, on Flickr

 

All of these are separate individual file back ups of my scene files when I completed the course then tweaked it then tweaked it again etc. I had earlier backed up the course after completing each hole so I had 18 other saves but these I deleted after the final 18 were done. 

 

Loading up a previously saved scene file that you may have may fix everything to the right of each file (not shown in this pick) it will show on your computer a date so try loading up the most recent date but NOT the corrupted one if this does not work. The scene files have a .unity extension 

 

You may have to load up a terrain file too. in order to do this see the pick below \ click on load terrain and pick a file - ideally pic the same date as the scene file but you may not have that ... the terrain files have a  .asset extension 

 

pp terrain by Jim Smyth, on Flickr

 

when you click on load terrain you hopefully will see some .asset files load the most recent that is not corrupt hopefully you have some of these. 

 

terrain 2 by Jim Smyth, on Flickr

[rmoor13]

Wow, thank you for the response.  You're right, I got nothing when trying to just load the last Saved Scene, CF was still missing.  Other courses I can load in Unity and will show CF but not this one.  So will Back-Up and do clean install of Unity and CF then copy Project folder in and see if I can go from there.  It might take all day but oh well, lol.  Thanks again for your help, J.H.

[nstone73]

Check your build too...

http://www.perfectpa...t-loading-help/

[Justin9926]

nstone73 is correct. If perfect parallel isn't showing on your top bar in unity. Chances are that during the build cycle it switch to web player. Just go to file, build settings and if it's on web player switch it back to PC, Mac & Lenux standalone. Then in the bottom switch platforms. That should take care of your problems.

 

[J.H.Buchanan]

So after being away from designing for awhile, I picked it back up again and was working on a course.  I nearly had it finished, when all of a sudden the power went out while I was doing a build.  Then when I re-started the project, CF was gone and all the meshes were grey.  Can anyone suggest how to get the project back?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Robert

 

This is why I put the disclaimer in there -   "Ok I may not know what I am talking about but this should work."    - Hopefully you saw this "build" solution before doing all that other stuff. - it makes sense to me and it seems from the links it has happened to others I had no idea though about this concept of build because I am not entirely familiar with everything but main thing is it seems you can get your course back. Some people on here that make courses ..... what they do is the back up periodically their entire project course folder from time to time. I bought an external harrdrive to have plenty of room for doing this. A folder may be 7 gigs or more. 

 

Now I learned about this build solution and if it happens to me I won't freak out I can check the build thing also you may want to save some of these threads or posts you can Right Mouse Button click this thread then choose print and instead of printing it out simply choose print to file then save the file to a .pdf file. What happens is it saves this entire Thread to .pdf if you ever need to refer back to something. 

[J.H.Buchanan]

nstone73 is correct. If perfect parallel isn't showing on your top bar in unity. Chances are that during the build cycle it switch to web player. Just go to file, build settings and if it's on web player switch it back to PC, Mac & Lenux standalone. Then in the bottom switch platforms. That should take care of your problems.

 

 

Hey Justin what do you mean by Switch Platform - Does this mean to click on Player settings or to make sure target platform is windows and architecture is 86 ???

[Justin9926]

If you come in and the web player is highlighted switch it to PC, Mac & Linux standalone. On the right-hand side you would pick your target platform whatever that may be. Then in the bottom left corner you would click on the switch platform. Mine is already on PC Mac & Linux standalone so the switch platform is grayed out. I'm on a Windows PC so that's why it's set to Windows. If you're on a Mac choose Mac etc.

[rmoor13]

Aha, got it sorted out, thank you guys.  Had to redo the library settings for each texture but other than that everything was pretty much there.  So in the end, I copied the contents of the project folder into a new unity and CF install, created a terrain, loaded a back-up terrain, opened the scene, then re-built the library.  So it was a success.

[J.H.Buchanan]

If you come in and the web player is highlighted switch it to PC, Mac & Linux standalone. On the right-hand side you would pick your target platform whatever that may be. Then in the bottom left corner you would click on the switch platform. Mine is already on PC Mac & Linux standalone so the switch platform is grayed out. I'm on a Windows PC so that's why it's set to Windows. If you're on a Mac choose Mac etc.

Ok thanks so much 

[J.H.Buchanan]

Aha, got it sorted out, thank you guys.  Had to redo the library settings for each texture but other than that everything was pretty much there.  So in the end, I copied the contents of the project folder into a new unity and CF install, created a terrain, loaded a back-up terrain, opened the scene, then re-built the library.  So it was a success.

 

Glad to hear once again, Peace, reigns in the realm ... 

 

Hey rmoor13 so did you think about maybe backing up the entire project folder since its all working this way if something happens all the textures and stuff works ... 

 

 external harrdrives  (Western Digital) some other company may be better but these work fine \ Uh, their website stinks its another website that has a horrible search engine. A good solution is a thing they make called My Passport Ultra you can get 1,2,4, or 5 Tetrabytes !!!  I would just get it from Amazon. But you may already have a backup solution going ... Glad everything is working. 

 

 

 

https://shop.western...C3C0020BBL-WESN

 

Of course the only one they have in stock is a 5 Tetra but Amazon has a 2 TB for $80.00 in stock and other types too. 

 

If ya go this route you may want a 3rd party case for it ....

 

case by Jim Smyth, on Flickr

 

Here is an inside look 

 

inside case by Jim Smyth, on Flickr