Originally posted by: Savage
Ady,

I may have missed it, but are you adding any sort of ambient glow from the lightsabers onto the surroundings/people with the sabers?

I have no plans as yet to do this.

Just had a MAJOR setback today.
Put together my new Core2Duo machine and installed everything back on my machine. WOW its fast. But then things started to act a little strange. the system would hang then suddenly windows would dissappear. I shut it down then restarted it and things seemed to go back to normal, for a while. It started happening again then just froze. I tried to restart it but none of the power buttons would work. so i had to turn the power off at my surge protector. Now the system just seemed dead. Opened the case and i noticed a black patch on the motherboard. Ripped it out and took it back to the shop i purchased it from and they seemed a little too quick to take it back and offer a replacement. All the boards for the same price i got mine were not what i wanted (not enought SATA ports) so they offered me a new Asus board with 8 SATA ports, but for the same price i payed for mine. I got a little suspicious at their generosity but i won't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Got it back home and reinstalled everything. Seems a lot faster than my other board too. But something happened once windows was installed that made me just want to jump out of my window (not that that would do any good cuz i live on the ground floor). Windows scanned my discs and my main 400gb drive with most of the edit on seemed to have a lot of orphaned files so windows attempted to recover. windows finished and loaded up and i immediately opened this drive in explorer and weeped. Gone was most of the files. The first hour is completely gone. Luckily most of the second hour is on a seperate drive, but all that work gone off the drive, including all the death star battle scenes i was working for the past 2 weeks. I felt like crying until i realised that i had done a complete backup 2 weeks ago. Out came the 30 DVD backup discs. One by one it loaded the backup files onto my other drive ready for unpacking. THen BAM!! disc 23 wouldn't read. Strange because i had verified and checked the discs as soon as the backup finished and unpacked everything fine. Looked at the disc and no scrathes, dust or any marks at all. Gave it a clean but still no luck. tried 3 different DVD drives but with the same results, so the back up is gone. I rang the shop and spoke to my mate and he said he would pop round after work to look at it.

He came round and fiddled about but couldn't get the backup to work either, but he did tell me something very interesting. The Gigabye board i purched from them was actually a "grey" import and they had had almost everyone they had sold returned with the same problem. So much for thinking i had a bargain. All that work down the toilet. He has given me some software that may be able to recover the files that windows deleted. It is a lot better than the one i have got but hell of a lot slower. Its going to take 24 hours to do an indepth recovery process on my 400gb drive and even then i may have lost everything for good. If its all gone then do i continue or just quit and hand what i have left for someone elses edit? I know what i feel like doing at the moment.

Help me recovery software..... you're my only hope