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diff --git a/blog/simpliCity/well-that-was-dumb/index.html b/blog/simpliCity/well-that-was-dumb/index.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b1b1ff7 --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/simpliCity/well-that-was-dumb/index.html @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html lang="en"> + +<head> + <meta charset="UTF-8"> + <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge"> + <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> + <link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css"> + <title>Blog / beta0.2: The Visual Update is Out! • altaf-creator</title> + <script src="https://kit.fontawesome.com/d279a1f519.js" crossorigin="anonymous"></script> + + <style> + .center-grid { + min-height: 0; + } + </style> +</head> + +<body onload="addNodes()"> + <script defer src="/scripts/scroll.js"></script> + <script defer src="/scripts/onload.js"></script> + <div class="floating-nav-container"> + <div class="floating-nav"> + <a href="/about/" class="link">About Me</a> + <a href="/projects/" class="link">Projects</a> + <a href="/blog/" class="link">(dev)Blog</a> + </div> + </div> + <div class="sidebar" id="sidebar"> + <a href="/"> + <img src="/assets/images/hero/logo.png" alt="" class="sidebar-img"> + </a> + <span>altaf-creator</span> + </div> + <div class="sidebar-progress-container" id="progressContainer"> + </div> + <section style="border-top: none; padding-top: 50px;" class="normal-section"> + <div class="banner-shadow"> + <img src="/assets/images/blog/33_banner.png" alt="" class="banner img"> + </div> + <div class="center-grid"> + <div class="div-sizing"> + <div class="flex-container flex-container-column flex" style="gap: 7px; margin-top: 20px;"> + <div> + <span class="colored-text">Devlog</span>, <span class="colored-text">simpliCity</span> + </div> + <h1 style="text-align: left; margin: 0;">This Week's Devlog: Well that was dumb. (33nd Week of 2023) + </h1> + <span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);">Wednesday, 16 August 2023</span><br> + <span>Written by <span class="colored-text">altaf-creator</span></span> + </div> + </div> + </div> + </section> + <section class="normal-section"> + <div class="center-grid"> + <div class="div-sizing"> + <h1>Opening</h1> + <p>Hello, friends! Welcome back to the 5th.. or 6th.. (later editor note: it's 5th) weekly devlog! I + want to apologize for not posting weekly devlogs for the past few weeks. In this devlog, I would + like to tell you about my new projects and a stupid accident that I have did / occured.</p> + </div> + </div> + </section> + <section class="normal-section"> + <div class="center-grid"> + <div class="div-sizing"> + <h1>New Projects</h1> + <p>Usually after I published a new update for my games, I often take a break for a few days or weeks. I + also sometimes like to start a new side-project. And in this week, I have started some + side-projects. Some of them are;</p> + <ol> + <li>This website update.</li> + <li>A new game. I have some different ideas for my new game, so I am currently deciding which game + should I make for this new project.</li> + </ol> + <p>Now you may wonder, why did I create a new game? Well it was because...</p> + </div> + </div> + </section> + <section class="normal-section"> + <div class="center-grid"> + <div class="div-sizing"> + <h1>The (dumb?) Accident</h1> + <p>Long story short, I have accidentally teleported simpliCity project folder to a higher dimension that + no human could ever even begin to comperhend, aka deleted all the project files. <br> The long story + is...</p> + + <h2>The Beginning</h2> + <p>It was a normal day. I was thinking of backing up simpliCity using GitHub. Because currently, + simpliCity project folder doesn't have any more copies apart from my drive. A month before, I have + made a (local) Git repository in my drive. So uploading the simpliCity repo to GitHub should be + simple, right?</p> + + <h2>The Problem</h2> + <p>First, I made a new repo in GitHub, connect the git repo to the GitHub repo using <b>git remote</b>, + rename the master branch to main, and push it to GitHub using <b>git push</b>-</p> + <pre>fatal: The push operation includes a file which exceeds GitHub's file size restriction of 100MB</pre> + <p>..Alright then. Turns out I included the temporary, automatically-generated Unity project files and + folder. To fix this, I added the .gitignore template for Unity to tell Git to simply ignore the + files and folder, and upload it again-</p> + <pre>fatal: The push operation includes a file which exceeds GitHub's file size restriction of 100MB</pre> + <p>Still the same error. Turns out that I have to remove the history of the ignored file, alias I have + to make git forget about all of the temp files. <b>And this is where I messed up.</b></p> + <p>After executing the command to do that, I accidentally removed the entire Git commit history. "That's + fine," I thought. So I executed another command to finish an operation, and I noticed something + weird in the files. + </p> + <p>The Assets folder, aka the most important folder in the project, is <b>gone</b>. I have no idea what + I did there, but the project was gone. I was panicking, spammed Ctrl + Z in VSCode and Windows + Explorer, checked the recycle bin, and tried to undo the previous git operation, and tried to fetch + the last commit. + <br>I forgot that the entire git commit history is gone. Git cannot help me. The project is also not + yet uploaded to GitHub, so the only <b>current</b> copy of the project is on my disk, and it's gone. + </p> + <p>I was confused, didn't know what just happened. So I tried downloading various data recovery tool, + because I know when a file is deleted, it's not entirely erased from the disk, just flagged as empty + and other programs can overwrite it. And it works! ..for just a few files. The Assets folder was + already overwritten with another data. I have tried many, many programs, and nothing works.<br> + Which means the Assets folder, is permanently deleted. I was sad, confused, and shocked (nah not + really, but kinda sad). I <b>really</b> did permanently delete almost a year worth of work, and the + worst part, I didn't know how and also can avoid it by being more careful.</p> + + <h2>The Light at The End of The Tunnel?</h2> + <p>I did mention that I did not have any more copies for the current simpliCity project file (which is + beta0.2.1), turns out that I actually have <b>one</b> old copy of beta0.1 (modified) project file. I + also have the latest beta0.2 build, and all of the assets. </p> + <p>So, what does that mean? Well it can mean that I can recover my project, but it needs more work. How + you may ask?</p> + <ol> + <li>First, I will decompile my game to get all the new scripts from the latest build using ILSpy. + </li> + <li>Download the old copy, and open it in Unity.</li> + <li>Update all the scripts to the new one.</li> + <li>Update all of the old objects to the new one to adapt to the new scripts.</li> + <li>Update all of the old assets to the new assets in my OneDrive.</li> + <li>Finish it up and polish it. And it's done! It will not be an exact copy, but all of the new + features should still be recovered. And probably will be improved.</li> + </ol> + <p>But this needs time. For now, I have decided to stop simpliCity development, and start a new + projects. Why? My gamedev journey is still long, and I cannot stick to the same projects for months + or years. I decided that this is the time for me to move on, and learn new things.</p> + </div> + </div> + </section> + <section class="normal-section"> + <div class="center-grid"> + <div class="div-sizing"> + <h1>What does it mean for simpliCity?</h1> + <p>This means that simpliCity development will be on hold for quite some time until I recovered the + project. This also means that I will make a new game! Yay! Finally!</p> + </div> + </div> + </section> + <section class="normal-section"> + <div class="center-grid"> + <div class="div-sizing"> + <h1>What can we learn</h1> + <p>What can we learn from my mistake?</p> + <ol> + <li>Back up all of your projects and files. Do NOT have only 1 copy of your project. Have it on a + second drive, and also online services like Google Drive and OneDrive. Do this so if something + happens to the original, you still have a copy of it.</li> + <li>Back up regularly. If you have a back-up but it's old, that is still the same (but better) than + having no back-ups at all. Back up your project every week or at least month.</li> + <li>Be careful in things that you don't know. Especially file management and Git. Git is hard. And + annoying.</li> + <li>It's time to learn new things and move on. It is ok to make a big project and spend years on it, + but you should also try and making many side-projects and improve over time.</li> + </ol> + </div> + </div> + </section> + <section class="normal-section"> + <div class="center-grid"> + <div class="div-sizing"> + <h1>Closing</h1> + <p>We have reached the end of this devlog. becase I feel I want to say sorry to everyone for + dissapointing you because of this mistake. I also want to say please learn from this mistake. Better + be safe than sorry! Also thank you, <b>thank you</b> everyone for staying with me in this journey. + </p> + <p> + And that's it for this week. Thank you so much everyone for reading. <br> + This is Altaf. <br> + Stay safe, and see you next week on <a href="/blog/" class="link">The Altaf (dev)Blog</a>! + </p> + </div> + </div> + </section> +</body> + +</html>
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