How to restore corrupt Maya file in text editor

[adoma14]

Hello

I was working on a scene and made a lot of progress but when I opened the file, most of the objects have just disappeared including materials.

When I went into notepad++ I deleted things at random (because I don't know what I'm looking for) and found that some of the meshes started reappearing. so is there something I should be looking for? maybe deleting some history?

I only have 1 saved file, no backups.

[hamsterHamster]

Have you heard about the Infinite Monkey Theorem? I believe, you can fix your file within Maya.

And,  you can post it here.

[adoma14]

The original file I accidentally saved over it after I deleted a lot of code but in this version, I didn't delete any code I just started rebuilding the model from what I had.

[hamsterHamster]

What should I look for?

All what I did, was dragging your file into Maya.

[adoma14]

You're looking for any extra pieces that aren't already visible for example I had hard surface pieces on the front of the belt and the floating thing in the back had much more detail.

When I looked In the node editor I saw some transform nodes for the missing pieces but if you don't see anything it's ok I'll just continue to rebuild it.

[hamsterHamster]

There are no extra transforms, the file reads without errors. There are non-manifold geometry components, which might cause some problems. The only mesh that had no actual geometry in it was polySurface19.

This rather seems to be a model from/for V4 game, isn't it? https://www.deviantart.com/vlthar/art/Farbinea-864131997

[adoma14]

yup, it is from V4. I'm using the low poly as a base the build a cinematic model.