adywan said:
doubleofive, that's an interesting idea. The thing is that i set myself a few ground rules when starting the Revisited project. The Rebel ships look battered and old and the rebellion probably wouldn't have the resources to upgrade all the ships. So i decided that The ship displays would not get a revamp, just fix a few issues with colouring etc. I will be fixing the movement issue with the display, and probably replace the lettering but i won't be adding anything else. This is what, for me, separates the PT & the OT. In the PT everything looks new and hi-tech but in the OT everything had an old & used feel about it. Even in ROTS the ship displays started to have a mor3e retro feel about them (Jedi Starfighters) so i want to keep this feel.
doubleofive, that's an interesting idea. The thing is that i set myself a few ground rules when starting the Revisited project. The Rebel ships look battered and old and the rebellion probably wouldn't have the resources to upgrade all the ships. So i decided that The ship displays would not get a revamp, just fix a few issues with colouring etc. I will be fixing the movement issue with the display, and probably replace the lettering but i won't be adding anything else. This is what, for me, separates the PT & the OT. In the PT everything looks new and hi-tech but in the OT everything had an old & used feel about it. Even in ROTS the ship displays started to have a mor3e retro feel about them (Jedi Starfighters) so i want to keep this feel.
I understand your point of view. The more I worked at it, the more odd it looked compared with the rest of the cockpit. Maybe you could just put the R2 video feed in the top box, like this:
Maybe add some more text with scrolling something or other.
Just some more food for thought.
EDIT: Of course, if you look at the scale of things (the big handle to the right of frame), the box with the text is maybe 4 inches (10 cm) tall, so the box with R2 would be about 1/2 an inch (1 cm), which would be silly to have a video feed in at all.
In the end, I'll be happy with just the text change. But what should it say? Who has the audacity to write words for the immortal R2-D2?