adywan said:s you may be able to just make out the falcon now heads away from the executor on the right hand side instead of just heading to the right as it did originally. It is also animated with TIE fighters chasing it firing lasers.
If it is heading right, and Vader is standing by the front face of the viewport looking forwards, then the entire viewport section that we are seeing must be facing starboard?
I was under the impression that there was only one bridge section, and it was facing forwards.
the whole problem with the vent and the position of the carbon chamber , i really don't know how i'm going to tackle this. in the cutaway illustrations they have placed the carbon chamber in the dome above the window, but this doesn't make sense as where the hell are the corridors that luke followed Liea and the gang through before being elevated upwards into the carbon chamber. it all doesn't make sense at all. the only idea i had is that before he enters the small tunnel, instead of seeing the last few frames of him climbing down a ladder, that i add him coming out of some sort of lift, but that still doesn't really sort out the problem. I'm probably going to have to redesign the whole vane matte shots to try and bring some believability to the whole sequence.
Because the corridor with the window is curved, I have always had the impression that the corridor goes around the shaft. I have also thought that the vane did not protrude that much from the wall, but I see now in the pictures that it does.
The dotted line in the figure would show how Luke fell ... It is a very big drop, yes. We could explain this with Luke using The Force to dampen his fall. It is strange, but I think that Luke must have used The Force to dampen his fall in any scenario that we can think of. Any real human (i.e. without Force abilities) could not fall two stories and catch a railing. That happens only in the movies.
Maybe if you could move the vane closer to the wall, thereby diminishing the scale of the shaft somewhat, this could feel more consistent.