adywan said:
Now onto the Carbon chamber issue. I was looking over your plans to have the chamber at the top of the shaft but this creates more problems than it solves. That is a hell of a long way for Luke to travel to find Vader and really doesn't make sense. Why would Vader run all that way away from Luke just to lure him to the vane? All that needs doing is redesigning the actual vane so it can contain the carbon chamber at the top and explain where the corridors that led them to the chamber disappeared to. Its quite plain to see now i have gone through the Luke jumping down from the chamber to the pipe that you can clearly see that behind him is the base of the carbon chamber as the architecture and piping is very similar. It is meant to be one complete sequence as you see Luke drop from the chamber (even though you can clearly see that he jumps from hanging onto a pole in the first few frames of the pipe sequence, but this was just to simulate his drop during filming). So this means that the carbon chamber is indeed meant to be built into the vane. Now it looks like i'll have to build some sort of model for the vane shot and do a lot of redesigning, but at the same time keeping the look of the original.
Wow, yet another model, and 're-designed' with some modifications! You are too good to us in your effort to improve things, Adywan. Sounds wonderful.
I only expected a little amendment to the existing 'Vent Pod' exterior shots, to allow a little more consistency. I guess it all depends where you consider the 'base' of the 'Carbon Chamber' to be - either within the main structure of the City, somewhere near the start of the long 'extending support arm' tunnel....or actually inside the 'Vent Pod' itself.
Although I used to have no problem believing that Vader was perhaps slightly injured during his 'unexpected' fall backwards from the 'platform' (we're not sure how far) after Luke's strong attack, and so ventured along the long 'access tunnel' to regain his composure....while luring Luke to a more confined space for the rest of the duel....I am equally happy to know that it now seems that the 'Carbon Chamber' is to be within the 'Vent Pod' to begin with, and will now be shown to be more plausibly accessed-to by all the Stormtroopers, Ugnaughts etc. that went into it earlier. Interesting stuff.