Bingowings said:
oh_riginal said:
Bingowings said:
oh_riginal said:
Bingowings said:
Personally I never liked the way the weapon fired in the first place.

There is a big dish with a nipple in the middle so it just makes more sense to me that the smaller beams focused on the nipple thing (technincal term) and the large ray fired out of it and was focused by the dish.

Having everything fire out into space and meet there looks suitably science fantasy but doesn't really make much sense visually.

If you're talking about the appearance of the laser firing in ANH and ROTJ and how different they look, I 100% agree, and this has always bothered me.

If I had been on the forums before ANH:R, I might have requested to make the laser firing of the ANH Death Star to be more like the ROTJ Death Star. It probably would even be one of the easier effects to create! Just add an extra laser beam coming out of the center of the dish upon firing.

In my opinion, it just "looks right" to have it that way in ROTJ.

No and yes.

I was saying that I don't really like the way the Death Star fires in either film, I'd have the beams meet right above the surface of the dish and have the central beam come out of the hole in the middle, I'll see if I can do a mockup later.

Ohhh... I think I see what you're saying. Looking forward to the mock-up!

Forgive as always the crudity of this mockup:

Here's the classic Death Star firing method:

As you can see the minor lasers fire into the space above the dish and combine to form a single beam.

Here the minor lasers fire towards the central hole in the dish and which focus together with the central beam :

Maybe someone else can do a better render of the same idea?

vaderios said: If i wasn't witness this with my eyes i could say that you hacked my pc because i was making what you made ( with some enhancements) 2 days ago.
:D

Now we both know that is an awesome idea hehe

EDIT:

-Angel

This sort of thing could be done in a future reworking of ANH too.