Hal 9000

Wow, what a ton of stuff has happened in this thread during the daytime! First off, do not worry about breaking ground on V4. This is worthwhile stuff that merits it!

Let me interject my thoughts on the big pieces of the day.

Luke. I don’t imagine adding Luke’s voice in other sequences than Ach-To feeling right, and that clip of him speaking to Ben about healing Rey sounded to me like Luke was sternly saying, “Ben, kill yourself.” But, it’s exciting to have a quality Luke AI voice to use. I wanna target its use to just things that were already existing problems or goals. For the conversation with Rey next to the burning TIE fighter on Ach-To, I’d be happy with simply having the phrase “final lesson.” To me, interjecting something about Leia for Rey to react to with “wow, she still trained me though” feels weird. Makes it seem very elementary of a problem, like Rey is shocked that Leia was aware that she was having a hard time with self-confidence. The ‘Rey Nobody’ version may simply need this to be the case, but for the main ‘Rey Palpatine’ version I think it’d probably be better to omit that bit. For the Leia training flashback, Leia’s face displays some emotion so I don’t think it would fit to just say she decided to go with her political career; there should be something there but I’m not sure what.

That is strikingly better than what’s in V3.

Shave off a syllable when Han and Luke are found on Hoth so he says, “Ice of you guys to drop by!”

PM sent

Yes.

The Snoke vat is too silly to keep.

Why is he continuing to make Snokes? Why make more than one to begin with? Did Exegol have makeup artists or surgeons that carve up his scars?

The silver lining here for me is that none of these things affect A/V sync.

lol, lightspeed whip sounds like Mr. Smithers doing his candy ‘Whip It’ parody.

I’ve avoided anything other than whole numbers to describe updates so far, so I will just refer to it as V4, even if it’s small. This project out of all of them is most deserving of getting it right.

EDIT: Meaning getting the AI voices right, not the Version number.

Just put out a V6 update to ESB, intended as final for the foreseeable future. It’s nothing dramatic, just tweaking the new Boba Fett dialogue slightly, reverting to the SE version of the Cloud City balcony shot, and using Adywan’s addition of the bunk on the Falcon seen in TFA.

That’s ESB and ROTJ nailed down to where I am very happy with them. Now, whenever TMWNN finishes his 2011/2020 hybrid ANH source material, I can quickly and easily update ANH as well.

EDIT: My Google Drive host is still not functional, but I will upload this there when I a become able to.

And just like that, production begins for V4. 😉

I don’t know, win, but I look forward to playing with the lines that rogueleader has already sent along with any others.

Not entirely, no. But even if it literally were, if audio changes are controversial an alternate track solves the problem nicely.

I wouldn’t say it’s too late. Just depends on if it ends up being substantially improved. The biggest opportunity is Poe’s briefing lines.

Wish I’d have thought of doing an alternate audio track without all but the necessary AI lines. I mean, of course I still could, but I’ll sit on that for the moment.

Mocata said:

Omni said:

Mocata said:

No it wasn’t a thing in the previous animated shows, I think it was just for Jedi Fallen Order since in a game you have to sense places/objects to gain xp and exposition.

Technically retconned so Rey has it as well meaning it debuted with her, to explain her vision as she touched the lightsaber in The Force Awakens.

To me that feels like a random vision rather than a new power, and it’s never used again or talked about. Then again a bunch of stuff in TFA was never brought up later so who knows.

Well, Rey senses the dark history of Ochi’s dagger when she discovers it in TROS as well.

I listed everyone who posted in this thread, up to when I made the list at least. PM’ing now.

Fair points, and I tried to minimize throwing in AI stuff that didn’t address existing problems. Leia’s lack of on-point dialogue being one of them, sorta.

What do you think of Poe’s AI lines in the briefing? I hope that to an unsuspecting viewer it would read as ADR that maybe wasn’t a dead match. Like an older movie. Like Star Wars even. Ultimately it serves a more important plot issue we created. And after a while it’s hard for me to guess how it’ll sound to someone who wasn’t agonizing over it in a NLE.

Glad to hear about your good time! Not sure why the saber would look blue, unless people auto-adjusted based on expecting it to be blue.

Mocata said:

The weird horny parts of SOTE are what audiences today are missing.

100%

Rey and Ben’s kiss was the best part of TROS because like FINALLY I’m like dust over here

It isn’t yet, due to an issue out of my control. Once I’m able to, I’ll put it there and post about it here.

That’s right, which adds to the badness of the idea.

Just released a V6 of this project which is intended as close-the-book final. It uses a new LUT from skenera for a much better color correction, and fixes a couple audio and subtitle issues.

I am still unable to upload to the google drive, but I will once I am able to again. Anyone who nabbed V3 of Ascendant, this can be found the same way.

Edit in a loop of 200 hours of Luke training with the remote aboard the Falcon, to match Han’s ETA of that amount of time.

PM sent.

honestabe said:

Hal 9000: “I am officially retiring everyone . . . after I complete this list of 500,000 things that will take the rest of my life.”

😃