rcb said:that's crap! no offense to ur country of course.
Same goes for air conditioning.
At least we have free healthcare though :)
rcb said:u don't have like a huge area/basement to work in? that sux. >:(
Very few houses have basements in the UK, I'm afraid, let alone flats.
I'm actually dealing with a missing parcel claim at this very moment, Ady. And it wouldn't surprise me if it's the unscrupulous posties that are to blame. The tracking on the website still shows it as having been "received" at my local branch. I sent it 18 days ago! lol
Ah well that is one heck of a coincidence then. To me, an error on the part of your seller (who must sell other falcon kits) was far more feasible than 2 different falcons from 2 different retailers both going missing at the same time! Crazy.
My opinion: I think it was zigfried :P
Just to be clear Ady, looking at the invoice, it wasn't the same seller that you purchased from, was it? If it was, it would be pretty obvious what had happened - your seller has sent your package to the other guy, and the other guy's package (addressed to you by accident) went "missing" and had the address torn off it.
In the case that it IS the same seller, his proof of posting he provided to paypal should be proof enough that he sent the wrong item - it will have a completely incorrect weight/shipping cost.
Not sure if you can file an 'item not as described' claim after having already made an 'item not received claim' though.
Sorry for all these edits to my post. It probably isn't the same seller anyway, making my whole post pointless :P
If it is the same seller though, there's two magic words I have for you.
TRADING STANDARDS!
The chances of there happening to be another falcon kit that had just happened to get the address torn off is also pretty astronomical!
Having said that, unless it was shipped from the same seller (which I'm sure Ady will have made sure is not the case), it's near impossible this guy would have got Ady's Falcon. Unless Ady's falcon's address was torn off too (would be a huge coincidence), and the other guy made a simultaneous claim for his missing falcon, and ended up being handed Ady's £200 model instead of his own by inept Royal Mail staff.
Serji-X Arrogantus said:Here's another updated test animation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iq-7FMfTV4
I've just come back from my first ever filling (at 24 - good going no?) and this totally makes up for my numb face. :D
I think they described the graphics style as 'stylized realism' or something. The screenshots I've seen of in game stuff looks cartoony, but not chunky like World of Warcraft's characters (except the creatures that are anatomically that way)
I'll have to read back on what shots it's being used for, but this sounds to me like it's a very meticulous job. I haven't a single doubt that this edit is going to be spectacular! :)
Also, I second the above. A worklog of sorts would be amazing!
Shit. I guess we were all a bit hasty with our optimism there. What a bunch of assholes!
Oh and Ady, don't try and assemble the Falcon when you're this angry, or it might end up in even more pieces :p
Just make sure you insure it ;)
adywan said:The Falcon's here. Yehhhhhhhhhh. just opened it and OMG thats a beast to build. And to top it all the post office say that they may have found my other one so i'm off into town now to claim it from the sorting office. things are looking up. i'll report back in an hour or so when i get back
Wow! That's some great news Ady! :D
Keep us posted (no pun intended. haha)
AxiaEuxine said:That sir, right there, is exactly what I am talking about
Haha. Can't be helped :P
It's not like you're gonna find many people praising Lucas on this forum anyway. There are fan edits for a reason ;)
AxiaEuxine said:I for one cannot wait for the new Star Wars The Old Republic game. Hopefully the Star Wars MMO will be done well this time. I just wish something new would happen in Star Wars without everyone using it as an excuse to retread their dislike of Lucas and Star Wars. Cant you just enjoy that awesome trailer and leave it at that? Becuase I for one would just love to say GODDAMNEDTHATWASFUCKINGAWESOME!!!!!!!!!
As for the advancment of tech in Star Wars, yeah Ive always thought that it proceeded very slowly, but it's just something Ive come to accept about Star Wars.
This is Bioware's first venture into the MMO market, which leaves me a little bit worried that TOR won't live up to expectations, but not very.
RPGs are their specialty, and the fact that this one is online hopefully won't make any difference. In fact, it could work to their advantage. They are the gods of story driven RPGs, and that's the one thing most MMOs lack.
The release of any Bioware Star Wars game is always going to be followed by criticism of Lucas, because let's face it, Bioware know how to write Star Wars better than he does!
If the trailer is anything to go by, this will be EPIC!
All it needs IMO, to be truly great is a thriving in game economy, and player owned spaceships (possibly with space battles) a la EVE online, but that might be asking a little too much.
The Jedi having armour was one of my favourite things about the Clone Wars (non CG) cartoon.
And it spawned this:
I want.
Serji-X Arrogantus said:This is still just a test shot to show that it's possible to use CG for this shot, I'd assume if Ady wants to progress down this route then he's supply or have more specific ideas about the bckground mountain range etc...
I commend you for being willing to put in the work to adapt/redo the footage. With the help of people like you, this is going to turn out extra special! :D
Bingowings said:I suppose that the Star Wars Galaxy would hit a technological plateau where there wouldn't be that much of a change for thousands of years.
Technology has been rapidly advancing for us since the Industrial Revolution but before that it stayed pretty much the same for a very long time.
If we reached a point where all things that were practicle for us to use were discovered (or discovered to be impossible to build) we might settle back until our circumstances changed when we found new problems to solve.
That's how I always explained it. Technology can only get so advanced before it's unimprovable. Like a technological singularity.
Yeah, I'd been following that thread pretty much from its conception (before I became a member). Then it unfortunately fizzled out. :(
Ripplin said:^Word. That was pure goofiness, as was the whole diner scene, especially with that stupid robot waitress.
Redubbing the droid analysis deleted scene would let us remove that whole diner scene, as well as the yoda younglings scene AND the library scene. Man those were unnecessary!
Well such similiarities would hypothetically be addressed in such an edit. I'm just throwing ideas around. I'm not necessarily saying it's doable.
ben_danger said:watch this. watch it NOW! admitidly just pretty colours and explosions, but highly entertaining none the less.
HOLY SHIT! My geek gland just became fully engorged.
That is absolutely beautiful!
Anyone considered redoing the prequels as Machinima?
wicket said:is there anyone who can make me a copy of Ady's New Hope Revisited (PAL) ? Mine got scratched in the post ; it chips heavily during the whole disc ; I would appreciate this very much ; some guys have promised me to send me a copy over, but I've been waiting for several weeks now and received no answer ; make someone happy in Belgium ; I'll make several copies of the received dvd disc and spread them around here ; PM me
Actually, I've only been able to find a PAL copy of the DVD5, myself. My DVD9 is NTSC, so if anyone can help me out too with a PAL DVD9, I'll gladly cover postage and the cost of the disk (and of course will distribute it as I've already been doing)
EDIT: Jonno is helping me out. Thanks a lot! :)
Man...building sets, pro cg artists on board. This is shaping up to be a huge project! Something Lucas and ILM with their millions of dollars and limitless resources will never be able to match, because Adywan and the people contributing on these boards have one thing they don't - passion.
Janskeet said:Now these German HD broadcasts are like 16.5GB right? I thought Adywan did use that for his revisited project and sized it down to DVD specs for mass distribution.
No. He used a dvd for ANH before the German HD broadcasts became available to him.
TheBoost said:So... we'd watch 6 hours of young Obi's adventures with some guy who ultimately doesn't matter, never meet anyone named Skywalker,and then when he talks to Luke in "Star Wars" he'll refer to his good buddy Skywalker that we've never heard of. Then in "Empire" we learn Vader is Luke's father.
I'd rather a character who "doesn't matter", and becomes a sort of a red herring (we think he becomes vader) than a whiny Anakin Skywalker. At least we'd be justified in hating Hayden Christensen this way, and it doesn't take a shit over our preconceptions of Anakin as a good man who falls to the dark side.
TheBoost said:My first thought would be 'WOW! Unnamed guy with the eye-scar was really Luke's father!"
Why would you think that? Besides, if someone found a way of giving him a name, this wouldn't be a problem.
EDIT: Also, and this is, afterall still a radical idea, Adywan, or whoever might do such a drastic edit, could insert some holo transmissions somewhere with his face lifted from Sebastian Shaw's other work, and redubbed. He could even replace some Jedi on the council who contacts via hologram at points in the film. There are also plenty of examples of different characters saying "skywalker" so that it's clear who is in the transmission.