New Feature on the OS: Episode IV Visual Guide

Anguirus · Post by **Anguirus** » 2007-05-02 11:00am

Took me awhile to find, too. I'm not a fan of the layout.

Mange · Post by **Mange** » 2007-05-02 11:03am

Anguirus wrote:Took me awhile to find, too. I'm not a fan of the layout.

It seems pretty much to the standard layout they've used on HS for this sort of thing earlier. No updates today though. I hope this isn't a "once a week" thing.

Warsie · Post by **Warsie** » 2007-05-02 01:02pm

VT-16 wrote:Info on mystery ships in ESB, more info on the Imperial and Rebel fleets at Endor.....

Seconded....more of the ships Ralph McQuarrie drew being used and given names, etc hehehe

+50 to ship numbers at least hopefully

VT-16 · Post by **VT-16** » 2007-05-02 01:18pm

That reminds me, did they actually do concept art for all the Rebel ships before assembling models, or was it sometimes just kitbashed from the start? I know all the prominent ones were, but all the ragtags in ESB and ROTJ?

Mange · Post by **Mange** » 2007-05-02 01:25pm

VT-16 wrote:That reminds me, did they actually do concept art for all the Rebel ships before assembling models, or was it sometimes just kitbashed from the start? I know all the prominent ones were, but all the ragtags in ESB and ROTJ?

The ragtags in ESB were all painted on glass (as can be seen in two Photoreceptor pictures on Hyperspace). Not sure of the ROTJ ships though.

Aaron2 · Post by **Aaron2** » 2007-05-02 02:38pm

[quote="Mange]The ragtags in ESB were all painted on glass (as can be seen in two Photoreceptor pictures on Hyperspace). Not sure of the ROTJ ships though.[/quote]
Speaking of the models, has anyone here read the Scupting a Galaxy book about the ILM model shop? I thumbed through it at the bookstore and it looked pretty good. I think it came out late last year.

Connor MacLeod · Post by **Connor MacLeod** » 2007-05-02 04:25pm

Mange wrote:
Anguirus wrote:Took me awhile to find, too. I'm not a fan of the layout.
It seems pretty much to the standard layout they've used on HS for this sort of thing earlier. No updates today though. I hope this isn't a "once a week" thing.

The first chapter mentions it being a once a week thing.

Note I'm still not finding these "view images" thing or the extra info.

If the heat sink thing is there, it looks like that was either behind the scene sinfo or they're lifting info from the DK books/novels/games.

VT-16 · Post by **VT-16** » 2007-05-02 04:52pm

http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/7350 ... idetx3.jpg

http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/7991 ... de2oz5.jpg

Connor MacLeod · Post by **Connor MacLeod** » 2007-05-02 05:15pm

Yeah, see, the thing is, there's no big icon thingy like that in the script on mine. And I'm logged in. Is this supposed to be some special Hyperspace feature or something?

VT-16 · Post by **VT-16** » 2007-05-02 05:22pm

It's open for everybody.

Connor MacLeod · Post by **Connor MacLeod** » 2007-05-02 05:23pm

Then its bloody fucked up, cuz I ain't seeing it

What's the fragging url link to the visual guide "view images" part that I'm supposed to be seeing and not seeing?

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2007-05-02 05:56pm

I'm not seeing the link either. Is it IE-only or something?

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2007-05-02 06:01pm

I'm seeing it fine in FF.

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2007-05-02 06:02pm

Here's the link. I could get it on FF and Opera so whatever problems you guys are having are your own.

Erik von Nein · Post by **Erik von Nein** » 2007-05-02 08:56pm

That link only has the Fox logo and the Lucasarts Logo on it, nothing else.

Connor MacLeod · Post by **Connor MacLeod** » 2007-05-02 08:58pm

It still doesn't appear for me, but Soontir's helped. I sorta accidentally stumbled across chapter 3's.

Here's the link

I will add that from what I can see, alot of the "added" information is lifted from the DK books (mainly hte visual dictionary I'd say) and the various "essential guides" and WEG materials (They reference the solar ionization reactor, for example.) So I'd take some fo this with a grain of salt.

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2007-05-02 09:35pm

Erik von Nein wrote:That link only has the Fox logo and the Lucasarts Logo on it, nothing else.

Sorry, I didn't look at the chapter carefully and assumed they were looking for chapter one.

At least Connor finally got it.

FSTargetDrone · Post by **FSTargetDrone** » 2007-05-03 12:24am

Cykeisme wrote:Argh, my SoD is bruised..

For example, "Dog-eared set dressing" on Image 17..

I just closed my eyes, covered my ears and kept chanting "Loose access panel left ajar" over and over again

Aw, it's not too bad. In-universe, you can imagine that maybe a tech was working on the panel and fled when the shooting started.

FSTargetDrone · Post by **FSTargetDrone** » 2007-05-03 12:27am

Connor MacLeod wrote:It still doesn't appear for me, but Soontir's helped. I sorta accidentally stumbled across chapter 3's.

Are you running ad-blocking software? I am and it blanks out the image, but I can still get the link to work fine. My ad-blocker must see the "banner" info in the image link. Or something.

Post by **RogueIce** » 2007-05-03 02:26am

FSTargetDrone wrote:Are you running ad-blocking software? I am and it blanks out the image, but I can still get the link to work fine. My ad-blocker must see the "banner" info in the image link. Or something.

Yep. They named the thing banner.gif so it blocks the image (and the link). Now I know...

...and knowing is half the battle! GI Joe!

*ahem* Anyway, mystery solved.

Post by **RogueIce** » 2007-05-03 02:29am

So, on topic, when they get to Alderaan, think they'll point out the shield flare when the superlaser hits it, as they did for the Taintive IV in Ch03?

Think people will accept that?

EDIT: And did anyone else find it amusing that the stormtrooper falling flat on his ass gets pointed out with the "positive grip boots"?

Ritterin Sophia · Post by **Ritterin Sophia** » 2007-05-03 10:46am

RogueIce wrote:EDIT: And did anyone else find it amusing that the stormtrooper falling flat on his ass gets pointed out with the "positive grip boots"?

He didn't really get hit... it was a positive energy charge floor.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2007-05-03 02:03pm

Some good stuff in there, but a whole ton of randomly-made-up bullshit.

nightmare · Post by **nightmare** » 2007-05-03 05:42pm

I could have sworn R2 units have an olfactory sensor from some comment somewhere though it's news to me that 3PO has one. Makes sense in a protocol droid, though. Oh, and the new stuff is awesome.

Cykeisme · Post by **Cykeisme** » 2007-05-03 06:40pm

That link to the Visual Guide should be made more prominent. I wouldn't even have found it if I didn't try clicking on everything, which I wouldn't have done if it wasn't for folks here talking about it.

The Dark wrote:
Cykeisme wrote:Argh, my SoD is bruised..

For example, "Dog-eared set dressing" on Image 17..

I just closed my eyes, covered my ears and kept chanting "Loose access panel left ajar" over and over again
Don't know if you realized this or not, but it's something for everyone in general - white text is in-universe information, green text is out-of-universe.

I know, Dark. Doesn't help

nightmare wrote:I could have sworn R2 units have an olfactory sensor from some comment somewhere though it's news to me that 3PO has one. Makes sense in a protocol droid, though.

Ooh, yeah. The olfactory sensor probably plays a part in a subset of the six million forms of communication in which C3PO demonstrates fluency.