Rinku

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    The first time she was playing, my partner asked if she would be attacked by the Sith guards on Taris. I had never considered this before and I am so glad someone made a mod addressing this issue! This mod will be a great addition to my override folder!

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    Well, time to revive my old thread. Only have thesis work this semester, so I hope to get back into modding.

     

    Lost some of the files from the republic trooper armor overhual, but that's not a bad thing. I wasn't satisfied with my work - so I would have redone most of the armor anyway.

     

    In the meantime, here is an idea I had for a light armor/combat suit overhual. I might persue it in the future, but I figured I'd post it (that way someone else could work with the idea if they want). The premise is replace the traditional combat suit model w/ the smuggler model. Keep in mind, this is a proof of concept.

     

    Combat Suit:

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    Echani Light Armor:

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    Watched the movie last night (came out in China 2 days ago).

     

    Thoughts:

    • Everything up to the final battle reeked of reshoots....Scariff onwards was enjoyable - though those stormtroopers sure do have a bad KDR haha.
    • There was some weird, out of left field, sexual tension in the Jyn/Cassin scenes following the transmission of the plans.
    • The CGI Tarkin and Leia were obvious; but demonstrates that Disney has an interest in growing the possibilities of CGI facial structures. While utilizing real-life costumed characters with full prosthetics is preferable, this indicates that there will soon be equally immersive CGI experiences and characters.
    • The Hammerhead pushing a Star Destroyer, which subsequently sliced up another Star Destroyer had me laughing (#MakeTheOldRepublicGreatAgain)
    • The Vader we saw is the Vader we deserve (and now I want a movie that is just 2 hours of Vader wrecking everyone).

     

    Thinking about it more, I think I have a good idea of what happened in the first act and where things got messed up in the reshoot. There was actually more exposition in the movie than I remembered. It's just that a significant of it is spent building up the Forest Whitaker character and his group of meta-rebels. But then he dies for no good reason and that whole plotline ends up being really unimportant to the rest of the movie. I'm guessing that in the original shoot, that part was longer and the whole assassination mission on the stormy canyon planet wasn't there. I'm also guessing the Kaiburr crystals played the role of an actual MacGuffin. We hear that they're important to building the Death Star but the Empire is already done extracting them by the time the characters arrive there. Well I'm not completely sure. When I watch it again, I'll try to figure out what other scenes seemed out of place.

    I agree. The whole assasination mission felt wedged into the movie.  Also, it seems that with the reshoot, Jyn Erso lost whatever character development they planned and became a Mary Sue (same goes with her father) - thus making her future speeches feel out of character.

     

     

    The lack of a proper Star Wars soundtrack, outside of maybe 30 seconds of cues (mostly for Vader) and the end credits really negatively impacted the feel and impact of it. There's a reason why the pre-screenings of A New Hope with no music that Lucas did for the likes of Spielberg were so heavily criticised. The John Williams score is Star Wars. If this is what we have to look forward to in the post-Williams era then ugh. At the very least they should never hire whatever guy scored Rogue One again.

    I entirely disagree. I felt that Michael Giacchino did a great job incorperating enough elements to give the movie a Star Wars vibe, while also distinguishing the movie as its own story (and the first stand-alone, live-action movie by Disney). Especially considering he had four and a half weeks to compose the score.

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    I know I'm late on the uptake, but I really liked this.

     

    Frankly this would have worked better as a prequel than anything produced after Return of the Jedi. (Not because it is better as a film, but that it brings the main themes of the Prequel Era: The Jedi are keepers of the peace, and both the Jedi and Sith are numerous immediately into the forefront) plus, it returns with fun effects callbacks to Original Trilogy with the Mynocks and training droid sequence.

     

    Agreed. I think it would be interesting to see a "prequel" film that takes a similar tone.

     

    Random thought: I wonder if it could be achieved through an extensive edit and combination of the prequel movies and any fan movies that fall in the prequel era....

  23. Posted

    Interestingly, things took an interesting turn now.

     

    Currently im working on an Overhaul with Cache71, which overhauls all Planets and most other textures too of Kotor 1.

    The prequel movies are an important inspiration ressource and i tried my hardest to get it look right.

     

    This is super exciting news, excited to see what you guys release

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