Jahled

I really like it the more I look at it, especially whilst i'm typing this message! The SWR logo and Nogri are extremely professional in appearance. I'm thoroughly impressed guys! Well done!

Cute little fella isn't he! We've got thousands of slides taken over the years here at the Zoological Society of London. Time has attacked most, so to generate money from image sales (all plowed back into world conservation, we are a non-profit organization) they generally land on my desk for some shopery with Photoshop since my manager saw the light and got CS2 on my advice. 'It will make us money,' I believe I said. And now an image sale to National Geographic. I'll be running the show next..

Curious.. apparently Alec Guinness' cloak from the original Star Wars was available to rent at a costume shop here in London for a decade or two i've just seen on the local news, until noticed by a shop manager.. oh well, it's for sale now: Bonhams Press release

Note how by using RebEd you can see the Process rate for example the Construction Yard is 4 and the Advanced Construction Yard is 2. Herein lurks your answer Master Rob! I've not tried lowering it except once with the basic ship yard when I got bored of waiting about twenty days for a squadron of TIE fighters to be produced, but when I did it spat them out!

Most of the older ones come without textures, because our team of model makers hadn't figured it out then. The newer ones should have textures. Simple as that.

*Looks around* Yay! Well I love it! Neat and simple graphics with a fluffy Nogri Jedi thingy currently half obscured by a banner for quboom, and the colour scheme seems bright and friendly. Very Woo La-Forge! EDIT: Can't the banner at the top of the page be shifted to the right, thus making our fluffy Nogri-Jedi obscured? EDIT 2: *changes resolution to 1024* ah, that's better!

*Envies* Seriously, good luck Krytos dude! Here's a slightly smaller sample of what I was working on: Click for smallerized original mess At this size it's tricky to see most of the 'dust and scratches' I had to remove. I won't be credited for the image (Mac Operators never are) having not taken the original photographs, but still..

Or latched on to how much he was making out of his franchise. As Lord_La_Forge previously said.

Check out the Han Solo picture in view two btw..

I've got access to my work 'inbox' at home via Outlook Web Access but not apparently my 'sent box' inwhich the said images were forwarded. I saved them all at 'maximum' obviously given the client though, so some pretty hefty file sizes to host in order to show you you. I'll host something on Monday slightly compressed when back in the office..

Hahaha best of all the moods!

Well, today at work I was asked by a member of marketing to scan some slides of some Slow Loris's. High profile image sale apparently. No problemo! I is Jahled! Another day at work for conservation! Any specifications for the image? I obviously asked. 'In scale, and including a human finger,' was marketing department's reply. Amazingly, that was compatible with what I unearthed in our collection, of a very newly born Slow Loris clinging on to one of our keeper's hands. Like ace! Bit of of very high-res scanning later and an hour or two cleaning up in Photoshop on account of how 'scratchy' the slides were, I forwarded five multi-meg jpg's to marketing for sale. 'who's the client btw?' I threw in with the email. 'National Geographic Magazine.' Was the answer. like woooooooooo! I've got a subscription for the next eleven months as well, so I guess I stand a good chance of seeing my work in print.. /all woo'ed out!

All Cain did was swap the game's original models around, and shuffle cards. Use Resource Hack to do this.

Why?

Ok, what do I hate about the Star Wars Movies.. emm.. I must confess to being like Tex and being a bit of an old git being thirty and a blurry bit, so yes I was there in 1977 marvelling at the original movie and that Star Destroyer rumbling across the screen which none of us had more or less experienced in cinema, not least with the sheer brilliance of John William's score. Whilst the TIE fighter absence during the final battle over Yavin of the original movie is a little questionable with hindsight, everyone was simply to much in awe at the time by the cinematic experience as a whole, so that can be forgiven I guess. The Empire Strike Back was brilliant, best of the lot in my book, the rebellion/heros on the run etc, constantly bumping into overwhelming odds and realistically thwarted with brilliant screenplay. The rather dark and bleak ending made the public simply have to watch RotJ after all they had been through! And then! Oh dear! The Return of the Jedi. All was ace at the time, for the concept of a Star Wars geek hadn't yet manifested itself. But these days upon reflection, like CCCCHHHHRIISSSTTT!!!!!!!!!! After a wonderful beginning involving Jaba's palace, and all the thoroughly excusable mess of logic involving all our hero's walking into traps when a rebel incursion would have swiftly secured Han's release, given the subsequent scenes involve the rebel fleet in all it's largeness, we are reduced to the involvement and introduction of the EWOK! Simply why? The George Lucas bank balance factor again, cashing in as our Ninja lord La_Forge reveals above? It simply ruined it for me, basically teddy bears defeating Stormtroopers. And the battle above. Unexplained. Like how? With about thirty Star Destroyers, an operational Death Star, and the battle swung in the rebels favor? Again something that wouldn't have occurred to me at the time, simply due to the awe factor; but worthy of a raised eye-brow now.

It could be, that the Supreme Dumbass, GL, as you put it, quite wisely doesn't give a shit about the Jedi Academy Trilogy or anything else to with the Expanded Universe in so far as his Star Wars vision goes,* given a great deal of it is complete and utter crap; and I doubt he feels any allegiance to have any association with it in so far as the creator's association with it. I'm sorry to sound harsh here, so don't take it directed Mith dude! But sure, wisdom makes sense to open up the Star Wars franchise left right and centre with every manor of plot developments imaginable, but ultimately, GL owes such continuum nothing, in so far as his rather erratic vision of the Star Wars Universe goes. He created it, and like Elvis remarked greatly above, it more or less seems as if in the fashion of a teenager slightly carried away with the latest cinematic graphic technology. I'll forgive him for that, at least I didn't see Buffy and her teenage chums repulse an Imperial Star Destroyer invasion by shoving it through hyperspace, or a sun crusher, the nonsense of World Devastators, or force storms etc. I do have previously stated misgivings regarding how he handled the Jedi in the prequels, but as Elvis pointed out; to much time in front of a green back cloth. *the George Lucas Bank Balance factor

My otherwise flawless command of the English language may have erred in my last post... Bad use of the word 'launched.' What I meant to say was 'laid down' (as in like a ship's keel. In other words commence construction on.

The abort special forces missions

100% sure of it. A setting of 1 will make any jump take only a day.

Strategy 1036 & 1037

Who is to say they didn't have a larger version of the Death Star; ie: the Second Death Star, launched shortly after the first one got under way? There is nothing in the original movies to suggest otherwise if you think about it. If you leave out any slightly dodgy "additions"* from the expanded universe with any reference to what we were shown as Endor in the Return of the Jedi, it could well have been a 'secret project,' kept secret from the rest of the galaxy. Remember the galaxy is vast behind comprehension, so Endor could be hidden by the the Empire quite easily for twenty or so years behind a tight security net; construction workers with no idea where they are working, or to some element what they are working on, if you think about it. *note how GL has ignored them all

Not to think about Alec Guiness as Obi-Wan Kenobi doing saltos like his younger being or even Count Dooku did. I don´t think that people wanted to see such kind of martial arts-like lightsaber-fights. Today's movies are just cut so fast that you like to watch something which is a bit slower like the old light saber-duels between Vader and either Obi-Wan or Luke. And as a star wars-fan you expect such a kind of fight and not a Matrix-style. ^this completely!! The Star Wars I saw in 1977 was not Fists of Fury, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, or the Matrix or some similar exaggerated Hong Kong martial arts nonsense. The Force was subsequently believable as a concept in the original movies. I found the concept of the power of the Force slightly John Woo'ed in the prequels, and driven to utter stupidity in my experience of the expanded universe. What threat is a Star Destroyer when a Jedi Master quite obviously on account of Dark Saber can shuve it into a systems sun? (like why into another system?). And this is EU canon? Good grief! Ben must have been meditating when they showed up over Tattooine, and very bored on the Death Star. Christ knows what he could have done with it's reactor with some force-inspired concentration! He looked so concerned on the Milenium Falcon as well! IF ONLY THEY KNEW! Only movies for me, and prequals with a tad of extreme 'caution rating' with what Mike said above.

Arf!

*Looks around* Slocket?

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