I love the sinplicty of Qui Gon's, but the deadly beserker saber of Kylo Ren just can't be beat.
It's not armor, it's a enhanced cybernetic body. The jedi could control machines with the force
Darth Maul's
Love how he can fight with one saber out or two, flashy af.
Man I need to continue playing thisI love the way it's two lightsabers that connect into one, that can itself be wielded either as a single lightsaber or a double bladed one.
They do the same thing in Fallen Order and it is just dope as shit.
Fire casts a shadow. I think by that metric lightsabers should. The old movies didn't do shadows because they couldn't, and adding them in post, even today, would look shitty.You work at EA? You would not by any chance know if the decision for the lightsabers in Fallen Order to cast shadows was made by the game designers or directly by Disney? I am really curious, because for years, I have argued that the canonical depiction of lightsabers was to not cast shadows, because in the movies the digitally created lightsabers such as Yoda's all did not cast shadows, so I thought that saber shadows in the movies were an oversight during (post)production. They did not cast shadows in most games of the LucasArts era, but started being depicted casting shadows in the Clone Wars animated show, so I am wondering what's the official stance by LFL/Disney at this point.
they totally should not cast shadows
I love the way it's two lightsabers that connect into one, that can itself be wielded either as a single lightsaber or a double bladed one.
They do the same thing in Fallen Order and it is just dope as shit.
By that metric, space battles should be quiet, but they aren't. I think fire is not the same as a lightsaber and having it cast a shadow is kind of weird, like it detracts from the supposed lightness of a lightsaber. It really takes me out of the movie for a second when I witness it.Fire casts a shadow. I think by that metric lightsabers should.
It's the other way around, the old movies didn't remove shadows that were visible in ROTJ because they couldn't, but in the newer movies, all CGI sabers where shadows are literally a matter of flicking an ON/OFF switch did not cast shadows. The same goes for videogames:The old movies didn't do shadows because they couldn't, and adding them in post, even today, would look shitty.
Dunno what their deal is, lightsabers in our game dont cast shadows and I agree that they shouldnt.You work at EA? You would not by any chance know if the decision for the lightsabers in Fallen Order to cast shadows was made by the game designers or directly by Disney? I am really curious, because for years, I have argued that the canonical depiction of lightsabers was to not cast shadows, because in the movies the digitally created lightsabers such as Yoda's all did not cast shadows, so I thought that saber shadows in the movies were an oversight during (post)production. They did not cast shadows in most games of the LucasArts era, but started being depicted casting shadows in the Clone Wars animated show, so I am wondering what's the official stance by LFL/Disney at this point.
they totally should not cast shadows
It's somewhere between the general design for Kylo's saber (implied to be Old Republic-era by Rebels) and this beastly thing from SWTOR:
Yeah, no kidding. It is a creative lowpoint in what should be an incredible two-parter. I literally just watched 'em both this morning...
I haven't seen anything beyond Rebels S2, but I'm really hoping they don't use it again. It's the nadir of the "creative" lightsabers. Even Kylo Ren's has more going for it.
This!
It's the other way around, the old movies didn't remove shadows that were visible in ROTJ because they couldn't, but in the newer movies, all CGI sabers where shadows are literally a matter of flicking an ON/OFF switch did not cast shadows. The same goes for videogames:
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So I assume that either by mistake all cg sabers had their cast shadow option turned off, or it was a concious decision that they shouldn't cast any. Also, adding shadows is not at all an obstacle in modern post production. Especially since like 90% of the times, sabers cast shadows in the first place during filming because they used non-glowing rods until the ST.
Note how I specifically talked about the CG sabers, as in wielded by 100% CG characters like Yoda with no stunt blades whatsoever.This isn't how visual effects work. They'd still need to manually remove the shadows cast by the stunt sabers, it's not as simple as an "on/off" option. Just sounds like a different artistic decision was made at some point.
I'm not sure, they still expend tons of rendering power and time to make these CGI scenes have realistic and consistent lighting. They probably could tell the engine not to render shadows for lightsabers - but maybe they can't. It's not the same as game development. We don't really know.Note how I specifically talked about the CG sabers, as in wielded by 100% CG characters like Yoda with no stunt blades whatsoever.
Raging Spaniard I see. Thank you for the information, that's quite interesting.
Most CGI of the prequels was created in Maya and yes, you can turn rendering shadows off there for objects individually, so I doubt that their proprietary software and renderers would not be able to do that. Which is pretty evident by the fact that those sabers in fact do not cast shadows.I'm not sure, they still expend tons of rendering power and time to make these CGI scenes have realistic and consistent lighting. They probably could tell the engine not to render shadows for lightsabers - but maybe they can't. It's not the same as game development. We don't really know.
Theres alot of cool between the two. I just can't decide which one.
Oh hey I'm not the only one who thought of this.
Give us this for the next zany lightsaber:
Still the best fight of the series, higher ground notwithstanding.
I curse you and the rest of this thread for making me aware that this was ever a thing.
Indeed... I'll never forget how much of a beast they made GG look vs how trash he ended up being in the films.
Huh so that's where that came from.
Why is this worse it's the greatest ever.