In the film, Han says, "We should be at Alderaan about 0200 hours." He's not giving the time it takes them to get there. And, the two hours may be a mistake, albeit an understandable one. But on the other hand, two hours seems a bit too fast to get there, even for a movie that's two hours long. ![]() Leia would probably have been dead by the time Luke and everyone got there to save her. ![]() First of all, two days seems like too long of a time to take to make a rescue. Depending on who you listen to, the time is said to be anywhere from 2 hours to 2 days. There's a lot of debate out there over how long it takes the Falcon to make the trip. Also, try as we might, we can't read minds, especially not those of fictitious characters. Yes, the characters know this, but what does that matter if the viewers don't know it? This is not the kind of thing that the viewer is able to gleen from what is presented in the movie. This information was not in Star Wars, unless we missed something in the thousand or so times that we've watched it. While this may be true and does sound impressive, there's a bit of a problem with it. So Han wasn't necessarily talking about the Falcon's speed, but how well it can navigate, so the Millennium Falcon is fast in the sense that it is very maneuverable. So how does the 12 parsecs claim make it fast? Han was able to take a shortcut along this route, essentially coming very close to the black hole without getting sucked in. And apparently, there's a black hole somewhere on this route. According to the expanded universe literature, the Kessel Run is "an 18-parsec route used by smugglers," like Han. Of course you've probably worked all that out already and I'm just teaching my Granny to suck eggs! LOL Anyway I always look forward to seeing whats new at Vanishing Point and I hope the interior goes as easily as it can for you.Now, in the Star Wars expanded universe, this measurement of time still counts as to how fast the Millennium Falcon is. I take it though that it'll be a stand alone set or will you be trying to fit it inside the Falcon model? Either way if I can make a suggestion you may find it easier to make it in a more modular way so that you can, say, just load the cockpit or gun ports as needed rather than the whole thing at once. Wow, that is some undertaking, but I know it'll be really appreciated by lots of us when its done. ![]() Any chance of getting that dejarik table as a separate freeiee too? the onlyone I've found so far, is a blender file that, for some reason, comes out as only a wire mesh with no central column, and doesn't want to properly convert into a useable obj file. One of the things I didn't like about the Poser Falcon is that the interior was pretty much filled up with a bunch of useless kibble that had no real purpose. The bad news is that it may take awhile to be finished. The good news is that it's a full interior, including the cockpit, hallways, cargo area (with holographic chess table), and gun ports. I may even include hide/ show poses for the walls and some camera presets. The model needs a lot of clean-up, including triangulating >4 point polys, separating the walls for easier camera placement, rigging any moving parts, adding Poser shaders, and then adding Iray shaders. I'm currently working on converting a massive interior set by Sean Kennedy (with his permission). More accurately, is there space to add your own interiors?
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