Question on the E-Webs, I've only read one or two of the Republic Commando books and one I swear the commando's had an E-Web. Now I know in real military they change things up and upgrade, would the Clone Wars commando's have the same version of an E-Web or would it be different? Sorry to derail the thread, if anyone has the answer feel free to just PM it to me.
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sorry me inbox is mostly full, can't have you PM'ing me back now can I?
To answer your question, yes, the Commandos
did have an E-Web. It was featured in the Republic Commando game, in fact, so I managed to take a nice screenshot in the game editor... here's the E-Web turret from ESB:
and here's the one from the game that the commandos use:
Apparently, they are extremely similar in design, but apparently later on they lost the little seat from the commando one... that actually rotates with the gun itself on the tripod... oh yes and they seem to have lost most of the blue glowey parts... and in the game (books too? only read the first and last ones) the turret only requires 1 person to operate, but two in ESB...
part of the design, like the seat for example, is there because it's a videgame; it would have been difficult to animate the commandos aiming a turret, because there are so many different positions it could be in, animating for all the possibilities would be impossible. And you can't rotate a commando at a single joint to have him turn and aim the turret while standing up, he would actually have to move around a lot. To simplify, they have the turret rotate from one joint (where the gun meets tripod) with a commando sitting in a seat. That way, the commando only has one sitting animation that it loops continuously as it rotates around the turret with the seat. His feet don't have to move in specific and infinite ways to move around the turret now, so a trillion different animations aren't necessary.
Hope that helps!
ok, ive made molds of all the major armor parts, im gonna make three in all two to man the e-web, one for lil' ol' me, the original has been stripped and the kind lady with da sewing machine is busy making 2 more sets of clothes and pouches.This E web has been along time coming i held out a lonnnnnnnnnnnggggg time for some promised blueprints of the screen used prop from a member of the 501st, they never came soooo its been a shed load of calculations, alot headaches as the eweb incorporates electronics
oh my goodness,
electronics are involved?
sounds like this is gonna be great!
OH yeah , those 501st guys, geez, you talk to one of them and they never get back to you, they're always too busy kissing up to Vader and bragging to the other clones that they saw him before he got his mask and everything, and they keep saying how
loyal they are to the empire, makes me sick! This one 501st guy wouldn't stop showing me all the pics in his wallet from "the glory days"... he kept ranting and raving about this one in particular:
so annoying...
I can't wait to see your e-web hurricane! Can you send me your plans for it? Like the "calculations" and stuff you mentioned... I wanna make one too!
)this allowed them to be heated and positioned.
