Teaser: My new lightsaber "working" blade

[OldKen]

different color boards.

you wouldnt have to buy different blades to have different colors?

sweet.

are you doing any with in the hilt sound or just your wireless blue tooth connection you had spoken of earlier?

still dont fully understand the whole sound setup and everything, but the brightness and durability of the blades alone is enough for me and anyone reading this to know they have to have one.

have you done durability tests and broken any other sabers?

just curious.

 

[Mega Gigan]

Oh my dear lord. I'm getting so excited for these lightsabers it's staggering. What colors are you planning on releasing?

 

[OldKen]

Originally posted by Mega Gigan@Mar 26 2006, 08:38 PM
Oh my dear lord. I'm getting so excited for these lightsabers it's staggering. What colors are you planning on releasing?

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he said in an earlier post that you could plug different boards in and get different colors.

im waiting on an answer as well.

and i also wish i had the whole pricing thing on lockdown, because he once said it would be close to the same as whats being offered elswhere... 1-300$

one of the last posts he said that for everything it would be SEVERAL HUNDRED dollars. :eek

not that it isnt worth that, i just am having a hard time grasping what we are going to be looking at to have a working HD saber.

 

[Megatron]

does anyone else see Vader in the back of the chair (in the leather)?

 

[OldKen]

Originally posted by Megatron@Mar 26 2006, 09:32 PM

does anyone else see Vader in the back of the chair (in the leather)?

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:confused :eek

HD is using a jedi mind trick to get all our money... :angry

LOL.

yes, thats wierd.

OMFG... :eek

look behind the chair to the right...

its jabba....... WTF???

 

[CriticalMass]

Originally posted by Megatron@Mar 27 2006, 01:32 AM
does anyone else see Vader in the back of the chair (in the leather)?

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Nice catch, it actually has further detail beyond just the helmet.

Can't wait for these awesome sabers.

Here's to Gator engineers :cheers:

 

[Mega Gigan]

Have you thought about when two sabers lock, they make that crackling noise? It would be cool if you made that a feature and made it into like a seperate button so the user could press it down when they duel and get locked up with someone else.

Just an idea...

 

[jamiemp]

i want em now :cry
these look sooo awesome.. kinda expensive tho...oh well looks well worth the sacrafice, who needs $$ when they have props? what kind of hilts are these put in anyway?

 

[hyperdyne]

Thanks guys. One thing I will reiterate, the whole blade upgrade will run a couple hundred bucks. Yes, it may seem expensive but the technology I am using is more cutting edge. I really wish I could get away with using one huge LED in the hilt that costs $10, but that just aint happening with these. Anyway, you will be able to retrofit the kits into any hilt that is greater than 1" ID.

Gigan, we do have a crackling effect you can trigger when using the bluetooth wireless sound modules. I have several of these wav files I have put together for my sabers. One saber has normal clashing sounds and the other saber has locking type sounds that one can trigger remotely...

 

[hyperdyne]

Last but not least, here is the secret blade feature we havent shown until now (you can see the red blade do this in the above durability video).

Below is the first video showing off the CorePulse blade effect..

This feature replicates a movie-like shimmering effect of the blade. The green saber in the movie shows the slowest pulse effect (since my camera only does 5fps I wanted to capture the effect).

CorePulse movie

You can choose between 4 different pulsing "rates" at will by using the multi-featured pushbutton. If you see the effect in person it appears as if the saber has an "aura" around it. It has gotten great feedback from persons who have already seen it, so I am very excited to see this effect finally finished...

Plus all our blades will include this effect.

 

[Mega Gigan]

Wow. I thought I saw the lightsaber pluse a little bit when I saw it. I wasn't sure if I was seeing things though.

HD, it's totally worth the money. I can honestly see myself owning at LEAST 4 of these puppies. All the money you'll be making on these sabers will be 100% worth it.

 

[OldKen]

so we will be able to set the pulse rate?

will it still have plain old full on?

and with the sound effect of the sabers being held together, are you saying that a 3rd person triggers the soudn via remote?

im sorry about all the questions HD, i just really want one of these from all ive seen, and just trying to make sure i understand everything.

the brightness alone is enough to sell these things like hotcakes though.

 

[massoh2]

1 inch? Will the Anakin ROTS FX handle all that? Also, is it really hard to install the upgrade?

 

[hyperdyne]

Originally posted by oldken@Mar 27 2006, 03:31 PM
so we will be able to set the pulse rate?

will it still have plain old full on?

and with the sound effect of the sabers being held together, are you saying that a 3rd person triggers the soudn via remote?

im sorry about all the questions HD, i just really want one of these from all ive seen, and  just trying to make sure i understand everything.

the brightness alone is enough to sell these things like hotcakes though.

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Yes, you can set the pulse rate to one of 5 settings:
1) full on
2) slow pulse
3) med pulse
4) fast pulse
5) flicker pulse

The saber pushbutton cycles through the settings. Also the driver board remembers the last setting so it comes on in that mode, and you can change it anytime you like while using the saber.

For the wireless sound effects, you can either 1) have a 3rd person trigger the lockup sound effect on demand via the PC, or 2) you can automatically set up one saber to do lockup sounds when it is contacted harder than normal by the other saber (by increasing the impact threshold on that saber).

 

[hyperdyne]

Originally posted by Megatron@Mar 26 2006, 09:32 PM

does anyone else see Vader in the back of the chair (in the leather)?

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Whoa. I never even saw that until you mentioned it.. :lol

oldken, I plan on having green, red, and blue as starting colors. I will look into doing yellow after that then possibly some other colors. All depends....

massoh, the Anakin ROTS FX should have room for everything. We are still looking to convert one of those when we get time.

 

[Frankel Halresien]

Out of the red,green ,blue wich is the brightest?

 

[Megatron]

Will there be a short blade version for Yoda? I would love to put this on my Yoda statue.
Love the pulse...is there more stuff still?

 

[hyperdyne]

Originally posted by Megatron@Mar 27 2006, 06:42 PM
Will there be a short blade version for Yoda? I would love to put this on my Yoda statue.
Love the pulse...is there more stuff still?

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Frankel, brightness is subjective since the colors are at different wavelengths. But at first glance I would say the blue or green is the brightest, red second brightest.

Mega, you are on the money. That was our next surprise, we actually already have a 2' yoda version blade. It has all the features of the 3' blade too. There will be a couple more surprises shared soon, we cant release them all at once....

 

[massoh2]

Originally posted by Megatron@Mar 27 2006, 05:42 PM
Will there be a short blade version for Yoda? I would love to put this on my Yoda statue.
Love the pulse...is there more stuff still?

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WOW.... That's AWESOME. Leagues ahead of MR for sure. So you can use the kit on the Master Replicas Anakin Revenge of the Sith FX right?

 

[Mega Gigan]

The surprises just keep on coming. Before we know it Hyperdyne will be saying they can cut through blast doors :lol