RafalFett
Well-Known Hunter
I posted some of these informations here ==> Mauricemeyer's Chest Display Project but because there are much to say about the chest display, I decided to do a new thread.
It's hard to tell how many segments are (were) in total, but looking to the ESB stills from the Gallery and the screen captures (my own too) I managed to do a 7 step sequence and even to calculate a time period between most of these sequences.
Note that the images in the right side are not included in the final sequence because I didn't saw it used in any of the scenes.
The first six segments are from one of the carbon chamber scenes while the 7th segment is from the dining room scene:
Other scenes that prove these segments are the following ones:
I can't tell for sure which kind of digital characters they used, but for me is this type:
(Note: as described in the update, the correct LED character is the same for the ESB and ROTJ, and the one presented above is a good replacement, but not accurate)
This is the sequence with the time periods between them, which I calculated watching the first scene (the carbon chamber one) frame by frame.
Note that the first and the last two segments' time period is approximated because the scene didn't show the full sequence.
Non ESB Hero chest display facts
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It seems that for ROTJ they used other type of digital characters:
The first chest display is the ROTJ Hero (a repainted ESB Promo #1 chest plate) while the second image is a ROTJ Stunt (the repainted ESB Hero chest plate)
(Note: as described in the update, the LED characters used on the ROTJ are identical with the ESB Hero)
Another strange thing is that for the Supertrooper/Pre-Pro #1 they used only 4 digits (these were only prototypes), and the same scheme was present on the Pre-Pro #3 too (if the images don't lie):
But for the Pre-Pro #2 (and maybe for the other two ESB Promo suits too?) it seems that they already used the 5 digit chest display:
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Update 21-02-2013
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Did some digging regarding the chest display components using this MoM image as an example:
Here is what I found as correct parts for the chest light board:
On the first image the 7 segment display is noted with 7.62mm height but the graphical representation has a 9mm height (possibly for a better view of each segment).
These images shows the perfect fit of the found parts:
And some comparison images of the ESB Hero chest light:
The only chest lights that is close to this setup is the ShackMan style board which had 5 piece of 7 segment LED display (with the dots positioned vertical) and 20 piece of 2mm wide LED bars:
(Photo by stormtrooperguy)
Although there are some pretty good and cheap replacement parts for these boards, I would love to see a chest light made with these components.
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Update 17-04-2013
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Actually I have noticed some new steps that includes the existing segments and a new one, which is actually a blank state of the chest light. Using the existing images and movie sequences where the chest light is visible, I managed to do a 13 step sequence:
And made as a GIF file:
This sequence is not set in stone because some of the sequence parts are based only on suppositions. Use it on your own risk!
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This is my interpretation of the ESB (and non ESB) chest display and its sequence and is in no way a 100% proven statement.
It's hard to tell how many segments are (were) in total, but looking to the ESB stills from the Gallery and the screen captures (my own too) I managed to do a 7 step sequence and even to calculate a time period between most of these sequences.
Note that the images in the right side are not included in the final sequence because I didn't saw it used in any of the scenes.
The first six segments are from one of the carbon chamber scenes while the 7th segment is from the dining room scene:
Other scenes that prove these segments are the following ones:
I can't tell for sure which kind of digital characters they used, but for me is this type:
(Note: as described in the update, the correct LED character is the same for the ESB and ROTJ, and the one presented above is a good replacement, but not accurate)
This is the sequence with the time periods between them, which I calculated watching the first scene (the carbon chamber one) frame by frame.
Note that the first and the last two segments' time period is approximated because the scene didn't show the full sequence.
Non ESB Hero chest display facts
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It seems that for ROTJ they used other type of digital characters:
The first chest display is the ROTJ Hero (a repainted ESB Promo #1 chest plate) while the second image is a ROTJ Stunt (the repainted ESB Hero chest plate)
(Note: as described in the update, the LED characters used on the ROTJ are identical with the ESB Hero)
Another strange thing is that for the Supertrooper/Pre-Pro #1 they used only 4 digits (these were only prototypes), and the same scheme was present on the Pre-Pro #3 too (if the images don't lie):
But for the Pre-Pro #2 (and maybe for the other two ESB Promo suits too?) it seems that they already used the 5 digit chest display:
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Update 21-02-2013
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Did some digging regarding the chest display components using this MoM image as an example:
Here is what I found as correct parts for the chest light board:
On the first image the 7 segment display is noted with 7.62mm height but the graphical representation has a 9mm height (possibly for a better view of each segment).
These images shows the perfect fit of the found parts:
And some comparison images of the ESB Hero chest light:
The only chest lights that is close to this setup is the ShackMan style board which had 5 piece of 7 segment LED display (with the dots positioned vertical) and 20 piece of 2mm wide LED bars:
(Photo by stormtrooperguy)
Although there are some pretty good and cheap replacement parts for these boards, I would love to see a chest light made with these components.
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Update 17-04-2013
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Actually I have noticed some new steps that includes the existing segments and a new one, which is actually a blank state of the chest light. Using the existing images and movie sequences where the chest light is visible, I managed to do a 13 step sequence:
And made as a GIF file:
This sequence is not set in stone because some of the sequence parts are based only on suppositions. Use it on your own risk!
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This is my interpretation of the ESB (and non ESB) chest display and its sequence and is in no way a 100% proven statement.
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