Design a saber station and questions

[Slimer7]

Hey Tim, have you ever thought about adding an interactive "design a saber" section on your page? Basically this would allow customers to design sabers and construct them on your web page based on the parts you offer so they can see what they are going to look like before they purchase? I personally like this idea so we can see exactly what parts we want and can make visual adjustments as needed.

My next question is this, have you ever though about adding some small grooves on your base MHS hilts or offer it as an option for an additional fee like with your standard endcaps (have several designs available to choose from) and have the groove deep enough for us to add "O" rings if we wanted to? Here is a pic if it helps.

http://www.wackychimp.com/uploads/mhshilt_2.JPG

[Strydur]

Actually I used to have a hilt designer for sink tube hilts. I will offer this again when I get closer to being done with the MHS. It will be allot harder considering there will be probably 100's of possible combinations.

I have always offered to do custom work on the items I sell. Some I might charge a small fee others I just do for free. All it takes is a email and a sketch WITH dimensions to find out.



Tim
The Custom Saber Shop

[wood7588]

The 'design a saber' idea has been talked about before as I recall. The general concensus was that it was going to be very labor intensive to get the images made and coded for the website. Tim said he would rather spend the time with his family. I agree, wouldnt we all want to spend more time with the ones we love.

edit: beaten by the man himself.

[Firebird21]

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Any volunteers?

I don't know how, otherwize I'd try and do it.

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[Do-Clo]

When all of the parts are ready for the MHS then I am sure someone will take a crack at it.

Do-Clo
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[Nightwing]

I think we could wait 'til there are more MHS hilt sections before we do anything...

[GeluKhanGharr]

even if there are hundreds of combinations, all you need is a rendering of each section, not combined. The drawings that Nightwing and meiv4 did for the graphic Tim solicited would be a great place to start. A small dhtml script and a library of those images would be all we need. It is doable and not that hard either.

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[Do-Clo]

Sounds like we have a volunteer [:D]

Do-Clo

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[Nightwing]

That's true; it wouldn't be too hard...

I think the best place to start would be with Xwing's CAD drawings, as they'd technically be be more accurate.

[meiv4]

mine are just as acurate, well as acurate as i can make them guessing on half the dims [:D] if i had some more exact dimensions from tim i could make perfect scale replicas, as i use a derivation of CAD. I dont yet know how to make the whole image library selecting of parts code... so if someone who knows the code would care to inform me i could work on it some.

hmmm hmmmm whooosh hmmmm whooosh crackel

[Nightwing]

Well, you'd just need to take pictures of them all and make sure they're all to scale. And you could probably change the texture on the hilt peices; the ones you have now look kinda like chrome. Very cool, but not quite what it'd really look like. It's fine for a main page graphic, but you don't want someone ordering parts from the site, only to see they're not quite what they looked like on the site.

[meiv4]

yea making the images isnt a hard part. its the code, cause i dont know how to do that. probably requires some tippy coding that i dont know. sooo someone do the code and i can do some images.

hmmm hmmmm whooosh hmmmm whooosh crackel

[Nightwing]

That's the idea. You just supply all the images and work with someone who can do the code.

[GeluKhanGharr]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Do-Clo

Sounds like we have a volunteer [:D]
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Gee, thanks! [:D] It will be a while, though - too many projects going on at the same time.
meiv, can you send me what you have so I can get started when I get a chance, then will add the rest later as they become available?

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[desertscorpion]

I think that idea would totally rock. I also think that Stryder could maybe come up with a "build your own lightsaber" kit, kind of like a turbo version of what Hasbro had. That way he could move a lot of volume and make it a little cheaper than pieceing it out. All in the great future of this site, maybe.