Darth Vader

Darth Vader

Darth Vader from Star Wars.

January 21 1999

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Model Name : Darth Vader

installation directory : quake2/baseq2/players/Darthvader

Author, Skin Author : Jlbr

Email Address : [email protected]

Model description : Formerly Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, student of Obiwan Kenobi.

Seduced by the dark side of the Force he became Darth Vader. Sought to

hunt down and destroy all Jedi. Ordered by Emperor Palpatine to kill

Luke Skywalker, but tried to save his son instead.

Other info : Darth Vader is the second model that I make. It's a brand new model, with a

Light-Saber, that I made with the software TrueSpace4. Just for the head, I

used 240 polygons because I wanted it to be the more realistic possible, in

spite of a less detailed body. For the Light-Saber I used a game bug to give

a halo look to the blade : I just inverted the mapped side of some polygons.

For doing the animations I used QME because TrueSpace4 doesn't work fine with

Low-polys animatable deformations. I tried the best I could, with my little

animations experience, to give a tissue look to the cape, I like the result.

For the skin, I used the software CorelPhotoPaint8, and some pictures of the

SciFiUniverse of November 1995 and StarWarsInsider Issue #26 magazines, courtesy

of my friend Kaarde, pictures that I scanned and pasted on the skin. I think

that the result is pretty cool, since I wanted to keep the original look of the

character. Same thing for the saber, I used a picture that I found on the

"StarWars 3d Modeling Alliance" web site http://www.surfthe.net/swma/archives/archives.html.

I mapped the skin with NST. I confess that the skin isn't well mapped. I used

only the necessary parts of Vader. I also cheated a bit by stretching the two

polys of the back in the only goal to have 0% of skin waste. I used Q2modeler

to solve the "NULL skin found" problem.

Additional Credits to : Darth Vader, Obiwan Kenobi, Anakin and Luke Skywalker are a property of LucasFilm

Thanks to : CrystalShade for helping me doing the sounds

Kaarde, Elmuth, Telephone and Gwar for their moral support

ViolentBlue for his patience towards an apprentice

René Le

My family for enduring me when the, god damned! model wasn't working!

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* Play Information *

New Sounds : Yes

CTF Skins : Yes

VWEP Support : Yes

* Construction *

Poly Count : Model 602

Weapon 28

Vert Count : Model 320

Weapon 20

Skin Count : 3

Base : New model

Editors used : TrueSpace4, CorelPhotoPaint, QME, VistaScan, NST, Q2Modeler, PhotoED

known Bugs : Some times, some death scene makes the character pass a bit through the floor

Build/Animation time : about 3 weeks

* How to use this model *

Double click on the "Darthvader.zip" and then select "C:\" the directory is self-built.

* Copyright / Permissions *QUAKE(R) and QUAKE II(R) are registered trademarks of id Software, Inc.

This model isn't built in a lucrative goal, you must ask me the permission before using any parts of

this model for another model...

Here's the color code for the Vwep

Weapon halo Center

blaster Yellow-Orange White

shotgun "Chrome" White

sshotgun "Chrome" Red

MachineGun Blue White

chaingun Blue Red

grenade "Fire" White

Lgrenade "fire" Red

Rocket Red White

Hyper Yellow-Orange Red

Railgun Purple-Blue White

Bfg Green White