January 21 1999
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Model Name              : Darth Vader
installation directory  : quake2/baseq2/players/Darthvader
Author, Skin Author     : Jlbr
Email Address           : jlbr43@hotmail.com
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