Paradox Productions War Machine skins pack 1: Hardened Steel

Skin authors

Chamber: Neil 'KingScurvy' Reynolds

Imperium Commander: Christopher 'Kasarul' Bernert and 'Pain Supplier'

Krow's Mettallian: Rick 'Krow' Stirling

Metallic: Owen 'Kingspyder' Oliver

Overkill: Shane Caudle at Epic Games, Inc.

Compilation, conversion code and tweaking

Simon 'Psychic_313' McVittie

Pack description

The first of two skin packs for the War Machine model, converted and compiled by Simon 'Psychic_313' McVittie.

Important information

Each skin in this pack requires the corresponding Male Soldier skin. If you don't have the right Male Soldier skin, the default War Machine skin will appear instead.

Here are a few known download locations for these skins:
Chamber (Soldierskins_Chamber.utx): Fileplanet
Imperium Commander (SoldierSkins_Im.utx): 3D Downloads
Krow's Mettallian (SoldierSkins_krowmet.utx): Fileplanet | 3DDownloads
Metallic (SoldierSkins_Sold.utx): Fileplanet | Multiplayer.it
Overkill (SoldierSkins_Overkill.utx): Multiplayer.it

Using these skins on servers

As with all custom models and skins, you can't use these unless the server administrator has set it up to allow them. This means they will not usually work on public UT servers.

If you are a server administrator, please note that the UMOD for this pack does not automatically add ServerPackages for these skins; you'll need to do that yourself if you want to use them.

The lines to add to the [Engine.GameEngine] section of UnrealTournament.ini are as follows - note that each skin requires 2 separate ServerPackages lines!

; --- these are always required to use the War Machine model ---
ServerPackages=SoldierSkins
ServerPackages=AdvancedModelSupport
ServerPackages=PS2WarMachine
ServerPackages=PS2WarMachineSkins

; --- additional lines for each custom skin ---

; --- Chamber ---
ServerPackages=Soldierskins_Chamber
ServerPackages=PS2WarMachineSkins_P3ch

; --- Imperium Commander ---
ServerPackages=Soldierskins_Im
ServerPackages=PS2WarMachineSkins_P3IC

; --- Krow's Mettallian ---
ServerPackages=Soldierskins_krowmet
ServerPackages=PS2WarMachineSkins_P3km

; --- Metallic ---
ServerPackages=Soldierskins_Sold
ServerPackages=PS2WarMachineSkins_P3so

; --- Overkill ---
ServerPackages=Soldierskins_Overkill
ServerPackages=PS2WarMachineSkins_P3Ov

You can add some pairs of ServerPackages lines and leave others out if you want - you must always include SoldierSkins, AdvancedModelSupport, PS2WarMachine and PS2WarMachineSkins, though.

Linux users: the relevant file is $HOME/.loki/ut/System/UnrealTournament.ini, where $HOME is the home directory of the user the server will run as. If this file doesn't exist, copy the one from /usr/local/games/ut/System.

Note to reviewers

None of these skins were designed for this model, so any blurring and stretching is not the authors' fault. Chamber's shoulders, wrists and boots were edited to remove mapping glitches; any problems there are Psychic_313's responsibility.

There are some screenshots and images in the UMOD file.

Who to contact

To get help: read Psychic_313's UT Mods FAQ, then contact Psychic_313 if you're still stuck

Artistic comments on the skins: contact the skin authors

Technical questions on how the pack was compiled: contact Psychic_313 and ask nicely :-)

Copyright and Permissions

Modified Chamber skins copyright © 2000, 2001 Neil Reynolds, adapted with permission by Simon McVittie. No other skin textures are included in this package, apart from "talktexture" screenshots.

Skins by Neil Reynolds, Rick Stirling, Christopher Bernert, Owen Oliver converted with the authors' permission (thanks!)

Unrealscript code for conversion copyright © 2001 Simon McVittie. Permission is granted to redistribute this on a non-profit basis. Anyone distributing this mod on a large scale should notify Simon McVittie at the address provided on http://www.pseudorandom.co.uk/; by offering a public mirror download for this mod, you implicitly grant permission for your mirror to be listed as a download location.

THIS MOD IS PROVIDED "AS-IS" WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. THE AUTHORS ACCEPT NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR DAMAGE, INCONVENIENCE OR OTHER PROBLEMS, WITHOUT LIMITATION, CAUSED BY THIS MOD, EVEN IF THEY HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH PROBLEMS.


Original readme files and skin information

Some of the information shown here may be out of date. Comments in italics are Psychic_313's editing.

Chamber

Unreal Tournament Soldier Skin: Chamber v1.0

By: Neil "KingScurvy" Reynolds
ntreynol@colby.edu

Skin info:

Team Colors:
Yes
Faces:
5- Chamber, Lead, Zerx, Exus, Neon
[merged into one team-coloured face in this version]
Theme:
Battle-worn robot (still kickin'!)
Misc:
This is my second original UT Skin. The chestplate was a result of some doodling, and the rest just followed. The Fan is animated only in Deathmatch, since doing it for all team colors would mean a freakin' huge UTX file, which isn't really worth it for something so small (but fun!)
[the fan is not animated in this version, to keep the file size down]
Kudos to Rorshach for the idea of having one face for each team color-- which I used in Chamber. Also, thanks to the Painful Detail forumers for advice on colors :)
Other skins by KingScurvy (Self-pimpage):
Space Pirate (a simple variant on MetalGuard)
Space Pirate KZ (an enhanced version of the above by "Kezef," a dirty dirty frenchman)
Decay (a decayed corpse riddled with worms)

Questions, comments, quips, quotes, queries, quandries, qualms and confusions are welcome, and can be directed to me: ntreynol@colby.edu. Enjoy!

Imperium Commander

Novemeber 27, 1999

Editors
Kasarul and Pain Supplier
Contact Info.
Kasarul (Kasarul@hotmail.com)
Pain Supplier (pain_supplier@netaddress.net)
Team Colors
Red, Blue, Green, Gold
[Neutral and Blue are identical]
Faces
4 faces (red face, blue face, green face and gold face)
[merged into one team-coloured face in this version]
Team and Clan ready?
Oh yeah!

This is a skin Kasarul couldn't finish and handed to me. All I did was the legs, the belt and the team colors and faces. Kasarul did everything else. Hope you run this on servers, specially those which require teams to play.

Krow's Mettallian

This skin was created by Rick 'Krow' Stirling for the Metallian skinning comp.
[this was a competition run by UTMachine, currently located at http://www.planetunreal.com/utmachine]

author: Krow
email: rickstirling@gofree.co.uk [not valid now]
web: http://www.3dpalette.org/skin101 [broken link, try http://www.planetquake.com/skindom/]

Metallic

Metallic........by KINGSPYDER
contact........j-hawk@pcs-mo.com

Thanks for checking out my Unreal Tournament skin for the Male Soldier Model. All team colors are included. There are also seven faces including an animated one. Hope you enjoy!
[some of these faces do not appear for War Machine, because they look too human]

[installation instructions deleted - see above instead]

This skin was entirely drawn by me and was created using Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. No outside material was used. Please do not re-use my work without asking.

Overkill

No readme file was provided with the original Overkill skin. As far as I know, it was made for the German version of UT by Epic's Shane Caudle. Parts of the skin come from Raw Steel.