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Quite a long time back, shortly after ut99 first came out, I got hold of the oldskool mutator which had the SkaarjTrooper model in it.

Fell in love with that thing.

Have avoided upgrading oldskool cuz the newer versions removed it. Although I did get a package of original Unreal1 models for ut99 too but there's a flaw in that package that makes the SkaarjTrooper freeze up on bots, which is no challenge to fight cuz you can just casually walk over and shoot it in the head as it can't move.

Much as I do with other skins, each SKtrooper skin I got ahold of I edited to give them all all 4 team colors. I've got them in skin packages; 4 so far, each with anywhere between 8 to 12 different individual skin sets.

This is XENOMORPH:


Got into a bit of a beef about these a couple months back on BeyondUnreal with some guy getting on my case for claiming these as mine. I finally got it thru his head I didn't make that claim, all that was mine were the team color edits I'd done to each of them. A few of the skins are complete originals of my own but most of them I got off an Unreal site that disappeared around 2002 and from skins acquired via different MonsterHunt maps.

Full collection:
http://unreal-games.livejournal.com/50564.html



That guy on BU became less concerned when I informed him these were for my own use. I've never uploaded any of them to skinning sites. Back when I used to host games, in 2001, and should I ever go there again... I wanted to have something in my games no other games had.

Nice work! However, even if you do not claim the original skin as yours, you should probably at least provide the name of the original author.

This has come up a lot.

Thing is, back when I was first collecting I didn't pay attention to that. Kind of a thing, a lot of the music I love I've no idea who makes it. There's a bunch of book series I read that I don't know the author.

It would be nice to know though.

I thought I was the only one.


A hunting-camo Skaarj skin I made, with green shoulder/head plates, and the armor in orange/green/beige splotches. I've been skinning more than gaming recently! In fact, seeing this thread's made me want to do it once more, lol.. of course, much like yours, I make these for personal use more than anything. This same skin also has team colors, but they all suck except for the green one.

That is a pretty cool Skaarj skin but is the colorization exactly like that or is the lighting on that map as extremely bright as it seems?

Slarioux Skin?Anybody?

That model was for an Unreal Engine tech demo, so nobody is going to have it unless they remake it completely or get the tech demo.

Say, AlCapowned? What's that eel looking thing in all your avatars??

That's a remodelled Slith.

Yeah. I haven't finished it yet.

One of the earliest ones I did was INDIGO, a basic SkaarjTrooper done over in blue as opposed to the usual tans & yellows. Team colors though I tried to go another way...



...instead of the armor changing colors to represent each team, I tried to keep it as close to blue as possible while only changing the Skaarj's skin itself.

My earliest skin edits, and to this day mostly still, involved some varied TINT editing. Switching around the Red, Blues, & Greens most image editors provide on a basic level.

The green TC is a bit off on the armor but I still like it okay.

a couple more of my Skaarj

AMUK*5 (AMUK AMUK AMUK AMUK AMUK)
black skin with team colors on center back smiley & front chest kanji & the eyes


OZONE, team colors fairly obvious

O.O That is awe to the some!!

Thanks!

If by coloration you mean how bright/washed out it looks, I did jack up the lighting in that map but I also did not use the best image editing program to make them and, as a result, suppose the look could be due to the quality of the skin itself.

But no matter. I'm not too fond of that camo pack I made anyhow, a mere stepping stone in my skinning "career." These below, on the other hand, I am rather proud of.