[v3.0] [released] UT PS2 Characters

[AlCapowned]

This is a pack of characters from the Playstation 2 version of Unreal Tournament.

10/31/24: Well over a decade after my last update, Discord user slade was kind enough to provide the source files for the PS2 characters, which gave me the motivation to update the pack. It has over 50 changes, including two new characters, accurate skaarj hybrid animations, new boss taunts, and more!

Thanks to Aspide and UnrealGGecko for testing!

Changelog:

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3.0:
Consolidated most of the skins from the previous versions into UTPS2Characters.u (classes) and UTPS2CharactersSkins.utx (textures)
Removed the ISV commando, beta Blake, and beta Nickolai skins
Replaced most of my remade skaarj hybrid animations with the higher-quality Epic originals (with some exceptions due to broken source animations)
Used the final version of the models as the base for most characters
Added the 2nd variant of the female soldier model
Added the 2nd variant of the skaarj hybrid model that uses the male human animations
Removed Psychic_313's war machine and added the war machine to the base pack
Gave the female mercenary a backpack (not accurate to the original model, but the skins were made with the backpack in mind)
Adjusted the female commando's UV maps and increased the size of the backpack to better hide the back textures (same issue as the mercenary)
Replaced the base male animation set with the final version from the PS2 game (the most notable difference being an improved pelvic thrust taunt)
Replaced the female soldier's animation set with the final version from the PS2 game (the set Psychic_313 used for AMS seems to be unused)
Kept most of the previous animation set for the female commando and mercenary, but replaced the backrun animation
Added headless corpses and proper headshot support to all characters (Dominator has a chance to only lose his helmet)
Gave the War Machines custom gibs
Made some of Xan's, Rampage's, Dominator's, and the War Machines' gibs inherit their skins
Replaced Damien's custom gibs with the generic originals
Added a mutator to make all characters' corpses turn translucent before disappearing as in the PS2 version
Replaced the talk textures of Damien, Dominator, and Xan with higher-quality original versions
Replaced Rampage's talk texture with one that accurately portrays his model (the Warboss texture seems to have been given to him by mistake in the PS2 game)
Replaced the PC Warboss' talk texture with a higher-quality PS2 version
Replaced the talk textures of certain characters with the PS2 character selection art where possible (Fury's, Throk's, and Guardian's portraits were given to characters that more accurately reflect the artwork)
Gave the female commandos new talk textures
Redid all the other custom talk textures
Modified all of the PC Warboss' skins to better suit Rampage's model
Replaced Damien's skin (which had been ripped through PCSX2) with the higher-quality source version and redid his team skins
Replaced Rampage's skin from the model archive with the one from the final source (less overly saturated) and redid his team skins
Redid all of Dominator's team skins
Redid Xan's gold team skin
Made new status dolls for Rampage, the War Machines, and the female soldier
Made various improvements to the other status dolls
Made it so selecting one of the boss characters without a team skin will announce their names and play their intro animation
Made the Skaarj Hybrids' Victory1 taunt accurate to the original, but the Dominator taunt can still be used by assigning a key to AMS' challenge taunt or using the "taunt challenge" command in the console
Gave Dominator his own animation set in which the Victory1 animation is his unique taunt (the real Victory1 taunt can be used by assigning a key to AMS' challenge taunt or using the "taunt challenge" command)
Gave Damien, Rampage, and Xan their own animation sets for unique taunts (did this instead of coding to make them work with Valhalla Avatar)
Adjusted the sound slots for Dominator's unique taunt
Gave the Skaarj Hybrids/Dominator an unarmed walking animation
Made all characters make use of the idle crouching animations
Renamed Dominator's character selection entry from SkaarjBoss to Dominator
Marked some skins as (Default) in the player setup menu
Renamed all the characters to start with (PS2) in the player setup menu
Expanded Dominator's voice pack to include friendly fire and team leader lines
Made the skaarj hybrid/dominator chest thump taunt play sounds
Filled the hole in Rampage's foot gib
Shrunk the size of the skaarj hybrids'/Dominator's head gib
Changed the idle animations in the character selection screen (kept the female characters' extra animation set in the pack for compatibility with SolidusSupremus's modified female commandos pack)
Added the SwitchAnim command (see the Commands section)
Added the winner taunt to all but the standard skaarj hybrids and Dominator (see the Commands section)
Consolidated Damien's player/bot subclasses into DamienPS2/DamienPS2Bot
Fixed the male soldier, raw steel, and war machines having the incorrect jump sound
Fixed a bug with Xan and Rampage using the default male voice if Xan isn't unlocked from the single player ladder
Made a Robot (PS2) voice class for Rampage and Xan that counts as a male voice, and gave Xan and Rampage access to other male voices
Adjusted the rotation and positions of all the custom gibs
Made Dominator's helmet and shoulder pad gibs make sparks instead of blood
Adjusted the model origins/scale of Dominator and the skaarj hybrids (not 2) to be closer to the PC skaarj hybrids
2.8:
Fixed the same bug for the Skaarj Hybrid bots
2.7:
Fixed Skaarj Hybrids not having any footstep sounds

2.6:
Added War Machines with male voices by popular request.
Fixed Dominator's talk texture.

2.5:
Added the War Machines (courtesy of Psychic_313).
Added beta Blake and beta Kregore faces.
Added Dominator skins for the PC/PS2 Skaarj Hybrids.
Added Breath3 animations to characters so they work in the normal menu without Oldskool.
Added several custom gibs for Damien, Dominator, Rampage, and Xan. Dominator and the Skaarj Hybrids also use Skaarj gibs.
Added acknowledgement and other sounds to Dominator's voice pack.
Removed Dominator as a separate class. His skins have been split into another file and moved to the SkaarjBoss class.
Dominator's talk texture no longer changes based on the player's team because of the above change.
Dominator now uses tskmskins_dominator.utx for his custom skin and tskmskins.utx for the original Skaarj Hybrid skins.
Changed Dominator's team skins to use the Skaarj symbol.
The UV maps of each character are now perfectly scaled.
Optimized the skeletons of each character. They are now all much closer to Epic's original models.
Removed unused dummy bones from each model.
Fixed the tearing problem with every model.
Replaced male ISV commando skins with the skins from the UT beta.
Changed "Zachary" to "Nickolai (Beta)" and used the texture from the UT beta.
Female characters now use the animation file included with Advanced Model Support.
Improved Damien's status doll and added new status dolls for everyone but Rampage and the soldiers.
Made adjustments to Damien's team skins.


2.4:
Impoved a few animations for the Skaarj Hybrid (such as Wave and Dead9)
Made several "SM" animations unique for the Skaarj Hybrid
Fixed a model problem with Dominator and the Skaarj Hybrid
Added PC skins for Xan MKII and Rampage
Removed the need for Bonus Pack 4 and the Bonus Pack 4 Skinnability Fix (for real this time)
All of the Skaarj characters should fit into the same places that the PC Skaarj Hybrids can


2.3:
Bots should now play sounds properly.

2.2:
The Bonus Pack 4 Skinnabilty Fix is back as a requirement (I can't figure out why the models need it, sorry!)
Fixed the problems with collision that I caused in the previous fix
Improved the Male Commando ISV skins

2.1:
Fixed a problem with the Skaarj Hybrids floating above the ground
Gave Dominator/Skaarj Hybrid bots the correct voice packs
Improved collision of all Skaarj characters

2.0:
Made all models larger to fit with the regular UT characters
Moved Damien's class files from DamienPS2.u to UTPS2Characters.u
Removed Psychic_313's Skeletal Characters/Bonus Pack 4 fix as a requirement
Added Female Commando, Female Mercenary, Male Mercenary, Dominator, Skaarj Hybrid, and Skaarj Boss characters
Added Necris skins to the Male Commando
Added Raw Steel skins to Male Soldier
Added ISV Kran skins to the Male and Female Commando models
Added Mercenary, Commando, and ISV Kran skins to the Male Necris
Added Thunder Crash, War Machine, Iron Guard, and Soldier skins to the Raw Steel
Added missing Athena face to the Female Soldier
PS2 variants of regular models now use talktextures from their original .utx files
Gave Damien statusdoll and statusbelt textures
Damien, Xan, and Rampage now play sounds when doing the challenge taunt
Xan and Rampage now have their own models
Slightly improved Damien's teamskins
Added missing 'Walk' animation to male animation file (for when the player doesn't have a weapon)
Made various improvements to all of the models
Added new talktextures for every previously added model aside from the Male and Female soldiers
Added Zachary, a previously unnamed character that was seemingly cut from UT (you can see him in Nickolai's original talktexture) to the Male Commando skins
Added a new talktexture for Nickolai

1.5: Added Damien to the pack and improved talktextures

1.1: Fixed a problem with the Male Commando bot

1.0: Initial release

Requirements: UT v436, Bonus Packs 1 and 4 (Advanced Model Support is included)

Download link:
Moddb:http://www.moddb.com/games/unreal-tourn ... acters-v25

Old Post Updates:

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I've been trying to get the characters from the PS2 version of UT into the PC version. Right now, only the necris and raw steel are finished, but I'm going to include everyone else aside from Damien and the two skaarj. After the first release, I'm going to try animating the skaarj and including them as well. I can't do anything about Damien because he doesn't have any skin, unfortunately. The pack will be for UT v436, but I'll try to make a separate version for Unreal as well.

UPDATE: I've finished version 1. This includes PS2 Raw Steel, Male Necris, Female Soldier, Male Soldier, and Male Commando models, as well as skins for Xan MKII and Warboss (I also made teamskins for them). The female commando model isn't included in this version because I'm having trouble with getting its skins to work.


UPDATE: I fixed the problem with the Male Commando bot that StalwartUK noticed. The links have been updated for the new version.

UPDATE: Version 1.2, which includes Damien, has been released.

[UB_]

Man the Necris Male model is great. But aside those, no other models were different AFAIK, with the sole exception of the normal Skaarj Hybrids (that had different anims). Then there's Dominator who works as a UT Skaarj Hybrids (same anims) but with a model of his own.
And Damien... so weird that the skin isn't attached to the model. He's basically the best human male model for Unreal ever made.

[AlCapowned]

Yeah, I was disappointed about Damien, too. The thumbnail for his .max file shows him with his skin, but it's not very visible.

There are some differences in a few of the other models, like the female commando. That model has different shoulder pads, and the backpack thing that the PC version has is missing. The Warboss has different hands, and the spikes on his wrists are gone.

[UB_]

Wow I never noticed the Female commando missing the backpack, but I knew that the Warboss had slightly different hands (they were orange instead of blue).

[StalwartUK]

Those characters look pretty cool. Especialy the Necris one.

A conversion of the War Machine model already exists. Looks like a cross of the male soldier and warboss models.

Also weren't all the PS2 models animated skeletally? All the original UT (and bonus pack 1) models used vertex animation. Unreal (minus 227 I think) does not support skeletal animation to my knowledge.

[AlCapowned]

I know about the PS2 War Machine, but the PS2 Warboss (at least the one I have) is kind of different. It's skin wouldn't work on the PS2 War Machine's model, because that model uses the same skin as the PC War Machines.

I've been using 3ds Max to rig the models and fix their UVW maps, so I could use ActorX to export the skeletal mesh to a vertex mesh. I did the same thing to convert the regular Warboss to Unreal, and it worked well.

[UB_]

Every PS2 character model used skeletal animations, including the Skaarj Hybrids (they also had hairlocks).
Man, if I'll ever see the day of being able to play as Boss Dominator - I fell in love when I saw that thing.

[Lightning Hunter]

Great looking models! Can't wait to see these finished.

On the topic of model conversions, did you ever see the UT2k4 models converted to UT by BlackCheetah?
http://skincity.beyondunreal.com/sectio ... php?id=727

They were extremely well done, with the exception of the animations... There were many missing some critical animations, which made them look a little off in UT. I REALLY wish someone would take these models and give them some cleaner animations. I took the time a while back to make green and gold team skins for all the converted UT2k4 models, as well as enhanced some of the previous skins. I also gave them all talk pics (including specific talk pics for team colors). All my effort was kind of a waste however, since the models were never that polished. It's a shame, since they look incredible in UT despite the bad animations.

[AlCapowned]

Cool, I never knew those were released. Did they use the regular 2k4 animations, or did they use the UT PS2 animations?

If I have time after I convert the other PS2 models and the two skaarj, I might try fixing those models.

[Lightning Hunter]

Cool, I never knew those were released. Did they use the regular 2k4 animations, or did they use the UT PS2 animations?

If I have time after I convert the other PS2 models and the two skaarj, I might try fixing those models.

That would be really sweet if you did fix them! They use the original UT2k4 animations, but I don't think it was a good choice. When the legs move on the models, they appear to be moving really fast but going nowhere. Let me know if you are going to take a look at the models; I have a much better version than what's uploaded on SkinCity. I got some of the source from BlackCheetah, fixed some of the code, and made all the new skins/talk pics. I spent about a month fixing the pack! The original pack was incomplete and riddled with bugs.

[AlCapowned]

I'm getting close to finishing the first UT version (without the Skaarj Hybrids). I've converted the raw steel, necris, male commando, male soldier, and female soldier models. I think I'm going have the PS2 versions of Xan MKII and the Warboss be skins instead of models, since UT keeps crashing without any error message when I play the game after I import them. The only other model I have to convert is the female commando.

[UB_]

I am a retard-tier regarding modelling/animation just to let you know if I make stupid questions but

did you remake all the animations for the PS2 human models? If so, wow. Anyway I guess you can go with the skins only (oh, and it's the PS2 Xan skin less cartoony-like?) regarding the Bonus Pack 4 characters, to be honest their PS2 model differences are almost unnoticeable and it is not worth the time to put them into the PC version. Are you going to include their special talktextures too? Rampage/Warboss simply had a dark green background behind the face (same as Damien) and Xan had a red background.

[AlCapowned]

I already had the animations for the PS2 humans (I don't remember where I got them ), but I did have to rig the models so they would animate properly. Mostly, their fingertips would stick to their legs. I will have to remake the Skaarj animations, though.

I don't have their talktextures, but I might be able to get them. I recently found a working ROM of the PS2 version of UT, so I could take screenshots of them. I also found a program that can open UMD files (which hold textures and stuff), so maybe I won't have to play the game. If I do get them, they'll be included in an update for the pack

About Xan's skin, it's pretty much like the green teamskin that the PC Xan MKII has, but with a slightly different shade of green.

[UB_]

Man, good luck with the two Skaarj models.

[AlCapowned]

After playing through a lot of the PS2 tournament, I was able to get the talktextures for Ramage, Damien, and Dominator. I guess Rampage's talktexture will be in the first version of the pack after all.