Quote:Everyone remember Monsoontide's Biker Scout model? Great model for sure -- it was definitely a needed addition to the game. However apparently not everyone thought it was perfect, such as this author. Details, details, details. They're what make a good mod a great one. Or in this case they make a great mod a perfect one. Maybe. I don't know enough about the scout trooper to be able to say whether these minor tweaks are indeed more accurate than the original, however I highly doubt the author would have gone to such trouble to do what some may believe to be 'trivial' tweaking if it wasn't.
Is this kind of tweaking really trivial? No, not at all. There will always be those among us who want perfection, or at least want as close to perfection as is possible, and those that reach for utter perfection deserve to be patted on the back. Whether or not this skin is a perfect representation of the scout trooper or not, I think it looks better, and by no means am I saying Monsoontide's original was poorly made. It was a wonderful model with a wonderful skin, however this particular reskin takes that wonderful base skin and adds on to it, using the best bits of Monsoontide's work and giving it a little more depth and a bit more realness.
Team skins are, of course, included, as are all the extras that were included with the original scout trooper model. An overwrite is also available, for MovieBattles, I gather, although the read-me is basically just a copy of Monsoontide's original, and thus gives very little pertinent information.
Team Support: Yes
Bot Support: Yes
NPC Support: Yes
New Sounds: Yes
~Inyri[
Not satisfied with his improvement, Tyrael once again comes to us delivering a V2 of his already great skin. This time he says he has done this to tweak it to look as much as the movie version as he could. He also claims to own and wore the actual armor so he tried to bring the feeling of authenticity to this model as he possibly could.
Now I will say it is a definite improvement. The skin itself looks more lifelike than the past skin and also the textures look really good. Overall it's brighter but also more pleasing to the eye. He added some of the elements of the gear that were missing in the original skin which you can appreciate a whole lot better in the screenshots he submitted. All the bot and npc stuff are here too. The only difference in the team skins is a little red and blue insignia that goes on the shoulder pads. Also the sounds are new so you can appreciate the authenticity much better.
Download this if you want the definite Biker Scout skin!
Readme File:
Title : Improved Biker Scout (v2)
Author : Tyrael64
E-Mail : xisifer@gmail.com
Website : http://www.501st.com/members/displaymember.cfm?costumeID=6&userID=7935
File Names : BikerScout.pk3
File Size : 6.8MB
Date Released : December 3, 2007
Credits to : Monsoontide, Keshire & Duncan 10158(original model), Raven/Lucasarts(Jedi Academy), Shao(sounds), Movie Battles Team(sounds)
Description : This skin, as many may or may not know, is what I consider to be an improvement of my previous Biker Scout skin, which is itself an improvement of the base Biker Scout skin done by Monsoontide. As a registered member of the Fighting 501st Legion, and having owned and worn the actual Biker Scout armor several times, I know about how it all fits together and all of its details, and decided to bring as much of that as I could to Jedi Academy. There are still a few imperfections, but they're all restricted by the model, and I believe I've made the Biker Scout model as movie-accurate as it can possibly be without a full-scale remodeling. Movie-accurate sounds were also extracted and used (thanks, Shao!) and were used to further enhance the skin's authenticity.
Imperial Biker Scout (Scout Trooper)
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Model Name: "biker_scout_mst"
Authors:
Model + Skins: Monsoontide (http://home.earthlink.net/~monsoontide)
Initial Rigging: Keshire
Final Rigging: Duncan 10158 (http://io.meskinaw.net/)
Email: monsoonwave@earthlink.net
Sounds: None
Botfiles Monsoontide (Reworked Stormtrooper)
Special Thanks: All those keeping an - impatient ;) - eye on this models development over at lucasforums.
Concept: The stormtroopers designated as scouts wear lightweight armor that is considerably more flexible than the standard uniform.
Much like their infantry counterparts, scout troopers wear a black body glove covered with white armor.
Scouts often work in conjunction with light reconnaissance vehicles, such as Imperial speeder bikes.
For this reason, they are often referred to as biker scouts.
The biker_scout_pistol.pk3 replaces the regular blaster pistol. To restore the regular blaster pistol,
simply remove the biker_scout_pistol.pk3 from your JKA/gamedata/base/ directory.
Templates for reskinning the player model and the pistol have been included in the zip file, but may be deleted
if you don't need them.
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DISTRIBUTION NOTES:
This model is freely distributable, and you can feel free to reskin it and use it in your maps without permission from me.
HOWEVER - We (Monsoontide, Keshire & Duncan 10158) MUST be credited with the original model.
This readme_biker_scout.txt file MUST be included.
Place this pk3 file from this zip archive into the JKA/gamedata/base/ directory
*Information *
Polycount: 2782
CTF Yes
bots Yes
Custom sounds NO
LOD support - NO
* Copyright / Permissions *
This model, and the textures that came with it are not to be modified
in any way without the permision of it's creators.
The Biker Scout character is copyright Lucas Arts.
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