01/29/2003

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Name        : Team-K v2

Author                  : Akiya

Email Address           : akiya_k@hotmail.com

Description : They're sleek, they're sexy, they're Team-K, an all-female group of warriors put to shake 'em and bake 'em in the arena. Having been using the Sapphire skin for the female merc model B, I was dissatisfied with the incomplete swimsuit look, namely that it was only in the front. Finally, I set out to remedy this on my own, as nobody else was appearing to do so, and after a lot of reworking, my active UT2003 character, Aoi, was finished. I figured that I wouldn't stop there, having a repertoire of characters I used to draw and play on MUCKs, who all have very similar armor, so after a lot of modification and even more tweaking of the already-similar original skin to get their bodies to look 'just right', Team-K was finally ported to UT2003. This time, I've tried to make them as dissimilar from the original as possible, while keeping their own simple designs, including an overhaul to Aoi's skin. All faces all have modified eyes and/or mouth, also in order to give them appropriately more Asian looks, including alpha-ed hair in this version. Also new is the inclusion of shaders to make their armor and accessories shiny, and to make appropriate parts glow, like Ayika's eyes. As an added bonus, the stock Team-K quartet shares outfits between the group for extra bots to play with. Why are they all so big, though? Having tested various methods of reducing space usage, I found that they're best seen in their original high quality. If Epic fixes the broken online skins support, I may consider releasing a condensed lower quality version in the future.

Additional Credits to   : Epic Games and its artists for the base skins, of course. Gene }"F®èékßøÿG"{ Sprague for the leather used from his Necris female skin. Sega for the original Rika/Fal and Anne designs. Rebecca Capowski for the translation of Anne's bio from the PS Compendium. Akitaka Mika and Red Company for Galaxy Fraulein Yuna. Midknight and Metallica (the band) for Lunacy. D W Mills for his hand in the creation of Yuka.

Extra thanks to         : Gene }"F®èékßøÿG"{ Sprague for letting me use a bit of his female Necris skin. Firehawke and Bonzai[REV] for reviewing and helping test the skins. Pancake Bunny.

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* Construction *

Base                    : Diva, Memphis, Blackjack, and Satin's head and Sapphire/Satin's body skins. Galaxy Fraulein Yuna art for Yuka's colors. Rika/Fal from Phantasy Star 4 for Arisa's design and her armor design for Team-K's, and particularly Shi's initial armor design. Anne from Phantasy Star 2 for her cameo.
Editors used            : Photoshop 6.1, Paint Shop Pro 7.04, uPaint, and UnrealEd 3.
Known bugs              : The occasional glitchy stretching of certain bits, but that was found unavoidable, and is hardly of consequence, and even less noticeable, if at all. Japanese girls have blue eyes? Only by anime conventions.
Build time              : About 3 weeks.


* How to use this skin *

Unzip the listed files to the UT2003 directory:

/System/TeamK.upl
/Textures/TeamK.utx

Copy and paste the following text into your XPlayers.int file (open in notepad), in the System directory of your Unreal Tournament 2003 installation:

Shi="Name:  Shi|Age:   18|Race:  Cybernetic Human||Data:|Leader and founder of Team-K. Stranded in Imperial space with her family, they were captured by a Vigilance Force patrol and accused of treason for their being outsiders. Declared guilty and sentenced to die in the Tournament, she must now fight alongside and against her kin in hopes of attaining their freedom, and furthermore of preserving their sanity in the light of certain and repeated death. Well-rounded in abilities, augmented by a targeting aiding implant, she is only truly hindered by her stubborness and moreso by her more stubborn libido.||"
Inochi="Name:  Inochi|Age:   18|Race:  Human||Data:|Support and medical specialist for Team-K. Captured and convicted by the Empire along with her sisters and niece, she serves as the calm in the storm that is the collective temper of her family. Tender, maternal, and normally reluctant to fight, she plays a more defensive role, yet what she lacks in aggressiveness she makes up for in her ability to keep a clear head in battle. It's rumored that, above all, she would readily die in place of her sister.||"
Chouwa="Name:  Chouwa|Age:   16|Race:  Human|       (Phoenix Hybrid)||Data:|Team-K's chief demolitions expert and overall troublemaker, she is the tomboyish niece of twins captured and turned into new combatants for the Tournament, where she herself too must now fight for her life. Hotheaded and reckless, she is known to jump right into the fray without regard for her own life. Lacking finesse and overall tactical knowledge, she has yet much to learn, and many a death awaiting her. However, it is rumored that she, unlike other Tournament fighters, has no need for the alien technology that returns them from death time and time again.||"
Konton="Name:  Konton|Age:   24|Race:  Artificial Lifeform||Data:|Jack-of-all-trades for Team-K, the mind of a young woman trapped in a machine created to appear that of the former, and above all, to fight. Like other mechanical combatants, her mind does not deteriorate with each time that she falls in battle, although that doesn't mean something else, much deeper down, won't be scarred. Unfortunately, her voice generation circuitry was damaged during the skirmish preceding her capture, and its restoration has not been a priority.||"
Akina="Name:  Akina|Age:   18|Race:  Cybernetic Human||Data:|Stranded in Imperial space with her family, they were captured by a Vigilance Force patrol and accused of treason for their being outsiders. Declared guilty and sentenced to die in the Tournament, she must now fight alongside and against her kin in hopes of attaining their freedom, and furthermore of preserving their sanity in the light of certain and repeated death. Well-rounded in abilities, augmented by a targeting aiding implant, she is only truly hindered by her stubborness and moreso by her more stubborn libido.||"
Miyuki="Name:  Miyuki|Age:   18|Race:  Human||Data:|Captured and convicted by the Empire along with her sisters and niece, she serves as the calm in the storm that is the collective temper of her family. Tender, maternal, and normally reluctant to fight, she plays a more defensive role, yet what she lacks in aggressiveness she makes up for in her ability to keep a clear head in battle. It's rumored that, above all, she would readily die in place of her sister.||"
Arikami="Name:  Arikami|Age:   16|Race:  Human|       (Phoenix Hybrid)||Data:|Tomboyish niece of twin women captured and turned into new combatants for the Tournament, she herself too must now fight for her life. Hotheaded and reckless, she is known to jump right into the fray without regard for her own life. Lacking finesse and overall tactical knowledge, she has yet much to learn, and many a death awaiting her. However, it is rumored that she, unlike other Tournament fighters, has no need for the alien technology that returns them from death time and time again.||"
Raisa="Name:  Raisa|Age:   24|Race:  Artificial Lifeform||Data:|The mind of a young woman trapped in a machine created to appear that of the former, and above all, to fight. Like other mechanical combatants, her mind does not deteriorate with each time that she falls in battle, although that doesn't mean something else, much deeper down, won't be scarred. Unfortunately, her voice generation circuitry was damaged during the skirmish preceding her capture, and its restoration has not been a priority.||"
Ayika="Name:  Ayika|Age:   41|Race:  Demon|       (Frigid Reflection)||Data:|Nobody really knows where this walking enigma of ice came from, or why, except that she appeared in the Tournament by her own free will, shortly after a ship commandeered by a family of female twins and their niece was captured by the Empire. Silent, deadly, and devoid of emotion, she would rather freeze and shatter her opponents, if she could have it her way. Her stark resemblance to Akina makes her all the more mysterious.||"
Arisa="Name:  Arisa|Age:   14|Race:  Numan|       (Genetically Altered)||Data:|Alternate daughter of Rika/Fal. A half-alien girl that was captured along with Team-K and accidentally killed in the preceding encounter with the Vigilance Force. Revived by the same technology used to bring back fallen arena warriors in order to serve her own sentence in the Tournament, she lost many of her once-unique traits. Having become mostly human, losing what all she had left of her late mother, all she can do now is fight.||"
Yuka="Name:  Yuka|Age:   Unknown|Race:  Human|       (Virtual Construct)||Data:|Unlike other arena fighters, she is not alive, nor actually 'existing', but instead is a computer program, the AI of Akina's captured ship; modeled after the persona of the Galaxy Fraulein, Yuna Kagurazaka. Hardly less human or attractive than those she normally interacted with, it was decided that she too would fight in the Tournament, kept on the plane of the living by a variation of the very technology that was used for her to walk and act like an ordinary human.||"
Aoi="Name:  Aoi|Age:   17|Race:  Human||Data:|Little is known of this recent entrant into the Tournament, except that she bears a strong resemblance to Sapphire. Some say that she might even be a clone, which is further demonstrated by many an uncanny similarity, both on and off the arena floor, only betrayed by her apparent associations with members of Team-K.||"
Lunacy="Name:  Lunacy|Age:   Unknown|Race:  Unknown||Data:|The self-proclaimed mistress of the Terran moon, come to battle in the Tournament for reasons unknown. Nobody knows who she really is, or why she has entered the Tournament. What is known of her is that she truly lives to her namesake in the arena; she is a lunatic.||"
Anne="Name:  Anne Saga|Age:   23|Race:  Palman|       (Geneboosted)||Data:|Raised in a normal Motavian home, she finished her internship on the spring of this year and successfully became a doctor. She, who has seen many tragedies in the course of her profession, believes in helping the many people who are alone and thus decides to join a band of rebels in their actions, for which she is captured and put to die in the arena. Except for things like maces and chemicals, she could use hardly any weapons, thus the need for an experimental type of geneboosting, if she is to last for any profitable amount of time. After all, let the ugly die quickly, but have the beautiful linger.||"



* Copyright / Permissions *

Unreal Tournament 2003 and all assets thereof are property of Epic Games.

Feel free to use the completed swimsuit look of the lower body of these skins as a base to create new skins, but don't forget to at least give some credit. It was a lot more involved than it seems, to get it 'just right'.



* Other Legal info *

These skins may not be used for financial gain or be passed off as your own or another's work. These skins may be used in part as a base for creating new skins. The skins these skins are based on are are copyright ©2002 Epic Games. The characters represented by these skins or their history may not be used in whole or in part and are the property of Akiya. Team-K and its characters are copyright ©2003 Akiya and Shinobi Neko Studios. Galaxy Fraulein Yuna is copyright © Mika Akitaka and Red Company. Rika, Fal, Anne Saga, and Phantasy Star are copyright © Sega.

THESE SKINS ARE NOT TO BE DISTRIBUTED WITHOUT THIS README FILE INCLUDED.

