-----Ut2004 Character overview------


This adds the very same soldier from the Unreal Engine 2 Demo demonstration to Unreal Tournament 2004. In the demo he made a few air kicks and showed the facial animation that the egnine could do back then. I decided to recreate him into UT2004 as a playable character.



--Character design--

He wears a bronze/golden armor typical to the other human fighters in the tournament, but has a few alien symbols on it, wich might hint that he might have been given this armor as a gift form an alien warrior. He has brown hair and green eyes and has the well known Unreal U symbol as a scar on his left side of the forehead. On his face he has also a bit of war painting if looked closely.



---His backstory---

About 2000 years before the Skaarj wars with the humans, there was a warrior named Jake William Logan, also nicknamed Blade of Justice. This soldier was a well known hero among his people, including the people of various aliens. His brother died in the hands of an mysterious Cybernetic alien named Xenos. His family only consist of his mother and his sister, ho he protects deepest. Back then, The Slarioux, ho where the biggest enemy amoung the empire, killed millions of people, both humans and aliens alike. Jake was sent to find the weak point of this enemy and did countless missions to save his people and those ho suffered.

When he finaly meet Xenos, the leader of The Slarioux, they battled against eachother to the end. Xenos fell down in a curropt MegaGate and vanished, and Jake was victorious. However, this victory had a price. Jake was wounded badly and could not return home. He later found an Cryostasis pod that an much older species made long ago. He thought if he uses it, he could survuve til help could come.

But years pasted, people began to forget him. All his flashy posters and commercials began to fade and his reputation fade away into the abyss. Now, his people forgot him. Only his family remembered him and his heroic deeds.

Now, 2000 years later, when the Cryostasis pod lost power, he awakened from his cold sleep. He looked around and thought everything looked different. He tried to contact the HQ, but no answer. When he manage to get outside Xenos's base, he found that the once mighty Slarioux city was burried in rocks and ruins, flora and vegitation had overgrown the city.
Jake began a journey trough the dead city and tried to find an working ship to fly away from there. But later, an Marine Shuttle landed nearby and a few soldiers ran out. Jake tried to talk to them but they gave no answer. The leader from the soldiers, began to talk to Jake and asked ''What is your name fellow human?''. ''My name is Jake, Jake William Logan. Dont you guys know me? I was famous!''. ''Sadly no, hoever you are, you are not remembered anymore.'' Said the commander.

Jake got confused and asked ''What do you mean? I am the well known champion from the 2037 Tournament! You sure you guys dont remember me?''. The commander said however'' 2037? If i did'nt knew better, you must have been sleeping in one of those Cryostasis pods made by The Accentral Ones, and judging about the tournament year, you must have sleept about 2000 years!''. Jake got a shock and got dizzy just about thinking about it. The soldiers and the commander took Jake to their shuttle and flied away. Now at the hospital, they saw that Jake's vitals are normal, confused but healthy. ''2000 years..... just imagen it. So much i have missed. My family, died long ago'' Thought Jake for himself.

Later that day, an unknown woman ran into the hosptial door and demanded to see Jake. WHen she meet him at the hospital, she talked to him as she knew him, and ironicly, she did. ''Jake William Logan? It is you! I know you are confused, but i am your descendant Anna Julia Logan. Our family are the only ones ho remembers your heroic deed you did back then. YOU are the one ho set the galaxy right!'' Jake answered to Anna ''So i am your family hero then? Sounds better than being totaly forgotten heh. But one question though, how much has i missed? Is Alien Marriage allowed or forbidden?'' Anna said ''For about 500 years ago, they declared Alien Marriage as a legal thing, so now it can be many interesting hybrids in the galaxy.''

Anna took Jake's hand and said '' Jake, since you are a very skilled fighter, can you join the comming tournament and win? Since my family is very poor and wont survive on the few money we have.'' Jake stod up and posed like a hero with a smile ''i do that for the family dear descendant! Im going to sign up and beat the crap out of the wannabes!'' Anna smiled and said ''lets get going then, but be ready for anything, since much have changed in the thournament. Remember to choose your team and get going'' Jake then answered ''Hope there are any Gen Mo Kai teammates to chose, since i seen those guys in action, they are awesome''

Jake had now Signed for the tournament and is ready to beat the crap out of the soon-to-be-in-coma fighters.

Within team based battles, he fights best in Fire Storm team.

--How to install--

By now many already know how to install, but for newer players or lazy old farts ho might have forgotten.

Just extract all the folders into the Ut2004 folder (where you have it installed) and it sall be all set. You find him in the character selection menu.


--What you get in this version--

The almost completely replica of the orginal model from the Unreal Engine 2 demonstration video.

In this version, the model has spiky hair. I thought that it looked more sexy on him instead of the orginal flat, monk hair lol. I be making some more hair styles of this guy, such as his orginal monk hair, his spiky hair, a mohawk styled hair, emo black hair with also black armor.

I have been trying to import my model to UT3, but i cant seems to find any good tutorials that works. If you want to import him to UT3, it be fine by me, as long as you give credit to me :)


----Known bugs---

At the moment, only his shoulder paldron's textures seems to a have a little bug. A part on them seems solid colored. Will fix it later.




---History---
V0.1- Never released, mostly a retexture of an existing character.

V0.2- Ditto, but worked with the head.

V0.3- finished with the head and anounced the character to the public.

v0.4-Had skeletal data problem and had to reRig the model.

v0.5- WIP Release, had no shoulder paldron and low rex textures.

v0.6- Mostly texture tuning

v0.7- Added the shoulder paldrons and armor sigma and back cross plate in gold.

V0.8- Secound release with shoulder paldrons and unique voice pack. Detail textures included. 

V1.0- He was Somewhat finished, with much more details than before, had an shitload of poligons that caused the game to load longer and lag for Xbox 360 owners (they usualy have low end computers) lol.

V2.0- Have him optimized for all computers so there wont be any complains from people. The model is about 99% Complete, only some minor tweekings is needed, otherwhise complete. Textures are in much better detailed and optimized. 

--Credits--
Myself for recreating the model and the textures.
Epic Games For the character design and your amazing game engine.
Abobe For Photoshop CSS5
Mete Ciragan, chUmbaLum sOft for creating Milkshape, the tool was the best thing i ever used!
For everyone ho has downloaded this model!
--


---Things to do---
create my own PC game with this guy as a Protagonist : )
Next model project would be to recreate The Slarioux guys.

Trying to import him to UT3 so younger players can live the past from their new game.