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Model Name:		       "Riptor"

Authors:		       Mike & Bill Jukes

Skin Author:             Mike & Bill Jukes

Web address:             www.mindlessgrafx.com  "you need flash to view this site." :)
 
Email Address:		 mike3d@mindlessgrafx.com

Server info.             You guy running the servers should run pure sever off
                         so as not to kick out the custom models.
                         If you first connect as a standard model you can just select him
                         after the game starts, or type /model Riptor in the console. 

Model description        "Riptor" Nemesis to of the Dark Rider
                         We originally did a character called the Dark Rider
                         This is the back ground story on him as the story                                 				 continues.

Back ground story:       
(Dark Rider) A group of independent foreign scientists known only as (se'kuj) succeeded in a cloning experiment on a unique species of beast giving it strength, speed and agility. The group decided to go one step further by recruiting a test subject to ride the beast. The experiment was called (AHST)Aggressive Hybrid Species Test was near complete. The only problem was the rider subject wanted revenge on his past aggressors, and was unwilling to continue any further testing. Escaping to fight in "The Arena" he vowed to kill all that entered. The scientists called him the Dark Rider.
                          
The story now continues:
The Dark rider was thought to be free from the test site and having the beast to obey his every command, he was unaware of a second hybrid species that the scientists already had in a near completed stage. The first hybrid beast was still in a very undeveloped state when the Dark Rider escaped with it. The second creature RIPTOR was created to sustain greater abuse to fighting and also the elements, for example they cloned in more genetic code from a bull to give it added strength. It was also cloned with a longer tail and more powerful legs to give him greater balance, the camel shape body along with the snake like head were cloned in to help withstand the great heat that he produces internally. 
The scientists then agreed that one of them should be selected to ride the new creature Riptor and return with the stolen beast and destroy the Dark rider for betraying them.
Riptor was the second creation the scientists envisioned. The scientists felt that the Dark Rider ripped away their first creation from them. Hence the newly named beast Riptor. 

Animation:
This character is setup with the standard ID tag system. If you would like to give your character more upper body movement during the idle stance all you have to do is use more frames in the torso idle and longer frames in the leg idle as we did in our Aeon Flux model.

Special Thanks to:       "Gauss" at polycount "Why you ask?" He did a shader for a character called boomer that had a nice effect we thought we could use for Riptors breath. It worked out nicely for us. ;)

Additional Credits to:   <id Software>  
                        

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* Play Information *
New Sounds:     Yes
CTF Skins:	    Yes
Bot support     Yes

* Construction *
Editor used	: 3DS Max 2.5, Character Studio, Deep paint 3D.

* How to use this model *
<INSTALLATION INFO>
Place md3-Riptor.pk3, bot-Riptor.pk3 and in the baseq3 folder.


* Copyright / Permissions *
QUAKE(R) and QUAKE III Arena(R) are registered trademarks of id Software, Inc.
The character Riptor is the original creation of Mike and Bill Jukes copyright 10/1/00. This character may not be used in any mod with out permission.

This model may be freely distributed UNALTERED.  Which means, you can't pull the readme file out of the zip, or add your own stuff to it and pass it along as your own! Please do not repack this file for any reason.
