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- QUAKE2 SKIN Corporal Dwayne Hicks (or an unreasonable facsimile) 1/9/97
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- Author: Byydo (sometimes known as Cpl.Hicks)
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- E-Mail: Byydo@hotmail.com
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- Homepage: http://members.tripod.com/~Byydo
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- Clan: AHQC (ace's Happy Quake (and possibly Quake II) Clan)
- Clan homepage: http://www.ici.net/cust_pages/mello/ahqc/ahqc.htm
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- Files: nHicks.pcx nHicks_i.pcx nHicks.txt
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- Instructions: Just unzip all these files to your quake2/baseq2/players/male
- directory.
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- Important: I am not responsible if you mess this up, your actions are
- your own and I take no responsability.
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- Other: As a great Clan Leader once said... "fnord!"
- My original intent for this skin was to have a guy that actually
- LOOKS like Cpl. Dwayne Hicks, from the excellent motion picture ALIENS. First, I
- took the Major's skin and slapped on a pic of Michael Biehn, the actor who
- portrays Cpl. Hicks. I quickly discovered that this looked rather stupid.
- I then decided that i would make a Kyle Reese skin instead, since he's
- practically Cpl. Hicks- I mean come on, the guy's a dead ringer for him... :)
- After drawing in a new face and haircut, I looked again at this skin. I noticed
- that this one looked pretty stupid, too. Also, I then realized that attempting
- to draw a realistic trenchcoat onto the Quake II Marine's thick armor would look
- really stupid. In despair, I gave up for the night. The next night, I again
- attempted to recreate the elusive Dwayne. I found another picture of Biehn,
- this one sans helmet (yes, I realize it was stupid of me to try to make a skin
- with a helmet on it, since the Quake II models don't have hemlets on them). I
- pasted this picture onto the skin, and re-colored the major's armor- it now
- *remotely* resembles a Colonial Marine's body armor. I drew in more stubble
- and shadow, to match the picture of Biehn. I then tested the skin in quake.
- To my utter delight, Quake II made Hicks' face stone white, stretched his
- hairline back to his spine, and gave him a beautiful 2-inch black beard. It
- was around this time that I realized that Quake II is a mean-spirited jerk.
- I also noticed Quake II distorts the skins quite radically when applying them
- to the models. I went back to the drawing board (well, more of a window, really)
- and proceeded to re-color the face, draw in more hair, and re-color the armor
- again. I also drew in a couple more things, such as a wristwatch, locator
- beacon, and USCM tattoo (yeah, Hicks has one, I saw it in the photo) The end
- result of this foolishness is what you see before you. Before you ask, Yes,
- this skin looks kinda silly, and Yes, I realize that it dosen't really look
- like Hicks when applied to the model, but it's really made from a photo of
- Biehn so cut me some slack, okay? :) Go ahead and make a better one if you
- like, I'd really love to see a *good* Hicks skin sometime. :)
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- DISCLAIMER: Skin authors MAY use this skin as a base for other skins.
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- Hollywood producer types, if you're reading this, I think you should consider
- giving Michael Biehn a starring role in your next film. The man's an excellent
- actor. Don't believe me? Watch The Terminator.
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- If you distribute this skin, please include this file.
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- This skin MAY NOT be included in any CD-ROM or other product whose sales earn
- profit for their publishers- *UNLESS* the publishers are either iD Software
- OR 20th Century FOX
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- Oh yeah, ALIENS and ALIENS related characters are (C) 20th
- Century FOX (or whatever they're called)
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- I guess Michael Biehn can do whatever he wants with this skin.
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- PS: I used Gateway's layout for this text file. His email address is
- gateway@mobsters.com