Handle: Slyrr
E-Mail: gregfisk@comcast.net
website: http://home.comcast.net/~gregfisk/
This model was created and distributed by Greg Fisk (see above) and may not be duplicated, altered or otherwise ripped off without the author's express written consent - blah blah blah.

Do you want to learn how you can help with the author's model creation?  See the bottom of this page.

Special Credits:

Weapon offset bug fix, ClassicSniperRifle specific bug fix : Chip Nyman [chipartist@metrocast.net]

Initial Codebase, Emitter effect & Materials - Radiosity
www.radiant-studios.net

Thanks to Matt Greonig & his creative crew for making Futurama in the first place.

Special Features:
Custom sounds added for idle and taunt animations (and they're lip synched!)
Custom ragdoll
Particle effects coded for the hover-chair by Radiosity
Full voice pack from Futurama episodes
All Original animations


Professor Hubert Farnsworth PLAYER MODEL FOR UT2004:

	"Professor Hubert Farnsworth was born April 9th, 2851 in New New York's nerdiest slum - "Hell's Laboratory."  A precocious child, young Hubert learned to read while still in diapers - at age eight.  And before long he blossomed into a greasy teenager.  After fourteen years of graduate school, Farnsworth settled into the glamorous life of a scientist.  Fast cars - trendy nightspots - beautiful women - the professor designed them all working out of his tiny one-room apartment.  For fifty years, he worked at Mom's Friendly Robot Company where he created the first robot capable of qualifying for a boat loan.  And now, even as he nears his 160th birthday, the professor retains the fiery passion of youth."
	These words were spoken by Professor Farnsworth's most living spaceship captian to date, Turanga Leela.  When he heard that Leela, Bender and Fry had joined the Liandri tournaments, Professor Farnsworth was determined to get his spaceship crew back to work at Planet Express - by any means necessary.  Building a custom designed hover-chair, Professor Farnsworth enrolled in the tournaments to sabatoge his crew and get them back to work.  But he found that he quite enjoyed running people down with his chair and blasting them to bits.  When asked why he'd do something as crazy as joining the tournament at his age, he responded thusly:
	"They say madness runs in my family - some people even say that I'm mad!  Any why?  Because I dared to dream of my own race of atomic monsters!!"
	The rest of his response was rambling and incoherent, often laced with words like "mutant", "laser cannons" and "electro-shock".  But given his excellent performance, and the fact that the Futurama series was cancelled by a thoughtless, reckless and short-sighted FOX network, it seems Professor Hubert Farnsworth is in the tournaments to stay....

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Notes: Since some talented modellers added Leela and Fry models to UT2004 along with my Bender model, I decided to add the real star of the series, Prof. Farnsworth.  He has a hover chair to scoot around in.  The reason he doesn't run himself is because he never ran in the TV series either - and face it, who would believe a 160 year old guy doing all the stunts that UT2004 models can do unaided?  The chiar has claw arms to hold the guns and the flag, leaving the professor to sit back and enjoy the havoc he can wreak.

Special thanks goes to Radiosity for refining the skins, and also for coding PARTICLE effects into the hover chair, to give him some more believability.

Special thanks also goes to Chip Nyman for doing the coding that I could not.  He was able to fix many problems that UT2004's and EPIC's incomplete coding created for Farnsworth's custom skeleton.


Installation:  Just use the UMOD wizard, and the proper files should be put into their proper places. He has special SPECIES and other related files for the chair effect.  Make sure they're in the UT2004/Classes folder.

Then just pick the Professor from the PLAYER screen. 

Technical info for the curious:
Polys: 4602 - not bad considering you get both the Prof. and his chair..... 

Skins: Default and team colors - including GREEN and GOLD skins for CTF4 matches, generously provided by Radiosity.

Custom Sounds: Special made voice pack from the Futurama TV series, with all the Professor's best quotes.  Some are a bit long, but he's got 46 taunts, so there's plenty to choose from....

Animations: Custom skeleton - All original! Extra bones were added to control the chair legs, claw arms and recliner back.

This model was made with: 3DSMAX, and UnrealEditor3.  The skinning was done in Photoshop and UED3.

Knows bugs/issues:  The weapons were repositioned with sly coding done by Chip Nyman, but not all the weapon FX could be made perfect.  EPIC, please fix the weapon alignment bugs with the game so this coding won't be needed!  That goes for the new weapon meshes and the AKIMBO guns.  IF you see any other bugs, let me know since I don't think there are any...

All aspiring modellers note: you can minimize the weapon offset distortion by scaling your model UP in 3Dmax to 240 units high - the same height as the default EPIC biped provided in their zip of UT23k characters.

If you play CTF4, you'll notice that the emitter effect doesn't use team colors - this is because CTF4 uses a custom Pawn class and my teamcolor code depends on the standard Pawn, so it'll be the default color for all teams. Obviously this is a minor issue, but nonetheless I will attempt to find a way to work around it. For all standard team games the emitter will be colored blue or red properly though.

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Do you want to help out with this author's model creation?

These models are created and distributed for free, as a labor of love and a gift to the loyal UT2004 fan base.  Nevertheless, custom model making represents a significant investment of time, effort and labor.  It takes a lot of work to design a model, create the mesh, skin the mesh, animate the mesh, then import it into the game in a playable form. Legal issues forbid any model maker from actually SELLING a model that needs a retail game to work, nor would we want to for fear of getting greedy.  But there's no law or rule that says fans of a particular author's work can't make voluntary donations to show their support for his efforts.

As such, a PAYPAL account has beeen set up through a relative, at which anyone who feels motivated/appreciative of the work this author has done may make such donations.  If everyone who downloaded this (and other models created by the author) donated even as little as a dime, it would collectively make a fine compensation for the long days and nights spent hunched over the keyboard.

You can find the PAYPAL account donation link at the bottom of the page at this address:

http://home.comcast.net/~gregfisk/3dmodel.htm

Donate as you see fit.  The account was set up with all the security that PAYPAL is famous for and is easy to use.  If you've enjoyed the free work provided by this author, and if you have a few cents to spare, drop by and plunk a virtual coin or two into the piggy bank.  That way he can afford something luxurious (like food :) I can offer you nothing in exchange except for the assurance that I'll keep making quality models for your enjoyment. Thanks for your support!

Slyrr

