Need Help with Rigging Custom Character

After a year or two, I can finally say I've completed my quest in making the right design for my UT 2004 custom character. I call him "Zeltas," and he's a dragon-like warrior that has the exact same proportions as the Gen Mo' Kai. The model has 1818 faces and 3324 triangles and has its UV's unwrapped fairly well. Along with this, I have completed the texture and upl files for him. I'm getting close to being done!

But there was one large obstacle: the animations. I've had much trouble in the animation department when I tried to make my own animations, so I decided to just go with the animations provided with the game.

Here's where I got stuck. How do I rig to these game-provided rigs, particularly the Alien Biped?

I think I need to get my hands on the 3ds max biped file for the Alien Biped. Does anyone have this? What about animations? How do I apply animations once I've rigged Zeltas to the biped file?

Any help is appreciated!

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Good question.

lost my UT "how to links" with my hard drive failure
all you have to do (If I remember right) is link the model to the skeleton
and then apply the animations to it in UnRealED

been a long time since I did it and it was finicky ,try Skin City (or Google) for some Tutorials

All the skeletons(Rigs) are available ,might be hard to find nowadays though

the faces/triangles look a bit high to me but it has been a long time.
Only a little help and a little late

What would the file type of this rig I need be for 3DS Max? .bip? .fig?

(Actually, one of the Epic Games character models is ~3300 triangles.)

Wow! I just completed my UT character! Here's what happened . . .

I was randomly looking for the skeleton ".rig" on gamefront. Before that point, I had been searching for "UT 2004 Character Rigs." Then it dawned on me that most of the rigs were actually from UT 2003. I searched using "2003" and got all the skeletons for UT. YES!

From there, I was able to export my Blender character as an .obj file, open the Alien.rig in 3ds max, and import the .obj file into 3ds max. From here, I had to learn how to skin (thank you Youtube).

Once that was done, I used a 3ds Max plugin called ActorX to make a .psk file out of the skinned character, import that into UT Editor.

For the animations, I used UModel to get the Alien animation set. I imported this into UT Editor. I copied the mesh properties, notify scripts, and groups from one of the alien characters and pasted them to my character.

I should be uploading the character to gamefront soon. Sadly, I may not even use it

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Questions:
What's a good non-advertisement site I can host this file at?
What kinds of things do I include in my Readme file?

Here's what the character looks like.

I should be able to put a download on Gamefront or something soon.

nice! grats on making your own custom character. looking forward to downloading it. =)

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