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Star Wars: TCW-Styled Unmasked Darth Vader Head

I wanted to make a faceposable Vader and I made this thing, because I have to say the obvious here... There's nothing behind the model, just an empty armor. But now you have something to make it less of an empty shell and more of...

Gah! What the heck I'm saying! He's already an empty shell of a man in this state, for kriff's sake!

In any case, this is just a disembodied head unless you know what you are doing...

• Original bones and renamings from Darth Vader's model
  
• Original head from Anakin's model with edits to the mesh in order to make the model look complete, yet faithful to the art-style and original modelling. This also applies with the rigging and weight paints
  
• Eye textures made from scratch
  
• Posable QC Eyes
  
• Diffuse textures, UV map tweaks and bumpmaps made from the originals, with many stuff edited from scratch.
  
• Extensive faceposing options (55 flexes), to get better results use the Enhanced Faceposer or Eltorro64Rus' Improved Faceposer Tool | TF2 Edition
  
• Already sized to TF2 scale
  
• Redeemed light-side eyes
  
• Compatible with the Ragdoll Mover tool and with any bonemerging tool (However, obsolete ones or the Easy Bonemerge Tool aren't recommended)
  
• Some edits to the mesh in order to make the model look complete, yet faithful to the art-style and original modelling.
  
• TF2 lightwarps and shaders included to make the model more cartoonish for show-accuracy
  
• Particle attachment points
  
• 2 Eyeglint meshes with eye ambient occlusion as bodygroups (one of them is toggled on by default, with a secondary one as an alternative version. Both may require a map with HDR to work properly and DirectX9 mode enabled)
  
• 15 skins (some of them come with shrunken eyes to make animeesque expressions, trademark of the house) and toggable hair as a bodygroup for some people interested into making really cursed results... (AKA "Siths" and giggles)
  
• For people who just want to use the model and call it a day, there's a dupe with the bonemerging done and ready to spawn.

• The eyes are borked when the model isn't bonemerged, this would have been solved if the model was a prop instead of an effect. But I couldn't add a collission mesh due to a stubborn bug, sorry for the inconvinience!.
  
• Twisting the head too much once merged can make some parts of the neck clip through, so as long as you don't do extreme twists it shouldn't be a problem.
  
• The eyeglint/eye ambient occlusion meshes bodygroups have flicker and tearing at far distances, but using SDoF (Super Depth of Field) in your screenshots with the model this problem goes out (apart of SDoF making things look even prettier if you use it well in your screenshots, so win win) and also you can switch them off. Other way is using the Advanced Camera addon and adjust the Near Z slider if you prefer to make larger images with the poster command.
  
• If you have other problems like bugs or glitches just make me know in the dedicated discussion thread below and I'll try to fix them on my freetime.

All the current artwork was made by ♡Starlight♡ (her pics begin after my last one) and me, do not claim it as your own or use it without our knowledge. The same applies for other people interested into getting their images displayed on this page.

Available here to use it on SFM: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3502989477

• Disney and Lucasfilm for the entire Star Wars franchise
  
• Bandai Namco Entertainment / Project Soul for Soulcalibur IV and the whole Soulcalibur franchise
  
• Sony Online Entertainment and Lucasarts for Clone Wars Adventures
  
• Rolandz for porting the original model Darth Vader model from Soulcalibur IV to Gmod as a ragdoll among other models (link to the original ragdoll pack where this model came from: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=155522652)
  
• TRDaz/DazzyAllen for ripping and porting CWA's Anakin model along many others originally to XNALara
  
• Jay P, Servius, Stooge, Bhris and TFA for porting the model to Gmod as a playermodel among other models (link to the original playermodel pack where this model came from: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=700780874)
  
• ♡Starlight♡ for her phenomenal renders and doing some beta testing.
  
• DaniVader97 (me) for the important features, improvements, tweaks, overall modifications and retexturing

• George Lucas
  
• James Earl Jones (RIP)
  
• Hayden Christensen
  
• Scott Lawrence
  
• Matt Sloan
  
• Matt Lanter
  
• Sebastian Shaw (RIP)
  
• Constantino Romero (RIP)
  
• Ralph McQuarrie (RIP)
  
• Bob Anderson (RIP)
  
• David Prowse (RIP)

• Don't redistribute this addon and claim it your own, by doing so you would violate terms and conditions from Valve and Facepunch Studios
  
• If you want to address issues you've found or show some screenshots with the model you have dedicated discussion threads below to do so
  
• Please read well the description, this is an EFFECT. Make sure you download the required addons and tools FIRST. If not, this won't work and you will find missing textures!