Just set v_idlescale to 20. That's drunk enough for me. 

http://jimbosqw.cjb.net/jmap/cliff.php
I'm fiddling with a map that has this cliff,
please comment.

I am planning to "round out" the top part of
the cliff. 

for rockfaces that need to be very vertical, use lots of little lights (about 120-180, no special attenuation settings) and just slather them all over the rockface at random intervals and heights. this way, you get a more interested rock, instead of flat lighting.

also, i suggest you upscale the textures to 1.5x1.5 or even 2x2.

cheers! 

taking a break from mapping...

http://www.planetquake.com/necros/temp/stakes.jpg

i love pk. ;) 

I'm re vis-ing Ne_lend. It is at 53% guess I was little optimistic that it would be complete in 8 hours. Did you get the first impressions e-mail I wrote when I completed playing it the first time around? Or is that one lost to the Gods of the Internet.

Dont blame you about taking a break. I test played a bunch of levels last night and got a pinched nerve in my shoulder out of it. It's all shot games and watching boxing tonight if there is a half decent fight on. 

i did indeed get your email. thanks for the preliminary info. :)
when i tried a fullvis for lend, it took about 5 or 6 days...

besides, i was meaning to do the painkiller stake gun for a while now, and since i had some free time... heck, i even got Pain in there, and working on Killer. :D 

Necros, fancy a proper model for that thing? Weapons are much easier than monsters, frankly. 

i ripped the stakegun sounds right out of painkiller and synced the rotation of the sng to the noise and removed the muzzle flash from the other barrels except the one. and those stakes are the center part of the quad damage. :D

i've been trying to come up with something along the lines of the one from PK:
http://www.planetquake.com/necros/temp/stakegun.jpg
i can do the modelling fine, and import it into qme, but i have no idea how to make the cool skins, even though i've read about doing it.

Preach, if i were to give you a finished model, could you make up the skin coordinates? i'd give you credit and all that, although, since we're talking on a public board, almost everyone who does use/play it will know about it. :P 

well, how's this look? tried to keep the quake mood, so it's a strange looking gun and asymetrical. i only realised later that it's more of a left handed gun than right handed, but that's easy to change.

http://www.planetquake.com/necros/temp/sgun.jpg
http://www.planetquake.com/necros/temp/sgun2.jpg
http://www.planetquake.com/necros/temp/sgun3.jpg 

i left the 'stake' (more of just a placeholder at the moment) in the first shot to give an idea of where it goes. it won't be textured like that in game, probably will be metal or wood (duh :P) 

Yeah, I can do that, just send me or give me a link to the model, but make sure you have everything that you need in the final model all finished before you send it. Once it's skinned, it's a real pain trying to add new parts to it. 

You'll probably end up going w/ his skin but can I have all I need to skin it as well, I wanna give it a try. 

but that's later. ;)

is there a site that explains how to properly import a model into qme and how to animate it from outside of qme? (so importing the frames too) for some reason, the stake doesn't appear in qme... 

Usually I just import each frame as a 3ds or dxf file. If you're using QME 3.1, then you can select multiple files and import them all. Presumably the program that you're using to animate them can export single frames of animation, try a different format if that doesn't work. I don't know too much about the process though, as I usually animate using QME anyway.

One more thing...If you're gonna export the frames from another program, save the files you create. When I skin the model, you have to import the frames again, you can't add the skin to an animated model(although if you have an animated .mdl, you can export all the frames and then just import them to the skinned version) 

The old Quark4.07 has a way to copy files to eachother as you start the model-editor twice.
So you can select and deselect them mutual, as long as you rename them.

http://members.home.nl/gimli/end.jpg

Finding the garavity 800 key can't resist me to make another level...thanx necros. 

if i give you a .md2 with all the frames in there already, will that be ok to do the skinning?

i coulnd't figure out to export specific frames into individual files, so i opted to get this thing called QTip which is a plugin for 3dsmax and export to md2 automatically... 

here are some screens for the low gravity map I am making.

http://members.home.nl/gimli/Quake12.jpg
http://members.home.nl/gimli/Quake13.jpg
http://members.home.nl/gimli/Quake14.jpg 

That is shaping up to look interesting. I like the supports in particular. 

Yup, I can do it from that, send it along. 

- http://quake.phait-accompli.com/crap/ph8dm2e.jpg
- http://quake.phait-accompli.com/crap/ph8dm2f.jpg
- http://quake.phait-accompli.com/crap/ph8dm2g.jpg 

Put some trim around the top of the arch. It's looking good. 

Never liked lava in base maps myself. 

has its context, friend. 

seen lava in base maps, or arches, so I wanted to do that.