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I see no need for abuse of themes. I'm sure there are plenty of variations on a theme not yet realised that would look nice (I made an experiment with wood and metal with yellow and purple lights that looked quite cool) but it needs to make some kind of sense. The grunts in e1m2 were there because it was a transition of themes.
Remember the tech enemies from Operation Urth Magik? Or the ogre, carrying his chainsaw and grenade launcher, but dressed in a medieval one-si. Even the player is futuristic, but still hacking through all these medieval, elder and metal settings.
As long as you've got a well realized theme and you stick to it then you're good. You're missing out on a lot of gameplay possibilities by sticking to a single theme.
As for visuals the lo-fi and 8bit palette nature of the game ties together everything, the existing themes are pretty 'abusive' internally anyway. No need to go Madfox to make a point... I posted this on my tumblr, it's a doom map with a mash of almost all the quake textures in a single level (base, metal, wizard, they're all there) and also a bunch of doom textures too. It doesn't look too bad actually but it's still seems a bit funky to me -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NISa53WBq3c I think doom does well with quakes brown loveliness.... It doesnt work as well the other way round though, Doom textures are a bit too colourful for quake IMO.
That actually looks pretty nice imo.
Didn't Nehahra use Doom textures in certain parts? Worked okay for the most part iirc. But prolly need to brownify them a bit I guess. What's the resolution difference? I think Quake textures are twice the res? Id always upped the texture resolution really gradually. It probably stayed around Q3 level for the past 10 years tho :P Doom and Quake were both basically done with 64x64 textures. Doom textures were often made from "patches" which were pieced together to form the final texture.
Quake 2 had a lot of 64x64, but was mostly 128x128. With Quake 3 Arena they changed to larger textures (most were 256x256) that were down-sampled in the game to half the original size. do you still have the src files of the Rapture pak?
As you remember one map has been split into two parts it's time to join the map for its original state pretty please I don't have the sources for anything before Masque. What's even more annoying is that years ago, like before Masque, I started a joined Rain Palisade version (I assume you mean that map), with a much bigger initial outdoor area and another vertical level.
I was hoping you'd provide an update of this: http://www.quaketastic.com/files/screen_shots/quakenight.jpg
Was there anyone who seriously disliked this map?
https://www.quaddicted.com/reviews/qx11_z1.html It was awesome in exactly the way Barnak described. @Tronyn, it was ok, it was cool when the base part moved to medieval but its not the best example of theme mashups.
The turtle map by Zwiffle is the ultimate example of how a mashup map should be done, amazing stuff! :) That's really sad now, mr.T
yeah, i was referring to a Rainpal level https://www.quaddicted.com/reviews/ne_lend_doom.html
The Elderworld Waystation looked pretty neat mix of base in a strange environment, though it's been a long while since my last playthrough. Maybe some zerstorer trees could make the horizon lines more interesting, against the bright skybox.
Looks good, but could be a bit more vertical. Try sloping down the grates downward, for a start?
http://qrf.servequake.com/~orl/oms3ss3.jpg
http://qrf.servequake.com/~orl/oms3ss4.jpg http://qrf.servequake.com/~orl/oms3ss5.jpg Three not so revealing screenshots of my upcoming map, or rather maps, as it has gotten so big it had to be split into two.
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