Maybe consider swapping the white brick for metal in shot 2? 

Shots have a very former Id-ish style: that is great ! 

Necros magic and Pixel chainsaws 

oh boy! 

That's quite skinny when compared to this sugar pumpkin 

That looks pretty good. 

 

Maybe I'd feel differently seeing it in game, but I think the chainsaw's base is too wide. It comes off as a 'fat sword' rather than a chainsaw. 

Rusty Rubicon Revenge 

Very nice. "Grumpy Acid" should be the map name too! 

I never though people could make custom maps for rubicon 2. well done! 

You can find the stuff you need right here.

Scroll down to instant satisfaction. 

 

Scroll down, there�s also the defs and wads for the mappers and modders... 

 

Who is that guy? 

Didn't know you were typing that. 

http://i.imgur.com/hzJtOp0.jpg 

Mappers tend to stick perpendicular to the grid on the x/y axis. It's easy... Quake textures tend to be nice and modular when working like that (also, faster vis). Base maps tend to use more angles usually, for some reason. Would be cool to see more maps where the rooms aren't boxes though, helps make things seem otherworldly, since boxes are like the constant in architecture.
Also, rotating entire rooms or buildings so the horizon is titled, can give player a feeling of disorientation/unbalances.
Takes bit more work in bsp engine since need to keep things on grid.

Just a basic assumption that isn't questioned often enough I think.
Doom does it more, because it's more 2D and have less options for variation besides just making the sectors irregular shaped. 

I rotated a tower around the z axis and it took most of a day to get it looking right and aligned to the grid. You can kind of see it, lower center, in this screen shot.

http://quaketastic.com/files/screen_shots/wish13_a.jpg

Pain in the ass it was, especially the arched doorway you can't see :) But at least you can align textures fairly well.

The problem with going too far off straight vertical is that the texture alignment gets pretty ugly looking and not really fixable as a surface approaches 45 degrees tilt off vertical and is angled in the xy plane at the same time. 

Really lookin forward to this Rick! 

what texture wads are you using? 

the greatest square room i've ever seen 

thanks!

for real or sarcasm? 

A lot of the textures are just cut and paste, highly modified versions of the standard id textures.

The stone textures are modified versions of the zstn3 set (I think) from Kell's Apocrypha wad.

The brick textures are based on a couple of full color jpgs from a site called Spiral Graphics. I had to modify them a lot to work in Quake, and I created nearly two dozen unique variations just for this map.