That's cool. Somebody there must have a soft spot for Quake. :) 

Quake r4wks. 

That's a cool little article. Pretty accurate and rather kind to the little Quake community. Makes us sound like quite measured reasonable people. Which we are not. Sloppy journaliism, I say! ;) 

Far from being sloppy, I thought it was the most electrifying and important piece of journalism since the Pentagon Papers. 

the bit about some kind of fued between coders and mappers brought a tear to my eye (no, it didn't, but it touched me (and not in a molestation kind of way)). 

http://www.blizzard.com/inblizz/contests/artcontest2006/
We will be looking for 3D work and we love to see low-poly 3D too! 2D rocks and can be faster to make, but don�t forget about all of the prizes that you can win for your 3D environments and characters, AND in all 3 of our universes � Diablo, StarCraft, and Warcraft!

Nice prizes... And you can also choose the cash. I am sure there is something mean the copyright (like you transfer it to Blizzard by submitting or something) but I think some of you might have the power to compete in this contest. /me looks envious at Bal ;) 

Being a big blizzard fanboy, I will definatly try and find the time to make something.
And yeah those prizes rock. =) 

Of the rules, isn't that fun, cool otherwise though.

Sponsor Use of Entries. You hereby agree that in consideration of your being allowed the chance to enter the Contest, you hereby grant Blizzard Entertainment, Inc., a perpetual, non-exclusive, worldwide license and right to utilize the entry materials that you submit to Sponsor in connection with the Contest (collectively, "Entry Materials"). The Entry Materials will not be returned to any entrant. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, you acknowledge that Sponsor shall have the right to use, modify, reproduce, publish, perform, display, distribute, make derivative works of and otherwise commercially and noncommercially exploit the Entry Materials in perpetuity and throughout the universe, in any manner or medium now existing or hereafter developed, without separate compensation to you or any other person or entity and you waive all moral rights in such work. You agree to take, at Sponsor's expense, any further action (including, without limitation, execution of affidavits and other documents) reasonably requested by Sponsor to effect, perfect or confirm Sponsor's rights as set forth above in this paragraph 7. 

You have that in most big contests really... =\
Most of all it gives them the right to actually use and display the image entries, with eventual resizing, cropping and whatever else they want to do.

I like the "throughout the universe" bit, talk about thinking ahead. =) 

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no mappage ? 

Hopefully everyone's waiting for the expo... although to be honest I think most people here have been busy watching anime and masturbating. Yeah, at the same time. 

lol i�m finishing my crapy map pack :p no time to masturbation 

no time to masturbation

Well, I am managing to get the odd one in here and there. So perhaps you need try speed wanking. 

cool, I've been iching to play some quake. 

So all you mappers out there: some people have complained that czg's curve tutorial is too hard to follow, doesn't have enough steps, or otherwise doesn't make sense. I'm thinking about writing a new one, and/or expanding on it. So what do you want to see improved/expanded?

Link (currently not found):
http://czg.leveldesign.org/curv_tut/curv_tut.htm 

is much trickier than the brush work. Some tips on doing that would perk my interest. 

czgs tut is only good for WC, but not radiant (its 404 now btw)

I did one for radiant/bsp (should work in WC too)

http://speedy.planetquake.gamespy.com/tut_pipe.
htm


HeadThump 27 and 63 (or 26 and 64, its not integer anyway ) for the 'classic' uhm .. 'curves' 

http://speedy.planetquake.gamespy.com/tut_pipe.htm 

Does anyone here use dreamhost's affiliate program? I'm gonna register hosting there and would like to share the 97$ (OMG!) reward :D 

czg's tutorial was just fine, I could follow it but I use WC. 

RPG, I would appreciate a more in-depth curve tutorial for certain. With better screenshots and maybe some blurbs about variations (spheres, domes, etc). And like was previously mentioned, texturing help too. 

That has always puzzled me is at what ratio do you fit in the brushes if the curve has more partitions than just the mirrored 2:1 -> 1:2 curves? For those you fit them in at 4:1 & 1:4 on the 90 degree brushes and 1:1 (45 deg.) where they meet.

So is there like a formula where you can figure out how to evenly divide a curved area with say 16 partitions? Or does it come out to some fucked up slope that wouldn't stick on a grid? Is there an approximation? 

If you look at this

http://blitz.circa1984.com/curves.gif

I'm pretty sure this is a way to add more partitions and still keep the correct amount of total area. It looks weird in D3 because D3 sucks at handling copied->rotated brushes, but I did the exact same ratio & number of partitions in a Quake 1 version in GTKRadiant and it came out better looking. I'll have to dig up the Quake version later when I get home because I can't remember from this screenshot at what ratio all the brushes fit together O_o 

don't you do that just by halving the grid and recursively applying the czg arch method so the 12-sided cylinder becomes a 24-sided one...