but I know that's some nice design there :) 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient_occlusion 

look in the mapping help thread for more of the pretties.

In short - we have a new toy! 

qriple zomby

info_light makes the light origin so dimm,
hard to believe that spots emmiting so much light.
already over 720 ents while the limit is 620. 

Looks really good MF. Definitely need to get some small radius lights near those light textures. Other than that though I'm liking what I see. 

Those screenies look like '96 - '97 era screenshots.
Do you have an old PC? (just wondering) 

Looks really cool overall, Madfox! Agree w/ fifth on the light fixtures; it looks a bit weird to have a nice cone of light hitting the rocks, but the fixtures themselves are dark.

In those screenshots at least, the skybox brightness is also a bit overpowering, maybe they would fit in better if darkened a little in an image editor? 

@-5th All the info_light have an upper light, but that makes the entcount so hight.
I tend to a light0.3 with dist0.7 and range0.7 -light15 for a large area soft ligtning.

@-uaddy Quake screens always are point of taste.
Sometimes I can't see a thing.
This case was I support them on my own site and they were low jpgs.
I turned them into high, hope you see.

@-ericw you're right about the skybox, but it's the fog0.02 that's causing it. I changed the boxtga but it won't work, only clearing out fog, but then they're so awfull cliffdemon it cries out colour. Or no fog and soften the original. 

For fitzquake family engines, you can set "r_skyfog 0.1" to reduce the fogging of the skybox (default is 0.5) 

Make another light near the light texture itself with a small radius (like "wait 3" or something")... pretty much standard practice for the type of light you've made. 

didn't know that r_skyfog 

Moving FLags of a Rusty Empire 

WARNING: 16,384px * 12,288px.
http://triptohell.info/moodles/junk/fte-megapixely.png
hopefully your browser will cope... 

I'll never know since NOD32 blocks that website. 

 

 

My browser coped fine.

My boredom threshold didn't.

Most pointless screenshot ever, congrats. 

Chrome can't handle it 

Spike: hah! Just what I needed to test my megapixel viewer :P

lotsa pixel

Should work in every browser
(do tell if you have issues) 

fyi 'my' megapixel viewer = https://openseadragon.github.io/ 

 

Feel free! It's on my shared hosting which I canceled half a year ago. Apparently they're too lazy to close it, should have done it earlier. lol. 

http://i.imgur.com/EaTaJIh.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/poYy8tj.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/oQWkLo1.jpg

Took me a day to do all the gameplay blocking out first and the basic lighting. And then another day to do all the texture work and do the lighting proper.

I think gameplay-wise it's one of the best DM maps I've done, it's like a cross between DM6, Q2DM8 and Deck-16.
Contest hasn't really started yet but the map is mostly done, needs a couple of gameplay tweaks and a bit of bug-testing. 

I might run out if I hold down mouse1 all the time. DM is supposed to be about dealing with a fuck-ton of enemies and surviving against ridiculous odds, not ammo management. 

I see what you did there