http://www.mediafire.com/view/exsahmetlh24i68/cct02.jpg 

You guys are using the worst image hosts imaginable (Photobucket, Tinypic, Mediafire, etc). Why not direct links to Quaketastic or Imgur? 

was about to say the same. If you can't post a direct link to a jpg file, learn 2 internet plz. 

Coo. I think the light coming from the white lights on the pillar falls off too fast, it looks very artificial. Maybe the skylight is a little too blue as well, but hard to say without seeing more of the level. 

DropBox gives you 2GB for free if you sign up. Direct image links. Get some. 

As for the shot, the white lights are a little weird as well in that they wouldn't be splashing up on the bottoms of the pillars like that. Your light entities are too far away from the light source... 

Stupid Host, use quaketastic or imgur. 

No sign up required, no buggering about, just upload and go.

http://imgur.com/ 

Doesn't go directly to the image, so for many places is more than a nuisance than a help, for many reasons.

For other things, like for big files is good. 

It certainly does.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/161473/Misc/RobotDesigner.jpg

Does clicking that not just load a JPG for you? 

I see it like that.

All i have seen till now where like the one from Mediafire Adib linked to, and in worst cases, the page wouldn't even load, depending of the system the page used and hard/soft used to load it. 

Yeah, Dropbox usually puts a WOULD YOU LIKE TO SIGNUP popup above files hosted there. Super annoying.

imgur has the drawback that big files get re-encoded and dropped after a while. Just use Quaketastic! 

It might be because people don't know how to use DropBox ... If you right click the image in file explorer and use the "Get public link" option or whatever it's called, you get a clean link. I imagine there are ways of sharing via DropBox that do annoying things like what you guys are saying.

The way I do it, it's transparent. 

That the files are likely to disappear when people clean up their Dropbox though. 

Sure, there's that. I treat my public folder as frozen but I know not everyone will do that. 

There you are:

http://quaketastic.com/files/screen_shots/cct02.jpg

Someone please delete cct02.jpg from "files" directory? Don't know how to do it. I saw the "screen_shots" dir too late.

DaZ and Warren

Thanks for the comments. Warren is right about the splash. DaZ, I can try either a longer falloff or a weaker bright. That amount of brightness is falling too fast, indeed. But the blue comes from a night sky (yes, another nightie level). Makes more sense now? 

really neat, the concrete + metal + flesh theme is unique.

One idea, try making it so the lights below the concrete pillars don't light up the lower part of the pillars, since it looks like that should be in the light's shadow (or at least, receiving less light than the floor does).

Also think the blue might still be a tad too saturated, I get a bit of a theatre/movie lighting feeling from it. 

There would be some light reflected off the floor that would illuminate sides of the columns. I would probably stack 2 lights per side, one near the floor and the other slightly higher and dimmer. 

Thanks everyone.

About the pillars, I think Warren and Eric are saying the same thing. So I turned the big lamps func_wall and placed a point light entity inside each one, instead of using surface light. Lamp + pillar look better and the metal parts trace a soft shadow on the floor.

So far, this room is all I got. I'll get back to your comments when it's time to tweak.

I'm inspired by The Devil's Advocate and a 2009 movie called Walled In. 

https://twitter.com/SimsOCallaghan/status/644221897023070208 

http://quakeguy.tumblr.com/post/129229078137/some-base-map-i-am-working-on 

Flames will look bad as mesh IMO...

Why not a particle effect instead?

Otherwise, it's cool - I like flying melee enemies a lot :) 

Loved the Lost Soul. I think it's finished the way it is plus flame particles (agree with ijed). 

Looks like a metal map using some base textures. Metal is my favorite Q1 theme. The level looks all atmospheric already, and it's looking great. Wanna play it.

I know that while you're posting you should be mapping, but I'd love to hear more about people's creation process. 

Looking awesome.

I made a crappy speedbase version of muh_bad a while ago, uploading in case it's useful: http://quaketastic.com/files/texture_wads/speedbzmuhbad.wad