Shadowdane, pics look cool, but possibly a bit dark overall (almost certainly so, if those were taken at anything but r_gamma 1.0). 

Nice looking map, Shadowdale. As far as I can tell, as someone who has downloaded about everything from .:lvl over the past three years, this is an original looking map. Bluish lighting and brick, very sedate mood like shooting skeet in the Bunker with William Burroughs while throwing back some whiskey and 'ludes.

One slight quibble. In the upper left hand corner of shad3dm2_pic2.jpg two adjacent textures that do not match up well. I would suggest lowering the texture with the square patterns down to where they meet the adjacent texture's verticle line. It may be just a visual trick from that pic's perspective but to my eyes it calls attention to itself. 

"Shadowdale" = Chip's evil *other* buddy, created by the anti-Disney. 

yah the pics are at r_gamma 1, I do all my mapping to look best at that setting. The light levels pretty much match that of the stock Q3 maps. Except for the basement area, pictured in pic5.. I want it to be dark.

Also the level looks darker in screenshots than it does in game.. dunno exactly why. 

Nice style, slick execution, great lighting....but get rid of the damn bricks on the ceiling structures :P 

Diffenently looking better. Screens look a little dark, but thats already been adressed. Keep it up. 

I assume your talking about pic #4 right with the brick on the ceiling. Never really liked it myself, and couldn't figure out what to do with it so had left it for a while. But finally re-worked it slightly, better/worse?

http://shadowdane.shackspace.com/shad3dm2_pic4_update.jpg
(its from a different angle, but u get the idea) 

Okay, I worked on the release candidate all weekend and it is now uploaded.

Changes include:
-better framerate
-better lighting
-better item/weapon placement
-various bot optimizations
-all grate areas except the two large ones changed to solid to make RL/GL more useful
-MH is not as fussy to get
-no more MH in Tourney
-more detailing
-misc. texture screw-ups fixed
-custom bot added

Bots will now go for the RA, but still get retarded and fall to their deaths upon occasion. Human players probably will too, until they get a feel for things.

Oh yeah, and I changed the mapname. It's now "Cremaster Conditioning", which is a bit of an obscure joke . . .

Let me know if something sucks; I'll probably wait a week or so before going final.

http://www.fileplanet.com/dl.aspx?/planetquake/pjw/mapstorage/pjw3tourney4_b2.zip (~2.5 meg) 

http://www.taltec.fi/friction/muhennos.jpg

It's exceedingly silly that the cable doesn't follow physics properly, but i'm a silly mapper like that. 

Now that looks sweet. Respect the uberpipe! 

Looking good there Friction. Quality stuff, got any more shots from various locals within the room? Looks like there is some quailty pipe work and I'd like to admire it more. Feed me more. 

Nice. 

It needs barrels. 

http://img10.exs.cx/img10/2585/jqsp1-5.jpg 

Shadow - looks better, a little plainer of course, but more natural if you get my drift. Bricks aren't a prominent ceiling material...


Fric - cool stuff, like the brown theme. Do you have a "big pipe" fetish eh boy! P.S. If you release a map WITHOUT the Bees crate, you will be forever ostracised from the mapping community =).


Jago - good stuff, coming along nicely there, keep it up. 

http://img17.exs.cx/img17/4712/jqsp1-6.jpg 

This might end up in a separate map. I've been using quite a lot of textures so far. People like multi map SP missions better anyways. Right? Right?? :(

http://www.kolumbus.fi/ville.nieminen/admin_area.jpg 

Jago, looks good. I like the white lights although they need to give off a little more light.

Fric, looks good, for a small area. Looks "convincing" which is important in D3... 

http://img66.exs.cx/img66/4859/jqsp1-7.jpg 

Friction: Nice. Again.
Jago: Post pics of different areas please. But looks good. 

Friction: Nice.

Jago: Nice also. I really like that area. 

biggest issue I have is with that ladder... looks way too bulky. perhaps if you either made the siderails smaller, or did like in efdmX maps and chopped the outer edges a bit that would help. 

definitely the best looking custom d3 shot I've seen so far. SP or DM?

Either way, at least it's not for q3 :) 

what i've been noodling with...shots are a couple days old now but you get the idea

http://www.jesselawrence.com/images/screens/pope4_d3.jpg

http://www.jesselawrence.com/images/screens/pope4_d3_2.jpg 

friction, I saw your pic on the d3world forums when browsing through some of the tripe there. And thought to myself... well this 'ere looks like the only thing worthwhile so far...

I didn't bother to check who posted it at the time...