What you are doing looks great! What engine is it that you are working on? 

Maybe this will help a little.

http://www.quaketastic.com/files/LightTest.jpg 

Texuring is hard, even if I scramble my skybox. 

#13361: I'm guessing that was meant for Specialbomb, but as someone who's still trying to learn the finer nuances of Quake lighting I find that really helpful.

By the way, what (in relatively lay terms) is the difference between wait and delay? I'm sure they're completely different and this is probably a silly question, but I've read necros's guide (before and again now), but I still don't quite grasp the difference between the two. 

 

what (in relatively lay terms) is the difference between wait and delay?

delay is just an integer id to denote what attenuation formula the light uses - read the light tool readme to see which number means what.

wait is a float scale factor that stretches or shrinks the attenuation. wait < 1 stretches it (light goes further), wait > 1 shrinks it.

If you use ericw's version of the light tool, the readme will tell you everything you need to know about using lights. 

That sort of makes sense now (I mean it's well explained on your part; it just needs to sink in on my end). It'll hopefully become clearer with time and experience, but now I don't feel quite so lost.

And thanks for the tip about ericw's readme. It really is very extensive, but your explanation helps me understand the readme a bit better too.

Sorry for the thread-inappropriate discussion. 

madfox, that looks wild! 

Yeah, I somehow managed to post the link to that screenshot in the wrong thread. 

with light, the fastest way to become completely 100% clear on everything is simply to make a test map, and just tinker with each light setting one by one, referring to ericw's readme, until everything makes sense. 

Channelling Beksinski's digital phase perhaps? 

Thanks, will do. 

Qmaster: The working name is Retroquad, but it should be changed upon release.

Rick: Cool guide, we need more stuff like this. 

https://mobile.twitter.com/SimsOCallaghan/status/706869841563615232/photo/1 

 

Need testers for my new map

screens:
http://digspt.ru/quake/digs08_02_tmp.jpg
http://digspt.ru/quake/digs08_01_tmp.jpg

map (without VIS and with draft light)
http://digspt.ru/quake/digs08_test.zip 

please, send your comments to digs[at]mail.ru 

I love this map., Great geometry. I like this style in Quake.

I didn't had time to make it all, but here are my crittics on a few things (so you could make it better) :

1. Not enough monsters (I tried it in nightmare mode). I felt lonely in most places.

2. Not enough atmospheric sounds (winds, water, etc). The map is too silent.

3. The trees are as ugly as my butt (too crude, the trees, not my butt !). Make them without leafs, or replace them by strange rocks formations, or some kind of out-of-this-world sculptures. Trees in quake really suck.

4. Some corridors are a bit old-school (very square), and could have more "out-of-this-world" details. 

Thank you!
1. I may increase the number of monsters.
2. No sound, because they do not complete the assembly map. When the full - they appear
3. Trees ... I think you're right. I think that can be done
4. I tried to make more parts, but probably will not change my architecture. 

I'll be glad to test if you still need people this weekend! 

Thank you! I've got a lot of feedback. By the weekend I will try to resolve any issues and make another version for testing 

Map Screenshot Album: http://imgur.com/a/NIFEx
Downloads!
First two maps beta here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/1f2cv6odho8i58b/QusPack1.zip?raw=1

Installation instructions:
-Extract to your Quake folder :)

Running Instructions>
-Run "Start QusPack 1.cmd", input your Quake executable name and voila! Started QusPack with majesty!

Please note it's not the preferred way if you want to change difficulty. You should instead start Quake, start the console, type the difficulty level you want (0 for Easy, up to 3 for Nightmare!) and then do "map guse1m1". Enjoy!

I'll later add a difficulty level selector for a future GUSINTRO map.

Open for criticism! Thanks :) 

your texture quality is lower than it needs to be, have you set picmip to a different amount? 

Map 1:

-Item fell out of world, check bounding boxes.
-ambient_thunder does not work in vanilla quake, just remove it from the map.
-Quite a small map with only 4 monsters and 3 rooms. It is more of a test map and that's fine but there is really no "level" here.

Map 2:

-Turn around from the start and you'll see a visual error referred to as the Hall of Mirrors (HoM). Check that location in the editor and see if there is even a brush blocking this wall.

-Two monsters stuck in wall

-Nice use of the monster jump! I told you that was a fun way to go about things. It worked perfectly for your trap.

- The lighting was a bit dark, consider adding more especially at the underwater section.

Summary:

It is clear that these are test maps and it is great to get feedback on them...the only issue is that there is so little here to give feedback. I would expand the first map by at least 4 more rooms and add some more gameplay in general.

The second map holds its own but it's still very tiny with just 8 monsters on skill 2.

Keep mapping! :) 

FifthElephant,
wtf is that? I just used the textures that I had to use in TrenchBroom: loaded QUAKE101.WAD and MEDIEVAL.WAD from Mike's website.

Blougsprug,
I can't see any HoM from Darkplaces, I guess I'll have to use Fitzquake for this one.

And I can't see stuck monsters in Map 2.

I will also increase both maps :) They are small because they were done for people learning to play (in special MAP01, and MAP02's first Shambler fight has that penta so nobody cares with the shambler in special. :P )

In overall thanks for feedback! :)