Anyone who does have Quake1, and doesn't have Arcane Dimensions, should be impaled and crucified, pure and simple. Texan style ! 

Keep in mind that I'm new to the scene, and I have no idea what's required and what's not. Someone should make a Quake essentials guide if it's that serious. 

http://www.mediafire.com/view/ip6u7h9o2qiq66e/bridge1.jpg

http://www.mediafire.com/view/kflhrgyp14nd4yn/bridge2.jpg

http://www.mediafire.com/view/qzhhzx89z1tb8qc/bridge3.jpg

There are a lot of nooks and crannies, and I couldn't get all of them without taking 10 pics, but whatever. 

AD is quite new. It's not required for mapping so much as required for playing.

The levels are monstrously long and challenging, it is really the antithesis of what some of the guys here have been working on the last few years.

For your own mapping, they have HEAPS of good ideas to *cough* borrow and set a pretty good example of map design. Recently a map called Zendar was modified for AD as well, while I haven't played the AD version, I can certainly recommend the original. 

Sounds hard. I personally have never beat Quake, because for me, it's really damn hard.

Also, I don't really want to focus on singleplayer mapping, so if I do make a SP map, it probably won't use any mods. 

specialbomb, needs more texture variety and lighting. 

teach me how to shitpost like you. 

Please please use imgur.com guys.
I'm not going to whitelist all that crappy other stuff no more, just to look at screenshots i don't like:)

+1 for necros doing it for me..
+2 for texan style! 

Very funny... 

Those screenshots are unlit/basically untextured, it's hard to even make out the map shape enough to give feedback.

The scale looks off/cramped to me. e.g. stairsteps should be wider than they are tall.

Avoid having the ceiling all the the same height.

I suggest using a strong texture set, this will help get the scale/shapes right. 

I'll work on it, jeeze. I made it last night. I'm not publishing it yet, which is why I posted it in betas. 

screenshots and beta's is certainly for unfinished work... usually we're used to seeing something that's a little more finished than your screenshots though ;) 

I'll add textures to it later, I got school stuff to do. I would have given it a bit more detail if I had time. 

do you school-work first, it's more important anyway! :P

If you want to show off work as early as this it might be an idea to do a stream, people love seeing this stuff made from scratch. 

'shitpost'? if you don't want feedback, don't post screenshots in the thread. 

SpecialBomb - I don't know what feedback you are expecting from those images, and getting all defensive when someone gives you valid feedback is not going to end well here. 

I dunno why I even put the screenshots there in the first place. I just thought it would be a good idea, but I obviously didn't base it off of anything. I won't put any more screenshots until it looks acceptable.

(Note to self: Don't piss off kinn, he is made of pure salt) 

Fullbright screenshots (or anywhere really) are always a bit of a ghastly sight because everything is 255 in brightness. Even with the very similar brown textures you used, having lighting would have increased the visual flair of the screens by a considerable margin.

As far as texturing goes, don't worry right now about getting things perfectly aligned or what goes best with what. Instead, search in the texture browser for "floor" and apply that to your floor faces. Do the same with "wall" for wall spaces. You can just slap the floor texture onto the ceiling for now.

For lighting, if you really don't want to mess with specifics just do this:

Add a light into the map and add a key called "delay" with a value of 5. Give the "light" key a value of 450 (or higher...play around with it!) and then just copy+paste them around the map. You'll notice a large increase of visual fidelity doing this.

Then, as a test post another screenshot of your level with texturing and lighting and see the difference!

Good luck 

So, link to map is broken...here is the updated file. Would like some testers!

https://copy.com/7uLLFsTBpsB0K8RS 

Lol, I couldn't agree more.

I sometimes get annoyed by the fact that some people on here champ at me even though I'm putting in a lot of work for free because I love mapping, as if they think I'm a robot and they're the user, and they should just be able to control my creativity - and force me to hold back releases until those releases live up to the particular standards of how they voluntarily decide to spend their free time. Still, I recognize that with a very tiny amount of exceptions, this is mostly meant as constructive criticism, and that's how it is best viewed.

Kinn, by the way, is "made of" pure win. 

Go map! 

You ARE a robot.

Now do the funky dance moves! 

Is it supposed to be played with AD? 

Making a remix of my favorite Q1 map E1M3 - The Necropolis, I'm a few days in at this point. It is not a brick by brick copy but instead a re-imagining. Keeping some key components like the "ring of shadows" secret, traps and overall layout of the original. Going for a "medium-sized" map, not much bigger than the original, and certainly not legendary scale like the amazing AD maps :)

Some things I'm not sure about, like shifting from the brown/white castle theme into the swampy/brick theme as you move down/away from the start area. Maybe stick with with the broken/swampy theme, feels more like the original?

Also, another consideration is to either stick with classic Quake or incorporate AD entities, there are especially some useful ranged monsters like crossbow men etc.

Some screens for reference:

Start Area
[img]http://i.imgur.com/wkq8dZS.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/RWAVC5o.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/ql7FJBP.jpg[/img]

Gold Key Area
[img]http://i.imgur.com/diwP3op.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/1jwxN5M.jpg[/img]

It is early but if you have considerations and feedback I would appreciate it. 

Giftthing, can't wait to play it.