I'm taking you up on that offer!

The textures in Quake3 which signify a jump pad are all animated. Circles moving outward for the vertical one, and arrows moving away for the horizontal one. Perhaps the same techniques used in comics to suggest movement could be applied to a texture to suggest that same moviement.

You're the artist, but maybe a series of increasingly larger arrows like >>>> would work? 

If you're looking for a Q3-esque pad, there's the one I made for Contract in the knave.wad. But that's 128 square/5 frames of animation. Maybe a bit too much.

I could do a 64x64 texture with a sort of 'target' type design, where each concentric circle is illuminated in turn, from the centre out. Maybe three rings would do?
And if I set it into a metal plate or housing it might not look so odd when tiled. Thing is, in the map Wazat mentions ( the one with the blue/brown chequered floor, yes? ) the 'jumps' are strips rather than squares - several glowing targets all in a line, pulsing away in perfect sync, could be a Cranky Steve feature :P 

You know, I actually forgot that Quake allows animated textures? You don't see them often.

Even though the jump pad is mostly pushing you upwards, from the camera perspective it looks a push in a particular direction. Perhaps instead of circles illuminating outwards, it could be bars illuminating in some direction. I could orient the texture to indicate the direction of movement. If the animation were subtle and not too quick then it could look rather nice. 

I try to make an urban style for this map but it's a try ... For people who have see Matrix Reloaded and Matrix there are many things of the 2 movie : The sub station (sorry i don't know the english word) , the plac with one thousand smith agent. What o you think , Remember it's a try ...

Screenshots : http://membres.lycos.fr/here/individualistic.jpg
http://membres.lycos.fr/here/individualistic2.jpg
http://membres.lycos.fr/here/individualistic3.jpg

Download : go on my page in the end of the Maps/q3section http://membres.lycos.fr/here/maps.htm

PS : I can change the window textures . 

 

It would actually look better if those jump pad brushes were re-done to be a circle or square, instead of a long bar. Still, that would require the long recompile/vis process. :(

See the battle mech mapping thread, I have some other suggestions. 

The compile and vising for bmech is nothing compared to my coagula map. 

Not sure if any of you saw this, but Romero posted regarding Quake's birthday

HAPPY BIRTHDAY QUAKE!
I am pretty blown away today - none of the Quake news sites mentioned this at all. Blue's News, ShackNews, even PlanetQuake -- everyone has forgotten that today was the day that the venerable Quake was born, 7 long years ago.

Currently, I'm in crunch mode on a Beta of my current game, so I don't have the time to open up the Quake section... but when I do, you will all have access to the original Quake 1 .MAP files. Stay tuned! 

none of the Quake news sites mentioned this at all. Blue's News, ShackNews, even PlanetQuake

SHURELY SHOME MISHTAKE! 

/me is a news whore 

in your face romero! 

Oh man, here we go :)

these days you could probably get all of e1 into one map :) hehe. Will be fun to look at the source files though, gg romero!

Sounds like hes having fun with Red faction on the Ngage, ooh yes so much fun, he cant contain himself, omg hes gonna blow! 

wasn't it mentioned on planetquake.. but too early or something? 

he's had something on his site for close to a year saying they will be up 'soon'.. 

he's had something on his site for close to a year saying they will be up 'soon'..

Romero == Bal?!

Scandal! 

you're so funny RPG, how can I be like you!? 

Just say stupid things! And listen to White Zombie!

You're almost there dude! 

scampie is already 'more human than human,' obviously... being a talking shrimp and all. 

RPG is the coolest person in the world.

that is all. 

ID. Maps. Q3. New;

mpteam9; http://planetquake3.net/download.php?op=viewdownloaddetails&lid=1668

pro-q3tourney7; http://planetquake3.net/download.php?op=viewdownloaddetails&lid=1667

"pro-q3tourney7" is a a map found in their old Quake3 archives, but that was cut for one reason or another. Got finished up...

"mpteam9" is a Team Arena map based on q3tourney6_ctf. 

That's really neat. 

They ALWAYS do this shit when I uninstall q3... 

q3tourney7 seems to be very good for 1-1. They should have released it with retail game. Q3 severly lacked maps for competitive play. Doesnt look any beautifull tho

I heard that q3tourney6 is a speedmap. And it kinda shows. 

Wasn't q3tourney6 THE speedmap, ie, the one that started it all? 

speedy, well maybe it didn't play great (not that I know if it does now) and thus wouldn't have made a good addition to q3 until fred fix0red it up?

q3tourney6 was one of the lds showing that you could make something fun in one hour (altho they probably fixed it up before they included it in the game).