Dude this is dope as fuck! every new mapper should read this!
this will instantly remove all these awkward flat ceilings, floors anw walls. 

It's a fucking sexy tutorial and I love it.

I'd lost it, thanks for finding the link for me again ^_^ 

 

layering detail until it looks super-polished and refined is exactly how I do it :) 

I made this in a couple hours today:
http://imgur.com/a/IBKNq

The map is tentatively titled Aaa, which is the hawaiian word for "lava tube" (seemed appropriate). 

Cool screenshot, I like the creativity already present in the first room! 

I shall strive to keep the same creativity standards for the rest of the map. I hope I won't disappoint. I wanted something reminiscent of E1M6 and the start map's entrance to episode 3, but different. I think I succeeded. What do you (and the others) think of the title? 

I would advise against keeping an "intricate" look like that for too long. Certainly use it in sections, as it is quite nice and it has its effect, but it's quite "dense" and aside from probably not playing well with monster movement, I think it's too visually distracting. I would personally tend towards a solid face for the endcap to the "tunnel" shown here, but in general I would reserve it for interconnecting segments and keep it away from combat areas.

Perhaps it could work as an upper-wall/ceiling detail as well, I don't know. You'll have to see what works, but be wary of creating anything too visually dense. 

Maybe the tubes could be used as hallways or transitions to rooms...still way too early to make any assumptions but I like the initial idea of it.

The name is cool and pretty original...I can always appreciate it when a map title has relation to the map's theme. 

It also has the benefit of being almost at the top of a lot of lists, if it were to ever be released seperately.

Although, has anyone tried releasing something that starts with 0? Releases that start with 1 currently sit at the top of Quaddicted by default. 

Don't worry, I won't keep this level of intricacy for the whole map. In fact, I was already planning on making this starting tunnel lead into a more solid room. I just wanted an opener with a bit of a wow factor.

Glad you like the name. So it's settled, then. I initially found it funny but it's growing on me beyond that. It can be viewed as a cry of panic or pain, plus the original meaning is aptly fitting to the architecture I want to build. Funny thing is, I stumbled upon it completely by accident. 

I've just remade the main arena. Hope it looks better.
Screenshots: http://imgur.com/6Fqxmao
http://imgur.com/v50gh5n 

Nice screen, lots of detail going on in there.

2 things:

The rivets texture looks a bit skewed maybe due to texture scale increase? This looks worse on the slopes sections up above.

If that center blue section is meant to be a pool of water, then consider lowering it by 8 units to give it a bit of a lip. This make it appear more realistic rather than directly aligned with the floor.

Keep going! 

 

Yeah, what Bloughsburgh said. And maybe add a border to the pool. Also, you could try to make the vertical girders protrude more from the wall with the Christ, like they do from the other walls. 

That looks pretty decent, but my only complaint so far is that the room looks a bit too bright. I'd suggest toning down the brightness and it will look much better. 

The water texture just sitting on the floor looks a bit strange to me. You may want to make it more of a fountain with a perimeter.

http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/placesinthesun/photos/today/places_fountain.jpg

Your lighting is pretty bright and flat as others have said.

Windows in Quake are usually set into the walls like this: http://pirat.snotboble.net/quake/pics/hip2m65.jpg

There are a lot of great touches too - keep going - you are well on your way to a good looking map. 

Hail hail the gang's all here!

What if you could pick any enemy from Quake ever for your map?

What if there was a mod that provided every feature under the sun?

What if there was a mod that said the mapper is always right?

Many have created awesome content in numerous mods. AD is the closest to combining the most goodness in one package...and still...sometimes you just want a gug to beat up some poor crossbow knights. Sometimes you want a scragmother alongside mummies. Sometimes you want a vermis with lost souls.

What if...?


Now, if only I can get permission from all the mod authors to upload this someday. (Please note that content shown in picture above is actually coded and fully functional except where certain bosses are only visible when angered in which place I have used a misc_model to show them as non-angered.) 

Sounds....fun. 

Whoa - this would be fantastic. Fingers crossed. 

I don't know about everything... Where's my X-Men total conversion monsters??????? or weird 1997 porn mod reskins?
/s 

missing Floyd 

What if you could pick any enemy from Quake ever for your map?

What if there was a mod that provided every feature under the sun?

I've been wishing for something like that. I don't think you need permission for AD content but good luck for Quoth content. Sock had to basically harass the Quoth team for months and was only able to get permission granted for some monster models, for which he had to rebuild the code from scratch. 

 

The beauty of including everyone and their mother is that the mapper gets to decide which are "the shit ones", since this is highly subjective.