Correcting typos.. retrojam6* 

Naitelveni since you're already nailing it, I would go further and dare more contrast. Backup your work and light up this lava, make it look hotter. You could try a little stronger and darker sky light as well. And I would choose a skybox that matches the color you chose for the sky light.

Newhouse, it looks great, but don't you think the doors should have light fixtures? Maybe the doorway could have a texture like this one you used on the open door. 

Sorry I'm still noob with these lighting techniques, what is light fixture? I just placed on back and front these delay 0 lights to high-light them a bit.. also I tried that surface lighting, I put on sides of doors surface light textures and they worked tbh. If light fixtures will look better, then I gladly would like to try them out.

Also that glowing window used surface lighting. 

A light fixture is a lamp, for example. What I mean is: your light is more believable if it looks like coming from a source. The surface lights you made are perfect: it's lamp textures "emitting" those lights. That metal plate full of little spots make perfect sense. But when I look at the doorways, where is this light coming from? 

I wanted to do a lighting thread for a while now, I have an idea for it but I'll have time in a month or so. 

Yes, indeed I didn't use this door light logic yet in that scene. But basically I will turn on lights when door opens. It will not be as pretty as in modern sci-fi bases, but at least something. I have couple ideas how to make it look natural yet cool (we will see).

Also I added couple lights inside those slots where doors goes in when opened, I wanted them not to be pitch black.. maybe I just need to turn down values a bit.

Of course for some doors I will add extra lamps in front and back. But it really depends on the scene I will set up. 

So finally, I just have this map almost complete. It has Daikatana textures and is Japanese-themed.

Here is the Quaketastic download link: http://www.quaketastic.com/files/single_player/maps/hc1beta.bsp 

The skybox in hc1beta is from ikbaseq3. 

hc1beta screenshot at Quaketastic: http://www.quaketastic.com/files/screen_shots/hc1beta.png 

Map is super bright and textures have fullbright pixels. You should fix this.
Map need some balancing for sure and exit portal :D
Other than this it feels like Shadow Warrior :D
I have a demo if you want. 

Demos are accepted, khreathor. :D 

http://khreathor.xyz/tmp/demos/hc1beta.zip

btw, try removing fullbrights with this: http://quaketastic.com/files/tools/windows/wad_editors/defullbright-v0.1.zip 

Please redownload this demo zip. I'm an idiot and I packed bsp instead of a demo... but link is fixed now. 

Okay. Now I redownloaded "hc1beta.zip", and the demo file's there. Good. 

Okay. Now I redownloaded "hc1beta.zip", and the demo file's there. Good. 

but I thought egypt was a bit more accessible. Nice work though. 

Please relight your map. It is very bright :(

And add some ammo and item_healt in the area around the "pyramid". Please some 

Now I uploaded hc1, and I will reupload it to add ammo and health to that area. 

hc1 was reuploaded one hour ago. Thanks for your patience. 

made a thing 

Awesome!

This is good stuff coming from you man. 

light rays now reveal teleport destination

@Bloughsburgh - thanks! I wasn't happy with my previous portal tests and I've been meaning to tinker with some particular shader stuff, so this was a good way to kill a few birds with one stone. 

This is some purdy stuff.

Is it going somewhere or are you just experimenting at this point? 

immediate goal, get stuff working. long-term goal, a game.