....but the overall style of that map looks very cool :) 

I wonder, is there an active TF community? 

Tip: make the top of the mountains a large rectangle, all back edges running in a straight line, in order to have only five sky brushes with smooth surfaces. Saves some polys. 

Sorry SS = screenshot.

Your best bet on finding a TF game happens on Fridays.

I made the sky that way so to give the towers the honor of being the tallest object in the map. The mountains are shorter so the sky had to be extended to accommodate the towers. Kinda makes them look bigger or maybe helps to focus the eye on them a bit more. 

I will hopefully have a beta done in a week or two.

http://www.quaketastic.com/files/screen_shots/lpqsp2b1.png
http://www.quaketastic.com/files/screen_shots/lpqsp2b3.png
http://www.quaketastic.com/files/screen_shots/lpqsp2b4.png
http://www.quaketastic.com/files/screen_shots/lpqsp2b2.png 

Awesome to see more and more maps in progress!

Cool theme going out there love Coagula 

This map is relevant to my needs. 

I've been practicing some mapping.
screenshot

I've noticed the seam, and the texture alignment hasn't been worked on yet.

Also, I've raised the brightness a lot for this shot; in-game it's darker, which makes the grainyness less pronounced. 

are you doing some special phong shading stuff with your lighting? 

Yes, but the cave's brushes aren't triangulated yet, so there's some vertex inaccuracies affecting the smoothing.

Also, so far I'm concluding that there's still a number of texture alignment tools that could be created to ease map development. Manually editing the texture coordinates for all brushes in the map takes an astronomical amount of time. 

World vs Face:
World causes stretching on angled surfaces but allows for perfect alignment of, for instance, brick grout across bevelled corners.

Face allows for perfect representation of the texture on any angle of surface but makes alignment difficult. JACK/WC allow for Alt+RightClick to carry alignment across from selected face...tedious and still affected by...

NPO2 divisible face distances cause textures to end in the middle where edges on textures fail to line up with edges of faces in many cases. 

The right-click in Jack doesn't really align the textures, it just copies the projection. This helps in some cases, but it's completely useless for wrapping a texture around a cube, for instance.

There really isn't any tool that properly wraps textures around brushes. To properly wrap textures without changing their projection, the rotation, scaling and scrolling offset must all work together to make the edges of textures with different projections match around a single axis in 3D space - of course, this doesn't apply to textures whose projection has a normal that matches the aforementioned 3D space axis.

Such a tool would be a complex task to develop, but it's sorely needed. From the experience I'm having with mapping, proper texture alignment alone takes days to do manually. With a properly semi-automated tool, all textures in a whole map could be aligned in minutes.

And another tool that needs to be developed is to automatically rotate a texture to match the angle of a user-specified edge in the brush. By the way, this should be implemented in the .map format itself. 

QuArK has a "wrap around" feature. Right-click a face, select "tag face". Then right click on an adjacent face, and choose "wrap texture around pillar" (or something similar). I think it does what you're describing.

TB has an alt+right-click shortcut which also copies the projection, but it's not wrapping around a shared edge between the selected face and target face. That could be useful. 

Hmm... that looks really useful! The "Fit texture Across tagged" tool seems to work exactly as I described, I may try it later.

But this sounds bad:
Select tagged list [...]. This can be useful if you want to make a multi-selection of faces from different brushes, since [...] (if you have a face selected, to select one from another brush you have to select that brush, which looses your face selection).
So, the FTAT feature in QuArK may be not helpful enough after all. 

All I want is a way to make textures smoothly wrap around cylinders in 220 format. Something that can re-align every face on a brush would be a godsend... 

QuArK is unbearably slow and counter-intuitive. Using it for texture alignment won't make mapping easier. 

align a texture the way you want it to tile across the cylinder, select that face in texture application mode and then alt+right click the next face along and it will align perfectly to it. Repeat the process as many times as needed. This works in Hammer and JACK. 

In JACK/Hammer, select face adjacent to the edge, use Alt+RightClick on face you need aligned.

This: http://www.interlopers.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20367

Trenchbroom users you are so screwed. 

You can follow the alt+rightclick with a leftalign, topalign etc. To get the texture positioned quickly after getting the angle right, though this isn't necessary if you already did this to the touching edge. 

Thanks, that helps a lot.

It isn't perfect, because very often a texture needs to be scaled to properly do a full wraparound, but it already helps on a number of cases.

A good implementation would be to select all faces that the texture should wrap around, and alt-right click on the selection. The tool would calculate the full distance that the texture should cover, and scale the texture to make it fit. 

...and I am screwed.

The texture tools in TB suck :( 

I believe Sleep mentioned wanting to get "texture wrapping" in to TB at some point. 

I think my biggest wishlist items for texture work would be:

1. Click on the texture name when a face/brush is selected to find it in the viewer
2. A better way to wrap textures around complex geometry such as cylinders
3. Being able to completely hide textures with conflicting names that have been overridden

I should probably be posting this in the TB thread... 

I posted some screenshots of this a while back. I set it aside due to work and real life. Hoping to jump back in very soon. Started in TB1 and will continue in TB2 RC4 as soon as possible. Work is slowing down for a few months - finally. Some screens.

http://imgur.com/a/YxGs8