These are the collections I know of:

Kell's: https://www.quaddicted.com/webarchive/kell.quaddicted.com/skyboxes.html

sock's: http://simonoc.com/pages/artwork.htm

hipshot's: http://www.quake3world.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9242

Q3 skybox collection: http://lvlworld.com/review/id:2023

hipshot's are the most organic looking, IIRC he made them from photographs + photoshop, while the majority of the others are done in terragen. 

No problem, it can look a bit generic which is why I said 'starting point'. I think you'd have to find some stuff to put with it, like finding some planets online to photoshop onto it and blend etc (which is what I have done with mine).

I think most people tend to use these -

https://www.quaddicted.com/webarchive/kell.quaddicted.com/skyboxes.html

http://lvlworld.com/review/id:2023

http://www.quake3world.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9242 

Thanks, exactly what I was looking for, cheers. 

I went through all this digging through Twitter to provide Kinn with a link only to come third?

Is there a name for this? Like sloppy seconds, except thirds? 

I'm sure he has a pants remark about it. 

I just made that up 

Using Jackhammer, EricW's TyrUtils for compiling and Quakespasm engine. What's going on here? It's just a basic light set to 1000.

http://i.imgur.com/QB0LkP6.jpg?1 

The engine is loading a .lit file that doesn't match the .bsp. Easiest fix is always pass the "-lit" flag to light and always copy the .lit and .bsp to your maps directory together (or just compile inside quake/XXX/maps) 

That fixed it. 

Is there a way to force the BSP compiler to include all frames of texture animation in the BSP file, without having to create dummy brushes with the other texture frames? 

I thought that was automated now with modern day compilers ... 

I thought that was automated even with olden day compilers ... 

I know whatever I was using in 2007 required brushes with all the textures of animation to actually be in the map. That hasn't been necessary with the BSP versions I've been using the last 5 years or so. 

iirc those were treeqbsp.exe and variants. IIRC. 

Oops, I've forgotten to test this with other compilers since my last post.

Now I don't remember if the one that gave me this problem was the one included in Worldcraft 1.6, the one included in Jackhammer, or the one from EricW. Anyway, good to know that this was fixed in recent compilers. 

So I have a question. Is it possible to trigger another door or item after another has been triggered?

In this case I am talking about doors, Secret once more specifically. If I shoot / hit a secret door I would like to have another door / panel slide open / trigger once the other door has opened completely. Is this possible in quake?

Thanks in advance to any map guru's 

func_door doesn't fire targets when it opens or is shot, so in this case you will likely want to set it up so that you have a thin trigger_once/multiple with 'health' '1' which is what you actually shoot... and that targets the door and a trigger_relay with a delay that targets your second door.

if you are using a func_door_secret, that will fire a target when it is shot or triggered open, but it will fire it right when it is triggered so you will likely want to target a trigger_relay with a delay in this case as well. 

AD has this functionality. It could be worth using trigger_relay as scampie said. 

Yes. You just have to synchronize. Your door targets a trigger. This trigger waits to fire just the amount of seconds the door takes to open. Cant remember the exact properties' names, though, but that works. 

Sweet thanks everyone. I'll give this a go! 

Sweet... and I can trigger multiple things in various sequences. Epic doors opening with lighting toggling on... so fun. I wonder why this was not used more back in the day. 

toggling on lights behind secret doors/monster closets when they open to prevent spoiling that there's something behind it before it opens. 

I want to create a door which will be opened by either of two events:
1. a player walks into a special trigger area (trigger_multiple?), and the door stays open as long as the player is triggering
2. a moving brush touches the door and the door will stay open as long as the brush is triggering it
The door should also stay open when both events take place at once and close (immediately) only when the events stop triggering.
Is this possible with the original Quake entities? 

Sounds like building a physical logic gate somewhere outside of the map is what you will need.

Create a button that operates when shot, set a spike shooter firing nails at it. Then place 2 doors between the spikes and button that block the spikes.

The 2 triggers inside the map should move the doors when activated, so that when both are active the two doors are moved out of the spikes flight path and the button is activated. 

Good lord ... that's ... awesome.