I am the poster boy for starting over and over and over and over... 

Way to go getting round the no apostrophe thingy.

Now you just need to get those sarcasm tags working... 

if you see metlslime name it already means sarcasm
btw i`v been using "the console key" for apostrophe being sure that its the same 

I'm throwing my hat into the ring.

How do I get that cool starfield from the first contest's start map? 

cool.

i dont know about the starfield.

someone will though.

/waits 

http://www.planetquake.com/texmex/ 

I extracted the starsky from cogstart.bsp and stuck it in a wad. I also added my own starsky from the knave wad. And a few others of various stellar densities for your perusal :P
6 in total.

http://www.signsofkoth.co.uk/func/starfields.zip

Making these is a piece of piss; if you don't like these, dl Universe sharewar from:

http://www.diardsoftware.com/

and make yer own. You'll need Texmex too obviously.

All these starfields are yours. Use them together. Use them in peace. 

Thanks Kell.

I'd been using Wally up to this point, which lets me open up pak files but not bsps as far as I can tell. There's no good single repository for Quake1 information, it's all over the damn place. 

You can use a utility called bsp2wad, to extract textures from a .bsp file to a .wad file. I can't recall where you can get it at the moment, but could send it to you if you like. 

But with Wally, Winpack, and TexMex I think I'm covered. 

I've been taking screenshots as I work again. I just like taking screensots. I should have been a photographer.

http://www.cursesandepithets.com/quake1/pushcoag/ 

Dood it's a Q3A floater!!

I like the pink tho =) 

No, it's way more vertical than that. 

No screens for me at this stage, my machina chokes on the .map :P But I'm sending it off to Scraggy tomorrow so he can crunch it with his sys. Not long now UWF :) I'm definitely having complete DM implementation in line with ELEK'S original notion of what constitutes a Coagula map. 

3.5 hours on Scraggy's sys and me gets a fully compiled alpha.

r_speeds are way up there so if you're allergic to grey flash then no go for anything under "accelerated WinQuake". Apparently not a huge problem for SP...

and biff has accepted the job of DM DJ even with the r_speeds as they are. Player spawns, tele destinations and weapons/armour/powerups are implemented. Biff will further advise on ammo and health placement when Scraggy compiles the beta one.

Community can be a wonderful thing :) 

This competition looks interesting.. i'm quite new to mapping but i would be interested in having a try.

A few things however.. i don't know what a 'cogula' map should look like, and that link you posted doen't seem to work, can anyone describe it to me? From the pictures i've seen people post am i right it guessing it's a map set in space.. is there anything else special about the map theme though?

And also, should the finished maps be emailed to the same address you used on your review site?

thanks in advance 

one more thing.. can anyone point me to somewhere where i can download custom textures? i only have the original quake ones.

thanks again 

List of different wads:
http://www.planetquake.com/frib/stuff.html
http://www.planetquake.com/warehouse/

Some individual wads:
http://suspenlute.com/01/obtex2.zip Textures from Oblivion add-on for Quake 2. Created by metlslime
http://suspenlute.com/01/bulowad2.zip Base themed textures by Dave Bulow
http://suspenlute.com/01/deconwad.zip More base textures, but created by stecki
http://suspenlute.com/01/sock_eg.zip Egyptian textures by sock
ftp://ftp.celephais.net/pub/textures/jf1wad.zip Base/industrial textures by metlslime 

I would appear that I forgot to mention the wonderful IKBase and IKBlue texture sets, both by the talented Iikka "Fingers" Ker�nen.

http://www.planetquake.com/dl/dl.asp?ikq/ikbase_r2.zip IKBase
http://www.planetquake.com/dl/dl.asp?ikq/ikblue.zip IKBlue 

ah...filepanet *subsumed* planetquake links!

thanx for reminding me, i found that out when i updated my hall of fame, try this link:

http://www.fileplanet.com/dl.aspx?/planetquake/tronyn/coagulacontest.zip

Send the map to me when you are done, yep same email address. the new plan [forget the old crappy "deadlines" idea] is to have the coagula maps ready for release at QExpo 2003.

And you can find out about Qexpo here:

http://www.celephais.net/board/view_thread.php?id=3358

RPG is a top man, and has provided you will a nice bunch of links for custom textures, which i just sent you an email about before i came here! :) 

Thanks R.P.G. and underworldfan.. those levels are awesome! especialy the rocky/metallic one which came joint third.. that was my favourite, probably favourite single level out of all the ones i've played, does the guy who made it have a profressional mapping job? if not i think he should try and get one :)

R.P.G. i only had the time to download a few of those but i have to say i love those deconwad ones. i've got an idea for a map with them already! i'll get working on it right away :) 

the "rocky/metallic one" is not a very sepcific description!, tell us the file/map name... 

just went and checked.. it's called "The Emptyness Without", and looking at the readme file its by a guy called necros.

also reading that, i noticed that there were two entries by the same author.. does that mean we can submit more than one map? 

ah emptiness without!, reviewed here:

http://www.planetquake.com/underworld/hofEmptandAtrocity.html

and yes, you can submit as many maps as you desire :) 

necros has a fan...