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Quake Map Jam 666 : Fire And Brimstone
Map Jamming is about creating maps of any size or detail level over several weeks, using a certain theme and/or texture set. Check the readme file in the zip below for further details of what the Jam is about.

Any questions or comments, please post to this thread only.

Theme - Fire and Brimstone
Deadline - 16th August 2015

Texture Wad - There are texture wads for this jam that include many theme related textures. It is not required to use these textures in your level, they are provided for inspiration and convenience only! Check this texture repository
for more wads : https://www.quaddicted.com/files/wads/

Compile Tools - It is recommended that you use EricW's updated Quake compiler suite as they add much new functionality to lighting and visibility. Texture lighting in particular should be very useful for this jam!
Download EricW's tools : http://ericwa.github.io/tyrutils-ericw/
Download worldcraft / Jackhammer fgd for these tools> : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/33279452/quake4ericwTools.fgd

Engine:
Make it for Fitzquake / Quakespasm, bitches. You know the score.

Theme reference images:
http://daz.fov120.com/images/jam6/theme1.jpg
http://daz.fov120.com/images/jam6/theme2.jpg
http://daz.fov120.com/images/jam6/theme3.jpg
http://daz.fov120.com/images/jam6/theme4.jpg
http://daz.fov120.com/images/jam6/theme5.jpg
http://daz.fov120.com/images/jam6/theme6.jpg
http://daz.fov120.com/images/jam6/theme7.jpg
http://daz.fov120.com/images/jam6/theme8.jpg

It is a good idea to find reference images that you like so you can follow them and avoid staring at a blank editor wondering what to make!

Download the Map Jam 666 zip : http://daz.fov120.com/files/jam666.zip

Also, a reminder : Water Alpha will be set to "1" for this jam! (Not transparent) because lava. Keep this in mind when building your maps!

Feel free to post wip images of your level in this thread! Good luck and GO MAP!

And finally, a list of designers that are streaming their level designs :

http://twitch.tv/ionous (Ionous)
http://twitch.tv/tddaz (Daz)

Post below if you are streaming and I can get the list updated!
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Question 
Where is skacky?

Shots look rad, scampie in particular if you can bring that theme to proper fruition! 
@Warren 
How did you set your fog? I'd like to steal it. 
@Warren 
How did you set your fog? I'd like to steal it. 
 
I think skacky is working on a Thief project right now.

As for those feeling discouraged or comparing their work to other mappers, this isn't a competition. The idea is to encourage mapping and avoiding brush creep. I've participated once, and my map was terrible. But making a map that was playable from start to finish within a deadline was huge for me. And don't feel bad when looking at the shots of others. This community has a ton of veteran mappers, professionals, and former professionals. The Quake community is a uniquely golden opportunity to learn rapid, focused, gameplay oriented development while getting feedback from some of the best. If you're new, this is not a final exam. This is the gym. Go lift some brushes. 
Drew 
Not mapping for this jam. 
Feeding Back 
I don't have screenshots yet. But I'm gonna have my level fully functional today or tomorrow... but unlit and using just one or two textures, ugly as a train wreck.

Some awesome screenies here. If I don't get back to my map now, I'm not keeping up. Promise to give more feedback later. Just loving to take part on this. 
Noted 
Thanks for the critiques everyone, I am trying to get my crazy lighting under control (if I find something new, I tend to go overboard with it). I will try sunlight2 instead and maybe grey out the red sun aspect of the map.

Loving the maps out there. It is cool that so many different styles of maps are coming out of this theme. Keep up the good work!

@ItEndsWithTens - I have to say that those "totems" with the evil grins sell the setting all by themselves. 
Looking Good 
Except for Scampie, who should really incorporate the scraps from the Vigil chainmap or gtfo! 
ShoTro 
You will actually likely want to combine sunlight and sunlight2, they work best in tandom. sunlight more or less casts a large spotlight, and is responsible for making nice crisp shadows. sunlight2 basically casts ambient light from your sky, which prevents things like dark shadows right in sight of the sky which looks poor. 
ShoTro 
You will actually likely want to combine sunlight and sunlight2, they work best in tandom. sunlight more or less casts a large spotlight, and is responsible for making nice crisp shadows. sunlight2 basically casts ambient light from your sky, which prevents things like dark shadows right in sight of the sky which looks poor. 
Necros You Crazy 
 
Very Cool Stuff. 
 
 
adib

Sure, just add a "_fog" key to your world properties with these values : .035 .35 .25 .25 
Heh 
surprising how close your fog is to mine, I have 0.025 0.35 0.3 0.3 
Is It Possible To Trigger A Fog Colour Change? 
I plan on having my player go through a teleporter and fog appearing on the other side of the tele 
Not Without A Mod 
 
@Warren _fog 
Yes, I did this on that DM level you liked, but it doesn't work on some video cards. It looks perfect in my desktop but overly bright at work and in my notebook. Some people are saying "the fog is to dense to see the level" as well. I was hoping you used some other setting. My fog level is 0.05, but I'm pretty sure I used 0-255 values for RGB... Gonna test again later. 
Fog Differs Between Engines 
 
Warren Adn Scampie 
looking great guys!

Some of the others are promising too. I dont yet know what to make of necros' engine breaking map (need more shots hehe). 
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT <-- IMPORTANT <- MORE IMPORTANT 
Firstly, I have been blown away by the amount of interest this map jam has garnered, it's wonderful to see so many new and returning faces to Quake level design and I certainly didn't expect it!

One thing that this means that I hadn't factored in is that a lot of the people building maps have been relearning the tools or learning from scratch which has taken a huge bite out of their available mapping time with less output as a result.

Sooo....

DEADLINE EXTENDED BY ONE WEEK. NEW DEADLINE -- 16TH AUGUST 2015!

Hopefully this will help people who have been struggling to (re)learn the tools to get that extra boost that they needed to finish up their maps. I must emphasise that this deadline extension is so that you can finish and polish what you are currently working on! Don't get crazy and add 4 more wings and a secret level to your plans! I (and everyone else!) would rather have a smaller but complete and polished level rather than an unreleased behemoth! Keep your scope the same, refine, refine refine!

With the deadline extension in place, we won't be having a mid week ROLL CALL this week. The next official ROLL CALL will be next sunday 9th August! With that said, feel free to post wip images whenever you please!

<3 
Good! 
 
THANK YOU DAZ FOR THIS GIFT OF EXTRA TIME I PROMISE NOT TO WASTE IT BY SLACKING OFF 
THANK YOU DAZ FOR THIS GIFT OF EXTRA TIME I PROMISE NOT TO WASTE IT BY SLACKING OFF 
 
...i really need to buy a new mouse... this one keeps double clicking :| 
 
LOL 
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