Looks cool. I would make the lighting have a bit more contrast, though. Otherwise the details and the level of detail is pretty good. 

...and a good execution of Idbase.

Seriously though, good start, and good luck. 

Nice sense of atmosphere. 'Gold' Id base is kinda making me nostalgic for Scourge's first level. 

That's dark, even for me. 

Well, I'm on an LCD. I have my gamma set to something near what my CRT was, which was usually fine, but there may or may not be major differences between what we see. 

its really bright, actually, here 

I know this looks really shitty but I'm no artist. I'm working on a little intro video thing for the addon:

http://www.phait-accompli.com/q/op/storyboard.jpg 

1. Pan past frigate ship, seeing load/unload arm set down a crate.
2. Panning past shipping base, see dog (actually has a bit of significance) moving...
3. Entering the frigate ship corridor. Probably bigger than I drew, door will open...
4. Going through starfield/space
5. In cockpit and we see we are about to impact with ground after malfunction
6. Important plot subject: secured crate carrying unknown creature is shattered, creature apparently missing.
7. Entering unknown abandoned outpost for help
8. ?

Inbetween certain scenes will be text kinda explaining the plot, and music. 

And does the addon have any substance yet? 

As I mentioned earlier. I have the story mostly worked out as of now, just struggling with at title. 

It's a bit unclear -
1)first loading ship,
2)then showing shipping base,
3-4)but then showing the ship moving? Is this the ship that was loaded in scene 1? Then why were we shown scene 2 in the middle?

You could add a scene of the ship lifting off or something. 

But unfortunately I have to cut some corners.... this is Quake 1 afterall. I'm only interested in keeping Q1 as it is, pretty much. Which means no custom code. 

generic cutscene, mark 2 

I know of no way to implement them anyway. 

Gibson: You want me to replace the villain with a dog? I mean nobody will know what's going on.
Homer: They will if you set up that the dog is evil. All you do is have to show him doing this. [lowers eyelids and glances around in shifty-eyed fashion] The people will suspect the dog. 

 

So you have new maps ready, yes? Maybe the odd new monster or weapon? 

No new monsters/weapons.

Working on ship interior...
http://www.phait-accompli.com/q/op/ship2.jpg

Will probably redo that curvy-pipe area. 

Architecture looks good, even if the pipe in the ceiling is not really good (as you said...) On the other hand, I guess you didn't work yet on lightning effects, isn't it ?? This part needs a real impovement ... 

All a work in progress. What I usually do is one element at a time, be it a room or important object (in this case the freighter ship). Then I go through with lighting and other entities. 

OK, I understand your "flow"... I (try to) do map like this as well, but I rather prefer to work on lightning effects at the same time... It gives me a better overview of what finally will be the map look...
IMHO, there is no real "universal" and "unique" mapping method, so the most important is to be consistent and to have fun ;) .. Keep it up ! 

Most of you have seen the first shot. I'm working on this during an uninspired hiatus from Doom3.

http://lunaran.com/pics/lunsp1_1.jpg
http://lunaran.com/pics/lunsp1_2.jpg
http://lunaran.com/pics/lunsp1_3.jpg
http://lunaran.com/pics/lunsp1_4.jpg

The map is called Concentric Devastation. 

looks uber-tasty :)

can't wait to see your improved zer enforcers >:} 

I bet the last screen involves some electrocution. 

Looks very promising, but I think that "q2 warehouse" textures can/should be replaced by something else, they don't quite fit the Quake theme imho. The uber-green water/slime texture also looks odd. Other than that, looks good.