that's a pretty nice start.

Some weird pauses when moving around with the camera, but it seems like they can load an navigate maps nicely.

Would love to see a TB port of course ;) 

Using 1bit stainmaps and modulating the edges using detail textures (or something among those lines) to get perma-blood and the like in maps. 

DP has stain maps. 

I like the idea of stain maps, but I really kinda wish it looked a bit more pixelly and bold than aiming for realistic. I really am a purist for these things I think. 

I'm thinking about this with DP's blood particles in mind. Stainmap res is typically too low to look convincing for hard edged stuff (such as blood decals). Could look better when combining with detail textures to get 4* the res (or more for high res stuff). If you take it as grayscale and combine with detail texture before doing alpha-test you could get more irregular looking hard edged stuff. Could look more like decals when done right... Just think it would be cool to be able to paint a map with blood, lol.

(and please don't turn the particle thing into a style argument, you can make it look like Duke3D style 8-bit with custom textures + effectinfo.txt and nearest neighbour filtering, etc etc) 

It's not a problem if people play cubism, fitzquake or dark places. Each to their own, I'm just saying it'd be nice if some of these fancy new features were added in a more classic flavour.
For the record I think Dark Places is cool, kinda wish the Rygel set included the knave textures and the id_base_ultimate too. 

I'm just saying it'd be nice if some of these fancy new features were added in a more classic flavour.

I can totally agree with that. 

It's a small-medium sized base map.

I have posted it as news but I didn't know how long it would take to get moderated (or even if it would pass!! (joke)) , and I'm hellish impatient.

Screenshots:

http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files/screen_shots/quarantine.jpg

http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files/screen_shots/quarantine2.jpg

Download:

http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files/single_player/maps/quarantine.zip 

http://celephais.net/board/view_thread.php?id=60921 

In a web design studio.

When I started mapping again in '07 I had just stopped working in factories and started working admin for my fathers business. Taken me a long time to get into the IT industry. I've done CLaIT, OCR Bookkeeping, Adobe ACA Dreamweaver and Flash and 2/3rds of a foundation degree in computer science.

Jees. Guess there might just be some hope!

Been nice chatting with all you guys in that time BTW. Not to say I'm leaving Quake/Func any time soon. I'm not planning on it. 

Ricky! 

 

hope you`ll find time on holidays to pump out more quality product here. 

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congrats mate. 

 

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source: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/3b0e701e-91bc-11e2-b4c9-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2O0Vbe400 

That's true of a lot of investors as well. For all the talk I see of people moving money around and timing the market and so on, I don't see them retiring any sooner than I will. :P 

... the title of worst US company for this year (once again)

http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/electronic-arts-named-worst-company-america-again-170932002.html

I am just curious to know what do EA games employees, that are "landing" on func_, think about this... Does the company really deserve this ? 

I'm sorry, but at the end of the day EA is a games publisher. This fact alone puts them nowhere near the worst company in America.

Further proof that internet polls are useless and retarded. 

That poll is ridiculous, keep in mind that one of the reasons EA got bad press and "won" that reward last year was also because they had homosexual relations in The Sims and Mass Effect, which created a homophobic-right-wing campaign to vote them as worst company...

Internet polls are a joke, people on the internet are even more idiotic than they are in real life.

Still EA sucks, but about just as much as most big publishers. :) 

really? shouldnt be surprised but the US just keeps doing it. 

I clearly do not like this kind of poll either, I was just trying to know whether it is possible to find some valid justifications to win such stupid price...
Anyway, it just show again the press power: morons would have simply follow this. 

Yeah, companies are actively destroying the planet and our health ... but a video game publisher is the worst company. People are stupid. 

Looks very faithful to the previous games, I'm hyped -

http://www.allgamesbeta.com/2013/04/dark-souls-ii-gameplay-reveal.html