Thanks. I think I'll go with making them thinner and smoothed, with something beneath them. 

coagula-thingy: nah, I don't know/think that voidism is such a big problem in this map - it's not like it's few small platforms in a big void but instead is fairly forgiving on mis-movement / flying around from rockets. The RA thingy seems a bit gimmicky, but has to be playtested... Might generate some interesting tactics. "If we take quad, they get ra" and timing becomes pretty important too.
Overall i'm itching to play this... :) 

k, this may do for now...
http://www.phait-accompli.com/q/s4/pre/m1s3.jpg
http://www.phait-accompli.com/q/s4/pre/m1s4.jpg

I gotta break up some of the walls yet. 

Make sure you rotate the texture on the sides of the edge brushes. 

I wasn't gonna, actually but maybe I will. Oh also to note, these aren't the latest shots of that area - the light-thing underneath the stairs as you can see isn't even connected in those shots. 

Yes you damn well will.

Have a think about it - would, in a futuristic enviroment, the angled edge of a stair consist of woefully inefficient slabs of random stuff butted together, or would it consist of long strong beams??

One thing people should remember even about Quake is to think what stuff is for and how it would be constructed. Stairs are stairs so make them like stairs. Same for doorways, windows, arches, roofs, gothic pillars, floating fortresses, satanic torture devices....they should all be what they are supposed to be. 

Phait; Yeah, more stuff like that.

cliffs != walls 

Sorry I'm not Kinn. :) 

Made two bats for Quake1. The first one is rather complex, 381 verts and 1076 triangles, and it looses a lot of textures on the backside.
The wings are made of just one sided triangles.
http://members.home.nl/gimli/fitz07.jpg

The other one is smaller, 275 verts and 750 triangles, and it has a double sided wing.
It looks as if this one has no gaps.
http://members.home.nl/gimli/fit10.jpg

What causes this loss of textures, causing gaps
in the model? Every time I patch them they just reappear. 

Have you made sure the triangles aren't present, just facing the wrong way? Sometimes the normals get flipped in the conversion process. 

I imported the model to QMLE by *.3ds and *.dxf
Then some vertices were wrong situated and I corrected them.
In the frontside they are well , but on the top they don't seem to render. When I patch the topsite, then the frontside disappears.

http://members.home.nl/gimli/quake.jpg 

The beginnings of a singleplayer map. Don't really know where it's going, however (just radiant shots for now).

http://www.planetquake.com/kaziganthe/wip/wip11.jpg 

What's it do - besides vaguely "plug holes"? 

it doesn't get drawn, so when you want to save polys/lightmaps, you use it to seal up the bsp instead of a brush with a visible shader on it. 

http://qmm.tripod.com/trondm3b.zip

Any comments and the suchlike before I release would be kindly appreciated. 

Copy and paste that into the title bar. 

Anyway, it's off the host again for the moment, have decided to do a bit more work on it after some constructive comments. :) 

Just sneaked in with the DL.

I think I saw a much earlier version of this. It's cool. I like the style, and I like how it's big through spaciousness rather through an ass-complex layout. I.e. there's plenty of space to move but it's really easy to know where you are.

The new rockwork in the cave is really nice, natural looking. Good quad position too. I'm not usually a fan of teleporters but the set-up you've got works well.

I got a few criticisms but I will leave most of those until the next beta. The main ones are: NG is pointless, some areas are a bit uniform in height, you need clipping in some areas (esp below MH). 

http://rpg.spawnpoint.org/images/blah/sm82reallysoon.jpg 

... 

I finished sm32 in two weeks if I remember correctly. You had better produce something pretty special! ;)

When is CZG going to grace us with his special brand of glue, eh?*



* I don't mean spunk. 

I don't think Shambler likes the area in the screenshot. :(

than: blah blah blah well you had me whining at you the whole time to finish the thing; whereas I have PuLSaR who only asks me once a month. Plus SM32 didn't have 191 enemies, 5 secrets, and an alleged phallic reference. 

This is not a a screenshot of any new map, but rather an in-editor screenshot of my Apinaraivo / Monkey Rage Q1SP. I was flying around the map in the editor and thought this looked kinda cool.

http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/3461/araivoradiant5dp.jpg 

tbh 

- http://www.phait-accompli.com/q/pwr-ring1.jpg
- http://www.phait-accompli.com/q/pwr-ring2.jpg