A simple "use this wad" theme would be pretty boring compared to the previous two themes, which implied both what the textures and the architecture should be.

"Honey" speaks volumes, "city2_x" does not. 

The last events - Koohoo, Honey, Ikwhite/blue - were all good strong themes that didn't get explored/used much by other mappers, so they were fertile territory. What themes are left that are like that? A lot of people have already done things in the style of Zerstorer, Contract/Quoth, ikbase, speedbase, every other kind of base ... Altar of Storms might be a little too monochromatic, considering what the last theme just was.

Maybe leave the texture set up for grabs and find a different kind of theme, one that helps all the submissions hang together while providing ideas and letting every mapper explore in their own way. How about just a phrase as inspiration, like ludum dare/older speedmap sessions/etc? Something as simple as "The Bridge and the Tower"? 

"Paganism"
"Burial Mound"
"Citadel with a Moat" 

 

if it has to be a base theme, I think Colony is by far the best example of a base map with a "good strong theme that didn't get explored/used much by other mappers." 

 

Sadist :)

Rubicon 2 

Have barely been used!! 

they're shit

if you're going to do that just use the actual doom textures 

why are they shit? i like them, they have more grit on them then the stock doom tech textures.

the real trick is converting them to quake palette well. i didn't like czg's attempt as they turned really teal. 

Those textures are great. I will make something with them eventually :)
probably a quoth base map 

That grit is just visual noise. It looks like looking at concrete but really really close. The panel edge highlights are stupidly intense as well.

The whole set just looks messy and cartoony to me now, and I can do far better. 

Maybe because I saw the in Q1 first... but I find the noise works better when they are at 50% and without texture filtering.
I still think you are selling this set short though. 

the real trick is converting them to quake palette well. i didn't like czg's attempt as they turned really teal.

Or include the 24bit ones as external tgas... like that one doom map that someone did. 

haha yeah, that's always an option. :)

I think i'd still scale them down 50% so that the pixel density matches the rest of the game, but kept the original palette. 

http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2d0w22/til_ten_years_ago_today_a_tour_bus_driver_for_the/ 

This was Lunaran's finest hour correct? 

 

Does this site have an irc on quakenet? 

(Just the first one actually) 

Those noisy purple bricks should look stylish on something. 

 

Not if you are looking for mapping discussion. 

Absolutely if you're looking for mapping discussion, there's been plenty of fresh and intelligent discussion the past few days following both the jam1 and jam2 releases. 

Ok!