I thought there were really plenty of great looking custom maps for Q3, that were able to totally get away from the design and visuals of the original (shite) maps (except for the necessary ugly bouncy items etc). 

The previously posted screenshots of this map compelled me to find the beta. It turns out to be quite good. Awaiting final release...

http://quake4.filefront.com/file/Shadow_Fall_Beta;50193 

is starting off with a machine gun. You get a lot of spamming and not much aiming.

A single barrel shotgun or the blaster would be better imo. 

plenty of good looking, different enough maps with decent layouts. 

Here's some screenies of my current WIP, DRSDM2, which if all goes well will be part of a weaponsmod I'm going to be working on.

This is the basic lab layout, where I'll be putting some of the more powerful weapons.

Pardon if these are a bit dark...

http://tlb.circa1984.com/tacod/screenshots/

Thoughts, opinions, and questions appreciated =D 

well, there's weird texture usage.
floor has medieval texture while the walls are base. and support beams texture must be rotated 90 degrees. 

If you can't survive a fight against a freshly spawned player using the weaksauce machinegun you're probably going to die no matter what weapon they're holding. :) 

quite the point I was trying to make. Lol. It's the spam that's annoying. Spam with any weapon is annoying, and giving players a machine gun to start with just encourages it. 

the MG has zero splash: if you don't aim with it, it's useless. If you do aim, it can be effective at any range, whereas a SG cannot. I don't see why spamming is a problem. 

I updated the screenshots, so the room is pretty much in it's final configuration. :)

I was trying to go with some ceramic floor tile feel with the checkerboard texture, but some other people agreed that it sucked, so I changed it. =D

Also, the shots have been gamma corrected so no overdarkness. :) 

Updated screenshots show a marked improvement. Looks pretty good now :) 

Thanks! =D

I'll be back in about a week with some more screenshots ;) 

nearing completion, i think

http://www.planetquake.com/kaziganthe/industry4.jpg

:] 

cool, except too dark (and why is it so dark when there are light textures visible?) 

the blue lights are at odds with the orange sunlight... they are clashing rather badly.

either:
1. reduce the saturation of the sunlight to a more white to allow the blue lights more freedom, or
2. change the colour of the blue lights to something closer to the sunlight, maybe yellow (even a very pale, near-white yellow)

also, like speedy said, those lights on the ceiling in the background aren't even properly lit. it's pitch black there. 

Nice job. It looks well composed to my meager eyes; although perhaps the detail level is still a little low for Q3. No worries, though. I also tend to agree with speeds' and nitin's comments regarding the lighting. 

Thanks for the comments, and, for clarification, they're white lights, the contrast just makes them look blue. 

I saw these in someone's profile at D3W, but don't remember them being publicized at all.

http://www.doomworld.com/unholy/future/screenshots.html

Some of those screens look very nice, and I for one would welcome an 18 map (!) mod for D3 with open arms. 

.png shots - for when you really need to break that elusive "1 meg per screenshot" barrier!

What a moron. Couple of the shots look alright tho. Funny to think you could probably download 3 Doom3 maps in the time taken to view them all. 

shots took forever to load even with 2mbs... o.0

still, maps look alright, i guess. it's just d3 theme again though. 

"landing pad" shot looks nice. 

Probably should have mentioned they were .png 

good use of curves ...

but who cares, they have png screenshots, so lets boycot it! 

I bet they will continue the trend and release the thing in a form of uncompressed ISO 

The "moron" was directed at the person who posted them on the site, NOT at you.