I agree with Fern... You should use less colored lights: they are overused.. and it looks definitively horrible... sorry but that's my taste... 

thesilent96@gmail.com 

I'm a bad mapper, but please, align textures, that stuff will like ten times better then. :) 

you could start complaining after playng the beta testing. I could lend you a HOM.
Just th*s and you play it in normal light.

On its way Silent. 

Just to let you lot know what I'm up to at the moment. I recently got the urge to work on high-res versions of the IdBase textures. The idea was to make something that looks almost identical to the originals at a distance, but shows the added detail up close.

I know there are existing attempts to retexture quake, but they are generally of a much greater scope. Here's an in-progress comparison:

http://www.planetquake.com/starbuck/retex/ 

Nice work Starbuck! I like this much better than the other hi-res textures I've seen as they seem to stray too much from the originals. Yours just makes things look a bit sharper. 

that looks excellent 

i was staring the first pic for a minute thinking hmm, that really does look like the originals, a bit too much? :D

But yeah, looks good! One thing, should the divots in the metal plates be a bit bigger, like in the originals? Top left. 

are that it does indeed look better (to me anyway) than most, if not all other attempts that I have seen, which have all looked a bit tacky to my eyes. Yours however don't seem to have that negative quality.

Good you are staying close to the originals, which is prolly why yours look/feel better.

Look forward to when I can actually see them in action. 

I recently got the urge to work on high-res versions of the IdBase textures.

hahaha, join the club!
http://www.lunaran.com/files/q4_idbase3.jpg

and now seven people complain about specularity: 

omg, waaaa waaaa, specularity!! waaaa...
;)

seriously, nice job, both of you!

starbuck: i like the direction you are going in-- keeping close to the originals like that. i think that's really the best way to go about remaking textures for popular q1 textures, since we're all a little anal retentive that way. :P

lunaran: specularity isn't bad at all, but if you could make it a little less uniform, i think that would help. the bump mapping looks good. i'd love to see a full set of this for q4. 

Lunaran: it looks good except for the specularity.

Starbuck: it looks good except for the textures you didn't do.

A worthwhile project indeed. 

Lun: looks good, except for the specularity :P

starbuck: <3 <3 <3 

YOU FUCKING ROCK YOU ARE AMAZING I WANT TO HAVE YOUR BABIES, BUT BECAUSE I AM A MAN I'LL TRY TO FIND YOU A OVERLY SUITABLE WOMAN TO HAVE YOUR BABIES AND THEN I WILL RAISE THEM FOR YOU AND NAME THEM "STARBUCK", "IS" AND "THESHIT". HOT DAMN THAT LOOKS NICE. MORE! GIVE US MORE!

Lunaran, yours look nice but I whine about specularity and that making it look overly blurry. Starbuck wins this round. 

http://www.student.vu.nl/h.e.beck/noh.jpg

old shitty screenshot of a shitty map. expect these textures to be released soonish (need to polish them a bit first tho)! 

Not really a big map, it's supposed to be played in an engine with support for fog(fitz among others)

http://www.chimpans.se/volcanique.rar 

omg, that's so hard, but I didn't noclip and finally managed the starting puzzle. It's easy if you're smart, clever trick there. When did you have time to build such a big level? It's quite atmospheric.

Btw, stretch the lava at start a bit, you can see the edge despite the fog. (fitz) 

Shouldn't that be a news post? screenshots? 

Here's a WIP shot of a q4dm I'm working on with gibbie's and Lun's textures:

http://biff.leveldesign.org/pics/map_shots/wip/q4/imp4dm0_1.jpg

Looks familiar, I know. I've only got like four map layouts in me =( 

Myrmidon, you. 

at the bottom center-to-right area. do the 45degree thingy. ;)

otherwise, i like it (although it could do with some more interesting lighting, but since it's a DM map, i guess that's out of the question :S ) 

Starbuck and Lunaran: both sets look bloody great so far. Can't wait to see the finished packs 

Starbuck: Hell yes -- meant to put it in the above post, but more power to you on the revamped q1 idbase -- looks sexay =D

Zwiffle: Pipe down, you -- Myrmidon is not dead.

Necros: Doh, saw that b0rked trim myself -- and don't start on the lighting, I've heard enough from gibbie about it ;D 

We love you anyway.

Castle Biffenstein! 

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