As the walls are pretty grey, adding either bloody splashes, or smooth red bricks, or whatever you wnat but grey stones, would, IMHO, give a better look to the castle, and for sure will improve the stuff.
I think there are some good stones textures from Hell level... myabe you nshould consider to use it, or maybe you should add some colored lightning effects...
It's up to you.. 

heh, the brick texture there *is* the brick texture from the hell pack, i just replaced the diffuse map. XD

i'll definatly look into adding blood splats. i tried a bit to make some red bricks, similar to the ones found in doom/doom2 and that i converted for use in ne_marb, but i can't seem to get it to look good... looks mostly like a brick sprayed red, and not something truly evil. :P i'll have to experiment more...

thanks for the input :) 

In doom 3 it is easier to just drag some of the readymade blood splotches across the face on a patch than it is to put the blood into the actual texture. 

that's what i was talking about. :) 

blood splats with decals, but i want to make like a deep red brick too. ehh, maybe i'll just use some coloured lights instead. 

Looks cool, but I reckon casting some blue light down from the open ceiling (as the sky is semi-blue) could add some needed colour and spice it up a bit. 

has someone been walking around the imperial city too much in Oblivion? =) 

efdat's rgb series, along with one bonus map.
designed for fast 1on1 matches; 3 player ffa works, as well. as the name implies, each map follows a certain color theme.
green plays pretty well already, the others may still have some things worth improving.

screenshots:
http://negative.net.tc/images/3eredbeta.jpg
http://negative.net.tc/images/3egreenbeta.jpg
http://negative.net.tc/images/3ebluebeta.jpg
http://negative.net.tc/images/3egreybeta.jpg

download:
http://negative.net.tc/files/3Ebetas1.zip

any comment appreciated. 

runs the red map at the moment
85.25.40.16:27500
you should be able to connect with both nq and qw clients, fteqw serves ;) 

Nice stuff. I ran around in fuh. The grey one especially seems fun. And the green one too. The one-way door at mega was interesting as are all the holes in the maps. :) The ramps provide for some cool movements in the grey map. I like the pillar with rails area too.

Have to check fps and polycounts later.

That guy should try his hand at a 4on4 map.

I wish some slight memorability in some of the maps. Like some different floor texture on some level or something. I understand he wanted a strong theme to each but now some of them are a bit too single-tex throughout. Dunno, maybe they would start feeling better and better you if you played more.

Oh and the wind pipes were fun too, dunno how they work in game. :) 

I'm working on a small total conversion (working title: Symbiote)I hope to have finished by the time the Quake Expo rolls around. Here is a pic of a monster model and skin in development (still alot of bending and seams to fix, but it is a rough sketch).

http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/6631/ghoul421hi.jpg

Tools used, MDL, Gimp and Blender. 

A small total conversion? Never heard of that before. 

That's a good way to put it!

I look at it this way. A good base map has only a handful of different monster and weapon types, yet still provides some decent entertainment. This will be on the order in size of a Mexx10; in that sense, it's a modest sized TC. 

screen shots of some weapons I'm working on

A dartgun

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/6159/dartgun5tl.jpg

The material texture for this weapon will be plastic, hence the smoothing groups used on the barrel and other surfaces.

the view model version

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/989/vdartgun23iy.jpg

a flachette

http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/6153/flachette28mg.jpg

and the view weapon version

http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/1476/vflachette29zw.jpg

In the last shot, the left hand is about half the size it needs to be on the gun's undercarriage. My bad. 

i like the second gun especially 

That last problem I mentioned was bugging me so I corrected it.

http://img435.imageshack.us/img435/9729/vflachette34ox.jpg 

So Headthump, Than...
Who else is working on anything significant right now? 

Kinn? 

What do you mena by significant ?? 

Not sure these folk will have stuff by qexpo but:

czg, tyrann, metlslime, bal, the folk doing the travail pack (scragbait?), tronyn... I'm sure there must be a few more folk with stuff cooking.

Note that some or all of those listed above might have given up, started again, or fallen in love with a sailor named tom and moved to a small tropical island to start a new life. 

I started a map for Quake anniversary, but unfortunately Doom3 textures conversion to Quake is eating all my time: i.e it is more complex that I foreseen it at the beginning...
So I guess I will not be able to deliver something "big" this time, and maybe I will not be able to deliver something at all...
Shame on me...
I will try to do my best to map.. but I can't promise to be ready in time... 

I don't know if it is a coincidence but the skin on your ghoul-thing reminds me of those fetuses you see on pro-lifer billboards -- yeech! 

but those would make for some great skins. 

no comment 

I think I'll wait for the 100-year celebrations.