Hi folks! Following the good feedback received for "Deus Ex Machina" I'm working on a new SPQ2 named "Citadel". It's roughly half-way done, you can check some screenies and read more about it here:

http://www.andrearosa.bravehost.com/citadel.htm

See you!
Andrea 

how many maps ? 

Based on those shots, your level design skills are coming on like a frieght train. I'm looking forward to some fresh Q2SP. 

It's looking good in the shots. The old-school style brings back quite a few memories. Hope to play that pack soon. 

Thanks for checking my work, guys!

In reply to Nitin, Citadel will feature four maps. Level 1 and 2 are finished, on medium skill they deliver respectively 128 and 117 enemies.

The game uses the modified gamex86.dll made by Knightmare (along with Lazarus, Xatrix and Rogue entities), but doesn't necessarily need the famous Knightmare engine. You won't find new textures since the theme is a typical Q2 unit. This will also allow for a relatively small download (less than 20 Mb).

Citadel has been inspired by "The Powersphere Quest" by Cedar Kraus, which I consider the best SPQ2 ever made. As you can see in the preview, in some locations I've tried to replicate Cedar's stunning visuals following fond memories of his masterpiece. 

Is it going to be as hard as PSQ? I hope it won't be quite as ridiculous, but the extra challenge of PSQ was certainly great for coop. Will you be supporting coop? 

those shots do look awesome, Andrea. I'm looking forward to playing your episode. I replayed Powersphere Quest a month ago, and it does indeed hold up well. 

Those shots are really impressive -- I need to play catch-up and get Deus Ex Machina, tho... 

@than: no coop nor deathmatch for the moment (although those features may be implemented in the future, should people ask for them). Concerning difficulty, Citadel won't be a walk in the park, but it won't reach the PSQ level neither. 

I'm looking for one or two beta testers for a small medieval SPQ map.

Screenshots:
http://www.angelfire.com/nh/rdp/map.html

email me at jedjed78@hotmail.com if you're interested. Thanks. 

You'll always have a place in my heart because of your outstanding frontpage updates on. I will beta test your map :) 

http://www.3dgamers.com/news/more/1096485535/

Why is it that the Russians / Ukranians are the best at capturing the "post apocaylpse" look and feel? These shots remind me a lot of Stalkers environments and they look damn sexy.

The game is aparently "an action oriented survival horror action fps" =) 

because alot of russians are utter fans of fallout 2 

Because Russia/Ukraine is post-apocalyptic. See: Chernobyl. 

RPG beat me to it. 

you have a point there... :) 

That stuff looks tasty. But I have a rebuttal: Valve has doen a really nice job in that dept. with HL2. 

but stalker and this new game just have a lot more grit and grime, hmm perhaps its just the 3d engine they are using but half-life 2 looked a bit to shiney at times and it detracted from the run-down look of everything in places. 

HL2 Art Director was Viktor Antonov from ex-USSR ( http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,10802/
)

Metro 230 is being made by the same people who worked on Stalker. 

I did a little digging and came across a free Quicktime panoramic/VR tool that'll take an image and make it into a pannable .MOV to embed. Here's a tutorial and link:

http://www.panoguide.com/howto/display/gocubic.jsp
Alt: http://www.panoramas.dk/quicktime/gocubic.zip

And here is my attempt - I did NOT know what I was doing, I just took like 5 screenshots of a map by turning right in intervals and stitched 'em together. But it works:

http://www.faqtion.org/phait/pan.html

I also found more utilities that I have not yet tried. But I thought I'd have to spend money on official VR tools to do this, and I don't. I think this would be great for screenshots!

http://www.ptgui.com/
http://www.pano2qtvr.com/
http://www.panoshow.com/panocube.htm
http://panotools.sourceforge.net/ 

Everyone, go get the Raising the Bar HL2 book, and gawk at his concept art. 

yes, it rocks! 

Friction tried this a while ago and got a few of us into it:

http://lunaran.com/images/screens/lun3dm4_pan.jpg

I have others, but they're not on my site, and I'm at work. 

does anyone still have the panoramas I made for concrete dreams or derelict? I seem to have lost them in a hard drive failure. 

While that'd do as a source image, it's not the best representation for a map a- because of the curving. Unless viewers knew that panoramic images (depending how they were shot) naturally curve, they'd be thinking "my what a curvy map!".

Here be ye: http://www.faqtion.org/phait/lun3dm4.mov