Those are some very nice shots. I agree w. Starbuck re: cluster of lights in shot 3.

A very different look, which is always nice for Q3.

Beta? 

it's very appealing, but not soulless at all. cozy is more like it. ;) 

http://www.planetquake.com/speedy/lg_view.jpg
http://www.planetquake.com/speedy/lg_inq3.jpg

paked for use:
(click the link 1st, dont copy it into d/l manager)
http://xferoc5a.fileplanet.com/planetquake/speedy/lg_skin13.zip 

oooh, I'll buy that for a $ ! 

that fucking rocks, LG was by far the worst skinned weapon IMHO. As much as I liked Harlequin's replacement for it, it altered too much to look like LG anymore but this is perfect.

I couldnt talk you into reksinning the YA and RG (the q3 version was perfect) could I? 

kell: sure. All my talents are for sale

nitin: I`m affraid no, atleast not any soon. Its really hard and timeconsuming. 

that's cool, I can always hope though I guess. I have a temp replacment for the YA anyway 

you should pimp it on the polycount boards. 

http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~polycount/ubb/forumdisplay.cgi?action=topics&forum=Pimping+and+Previews&number=2&DaysPrune=5&LastLogin= 

http://www.planetquake.com/polycount/reviews/quake3/dragon/dragon.shtml

the Dragon Knight model for Q3....i hadnt seen it before, but its some seriously impressive modelling 

check out q4gladiator, q4hybrid and magdalena if you want some more impressive stuff. 

the Q4Gladiator looks particularly nicely formed... these skinners/modellers/animators/etc really must go through hell concentrating on one thing for so long! 

Magdalena is the best, because - apart from the success of all the design elements within it - it's the only one that can be run on any machine for which Q3A was actually geared. I've seen dozens of images of the Dragonrider, but so far I can't offer an insightful opinion on the actual model because I have yet to find a machine that will load it in Q3 :P Same goes for the Gladiator.
Crusader ( with skinning by Rhorsach ) and Binky are also excellent for the more standard humanoid characters. And Lobo is the truest to his original comic book inspiration, with just the best custom sound :) 

A never-released Cube map. I still may never release it. But at least now you have pretty pictures to look at.

http://rpg.spawnpoint.org/images/maps/rpgcb01_1big.jpg
http://rpg.spawnpoint.org/images/maps/rpgcb01_2big.jpg 

dragonknight actually takes up less memory than magdalena I think. I can run q4hybrid, q4gladiator, magdalena and dragonknight without any troubles on my p3733+gf2 (though obciously not all at the same time). I think all you have to do is set com_hunkmegs to 256.

Others worth checking out are bloodseeker, churchill, dark_knight, grimdemon, koollight, samjai, scurvy, rova, spacemarine40k & violator128. 

I'd like to see models photo-source their textures for more realism.. 

Id love to see photo-sourced texture for the like of magdalena :)) 

Yes. 

the hooligan model has a photoshopped skin.... it isnt too bad but its nothing special 

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i meant photosourced 

Well, I can respect the skill of a nicely done Photoshop skin as long as it was entirely from scratch.. but photos always look better when conveying realism. 

but they dont always look right on a agame model. It's like photosourced textures, they look good till you import them into a game (with some exceptions of course). Plus, what speedy said, you cant photosource something if it doesnt exist and some of those models use something called imagination. 

I was referring overall to the dragon model. You could find a variety of photos to use for that.. 

but some of the skins for it, darkhorizon's and shotgun's look spectacular as is. Also, I'm no skinner but the way the skinmaps work wouldnt you allocate more resolution to certain areas. Photosourcing wouldnt look right in some of those cases.