If he takes you guys' advice turns his monitor brighter, his screenshots will be darker. How will that help if you already think the shots are too dark? 

Good point... 

I put a few new versions of the lava textures up. The one you posted has proven to be a pretty difficult problem. I processed it substantialy and it still looks like shit so I haven't posted it. It has me intrigued, as the texture seems almost designed to be untileable. Back to the drawing board.

Here is the link: http://mortisville.quakedev.com/lava.wad

Personally, I think the the lava2_3 now looks sweet, the other one is okay. It'll do for a certain type of fluidy lava. 

I did brightness and contrast :) 

In photoshop I have to drag the right LEVELS (ctrl-l) slider from 256 to the ~130 to make things visible on your screenshots, making them very washed out. Seems most of the light is minlight, except some spots with the point lights. Also the rock texture seems rather dark on its own, so it doesnt give back much light. 

http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/3726/disdm44bqk3.jpg
http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/9451/disdm43bxw3.jpg
http://img342.imageshack.us/img342/4825/disdm42bxw5.jpg
Coloured lighting will follow.
1v1 action will ensue :) 

That looks really great dis...nice work! And cheers again to JPL for doing such a nice conversion of those textures. 

You make me bow in shame about my crappy playing with them earlier. :) 

very good imitating d3
my first thought was "why no specular" 

you are laying some nice pipe there 

As I already told you, you made a nice piece of mapping there. I'm very hurry to see the colored lightning versions of these screenies...

BTW, concerning my shots, it was dark... and it was due to a wrong sunligth angle: i.e the sunligth was coming from the ground, so the player couldn't be located elsewhere but in the darkness... stupid beginner mistake... sorry for this... Now things are a little bit more visible... I'll post new shots later. 

Thanks a lot Blitz ! 

Thanx Blitz and Headthump :)
Speedy that's the reaction I wanted, ta much!
Spirit,no shame friend...I've been doodling with Quake brushes for a good seven years now, so it should show.

BTW: I'm only using those textures that JPL converted that "work" when flipped in both the horizontal and vertical axes. 

...so like a good Hobbit I give you all a gift :)

Travail episode 2 level 1: where the darkest knowledge is finessed from the inhabitants
http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/5029/qte2m14cf.jpg
level 2: where the knowledge is tempered by violence
http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/1033/qte2m24rh.jpg
level 3: where the knowledge is converted for "future" use
http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/8931/qte2m32ii.jpg
level 4: where the knowledge is used to twist flesh and steel
http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/8884/qte2m48jy.jpg

With luck, the episode (and an horrific 2 level addition by neg!ke) will hit beta next week. 

look great.

and happy birthday too distrans, have a nice day mate. 

Happy Birthday!
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These shots are awesome ;) And happy birthday man ! 

Pretty nice.

Actually I skimmed down the forum and saw the red name thinking it was JPL that posted those shots, but having actually looked I see it was you :p 

Don't worry... I'll be back with new shots later ;) 

happy birthday man ;)


zomggg this is so nice...

I WANT IT! :) 

I think you could use some fill lights. What I get out of those shots is a lot of really dim geometry and space dotted with a dense arrangement of distractingly bright dots. 

I need some testers for the map I showed some screenshoots of at Qexpo 2006.
http://www.quakeexpo.com/booth.php?id=22

The map uses Quoth so you must have this mod installed.
If you want to help mail me at:
hrimfaxi(at)hrimfaxi(dot)dk 

your maps are so good that i prefer final version :) can�t wait for it!!! 

...I'm so glad that's in testing, well worth waiting for no doubt.

TRAVAIL EPISODE TWO is also in beta, and we have testers for all skill levels. However, we need a two person team to test coop functionality. You will need access to a server. We'll provide the files, you provide the demos and comments :) 

The file is up now.