...since I've been stuck with a single map of Schlossher for months, but with the deadline being today, blech... 

I guess a mapping deadline is a lot like planned game release dates. 

Mapping deadlines tend to shift on amateur projects a lot worse than commercial IMO. 

I think we can take a few more days. MadFox how much time you need to complete?
Cocerello, we will wait for you.

Trees is difficult. I'm not sure what I can come up with something.

Necros: I'll try your idea

Barnak: I have tried to make the fog, but I did not like 

No, it does not work. I tried different combinations, "90.1 0 0", "270 0 180" and so on. But all in vain 

About trees, try some strange useless machine-like sculptures. Two boxes and a few pipes... 

but I'm still a day or two off a playable release. 

Trees are indeed difficult, and are one of the things I'm still not sure on the most efficient way to render.

But there are many types of trees, some easier than others. 

You guys should start a topic about making nice trees for Quake1. Design, rendering, style, etc. 

I will release my map for this SM event today evening. It remains to complete the placement of the monsters and finish some visual details. 

Don't change anything aesthetically. Your map looks amazing, and the trees suit it perfectly. 

Thank you, unknown human. :) 

don't worry about making it good and polished, its an speedmap, it should be short, hasty in construction, and rich in ideas, so rudimentary is good.
Usually when one gets to spend more than 6-8 hours on them they lose their speedmap flavour. For recent examples, go with sm171, sm172 and sm174 and avoid things like sm175 and sm176.

Also, making it short and hasty makes it easier to complete maps and lowers the possibilities of it ending up forgotten on your hard disk, unfinished.

* Digs. OK, expect it today, but can't say when exactly, i still haven't compiled it once, so i don't know if its going to be one of those that takes half a day in compiling. I'll keep you updated. 

Had me loling in a good way. Really cool. 

I can't make the map in time, not soon either, so release the pack with just your map and DOOMer's, well, and Shamblernaut's if he appears.

I apologize for making you wait in vain. 

No problems. We are waiting for the others 

My entity stuff is sorta time consuming. but it really needs to be completed wholly for the concept to work and be playable. 

My map is half way done. To turn it into a playable map it would need at least a week or more.

I'm not a speedmapper, in fact I hate it. 

My map for SM177

http://cacodemon.doomer.org/quake/sm177_doomer.zip

The balance may be bad (yesterday I didn't have enough time to test through many runs on the map). The map fits the event theme is probably not 100%, map by `digs it turned out much better in this.

digs. Your map is reminiscent of your earlier works from the series "Anomaly". 

I think that we wait for the map of Shamblernaut and make thread.
Others can then just give a link to them maps in the thread when finished work.
Ok? 

Give me some minutes to upload it 

http://cacodemon.doomer.org/quake/sm177_doomer.zip

I updated archive with my map (http://cacodemon.doomer.org/quake/sm177_doomer.zip).

@digs
I think, yes - wait for the maps of Shamblernaut and Cocerello . 

of course.

I also updated my map
digspt.ru/quake/sm177_digs.zip 

as is everything else about the map.

here it is: https://www.dropbox.com/s/rbiahbdwqmzuurd/sm177_shamblernaut.bsp?dl=0

I was testing a concept to see how it would play, turns out not great.

drop down by any striped textures to walk on that plane. 

I said that i was resigning on submiting something for this session, but as seeing that there was time till DOOMer and Shamblernaut submitted theirs, it thought of doing something fast, and here you have.

It was so quick to make, compared with the other i was doing, that i added support for skill levels and experimented with some tricks for replayability. You can even get different weapons depending on how you play it.

I am satisfied with it: it is not a great map and not as special as the one i was making, but i think its fun and its very speedmap-like, which was missing in most of my speedmaps.


* Important to note: its for playing with QUOTH

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5oa7wmoqcbvzw26/sm177_cocerello.zip?dl=0


By the way, wouldn't it be better to do like always from now on? Sending the maps to however proposed the session to pack them all and them publish them on a news thread. That way we avoid several issues, like having the comments spread between here and the news thread, having lots of individual files and versions for each, people having to check for each new map, and the first and last map submitted being a bit forgotten. It's nothing big, but i was curious as of why in the last 3 speedmap sessions it was done like this.