Yeah, very cramped - I'd have made the areas about twice the size. Twice the width anyway. Look at the id start map for example. The skill corridors are small rooms in themselves, even though their only function is for the player to travel down them once into a teleporter. Yet they don't' feel cavernous, just comfortable.

It's not a big problem though. The map has no gameplay other than skill selection, it looks great, and works fine as a demo for the editor. 

Heh, I've always felt the id start map was way over scaled - at least in that starting area. The episode selection part seems OK but I never liked those skill hallways.

I do agree, for the most part, and if the map had any gameplay in it at all I would have made the combat areas much larger! 

1. I can relate - my idea of what the right size is for a Quake map changed quite a lot over the last two years. I used to think cramped = good but I'm not so sure anymore. I now think 256 is the perfect width for a corridor ^^ in id maps, they're not even half as wide. I still think you have to factor in the size of the monsters, and the reach of their attack, though. As well as the size of the player model with regard to stairs etc. If fighting area and distance get too large, dodging gets easier, which is another natural limit. The final natural limit is sound; it's rather unfair to not even hear a rocketeer's rocket coming before it hits you. You're simply missing the sound cue.

2. Since I started mapping from the ground up instead of hacking id maps, I noticed things feel smaller in the game than they look in the editor. This was a surprise. You can have a 1024x1024 room no problem. I didn't believe my eyes how normal it looked.

3. The start map corridors, well I think it's just not the smartest design. It's not necessarily the size that bothers me. The concept itself seems a bit simple. And they didn't apply the scale to the whole map, just attached that big front-end to a rather minute map. Like some guys attach big exhaust pipes to cheap cars. 

Who made excessus resurface (and boy has his english improved)! 

I wanted to say hello (to Excessus) but I couldn't post on the page for some reason... it just kept timing out or something.

Tell him to come here, he might not even know of this site? :) 

I'll prod him. :) 

Mr Fribbles! :) Well, I have been always around more or less, I read Shambler's blog from time to time, dive into Pauk's map repository and play some Quake games on one platform or another, even if its once per year ;) Willem software has insuflated new energies into this old hearth of me. :)

... and no, I dont think my broken english is at all better! :D 

 

I had a map idea involving a floating castle against a nebula filled backdrop, with some shub-nigguraths (Perhaps there were more than the one you killed :). I made this skybox a while ago from a hubble space telescope image, and I think it looks really good against shub and some quoth textures.

Screenshot: http://shub-hub.com/files/gfx/skybox_eta_carinae_nebula.jpg

Skybox download: (feel free to use/modify)
http://shub-hub.com/files/gfx/skybox_eta_carinae_nebula.zip 

Good to see the Quake spirit is still alive in you. With any luck you can get ToeTag working for you and give us some more maps! 

The showers:
http://lambert.jeanphilippe.free.fr/Divers/fd14.jpg

The bedroom:
http://lambert.jeanphilippe.free.fr/Divers/fd15.jpg

Enjoy ! 

Are you sure you are mapping for the right game? That screams HALFLIFE so loud.

That ceiling texture is kinda ugly, looks so very comic-like. 

that looks awesome; very xen-like. i think a xen themed space floater would work well in the context of quake.. *ponders* 

That looks great - but yeah, half life. Even so It'd be nice to see more of the same. It's a shame Q1 doesn't support skybox rotation like Q2. 

I like the look of it! The texture you have used for the frames of the beds looks very high quality, but I do think the ceiling could be better. TBH I like it! :D 

Shambler doesn't have a blog tho, not that I know about anyway! 

 

...thanx cobber, I'm immediately inspired. 

'blog' is just about the most horrible word (or non-word, as the case may be) in existence. Second only to 'brunch'. 

web log = blog. It's a contraction. It's fine.

As for it being a non-word:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/blog

English changes and evolves over time. Catch up, gramps. :) 

Ive got a blog.....

http://rickyt23.blogspot.com/

Please feel free to comment. ;-P 

is a blog and a blogpost.

They say "I wrote a blog about it". That means he/she posted weekly, perhaps even daily for years about the subject.

More likely they mean that "I wrote a post on it" or "I wrote a blogpost about it".

More complaints later. 

 

I get it, I just hate it. Not the definition of the word, the word itself. It's like brunch. I mean fuck off, you know?

No personal offense intended to anyone who maintains, err, a column or diary of their thoughts or ramblings on the web, of course.

Now leave me alone to wallow in my irrational anger! 

There are a variety of those too and maybe the terms will be differentiated better in the future. Some are almost like publishing scientific articles with quite elaborate content that is released only intermittently. And some are just talking almost hourly on how the "author" feels and what he/she is doing.

Hell, even conventional paper publishing differentiates the totally different terms, "magazines" and "newspapers".. And there are "books" and "short stories" etc.

But the word. Do you think you have some only right to that combinatory style, mister Friday Nibbles?

(This is in the wrong thread, I cease talking about it now.)