The YZ view looks pretty good - very fresh use of turquoise mesh wireframe - but I'm not really feelin the XZ view. Will the final map have a windows taskbar in it? 

To offer a more constructive criticism: Jago, digging the trendy media player running in the background, and mad props for showing an IRC client chillaxing in the taskbar there. Could do with a few more Firefox windows open maybe. But seriously, what's with the hum-drum desktop theme? Too standard, too "functional", needs more transparency - I'm just not really feelin' it, know what I'm saying? Btw what's that cool-lookin app thingy you got there in the foreground is it 3D-Maxi or Maia or something? 

but the lightbulbs floating in mid-air are slightly too cartoony.

There's that sudden small "bridge" in the walkway. Put a mass of cables and tubes below it so it is there for a reason.

HTH HAND. 

Those lightbuilds are err, indicators of the location of the light entities/actors, they don't show up in-game. 

Jago: I suggest building with additive brushes you subtract out of, rather than a subtractive map. There's little fundimental differance, subtractive maps just come with an additive brush preplaced that is the size of the world, but if you were to even to set up streaming levels, those preplaced additives will get in the way.

Otherwise, not much to comment on, just glad to see someone here making some UT3 stuff. Get that theme nailed down and start jamming models together.

Also, quit using slow viewport move speed (blue buttons on the right side over the viewports), god I hate whoever made that default. I blame Willem. 

Yeah, it's sort of a legacy thing. Just change it. It saves it in your INI file so you're good to go... 

It actually stems from the early days when maps were smaller. The middle camera speed was FAST back in the UT99 days. These days it's slow because maps have gotten much larger... 

Yeah, until a new build comes along, or some rogue programmer updates the INI :( 

love that idea; you could easily build in a story like 'you crashed your plane and now you need to find a way to get it working aagin' or something similar. 

What game are you thinking of modding?

I know you say traditional mechanics, but for some reason I'm thinking of Portal . . . 

i'm working with hl2 (up to ep2). i would have prefered working in d3, both because it's more powerful and i'm more familiar with it, but it has a few major shortfalls that would totally ruin the type of map i have in mind.

when i said traditional, i meant i'd try to add in a bit of combat too, but i'll try to keep that too a minimum since hl2 monster set is so limited. 

Lua is a pain in the nuts ;) 

I thought LUA rocks. A simple straightforward scripting language with no gimmicks. 

But most scripting forms are and Lua has case sensitive format, with alot of stuff hardwired to caps or not.

We use Lua now because it's cheaper in runtime than our old scripting system, but it generally takes alot more messing around in order to use.

Lua isn't especially fantastic, but it is universal. Kind of like windows OS. 

It's more for programmers than level designers. 

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Thanks a lot for this great moment of sex :P 

Now we're fucked. 

 

never managed to add a post without logging in.
how do they do it, I mean, spamming without logging in?
Do I have to live in the US for that?

back on toppic, my map. I tried two new monsters, bones and granito. It works well but I get the feeling I learned to much to apreciate it.
I see too many texture mislignments, played the map over and over searching the game flow.

The funny feeling of seeing through Quake's magic left my feeling of fascination.
But alright, I don't have to release a map, maybe just squeeze it for a while like a bunch of cherries, forcing it into wine until I find back my first opinion.

http://members.home.nl/gimli/arcus02.jpg
http://members.home.nl/gimli/arcus03.jpg
http://members.home.nl/gimli/arcus04.jpg 

Don't want to pour cold water water on the thing but shots 2+3 look great, with 1 seeming to be something else entirely. Labyrinthian, but without the detailing present in the second two shots.

Maybe add some trims to that area(s).