The shots are very nice !!!

Go map ! 

Shot 1 is cool for me because the corridor leading into the room is angled and feels like its leaning over. It makes me want to tilt my head to the side.
Shot 2-3 is the lower area of the room with big blocks and solid supports, split levelled with a lower section curving round like a little gully.
Shot 4 is the birds nest with windows all around and a tree silhouette top window design. Building materials get lighter as they progress upwards to make it feel more structural.

JPL, The weather is too hot and I can't sleep at night at the moment, hence the doodle / mapping thing.

Mr.Fribbles, not sure why, I checked and my site and it is working ok. 

The wood/stone combo (and the corresponding architecture), or at least the way it's used here, adds a whole new thematic dimension to Q3. Well, I'm sure there've been similarily themed maps before, but I haven't seen them, so kudos to you for this approach. 

Working for me now - and looking very sweet! :) 

#4 is awesome, man! Love the look of that area. 

Building materials get lighter as they progress upwards to make it feel more structural.

this is something i never really think about when mapping. thanks, i think i'll see about trying to incorporate this kind of attention to detail. 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v252/Kev_Boy/DM-Bagger/DM_Bagger_SE.jpg 

Looks great 

Nice ! 

thats great. I have some photos of that machine, its epic! =) 

Heh, I remember that thing... 

http://www.simonoc.com/images/design/maps_q3/moteof1ab1l.jpg
http://www.simonoc.com/images/design/maps_q3/moteof1ab2l.jpg
http://www.simonoc.com/images/design/maps_q3/moteof1ab3l.jpg
http://www.simonoc.com/images/design/maps_q3/moteof1ab4l.jpg

There are higher res versions as well, just add '_1024' to the end of the filename. The cogs all rotate and turn in the right directions as well. 

I'm assuming that's a static mesh, making those teeth out of brushes would be madness... 

Killer! Cogs are the new crates. And I LOVE it. 

I don't really like the texture on the cogs. It looks very grainy and blurred. Maybe something with less structure (or higher resolution) would look better. Also since they are functioning, I'd make the parts where the teeth touch a different, slightly less rusty texture. 

The cogs are created from brushwork and on the grid as well ;) Here is the source file if you want to check them out or used in Q1 projects.

http://www.simonoc.com/files/misc/cogs_source.zip

Spirit, yeah the texture is not too good but I did not want to get too distracted with texture choices. 

Well, the MAP file is most definitely not a Quake1 MAP file so you'll need to convert it first. 

The map file contains mostly brushes and some patches but I imagine someone here will know how to convert it to Q1. The file I have uploaded is in native Q3 format, sorry if that was confusing. 

It's cool, I was just making sure that people knew it wasn't native Quake1 format. It crashed my editor when I tried to load it. :P Which says more about my editor than anything else, really... 

Which is easily done with a texteditor and a bit of patience.
Quick and dirty, single texture, some broken brush: http://pastebin.com/m5ad77ed6

I think they might be too detailed for poor old Quake though. 

Converting I mean. You just have to change the texture bits (I guess, the stuff behind the faces) and of course remove the patches. 

Surely you can just run it through mapconv? 

after loading an original src file in the hammer editor
http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/8534/cogs.jpg 

had to poke around a bit to find it, but it's here:

http://ftp.heanet.ie/disk1/sourceforge/i/in/industri/mapcon_java.zip

Works for me from the OS X commandline. Converts q2/q3 to q1 map format and back again, adds or removes texture paths, etc. Quite a useful tool at times. 

THAT is badass.

i love a good cog setup ^_^