#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 ^_^ 

Spirit! Looks Great. 

http://necros.quaddicted.com/temp/outdoors1.jpg

aiming for 50/50 terrain and structures but trisouping seems to eat up more clipnodes/nodes and such. :(

also, if you go over nodes, it causes seriously bad stuff to happen in aglq, and fitzquake just closes without even bothering to yell at you. 

skybox is hipshot's 'stormydays' 

care to send me the map? I thought i supported excessive nodes (of course, i also thought aguirre supported them, since otherwise what's the point of adding it to his Qbsp ports?) Does darkplaces crash too?

Only thing i can think of is nodes + leafs > 65535 wouldn't work at all, but then, i assume the compiler wouldn't build a bsp in that case.