sorry for the misunderstanding, i meant going over the *new* nodes limit.

i meant that fq will simply close when nodes are over 65k and aglq exhibits garbled bmodel geometry.

i'm actually a little curious about what plain 'nodes' are, and what creates them. if there's a way to reduce them like how clip brushes reduce clipnodes, that would be pretty sweet. 

A node is a volume of space, and if it has children then those children are subdivisions of the parent space (divided by a plane). Starting with the entire world space, you keep subdividing until you get leafnodes, which have no children.

Each leafnode is either solid, water, slime, lava, sky, or empty. The non-solid ones are called "visleafs" and have a list of other leafnodes they can see (calculated by vis) and they have a list of marksurfaces contained by the leaf (to draw whenever the leaf is visible.) 

less complex geometry gives fewer nodes :)

Perhaps geometry being more axial would help too, more weird angles creates more unique planes i think. 

Make a slightly (or greatly) simplified version of the floor out of clip brushes and make all the trisoup malarkey func_illusionary/wall? 

Look pretty btw, lot more peaceful than you normally get in Quake 

necros, looking good is there anymore to see? A more panned out view? 

http://necros.quaddicted.com/temp/indoors1.jpg
here's an indoors shot.

i had originally planned to use the hipnotic white brick textures, but instead settled on q3 bricks instead (smblk3b3dim_wall but i've bleached them a bit in photoshop). the hipnotic cathedral bricks were way too clean. 

...for president 

GLQuake's linear filtering makes sprites look very :( 

Downside is that everyone with external tex turned off will be looking at crap.

A hybrid of the sparks and Quoth's marshlight with a simple 3d model could work. 

When I get back to e3m4 - not happy with the textured lights in there. 

If you can give me a hand with the sprite. 

don't help either: http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files/screen_shots/marcherjagged.jpg

That looks remotely good because it's circular like the id1 lightglobes. The problem appears when the sprite is not a circle nor rectangular, like the quoth2 reed, or even better, http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files/screen_shots/lightrunetest2.png

I am certain that I have enabled external textures in fitz 0.85... 

Necros, that map looks pretty, are you aiming for a primarily vertical map again? 

nice pic necros look�s like a map of tronyn in soe indian summer map pack :) 

The pic link is down - I scanned it before but can't remember well enough to comment. 

nah, no more vertical. it was fun, but i don't want to do that again.
it'll be similar to cda, i think. 

sprite and skin replacement is not supported by fitzquake (yet) 

Necro, why do the torch bases glow so much compared to the rest of the environment? 

The torch bases are a model. He used quoth entities. 

http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files/screen_shots/ae2m1.jpg

Just a preliminary shot. 

More sleepless nights carving wooden pointy teeth. Ive included a brief one liner for each image, its something I do on another site and thought it might be more interesting.

A contracted wooden iris blocked by chains
http://www.simonoc.com/images/design/maps_q3/moteof1an1l.jpg

A sky light framed by a circle of chains
http://www.simonoc.com/images/design/maps_q3/moteof1an2l.jpg

A gaping hole lined with wood teeth
http://www.simonoc.com/images/design/maps_q3/moteof1an3l.jpg

A dark connection with plain wooden cross beams and warm left-hand light - http://www.simonoc.com/images/design/maps_q3/moteof1an4l.jpg

Plughole kaleidoscope - http://www.simonoc.com/images/design/maps_q3/moteof1an5l.jpg

Down past gaping steps and angled wood lies helping metal hands - http://www.simonoc.com/images/design/maps_q3/moteof1an6l.jpg 

I love the one-liners. It gives every shot a sense of place before you click.

Lovely work, sock. The level is looking better and better all the time! 

that looks fantastic, lovely lighting. 

That looks too good for games almost - excellent stuff.

Aenoch - the link seems broken.