Not a fan of the texture set, but it's a taskmaster map, so weather it's good or bad it will be well done.

Good or bad being relative to whichever gameplay angle you're exploring.

Is that id basic sky tex up top? I'd always vote for skybox, but there you go.

The only question that remains . . . when :) 

wow very cool I like the brightness of the textures and vaulted ceiling, gives the area a regal/palace feel. What do you mean by start detailing? Is 3800 brushes alot? sorry for stupid questions, not a q1 mapper anymore. 

Very promising shot :) 

Wow, thanks all! And, yeah, that area in the shot is pretty much done but there are others that need detailing (box rooms). :) 

I like the cathedral-esque up lighting on the ceiling, gives it a sense of grandeur.

Not sure about the square windows/light fittings tho, especially the stack of 3 on the left. They just seem too square/blocky. Possibly have one tall window instead, would flow with the lines of the room better and help emphasise the height
(altho all that may be based on the low angle of the screenshot)

And I'm all in favour of more detail, I reckon you can push a few more polygons out of the Q1 engine (altho it does look very nice already, I'm just a fan of adding modern engine-esque levels of small detail into Q1 ;) 

Looks very nice. 

i know necros has some map that goes outside the 8192 cube, willem has the above-mentioned map, sock has that q3 doodle, gb and others are working on remake quake (or "re-quake").

Anything else? 

http://negke.quaddicted.com/images/fitz00000.jpg 

!!! 

nsoe4 much? 

Sweet! 

i really like your mapping ^_^ 

Be doing a demo sometime soon, just ironing out the last few issues and preparing stuff. 

That looks fucking great. 

just glued all the different sections together; haha i'm fucked.

*** WARNING 34: Nodes 51370 exceed normal engine max 32767
*** WARNING 30: Clipnodes 154267 exceed normal engine max 32767
*** WARNING 36: Vertexes 100497 exceed normal engine max 65535
*** WARNING 37: Faces 89958 exceed normal engine max 32767
*** WARNING 31: Marksurfaces 100194 exceed normal engine max 32767

even aglq crashes.
i don't know why i always do this. >_< 

FFS, you were THAT far over and didn't realize it? :) 

Try upping the -heapsize to 262144 or higher. 

 

Hey necros, I like your mapping, too - if I can play it in any engine, that is... 

OMG talk about breaking compiler/engine limits, but I can understand. I often go days or weeks without compiling and just work endlessly in the editor building stuff. :) 

That map isn't sealed yet, right? 

spent some time sealing the map, and i'm still way over.
*** WARNING 30: Clipnodes 59235 exceed normal engine max 32767
*** WARNING 36: Vertexes 69984 exceed normal engine max 65535
*** WARNING 37: Faces 58181 exceed normal engine max 32767
*** WARNING 31: Marksurfaces 68767 exceed normal engine max 32767

even if it weren't for the over the limit 65k vertices, 59k clipnodes only leaves like 6k left to build and here's the punchline: it's only half done.

i don't think there's any way at all that this can be streamlined to work in a single map. right now i'm looking at using the info_mapgate stuff to try to make some kind of hub map setup as i don't want to just throw entire sections away. :S 

you've already got the player route so locked down that you can't eliminate backtracking to previous maps? 

i think that's a good idea. the big problem with a hub map which contains monsters is that depending on where you are emerging from, a different set of monsters would have to be spawned in.
you would never be able to get 100% kills, which kind of sucks. then there's all the jiggery pokery with having to keep track of all the different states of the many lifts, doors, machines etc which would be, probably, impossible without creating a new mod. 

better just to break it into isolated levels and if you need to add connectors and re-work the player route in each level, do it so they can be self-contained.