That looks awesome.

Don't know if it's actually "art" though... ;)

*ducks* 

wowzers. 

[nt] 

phantasm11's really great looking q3 map using sock's textures and some of his own :

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y138/phantazm11/Level%20Design/temple_10.jpg 

That DOES look nice! Wow. 

Cartoon is too strong a word, more like 'well drawn'.

Need more coffee. 

that looks really nice. 

the few people that will actually download my map are actually reading this forum!

No, i'm not! 

the architecture looks very nice and solid, but I'm not sold on the tree roots. I like the idea, and I've always wanted to do something similar myself, but I think they could be higher poly and more twisted to be more convincing.

Not to be anti or anything, just sayin'. 

http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/12/11671/RenderTestMortewoodNew1.jpg

Now, that's a shitload of weapons to kill zombies with. 

http://img501.imageshack.us/img501/2087/screen1cf0.png 

I love the knife with the grenade strapped onto it. 

that looks awesome ^_^ i love maps where you're suspended or floating above stuff in that way. 

Castle helmet : http://www.simonoc.com/images/design/maps_q3/moteof1bn1l.jpg

Im happy with the outline, just need to finish off the lighting and texture density/alignment. Add '_1024' to end of filename for larger image. 

The lighting on the front looks a bit sketchy.
The roof and floor textures are too blurry scaled, I guess you mean that with "density" though.

The different heights of the rooftops look great. Gives it a mushroom/dwarf like fantasy feeling (in a good way, heh). 

not too enamoured with that sock, looks too cartoony to me. 

the architecture. Personally I think the roof and outside floor are the only problems. I'd choose a wooden shingles texture for the roof and maybe add some more detail to the floor by removing the odd floorboard here and there, or making them slightly crooked, or perhaps just add some darker wooden trim between the wall/floor joint to add a hint of structural realism to it. 

I like the style! I like the layered look to the architecture. 

Yep, totally agree the screenshot does have a mario/soft focus look about it, but that is partly to do with the phong shading (far too high)

I will work on the location a bit more tonight, rework the trims, add more wood and try and give the structure more detail. W post another screenshot later, thanks for the feedback. :D 

I like it. It's different instead of the same old same old. 

the outlines remind me in some strange way of the Goetheanum: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goetheanum 

I changed the textures on roof and trim, a bitch to setup the top wall trim, too many weird angles but it does make it feel a bit better. Toned down the phong and increased the shadow map density so less jaggered/rough edges.

http://www.simonoc.com/images/design/maps_q3/moteof1bo1l.jpg (_1024 version avail)

Ive switched the floor to stone for the moment until I decide what to do with it, detail wise. The above shot is panned out alot, the player will never see that much. So here is a couple of shots from the floor at player height, the building feels different to me from the closer angle.

http://www.simonoc.com/images/design/maps_q3/moteof1bo2l.jpg (_1024 version avail)
http://www.simonoc.com/images/design/maps_q3/moteof1bo3l.jpg (_1024 version avail)

Does it still look cartoony? Roof trim, like/dislike? upper roof leave or same trim style? 

especially the close up shots.

From far away it still has that cartoony look but not as much as before.

Roof trim looks fine to me. I dont like the upper roof tile texture though. 

.. I'd really would like to have the .map to see how you made this curved corners.... 

Patches