Those shots really look good, especially the first one. Keep it up :) 

Wow, which texture set is the steampunk stuff? That looks great! 

I'll try to return the favour :0

Is that a brightly lit cave under the cliff face? What's in there? Is it an Ogre? I MUST KNOW!

The second shot, I'd make the pillar bases part of the second step - it does help with vis, but is almost more realistic, pillars are always on a supportive base as opposed to stairs or slopes. And a big cyclopian block reminds the player (who doesn't look up much) that there's something massive above them.

The third shot, maybe give the stairs a trim . . . not sure what I'd suggest there - the Kona slope I never really liked (sorry K) because of the change in movement when the player shifts left or right. On the other hand that curve will make things complicated for brushes. Maybe just cut the last 16 units and put a trim tex on there. Do the cogs move? 

thats a q1 wad of rorshach's (kevin johnston) HH3 q3 textures. 

Love the first shot - maybe even influenced by your experimenting with Far Cry? Christ you're taking Q1 to new (yet still, amazingly appropriate) limits that just illustrate the strength of the original art.

Mike Woodham:
hmm, This Onion was one of the best maps ever, and I assume this is the sequel, and it looks even more amazing.

ijed nothing needs to be said your project is crazily exciting.

Nice to see some mappers around with such high technical competence! I tend to just mash lots of shit together and expect Bengt's tools to iron it all out (see nsoe6), lol.

Great stuff in this thread recently anyway. 

Its Clockwork Droid by Rorshach (spelling?) and its one of my all-time favourite texture sets!

he also did another ace set called Vendetta. I had a look around but couldn't find any links! :( I'm sure someone here can hook you up though. 

Do the cogs move?
of course! ^_^

The second shot, I'd make the pillar bases part of the second step
i like that :) the 'bigger at the top, thinner at the bottom' motif is something i'd like to explore.


on clockwork droid, they were incredibly difficult to find, and i'm sorry to say, i can't recall where i managed to download them. it might have been a backup of rorschach's site on archive.org? my memory is very hazy. i (obviously) still have them, so if anyone's looking for the set (unmodified), let me know and i'll put it up. 

if so, willem could just talk to him :)

All his texture sets (not to mention skins) were lovely. His artwork was one of Unreal 2's biggest assets IMHO. 

Yeah, he does, but I can't know to talk to him until I know who made the set. I'm not going to walk up to his desk every time I see a texture I like and ask him if it's his. :) 

 

We also have email and instant messaging. The point is, I'm not going to bug him every time I see a texture I like on the internet. 

That said, where might one download that texture set? I did a few Google searches but came up empty or with broken links... 

I find those rusty textures utterly ugly. They look like dirty bathroom without any clear structure.

kz1on1a looks nice though, I think it uses some of these textures too. 

he had hosting on polycount but thats down at the moment and I couldnt find a backup of the old PQ polycount site.

Which is why I was saying you might want to talk to him if you want to get them. I wasnt expecting you to be a psychic or anything :) 

not sure how they look in q1 but every map Ive seen them used in for q3 or UT looked fabulous. 

Drive-by help...

http://web.archive.org/web/20040625224312/www.planetquake.com/polycount/cottages/rorshach/textures/textures.htm

Most preview pics work. FilePlanet Download links should work if you remove the "http://web.archive.org/web/ 20040625224312/" bit. 

some of those would make terrific themes, ivory and temple for example. 

can anyone actually download the files off fileplanet? when the fileplanet link loads up, i just get an up area with an ad where the links to the files normally show up on a fileplanet download.

the ivory set looks particularly badass 

He still posts on Polycount (Under his real name, Kevin Johnstone) if anyone wants to get in touch with him and ask through there. 

I shot Kevin an email about those textures. Hopefully he'll reply with either a good download link or a ZIP file. We'll see! 

Kevin brought in a USB drive of the Quake stuff that he could find and said I could host it on Quaketastic so ...

http://www.quaketastic.com/cgi-bin/filechucker.cgi?action=listfiles&path=texture_wads/rorshach

That's everything he gave me! Not sure what format anything is in but there you go... 

 

Now, whoever converts those to Quake 1, PLEASE keep track of how you rename the files. That would make it possible to later use symlinks/hardlinks for easy high quality replacement texture usage. 

that guy's awesome!
and thanks for doing this, willem :) 

vendetta, me wants