Some more shots of my level

http://i49.tinypic.com/2v3pki9.jpg
http://i48.tinypic.com/14v1zl0.jpg

Really starting to get into this...I could definitely see myself enjoying working on some more Unreal stuff in the future :) 

...from me, for Duke3D if anyone (!) cares. Still early stages.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/deathquakis/townmap05.jpg 

Blitz: That's looking great, but the road with cars in the side of the mountain looks out of place with the Shinto temple theme.

quakis: Holy shit that's Duke 3D? Is that like a custom engine or something or does Duke3D just look better than I remember it? 

on both accounts 

blitz: i'm not trying to be an ass, but it's hard for me to comment on it because i'm not sure what you created and what was original ut assets... on the surface, it looks really nice, but, for example, did you make the rocks/mountains and the temple? i guess the status on top of the building is a stock model?
i think you really have to know the game to be able to properly critique it because otherwise, you don't know what's new and what's part of the stock game. 

With newer engines, it's not so much about what you made yourself as it is reaching a certain level of detail and polish, which takes enough time as it is without having to worry about making custom assets.

You could very easily dismiss someone posting screenshots of a Crysis level and say "oh it only looks good because the engine makes it look good" or "the artists did all the work for you" but that'd be missing the point of what kind of skills it takes on the designer's end to make it look that good. They may not be the exact same skills that it takes to make a cool Quake level, but they're still skills nonetheless.

So yeah, nothing in that screenshot is anything that I made in 3dsmax or anything, but putting the scene together, lighting it, creating the terrain, scripting it, etc. etc. takes a good amount of work :) 

that's cool. i guess i was waiting for you to define the boundaries on which you wanted critique. if you're after feedback on the overall composition, i'd say it's pretty good, although i agree with zwiffle in that the tunnel filled with busted cars seems out of place with the temples. if there was a stronger thematic connection between the two, that would really help.
also, why are the windows on the two temples in the first shot different colours? it's kind of distracting, like the further, dimmer one, is less important.

btw, is it possible to upload larger screenshots? they are wide, but not tall which makes seeing details pretty much impossible. 

Way to go. Regard it as inspiration or something. Be sure to use Doombuilder 2, it's final word in Doom mapping. 

Wow, DoomBuilder looks amazing! That's a far cry from what I used back in the day ... I think it was DCK? Whichever one Ben Morris had written. I thought it was hot shit because it showed sprites in the 2D editor window but man, I would have killed for a 3D view like that. :) 

Both really. I use Eduke32 port, which does increase some limits. But stuff like that was possible before any port release, it's just the limits got in the way more often if you went overboard.

Some shots from other projects (on hold at the moment) The former two I'll probably get back to after my current. Unsure about the latter two.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/deathquakis/exampleproject01.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/deathquakis/exampleproject02.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/deathquakis/exampleproject03.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/deathquakis/exampleproject04.jpg 

And it's awesome. I used DoomCad for the first Doom level I ever did (took like 45 mins to build the nodes), I moved on to DCK for the later levels I did.

I did several levels for a Doom 2 Megawad/TC that, other than my maps, I didn't think turned out all that great. One of my maps was a modified version of Polygon Base, but the other two were never released separately. I've always wanted to that. Now maybe I will. 

 

Some of you may remember I released a pack of high-res idbase textures a while back (thread here).

I've been messing around with textures again... my plan right now is to get E1M2 done. Early early days, but in the recent spirit of the thread, I thought I'd show my progress.

http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files/screen_shots/e1m2_tex1.jpg
http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files/screen_shots/e1m2_tex2.jpg

The plan, as always, is to stay as close to the style of the original textures as possible! 

sex meh! 

You scare me sometimes!



..scrote 

very cool, good job on preserving the original look! :) 

 

the original.....but clearer .... :O! 

OMG YES! Now THERE'S a man after my own heart. Those are awesome replacements, man, nice work! Totally true to the original feel but rezzed up nicely. Beautiful! 

In remaining so faithful and respectful to the original game you've done for Quake texturing what Metl did for enhanced engines and Kell & Necros did for enhanced features.

Your Base set was the only retex project I allowed to stay on my HDD and these new ones look set to do the same! 

 

I have alot of crap I still want to do to this map but soon I'll have finished replacing the textures I need to to be able to release a public beta...

http://student.cs.appstate.edu/freemancw/junk/shot0133.jpg

http://student.cs.appstate.edu/freemancw/junk/shot0134.jpg

:) 

Looking forward to those textures!
They look really fantastic! 

Starbuck..,
You make me feel like having a carwash! 

aww shucks, many thanks for the kind words for those textures. Text_Fish especially - I agree that metl/kell/necros have done a ridiculously good job keeping true to the quake spirit in their work, and it's warm and fuzzy to be mentioned in the same breath.

Will keep some screenies coming!