I renewed some pictures on my Lycos site.
And although they came out dobble, I stopped
worrying about that fact, for it is a free site.

http://members.lycos.nl/portable/newpage.html

I was wondering about the light question.
As I play the sequel, I see some maps in bright light and others were made with another argh.light and so they are much more dimmed.

My question now is, what could be the best option to set light to the maps, staying as close as possible to the original quake1 settings.

When I see other maps it strikes me they sometimes are so dark, as the original quake also was. Others make maps that are quit bright. 

remove checker part of the texture on the first screen. i mean the part of the EASY/HARD/NORMAL texture when one could see black part of it. i consider it a bug. this part of the texture isn't supposed to be seen.

as for the lighting, it looks too contrast imho. 

Indeed, I lost a nail
but you didn't notice on post #461

I ment in arghlite => range 0.5
or 1 or 999999999???

thanks for your advice, Vondur
Is there one mapper who isn't a Bastard to the original Quake1??? 

They are all bastards to the original Quake. 

http://www.planetquake.com/tronyn/city1.jpg
http://www.planetquake.com/tronyn/city2.jpg
http://www.planetquake.com/tronyn/city3.jpg
http://www.planetquake.com/tronyn/city4.jpg
http://www.planetquake.com/tronyn/city5.jpg 

Looks amazing Tronyn. I love the huge scale...

Can't wait to play this one =)) 

I think you need to break up that rock texture somewhat though, it's the only thing spoiling the scene. 

shots 1 and 2 look crap. the others look okish, but lighting is really bad. The door in shot 4 doesnt look good, the trim around it should have a texture that follows the shape better. Same with the door, it doesnt fit. 

really needs work, that's the first time I've ever compiled this map. I'll admit that. As for the doors, aside from making a custom texture, there's not much I can do. 

So make a custom texture already :) 

...there shall be fighting in the parapets, indeed there shall be fighting on the rooftops... I hope? 

I don't know, I haven't put monsters in yet..

I guess I'll explain. This is the new version of The Arabian Nights. When Daz and I started work on the Night Journey, he had the 3 source maps for the original Arabian Nights release. I figured out how they fit together (it was originally one map), and put them together in one map, updated the visuals and put monsters and everything in. Due to many problems with the map and the project, it sat around like that for a long time. Then, in one day last week I went back to it, deleted all of the entities except torches and all of the sky blocks, and worked from above to try to make it into a coherent "city" instead of just a bunch of rooms with sky for a ceiling giving the *impression* of a city. Thus, most of the recognizable areas from Arabian Nights aren't in those shots, because they're several stories below, on ground level.

The rooftops will be accessable one way or another, either as a secret or as part of the mandatory gameplay.

I'll post some shots of a better build along with shots of the original map (before/after etc) on my site next update. 

now RPG will shut up!!! :D 

Some screenies of MirrorMan, after it blew the nightmare skill out of me...

http://members.lycos.nl/portable/newpage0.html

I got so used to the arghlight -range 1, I hardly feel satisfied with the old -range 0.5 

http://www.planetquake.com/bkp/scrotch/sinex1a.jpg


http://www.planetquake.com/bkp/scrotch/sinex1b.jpg 

Cool, looks organic. 

that's by Scrotch for a Q3 Jailbreak map Execution sequence for one of his maps. 

Madfox - getting better. Thank god you've got rid of those ghastly purple textures. Now just focus more on strong lighting and improving your architecture....you're getting there.

Nitin - 1337 shit! Nice lighting too. 

Looks alright... the texture alignment in that first shot though is hideous. Always try and keep the textures aligned with the brushes

Mainly talking about that wall texture. The lines on it should meet with the edges of the brushes. 

That never stopped Romero. 

Age of consent didn't stop him either, doesn't make it right. 

You're just bitter because he said he loved you only so he could get in your pants. 

Sorry, but that wall texture is in a corner
shape, so it does align right.
I wondered about the light thing, because playing it in Argh range 0.5 made the weapons look brighter, but dimmed the textures.
I believe original Quake1 is much darker.

But thanks for your attention.
For days no sign on this board, and than get
haunted by those splendid Q3 shots, it is more than a Q1 dude can bear. 

Madfox, I mean like this:

http://xen.quakepit.com/MF1a.jpg

...as opposed to this:

http://xen.quakepit.com/MF1b.jpg

..which most of your shots seem like. 

The second shot is showing tons fo inprovements, you may yet make a good map!