Guess nobody wants a Christmas map pack :\

Then I will keep making my map slowly... and someday far will be made! 

I did a quick try on skewing the Geiger pix, transformed it to 64x64, added the Q1 pal and imported it into a wad. Here's how it looks.

http://members.home.nl/gimli/giger.jpg

It's just the black/white pix, in Wally you could perfektionise it with some colour. Here's the wad.

http://members.home.nl/gimli/Geiger.wad 

That looks pretty good, and its what I'm aiming for. :) Although, would it seem right to rip out a segment of someone else's artwork to be used for a texture? Wouldn't it be more fair to make the texture yourself from scratch?

Does anyone really care about stuff like that, or is everyone more just focused on "use what looks best, whether you made it or not"? 

Can you steal the King's pie, without using his receipt?
Of course I do care about stuff like that.
But the same goes up by showing me Gieger's example,
you make me witness to art of someone else.
A little plausible, I spent weeks to skin the bitches boots,
after I realized I could import the skin right ahead.

Doesn't mean a didn't learn anything, I made some proofs of the skin gamma textures and past them with painshop layers over eachother.
Evreyone has his own way to deal with it.
I made some textures myself, but it takes some time to get the texture part right, especially with the Quake pal. 

Kinda posted this in the help thread not the betas thread :p

http://www.filefront.com/17282658/zqftest03s.bsp/

It's a very linear, combat focused map. Also gameplay only. If you like pretty things it will probably make your face explode atm :/ 

Needs fitz/darkplaces and quoth :E

Please give feedback and all that jazz. 

hi ZealousQuakeFan if is your first map is quite good, need lots of fixes of course...

1� Computer console? didnt't find amy... had to nocliped

2� the stairs don't work :( had to fly or rocket jump!

more feedback when I will try again! 

I should have stated that better. Uses a lot of Quoth enemies and entities. :)

http://kell.quaddicted.com/ 

ops guess I miss that.. will try again a record a demo! 

Blimey, did I post something so bad no one has an opinion? :E 

..sooner wait til it didn't make my face explode ;) 

That's going to take a while :p 

Had a quick look / dick around without Quoth.

Running around the vents and jumping / exploring around the crates and those weirdo industrial rooms was cool. Some good gameplay potential in those. But too many box rooms and not enough of a catchy theme to it - more like stuff just thrown together. It has potential. Keep the more interesting stuff and make it tighter and more distinctive. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkijXULeN4Q 

Skill 3, I never got past 2nd room. Boring and unplayable.

Skill 1, Still a little too much, I think... Coupla notches beneath playable. Died in the jump puzzles.

Skill 0, just for the sake of getting to the end with little sweating, lovely idea with the maze/jump puzzles. Nice end battle, lots of niceties gameplay wise.

What Shambler said. Gospel. Don't give up on this.

Hm.
Wanna demo? No fancy stuff. Skill 0. First run.

silent_1steasyzqftest03s.rar 

And the layout is NOT half way done, seems it'll be a bit longer than I thought.

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/8601/zmm11.jpg

http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/3977/zmm12.jpg

http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/6253/zmm13.jpg

http://img545.imageshack.us/img545/2382/zmm14.jpg

http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/9316/zmm15.jpg

Maybe there will be some new textures in this, which apparently is now part of an episode with nntt and negke (maybe?) and someone else.

I wanted this to be done by now, akshully. 

I said it was an idea. That's all.

And you're the one who wanted to make textures...

;p 

Haha, awesome! Hadn't seen this before, definitely alot in common. :) 

Haven't done any serious mapping. The room I posted is kind of meh, should have thought of a layout first. 

I'm currently ripping up a couple of areas or rescripting them so they're smoother or more interesting.

As for the difficulty, I'm not too concerned about people finding it horrific on Hard (although I'm making the starting rooms less dick-move like). I'm one of those masocist players who enjoys the challenge of insane difficulty (I can't think off hand of any examples in Quake, but from Doom things like Plutonia or Hell Revealed), but I don't want to be an ass and flat out prevent others from playing (and hopefully) enjoying it.
So the fact you didn't like Normal gives me great concern and I'm looking into it. I've already made the first jumping area easier on normal. Looking into other areas. Out of interest, how easy did you find easy? :E

Again ta for the comments, will hopefully have another version up soonish. Will have a think about how to make it feel a bit more atmospheric.

PS I wish Nightmare was a seperate difficulty flag :( 

Like to try this map:

http://www.quaddicted.com/reviews/sickbase.html

Pump the difficulty up to 2 or 3 and see how far you get :) 

...on skill 2. Died once (the bomb just before the droles. Droles didn't kill me, but bomb left me on 2hp and I blew myself up :P )

Was fun though. Nice to have plenty of ammo and bigger guns for a change :) FPS drops made some bits annoying though, had to try and face away from the centre of the map whilst fighting (and led to further self-harm via grenades).

I recorded my run. Missed a few monsters and secrets, took 28 or so minutes iirc. recorded with Fitzquake

http://www.filefront.com/17294539/zqf_sickbase_demos.rar/ 

Son I am disappoint. 

And, just to clear things up, I died in the jump puzzles because I generally suck at those, it's not they're too difficult IMO.

I think that maybe it's just the first rooms that are a pain in the ass, having to take out all those Rocketeers and Defenders and Eliminators with a meager shotgun is a bore, not a challenge, from my point of view. It essentially boils down to luck.

There's lot of good here, but has to be dug hard. 

cruel trick.