Since when has posting new maps at qw.nu ever lead to constructive feedback? 

ziffon, there is final release:
http://shadowsdomain.wordpress.com/levels/quake/devastation/

I've deleted betas from dl 

Grrreat, I just noticed on the front page as well :P

Gonna take a look at it. 

Hows your Q4 map going shadow? :)

Screens of Devastation look good. 

Hey guys, me again :). So I had this idea for a map. And when I have an idea, I simply have to make things. So here's very fast (about 3h of work), first layout test for new map.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16372046/q1shw2_test.zip

Ugly - no light (or vis), and no items exept MH and RL. 

 

Layout seems okay in general. Parts of it feel too long or spacious, though. The teleporters are a bit odd. I'd say either relink them or turn them into jumppads. Lol at the door. Needs to be faster. 

...and thought I'd have a go recording some Quake

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JWsc3IjKTE

I know sod all about videos and compression and stuff, was mostly just fumbling a bit with Virtual dub and such. If anyone has any tips on this kind of thing I'd be interested :E 

When recording for Youtube, it's probably advisable to use a higher resolution (like 1024) and also increase the game's brightness more than you would for regular playing. Then compress the video with Xvid or any other proper codec (Spirit would say H264) so that the file size is reasonable for uploading but the quality doesn't suffer too much. This will also allow you to select different quality settings on the Youtube stream. Yours is 240p which is the lowest possible one. If the source video is good enough, there'll be 360 and 480, and even 720 HD. At least I found it's available on my videos which were done like described. 

I'll give it another go later with a different resolution :) 

From a gameplay point of view, it's interesting that you see the pauses between the waves spawning as 'awkward'. To me they seemed like just long enough to let the player get their bearings back after defeating a wave - and at the end there was a great moment of anticipation for the Edie. "Hey, it's a bit too quiet...oh crap!" kind of moment. 

It would be hilarious if there was a second Edie behind the corner at the end.

Could use more melee action and less sniping though, IMO. 

> Since when has posting new maps at qw.nu ever lead to constructive feedback?

If the mapper is from the qw community, there will be feedback I think... and only then. Pretty occult community. 

Quake video: h264 or webm with a bitrate >1500kbps should be good. Use avidemux if you need a frontend. Record with gamma 0.7. Use two-pass if your time allows.

Gb: not true, see shadow's release.

I think netquakers are more likely to actually play a map online. Qw is very limited unless for special occasions or ffa servers. I have no clue what the nq scene actually plays though. Weird maps and the lag from crossing the Atlantic always turned me off. 

if you join a clanarena or crmod server you'll probably play dm3

if you join quake.shmack.net you'll play from start to dm6, but will probably be on start or dm4

if you join bigfoot.quake1.net (in Germany btw) you will play a variety of custom multipayer maps maps

if you join newdm.quakeone.com you will play a variety of estranged multiplayer and single player maps

i leik last 2 bestest 

just long enough to let the player get their bearings back
Yeah you do have a point... an effect that comes from testing your own stuff I suppose. Was having some trouble with monsters not waking properly there so I was kind of worried it was gonna break again :E
Will probably leave it as it is timing wise then :)

Could use more melee action and less sniping though
It's only one fight, hopefully you'll get enough of a close combat fix from the rest :) 

I can't wait for this map, zqf. It looks amazing so far. I haven't been this excited for a base map in a while! 

No, not a quad shotgun, just a four 'shot' panorama

http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/3982/panorama1i.jpg 

some shots finally

These are all of old maps I'm fixing up for release:

http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files/1sorrow1.jpg
http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files/screen_shots/1sorrow2.jpg

http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files/screen_shots/1ind1.jpg
http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files/1ind2.jpg
http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files/1ind3.jpg
http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files/1ind4.jpg

and this map is based on scraps by Tyrann and Necros:

http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files/screen_shots/1somethingwicked1.jpg
http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files/screen_shots/1somethingwicked2.jpg
http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files/screen_shots/1somethingwicked3.jpg
http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files/1somethingwicked4.jpg 

Mike gives me wood-ham. Tronyn, too. Cool that you finally seem to have made proper use of the sorrow scrap. Now I can delete it from my editor folder. 

So many good maps coming out soon, and so little time to play them. :( 

there is always time to play a Quake map :9

nice shots tronyn can't wait to play then 

http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files/1ind4.jpg

That looks awesome, simple, yet very cool, it really makes you think that you are there. Can't wait to play that map... 

mike: looks like a cooler moria. :D i love that the upper area is shrouded in darkness. makes everything look even bigger.

tronyn: the scale is insane, especially on those industrial shots. ;) i was staring at the first industrial shot trying to place it, and then i noticed these tiny little ogres in the corner.
looks like you will be giving arwop a run for it's money. :P

also, i can recognize some stuff in those somethingwicked shots. ^_^ glad you could make use of it! 

I need to change my trousers.