Wow. 

There is some serious crane-fetishism going on on func... /me saves all the images. 

That's my hometown where the Kockums crane used to be ... 

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=154&t=461399 

http://www.alexries.com/galleries.htm 

http://www.eatpoo.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=136.0

Brilliant idea. 

that is really cool.

Now to edit them out to get some good concrete textures :) 

Reminds me pleasantly of The Neverhood. 

http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2007/01/23/castles-of-scotland-part-four-st-andrews-dirleton/

http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2007/01/09/castles-of-scotland-part-two-stirling-dunottar-linlithgow/

http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2006/12/05/castles-of-scotland-part-one-dunstaffnage-doune-aberdour/

http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2007/01/15/castles-of-scotland-part-three-craigmillar-edinburgh/

Scroll down on all of the posts to see the purdy pics of bricky goodness 

Those castles look like they're made out of banana walnut brownies. 

 

After porn and poorly spelt forums postings, pictures of the abandoned modern ruins in Chernobyl are the most common thing on the internet.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrbiffo/

Ignore the first few pictures which are of an entirely unrelated party. (As the name suggests the gallery belongs to one Mr Biffo, who will be known to some UK bods as 'the Digitiser bloke' and to more as 'that Edge column bloke.' The weirdness of the first few pics makes perfect sense once you know it's Biffo.) 

I've got try this in Quake:
http://www.superjer.com/pixelmachine/img019.jpg 

i hope you will not use the same colors ! 

http://sturman.livejournal.com/271320.html

I just scrolled past a post somewhere up there that said heresp4 and it looked like it said herpes4. that's kind of unfortunate. 

i think those islands are resting on smooth water, not floating in void.

reminds me of a sauerbraten map: http://sauerbraten.org/new/screenshot_5498832.jpg 

It's like playing Quake in "legoland" ! 

http://vanishingpoint.ca
sewers, drains, power generators, underground, cool stuff! 

http://www.shunya.net/Pictures/Highlights/LostCities.htm 

http://www.steveunsworth.co.uk/Albums/Indre_aug_2003_colour/index.htm 

HELLO. First post here. Couldn't help but come after playing ant.bsp! I still love Q1 and have just now been looking into how to build maps. One of my first ideas was for a labyrinth... I thought, wouldn't it be cool if a SP map looked like this??

http://www.astrolog.org/labyrnth/snap/maze1.jpg

then I realized how fast the strafing and running is in Q1, and you almost never see tight corridors. So I can't decide, but if I knew of other maps like it (surely there's been a lot of mazes for the Quake series, DOOM, etc?) maybe I can see how it works. The Doom games had more maze-like levels... but i'm mostly interested in Q1. 

I'd caution you about trying to build a maze in quake. For one thing, well-designed maps have a good sense of place and make navigation fairly easy. Mazes are intended to confuse and make navigation hard, usually. Getting lost in quake is generally not fun. Second, "maze" levels are generally boring because everything looks very similar, and feels very copied-and-pasted.

I'm not saying it couldn't be done well, but it would be a challenge.

Ways I would do it well: 1. make only a small portion of your map a true "maze." 2. Have obvious landmarks like towers rising above the walls. 3. Have fewer dead-ends and more loops and multiple valid routes to the goal. 4. Try to have unique details in each hallway and intersection, such as decorations and debris, and texture and lighting variation, so that people can recognize various parts of the maze. 

5. Get Jennifer Connolly involved somehow. 

This was my problem. I realized that putting up posters of Connolly (i.e. Hitler in Wolf3D) would make her look too pixelly (ugly). i hate glquake. looks like n64 graphics. 

I think you're right about the problems with mazes in Quake. Better work on a tower of some kind instead.