Thanks... I still take quite long to produce levels, I guess my workflow isn't ideal. Always get hung up on details. I'm learning on the job with RMQ - deadlines are really good teachers.

jt_, because I missed Spirit's point a while ago (is, or isn't, RMQ "Quake"). Let's not discuss that now. 

can anyone sent me email with a version already ready to map with all the links and files do d:quake/ for exemple? 

It just won't do :E

omg WIP base trench gauntlet linear fight thing 

It's looking really nice.

What about the pillars in the middle? They look a bit lego-like.

Maybe break the floor up a little with some details and add some small spots here and there.

Sorry, I'm a certified detail whore. 

I have a good feeling about this thing - do you think you'll get it out by Qexpo? 

the lego bits are blocking out bits of geometry I've not worked out how I'll add yet :E

Would like to finish it for Qexpo but it needs a lot of work :( 

..I'm so hurried for qexpo deadline so many have no time to post screens though god only knows how much stuff lies in my hdds :) 

nice, zqf. look at the ikbase and speedbz_fin wads for nice trim textures instead of the generic rivets.

also, since you asked for more shots...

here's an early dynamic spawning monster test . yeah.... needs tweaking. 

I was thinking just earlier today, "where did that ZealousQuakeFan guy go?" 

Needs more Shamblers. 

Random dancing shamblers FTW. 

ZQF: good to see your base map again, I'm looking forward to it!

Here are some crappy screenshots of stuff I'm working on:
http://vaultsofzin.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/cupola.jpg
http://vaultsofzin.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/muhbad.jpg 

Dunno what I'm looking at but cupola inspires me to play Scraggy's spring cleaning map now. 

It's Fall Cleaning actually. Nice quick draft of a mansion; the gameplay is rather shit though. 

I really like the wood panelled indoor architecture. Gabled windows they are called I think?

Second one seems dark and a bit random, can't quite tell what's going on there. 

Apparently they're gabled dormer windows. I couldn't find a reference picture of exactly what I was aiming for, but it's supposed to be a little tower sticking out of the roof of a new england mansion. The textures are ik2k.

The second shot will be a rusted space station using speedbase textures - it still needs a lot of work though. 

Love the wood map! Quake needs moar wood maps. 

And some rambly crap about what I'm doing with the map 

I am liking your dedication to this and plenty of what I see in the shots. 

But jeez, why are you guys always going nuts with these maps? You're like a second Ricky. 58K vertices and anxiously anticipating the 65... it's like a whole id1 episode in one map. Tbh, I'd rather play two or three medium-sized maps with all intended stuff included than one huge level with with cool areas scrapped because of max limits.

Care to post a noclip shot from outside the map to show how big it is right now? 

He makes good points. 

Yea I am still considering splitting it up even more but wrapping around itself as it does it'd be messy and require cloning areas :E Plus people complain that it's cheap having areas that can't be accessed in the same map!

Actually I think it's just sheer bloody mindedness :p 

I like huge immersive maps that you can get totally lost in. It's the whole attraction of making a whole world of your own. Some people find huge maps can be overwhelming, but [we] have tackled this issue in our project by adding checkpoints. So you can play a section, and either die or just get tired, turn it off, and then pick it up again near to where you left off. 

a Warp Spasm of their own 

It's all jumbled so a bit hard to take complete shots, but here's a couple :E
From above
http://www.zealousquakefan.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/zqftest03_construction66.jpg

From below
http://www.zealousquakefan.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/zqftest03_construction67.jpg