...Those D3 shots are gorgeous! Some of them are kinda overtextured (in variety) though...

And, for the Quake part, in my book episodes rule over spawling maps.

But, if someone fells like coming up with an episode of sprawling maps, I won't back down. 

Another mod with ridiculously high goals and ambitions which is not even 1/3 of the way done after 2 years. Unless they're huge, 6 maps isn't much for an entire team, so even though they're only planning on 2 more (instead of another 18) I wouldn't hold high hopes of it ever being released. Looks pretty awesome though nonetheless. 

But the eye candy is here.

Speaking of mods scope, yesterday I replayed Zerstorer, and after some 12 years it's still one of the very best efforts made for Quake. It certainly was ambitious fot its time, but man, did they hit the spot!

Not trying to make a point pro ambitious mod plans, just rambling freely... 

Monster count in mine is inflated partially by having a bunch of arena fights, where an area is quite small but involves 50 odd monsters (on hard anyway).

Also the centre of the map is very compact so hard to see all the rooms :E 

..are whole fuck black !
I can see nothing in them.. Brightness.. an amazing invention :) 

Your monitor is just dark ;D 

http://necros.slipgateconstruct.com/images/misc/hungry.jpg 

Well, and strange arms that suggest proficiency at putting up laundry. 

yeah, i animated it to run on all fours, but it kind of looks stupid. when you skinny him up like that, you can see how weird it's skeleton would be like. i'd have to change the skeleton structure for it to not look retarded as a bipedal monster. oh well. :P 

That must been a very cold winter for Shambler to get out of shape.
It serves me the look of getting an incredible hunger.

http://members.home.nl/gimli/tarra05.jpg
http://members.home.nl/gimli/tarra06.jpg
http://members.home.nl/gimli/tarra00.jpg

When adding a skybox, the sky suddenly went plain blue. Not the box that I wanted, but when I turned it back in worldspan for the normal animated one, it was still there.

When I make another map with only a skybox it's just there. What could be wrong? 

pipeworld.bsp madfox?

:)

look nice! 

@Trinca - yes, so it looks.
Now I'm confronted with the theme layout. You can see the first two shots look metal, but the third makes me feel it is from another level.
Keeping the same texture isn't the same as the same theme.

Most of all.., where's my skybox? 

The map editor just needs to have the skybox .tga's in the default folder it's configs are pointed to. For the BSP editor, I need my skybox in the:

Settings/gfx/env

folder. Then, a key:

"sky" "name of skybox"

is entered for the worldspawn entity. The "name of skybox" does not include the "bk" "dn" "ft" "lf" "rt" "up" part of the name and not the .tga extension. 

The 6 .tga's then need to be in either:

Id1/gfx/env folder
mod/gfx/env folder
pak/gfx/env directory

that's most important. 

I know, and I had all these parameters used.

It always works, but not this time.
As I wrote, a new map with only an animated sky shows the skybox.
If I use it in the map with the screenshots you can see a plain blue box.
While I deleted the skybox to see the animated ones.

So I think something messed up with my worldspan, although these parms are the same as I always use. 

Yup, I just posted anyway, in case anybody didn't know skybox stuff. 

just try to load the skybox manually in game via console 

http://spawnhost.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/alpha_blended_grass.jpg 

It's a trap! 

:) 

http://spawnhost.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/terraingen.jpg

http://entardev.wordpress.com/other-projects/canyon-terrain-editor/ 

do you have shot with more grass viewed from a distance? 

http://spawnhost.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/multigrass1.jpg

http://spawnhost.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/multigrass2.jpg

You can have a lot of grass, in principle. The placement in these screenies is bad, it's just copypasted for demonstration without regard for natural distribution or variation.

Also, the type of grass is wrong for a large grassy plain - you'd use a different type of grass patch for that.

Pretty much the same rules for vegetation placement apply as in Crysis (which has many different kinds of grass, other objects like rocks, and many options for placing and rendering vegetation).

So, Quake can do large terrain (and also detailed, if you use 64 or even 32 unit blocks in CTE), and vegetation. You don't even need Darkplaces for that (in fact, a fast renderer like in RMQ or DirectQ is more important).

What it can't do is proper texturing of the terrain - textures don't blend in Quake unlike in Sandbox. Megatexture could help. 

Another area with a bit of spit and polish. 

I'm liking the lighting a lot.