Ricky: Thanks, I have a huge hardon for texture combos so it made sense I gave it a try too.

than: Yeah, I was going to do more detail work but then I ran into the same rock problem as you. So I guess I'll just block out instead.
DM7 is looking swell, glad you didn't listen to sock (sorry sock :(). The rusty metals are interesting, what wad is that? 

opt: it's a good start, but i'll reiterate that you shouldn't do too much detail early on.

than: there's terrain in that shot? i couldn't see any as my eyes were glued to the _awesome_ castle in the center. ;) 

In cath, did you use Hipshot's stormydays skybox as is, or did you resample it? I could swear it looks different my current map. 

i used rle compression on the TGAs, but that shouldn't affect anything in the way it looks.

nice choice for a sky btw, hipshot's skies are awesome! 

... but the Castle, OMG ! Go map and release it ASAP please. Can't wait to play it ! 

I never did the layout before detail. I'd just map fully detailed, wall-by-wall, and the layout would just form however it wanted out of that. I felt doing the entire layout roughly firstly, it would then make detailing everything feel like a chore as you fill gaps. 

Re: Glassman
Yeah a couple years ago I did get in touch with him and asked him to release his scraps... he looked around to see if he could find them, but was only able to confirm that they're lost for good. Too bad. 

http://members.home.nl/gimli/teslu.gif 

http://necros.slipgateconstruct.com/

These shots look awesome!

Looking forward to seeing more.

MadFox: You're always posting weird and interesting models. What are you working on? 

madfox: that is strangely hipnotic. *_*

than: everyone's making maps lately, i wanted to join in. :P i think i can have that last shot released in may! 

necros: FFS, send me your Doom 2 map. If you're not going to finish the final detail pass, I will. Also, Dragons! 

and yeah, dragons; maybe in june. 

 

oh yeah that too. god, do i really have 4 nearly finished maps? :( 

this year has so much quake-potential. 

It came up to me when I started the energy cell generator and I needed some new bolds.
I could get away with progrefs from mh but that are a lot of entities.

I was working on the coil model,
http://members.home.nl/gimli/coil.gif
when I remembered the tesla coil frpm C&C.
So I warped accidently something like this,
http://members.home.nl/gimli/tesla.gif
thought it too lazy without parms and skinfile so turned my witz on it and pointed out to some shambler's addon,
http://members.home.nl/gimli/tesle.gif
that could also co inwards of course...
http://members.home.nl/gimli/tesli.gif 

that lightning really is hyponotic too... every time your eye tries to figure out how it's moving you get confused all over again, heh. 

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

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

Bandwith is a little slow, but this is how it looks ingame.

http://members.home.nl/gimli/tesslq.wmv 

woooOOOOO-- bzzt 

I have 1 week holiday at the moment, so I might actually finish this. Spent most of today mapping because the weather sucked.

Would have liked to try some of Sock's ideas, but decided to keep it simple. It's subtle, but the fog makes a big difference.

http://imgur.com/0qjZO

r_speeds have gone crazy. Was hoping to put some more detail in, but maybe it's already too much considering the layout is annoyingly open and impossible to vis. Getting the gameplay tweaked is probably all that remains (probably should do gameplay first, huh?) 

Guess I was wrong about the kingpin rock textures not working! 

dawn than you map really good... 

It is really nice now. It changes everything having good rock texture, decent lightning and smooth foggy effect.
I can't wait playing it !