Maybe find a better skybox.. though... 

JPL I see no sense in criticize the old classic style Quake skybox..
..surely there are better of them but I think it's not focal point!

Instead try and change clouds color.. I've obtained good results with azure & blue(I hate
standard purple though!) 

I just shared my point of view. You disagree.. fair enough... I was not really thinking to purple sky either, rather to any of Kell's skybox, such as Labyrinthus, or Dust skybox..
I think it would render better... that's just my humble opinion. 

Good castle, than!
I keep the reminding of Alice'mcGee in the screenshot.
Can't you make a giant gammabuster out of the top? 

I've tried changing the colour, and I think grey fits with the fog best, so that's why it's grey at the moment. Having a different fog colour looks a bit cheap, and I don't really want to use a skybox because then I need to include it with the map. Quake's default sky texture is ok, the main problem is simply that it's insanely low resolution and looks total shit when you can see it against something that is far away - especially if you look up a tall shaft to a small patch of sky. I think it looks ok in the map though, so I'll probably just leave it. Might be worth trying a skybox though...

Madfox: What do you mean by gammabuster? Some kind of giant cannon? Not sure I really want to do that. Maybe an observatory would look cool. Not sure I want to change all that stuff though. 

oh shit yes, an observatory with the big telescope poking out, that'd be crazy awesome! 0_0 

I was loooking at the top of the castle and thought of a big coil of light raising up to the sky. 

and I don't really want to use a skybox because then I need to include it with the map.

If you're aiming for a fitz/qspasm audience, hardly an issue. 

1. Added to pipeline.

2. The gray sky texture is nice. Skyboxes are overrated but one would be good if...

3. The map was a badass Quake observatory. 

Do not add other people's images unless you have permission to share them. 

I may as well do it, I think? Note how I didn't post the lunsp2 screenshots that weren't posted anywhere. 

Thanks for adding. Func is public so that is not what I had in mind with that sentence. It is just meant to make people not upload shots they were shown in private or if they are playing a beta.

#tf is not public. 

Except people have no control over the screenshots once they are mirrored. They can't delete them if they wish to do so. 

 

the lunsp2 screenshots that weren't posted anywhere

this needs rectifying. 

No. 

They can't delete them if they wish to do so.

It's a wiki, sure they can. 

yeah, there is much more control for anyone compared to eg func. while users cannot delete the image file (just mail me if needed), they can remove its display.

I am very interested in how maps come to be so I thought the page was a good idea. 

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

SHAMBERRR!!!!! 

http://pablo.kotogoto.com/fok.png

i am the fastest mapper ever! this will surely go into the scraps folder that i'll never finish.

with me, its big start area-corridor-room and then i give up and start again :) 

you should just glue all your bits together, irregardless of textures and theme. that would be wild. 

Fully agree with necros. Quake maps with all types of textures are cool, that strange and "not real" feeling is what defines Quake.

That makes me think, I have a few small DM maps, maybe I should glue them into one SP map... 

or make an episode of mini (ish) maps 

with mini maps from different authors.
Would give it a even more wild taste :9