I am sorry but I cannot find a right way to pronounce it... though... :P 

It's easier that way. 

Hail NeGeeky, wot news from the front?

Is it a plane, is it a bird; nah, it's NeGeeky.

I can even hear the crowd roaring as he slays the final Shambler with his axe, "Ne-Gee-Key, Ne-Gee-Key, Ne-Gee-Key..." 

neg BANG ke 

 

pronounced neg-key

then again, every alias including my own is probably subject to "obvious" and incompatible interpretations ;) 

How did I do? ;) 

Neg-kay
Tron-wyn
Da-z

Next! 

neg-kee
tron-yin 

Experiment inspired by Sock's texture set and design for The Florentine Library at http://www.simonoc.com/

Trying to learn Gmax modeling. Made a few map models for torches (not very good). Down sampled a few models found on the web. Re-skinned a few. I think I have the modeling pipeline down as explained by Preach on his site.
As far as making a real Quake level out of it, vis time would be too long.
Recommend Fitzquake Mark V has .tga skins

Screenshot
http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files/screen_shots/lod.jpg
Download
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?e2m52lju85lldv5 

Wow ! This map works (slow to load, though).

I didn't tried yet with the DMtoSP yet. Should be cool. 

Do this to make shadows cast from your torches if you want: http://mobile.sheridanc.on.ca/~jonescor/post.php?postID=5 

I will use that in the future. I may try to make a version that can be vised, func_walls hidden shadow casting brushes. I'm just bummed out about the hatred vis gave my map.

Does anyone know of QC mod or maybe engine that allows setting a static models light level? Lighting from the floor can suck. 

There is no such thing. Model light level is handled by the engine. 

OK vis times are too much so this is what I tried. In Fitzquake with Quoth I loaded the level as a bsp model. Works looks good !!! ok just a model no collision no vis sealing. Next I took the level brushwork and reduced them down to simple geometry skip textured. Looks good, vis in minutes not days... loads but crashes engine :(

So next I had a pint seems better now 

Got fed up looking at the crappy skin on the silver/gold keys and thought it would be cool if they got an upgrade. I used a smaller skin size (64x64) and still got more detail on to the model! :D

New and old Keys 

Very nice, proper uvmaps ftw. 

I think I would prefer it if the spikes on the key were blue too, but otherwise that's an excellent skin. :) 

those are models I've hardly thought of in Quake, though a few mods have replaced them (The Demon King, if I remember correctly, and RMQ).

personally I'm fine with the ends of the spikes being brown, but I think the main part of the spikes should be blue - a gradient, like the key-prongs. 

I always thought of Tronyn in Daz's way (the y as an i).

My friend wanted to make a call that most people would have understood the pronunciation of if it had been called Nexius, but because of his spelling/pronunciation issues he called it Nexuiz, leading gamers to pronounce the title "Nex-whiz." lol. 

make a game / call a game - that seemed pretty ESL 

I like those keys :D

I pronouce Tronyn as "Tron-NiN". 

Any better? Changed central spike area, showing gold version as well.

New Keys v2 

Oh yeah, much nicer! I shall enjoy opening many locked doors with those! :D 

I like the way you've unwrapped the shaft of the key to get a hard edge on the highlight all the way along.