Because they look good - Quake palette to the rescue! 

Maybe we're used to that combination. And the graininess helps 

Bringing the real issues to the fore! Surprised that one slipped through sock's ultra-refinement. 

Yes. That looks so profoundly atmospheric and classic. 

The lights are powered by magic, silly. They always work regardless of damage. 

Well to be fair I did add a flicker to the light! :P

The map is about only using a limited texture set and nothing else. It has been really hard to resist adding more textures but I am hoping people will just fill in the gaps and imagine it sparking and the light texture flickering. 

additional textures as long as they remain very id-vanillesque. So while I know you are not doing that, if you decide to compromise later on down the line, i'll be super stoked. I love new custom id1 style textures, and would be excited about using them in my own mapping (as I am about using the ones you've already created [once you're cool with that obviously])! 

phiran�a's don't eat eachother. 

LOL-- brilliant!! 

phiran�a's don't bite eachother,

as I think they do eat eachother
after getting hurt. 

bite 

 

help your self

download 

Large Pixels 

Wind tunnels! 

Oh my god!
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7xq4r74I11qg2mip.gif 

and also I think the the roof light is giving off too much for its size? 

It looks as though the light entity is too far away from the window and therefore unnaturally lights the walls on either side.

If you make the window a non light blocking entity (I forget what it is) you can put a stronger light outside the window and get a better effect of light streaming into the room. 

It would look better if the ceiling was protruding upwards, not downwards. 

Look like old chimney stacks :) 

Something doesn't look quite right with the ceiling I agree. 

You can use a func_wall as the window glass and put a sky brush behind it to seal it from leaking. Then put a not too bright light inside the sky brush, but give it a small wait value so it has some reach. Finally, put a stack of low value lights in front of the window to provide some fill. Otherwise the window frame will be pitch black.

http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files/screen_shots/wish13.jpg 

I love that idea.

Sock, that looks nice! You're spoiling us! 

 

This is basically the same thing as Mike mentioned above. Here is how one window from the previous screenshot is set up in the editor.

http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files/screen_shots/wish13editview.jpg

You should be aware though that I tend to use pretty low light values, but then I boost it during compile. So, my light values will probably be too low for most people. I used range 1.4 for the build that previous screenshot came from ( I also tweaked the sceenshot in PSP, I hope I didn't make it too bright).