tronyn, love the first shot! 

Black & White Quake? 

that would be pretty cool. 

no I just wanted to not show much by making it grayscale and having a vignette effect. Though Black and White Quake could definitely be interesting (and Willem's Q1SP, White Room, totally kicked ass with that idea). 

...a tiny little mod that turned quake greyscale or was it sepia? 

in fitz... just don't ask me what it is because I cant remember :P 

http://sketchquake.blogspot.de/

r_load sketch or sth. 

was original as a college work.
Had some cool render options like blue pencil drawing effect. 

They show more than enough. :)

It looks very detailed and with good proportions, it doesn't seem Quake. This kind of map seems to be from Hexen 2. First shot looks nearly perfect. Only thing that doesnt look as good are the torches, i dont know why, and maybe lowering a bit the platforms with the trees. 

I made a sepia palette for quake once, lemme see if I can dig it out...

Yeah, here we go:

http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files/single_player/mods/noir.zip

As distrans mentioned, it is a tiny mod - under 17k unpacked. It's going for a filmy look so it's quite sepia tinted, rather than a pure photographic black and white. 

Etc. 

It is interesting how designers have architectural themes they love to fall back on, I think Tronyn loves claws! I personally prefer screenshot 2 because the claw silhouettes are visually striking, the first screenshot feels like a scene from Heretic, not really Quake.

I tried the Noir MOD and it is still affected by coloured lighting which can produce some interesting results. For Noir to truly be right you need to design in black and white (including the lighting/fog). I think it could be interesting to experiment with coloured lighting and see if it is possible to produce chilling and sickly scenes. 

the qmb engine has a sin city mode with all but red bring desaturated, kinda fun 

noir from Preach...that's the one. Interesting observation Sock, might be enough to get me back into pushing brushes. Cheers... 

...tends to make Heretic in Quake. But that's all good with me :) 

Did I mention that Rick's stuff looks ace? Very nice style. 

I actually really like the way that looks! 

Awesome work y'all! Can't wait to put my hands on these maps once they're finished. 

Tronyn and Sock. Looking forward to these! 

 

<3 <3 A-HA 

The coloured lighting you've got going on there is nice and complementary. Other things that can ruin the effect include full colour textures, which obviously don't bother with the palette files. So be careful with those skyboxes. On the other hand, you could even go far as restoring the red tones in the palette if you wanted to remake Schindler's List... 

Continuing the proud tradition of Preach Double-Posts, I thought I'd mention two things about "wasted" pixels in the quake palette - a topic that came up just three, four days ago. So I've got some explanations for how you might get two identical palette entries, notice, but not care. The easy one to explain is the red duplicated entry. It isn't really wasted, because one of them is fullbright and one isn't!

But wait, even the other "wasted" pixel isn't really wasted. True, both entries are the same shade of brown and neither are fullbright, but there is an important use for each of them. Remember that the "runs" of 16 colours are used for the changing colours on the player skins. So it was necessary to have the same dark brown in two places on the palette to let the palette shifting work. You could argue that they didn't need to be exactly the same colour, but either they are similar enough to make no real difference, or they're so different that one of the runs would look odd. 

I'm not sure, the colormap still has to work from the palette and would have slightly less banding if the duplicates were put to good use. 

In my post on this earlier I said there was 5% wasted colors, but I don't know where that percent sign came from. I meant to just say 5. That doesn't count the red since, as mentioned, one of them is in the fullbrights.