V.2 comments in demo:

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/wbnjb6zbrx2j95q/hellvertv2_lurk.zip

Briefly:
1. I've enjoyed my duels on this one. Thanks for the changes!

2. There is a leak above the lightning gun.

3. Bars at green armor area need a clip brush.

4. Nailgun ammo is a little tight in 3P.

5. MH alcove probably needs a back, as the MH is too close to the RA right now.


Keep it up! 

looks great.
The wind tunnels are made of bricks? It works. Like the subtle custom textures, the simple quasi-metal/industrial grillwork.
Is that a fog laden abyss below the wind tunnels?

Really nothing to criticize, for me, except that the bottom area, if it is a pit, is very flat, if that makes sense. Like some kind of downwards protruding structures there would make it look better, imo. 

yeah the wind tunnels are made of bricks which is stupid, but I wanted to stick to the brick theme and not get back into metal. This is a screenshot of the skill selection area, the abyss below is deep, but the fog does not work well at distance fading to black. I like the idea of stuff protruding below. 

it looks pretty good with bricks. At first I wasn't sure. Might be divisive, but it doesn't seem *wrong*. 

in the first wind tunnel, have some bricks broken off the tunnel visually... and then as the player takes it, have some bricks fly by his vision inside the tunnel 

As he exits the tunnel there's an ogre, who gets a brick in the face. 

But I think it's something to do with the way Quake skews the textures on angled surfaces that makes it feel odd. 

The vertical parts with the brick don't look too bad. Do you horizontal scale to compensate for stretching? It's hard to tell in the screenshot.

Where the top part angles out is a Quake texture alignment nightmare, I don't think there's any way to make that look right. 

I see nothing wrong with bricks for a "wind tunnel"

Quake has the same thing. 

@scampie, that is the sort of stuff you should put into a speed map! :)

@ijed, I love it, a brick to the face of an ogre! for some reason I googling brick to the face and got some funny images! :P

@Rick, this is me being lazy, I have fixed the texture stretching on the pipe 45 angles. I did not do a final texture pass. The screenshot is one big climbing frame, just stuff for the player to explore while deciding which skill to pick. 

I kept thinking of the pain animation where he sits down and then gets back up. 

When you have surfaces at 45 degree angles on every axis texture alignment hopeless.

I've been doing a sort of Doom style texture wrapping where it makes a difference, but in many cases it's not much improvement. 

I Wasn't Being Critical

I took no offense by your comments, I have a very thick skin with regards to internet feedback. I always prefer people to be critical of my work because 'no comment' is not much use to me. 

 

No comment.

Except that it looks great. 

Being ignored is the worst critique you can get. 

makes sense for a brick wind tunnel. 

Those brick wind tunnels are great, but maybe the need to be further apart? 

You make every map look like a legend! 

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

in the Ukraine gives me the mapping fever, fifth_elephant.

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

That's some intense detail you have there MadFox with the tiny little arch shapes under the trim! Maybe even a little *too much* detail!

I'd love to see where you go with this though :) 

The pix of the side of the castle in the inspiration thread is tremendous.
The front from the sea makes it an irratic sculpture, though.
Maybe to much detail, but that towers are hard to compare with hust jubes.

Always surprised when an impression sets me up mapping. 

Well, in case anyone was interested in knowing if Cryostasis (6/10) or Star Wars The Force Unleashed (7.5/10) are any good, I reviewed them...

http://www.etherealhell.com/etherealhell/index.php

They were alright. 

@Madfox, is that castle front gate from a photo reference? I like the style but the small towers feel too small for the overall structure.