If you make brick textures this way, it's also nicer to make the overlayed pattern both provide highlights and shadows (instead of just shadows -- with multiply), and try other layer modes, to keep the colours fresh. Also, I'd suggest cutting up the texture layer (or working with layer masks) to cre...

Also, the ad probably should say "others can't" -- instead of "other can't". Or was that intentional and am I being a troll? :]

Very nice.

And good to see my old q2 crates in there, too :]

I see your 'yes' and I raise you a footstomping 'no'. :]

Colorcombos is neat, didn't know that one -- I always use:
http://www.colorjack.com/sphere/

I casually suggest adding spires/structures to the underside of the map, in your usual elegant, plastic style..

Looks great!

I'd rework or remove those "reinforced concrete" decals, though -- they look a little too much like somebody put some chewing gum on the walls. :]

Just felt that I had to post this: I really like where this is going. The piping and lighting and other details (like doorways and insets) in those last shots look neat.

no, perfect sense is being made.

I just want to briefly note that Death Ears would make a great name for a blackmetal band. Edit: oops, that is, in response to about a page back.. :) I'll just make this post more useful: I suggest that you get (or make) a better grate texture for that floor grating, Kaz. It's a neat part of the roo...

Hehe, I feel that. I just build the shape I want (with TJ-errors and all), see if it works and is final, and then fix the TJs.

@cityy: I just want to call your attention to an important part of Hipshot's advice that you might have missed. Notice that the way he suggest shaping the brushes actually follows the shapes in the wood texture. In your screenshot I still see a clash between the parts that are cut out and the actual...

Well, I'm about as hyped and eager to try this map as I would a new game that's just been released. :]

I began making those textures for another map, a Q2 Tokay's Towers remake by Reboot ( http://hem.passagen.se/macleod2/quake3/ ... eq2dm2.htm ).
It's really too bad that he never made a lvl release for that -- it only works (properly) with Generations Arena.

I actually only ever started one Q3 map that I didn't finish. It was a (rather lame) attempt to remake a Quake 2 "palace" level, or at least parts thereof: [lvlshot]http://www.tabun.nl/tmp/q3w/map_graveyard_tab3dm1_1.jpg[/lvlshot] [lvlshot]http://www.tabun.nl/tmp/q3w/map_graveyard_tab3dm1_...

I don't see mine.. :]

- tabd2map01
- tabq1dm5

Cheers.

Looks like Filter Forge work to me. And as work that should be used as a layer or modifier for something else, and not stand on its own feet..

I'm kind of lost now. Are you guys talking about what I suggested or what obsidian suggested? Obsidian's method is bound to be the way to go, seeing as he's the shader guru. I just thought up a hack that seemed to work well enough for what I needed.

It's pretty damned cool to see those (very old) textures of mine in a neat map. Never did think they'd see any use outside of Generations Arena maps. :]

Looks to me like it's only problematic for mod teams and professional developers. Those should have access to their own dev. databases and resource kits anyway. I'm used to people stealing just about everything I've ever done for Generations Arena, whereas people seem to be very conscientious about ...

Hmm, the whole plan of having a lot of people join in and contribute to a huge decal library never really got off to a good start, has it? ... ;]

I will make no claims to have done this "right," but I used a trick to control the water surface better in tabq1dm5: I wrote a shader for water effects , that has no stages, but just creates an invisible water brush (with fog). This has " q3map_noTJunc " and " q3map_noClip &...

Be sure to take a look at the broken glass section on cgtextures. There are quite a few images there that are ready to be used as decals, and obviously there is some very realistic stuff to be found there. ;]

Dunno if it's nifty, but I like how you can control how to duplicate brushes of an entity:
- use copy + paste: the new brushes form a new, identical, entity
- use spacebar: the new brushes are part of the old entity

So.. I've written a couple of reviews, but the maps currently on the list have been sitting there for quite a while -- unreviewed and all. Isn't there anyone (better than myself at it) willing to chuck in a few reviews?