geX wrote:We are a bit on a steam here, so here is another WIP.

Mars City Living Quarters

Oh very nice and geat lighting for doom3! Is it 4+ lights per face?

what are the 1 to 8 "level" buttons in the UI menu? any way to enable shift+mouse-drag selection in 2d view?

Do you see a possibility of converting it to standalone game? (since you redid most of the game code, you have your own textures, and all the maps are new, and the engine is open source anyway)
Quake 1 modding scene been pretty much dead for 10 years unfortunately

Discouraging license to say the least.

35 gb really? does it come with all the art assets?

And nothing can scare old school mappers who used to deal with IDs tools running vis and light for weeks! (ok, DromEd can)

Well, Im trying to get the style kinda like shiny normalmapped, but for old technology w/o normal maps ) Could try to tone down the hilights a bit

Been drawing some textures

Sock textures: I have some concerns. Not a big fan of those oversized rivets. I feel they are inappropriate for indoor panels. They would look in place at some bigger scale structures outdoors and trains or ships. Panel surfaces and edges look rather undetailed and all you see are those huge frequen...

Never played ctf. But it looks good, very solid and proportioned brushwork, good lighting.

Obsidian, you really need to release a texture pack!

Fully agree. Also that short tutorial is good, you could expand it a bit and publish in another thread so people don't miss it.

Sock:the texture difference is subtle (I wouldnt notice except dirt on the floor and sharper white-blue floor) but the lighting improved indeed, making the scene look better.

isnt gridsize for lightgrid that affects the lighting of entities, like players, items etc and not the world lightmaps

Interesting observation about exaggerated contrast and black lines making it look less natural. I assume it's somewhat based on Florence Italian architecture and they indeed tend to have a lot of contrast in decoration and floor tiles. Which you probably never can see in the photos, because limited ...

Rav3n I think your textures are high quality already, just not all of them work together. I understand its hard to find many quality photo sources.

yeah sure, I sorted it out and made original trunk texture instead of the one in the screenshot (that was lifted from some game) http://www.mediafire.com/?ijnnhawqsugfx8g btw is there a general thread for mapmodels around here?

The white\red checker, you can see it in the screenshot. Looks very strange.

The style is selfexplaining I guess. The scale issue: there supposed to be a consistent correlation between world scale and texture pixels, in quake (or any FPS game) especially. If you have a wall 1024pix that supposed to be about several times player hight (lets say 256 units) then you' d want to ...

made a tree model


EDIT: download here http://www.mediafire.com/?ijnnhawqsugfx8g

why floor texture on the walls?

So I checked it, and its very raw indeed, not a texture set but a collection of materials of inconsistent scale and style.
Still useful, just have to pick some textures carefully and mix with some other set.

I did some testing and it seems smoothgroups are ignored completely.

Yes the model is big and about 10k polys.
I also use q3map2 from netradiant, its somewhat improved, maybe they changed something about model handling too

2.5.17n
Q3Map (ydnar) - v2.5.17n
NetRadiant - v1.5.0n Mar 9 2011

What program are you guys using to model with? Phong shaders can work with lightmapped models, though smoothing groups and vertex lighting usually works better. Model exported from max to .ase. Smoothed finely, looks smooth in radiant (so its not an exporter issue). Looks all wrong compiled either ...

downloading, might use if I do a map with real-time lighting

True that, phong shaders don't seem to work on the models.
I can't get my models to light properly at all, smoothgroups work incorrectly and the model gets lightmapped even with no flags.. sigh

-fast culls lights, (hope I get it right) so technically its not a worse quality but different max distance for light, thus you get a darker overall look, which might be good/bad