There IS kind of a standard form language in Quake3 maps, and has been for a while. Same floor texture everywhere, with 8 or 16 unit trim around all the edges, cut all the walls horizontally and stack textures. It was oppressive space themes years ago but it's now morphed into brick warehouses, like...

How does this work? Is it all generated into this shape and then you export it as a model and import it? It takes an overall working volume that it cuts up randomly into non-overlapping brushes, and x smaller volumes that are either solid (brushes are clipped away inside and caulked) or empty (brus...

Progress on making cubespew more robust. These are some simple volumes, and the cubey breakup generated from them: [lvlshot]http://lunaran.com/pics/q3_dm5_cuuubes4.png[/lvlshot] Still having a problem with a larger block winding up with a narrow gap around it that gets filled with a row of 8x8 cubes...

I didn't want to place zillions of brushes in Radiant to detail a whole map this way so I wrote some python script to generate it in a way that gave me control over placement/density/etc. Once I already had that working, it was a short hop to add texture alignment, because I was finding the lighting...

I'm a big fan of corsair's 20b contest entry - a lot of entries seemed to rely on quake3 gameplay being resilent enough to support a too-small and simple map rather than really try and get the most out of twenty brushes, but he's got an entire quality layout there. style test: http://lunaran.com/pic...

q3map2 isn't as good about lightmapping big mesh faces either.



I wanted to model and uv a whole map in Maya and that tanked the idea pretty early.

(unless there's a fix for this I never found ...)

sock, rgoer, pjw, raven (ford, right?), Hellchick, kungfusquirrel, ken20banks, and myself were all at raven at the same time. I think wviperw started after rgoer left, but otherwise we all overlapped. I don't if pjw and wviperw are still there after the last round of layoffs, but raven went in the f...

fKd, those are some surprisingly metallic looking textures for an engine with no speculars. nice.

A little color makes a big difference:

oh yeah that's the map I'm making

You can't measure this stuff precisely - making everything to exact scale in a game with 90° FOV and linear perspective comes out looking all wrong. Doors look cramped and halls are tiny and ceilings are low and details are all microscopic and busy, because we should be seeing those things with near...

I guess it works best in a space map but it could also be useful for partial sky exposure. Working on a different map, I could never force q3map2 to give me the right brightness vs falloff distance of sky surfacelights, but the dozens-o-suns thing is exactly the effect I wanted there too. One bright...

Well, there's HDR as High Dynamic Range, with floating-point lighting values that aren't bound to a particular exposure bracket or monitor brightness range, which quake3 simply doesn't do, and there's other lighting techniques that kind of get lumped in with it that aren't really dynamic or high ran...

[lvlshot]http://lunaran.com/pics/q3_hdr2.jpg[/lvlshot] Stupid skybox lines. I need to try ioq3. I used python to crank out a ton of sun definitions with colors sampled from the skybox to mimic HDR dome lighting. There are 92 suns, which I'm willing to guess is a record. I'm probably just going to pl...

/me lifts up his shirt

This is not a screenshot: I had a quick idea for something I wanted to try out in Quake3 - not a full blown map investment, just some poking around. GTKR isn't working right! Of course it isn't. Okay, yay, I dunno why the hell it won't load shaders all of a sudden, I remember messing with some inter...

I really hate how viewing this forum will reload anew every image posted in a thread under all circumstances.

Isn't that kind of a waste of everyone's host bandwidth?

well, either that or keep the simple shapes and use a rock texture with lots of forms in the normal. :)

What studio in their right minds is going to want to take the time and resources to paint unique textures for every map in their game?

Strahlemann wrote:i even can hear a helicopter flying somewhere out there

ooh, good idea.

well I hate to be the sour grapes guy, but the kind of mod communities that quake 1/2/3 (and other titles of their eras) enjoyed will never, ever happen again making games is just too involved these days--what used to take one guy to build now takes a dozen guys, all from different disciplines Anot...

I miss the Quake3 engine hard . [lvlshot]http://www.lunaran.com/pics/lun3dm5_wip2.jpg[/lvlshot] (I wanted to just toss that in and sneak away but there's been some neat looking stuff I wanna comment on. Strahlemann, this is a bit late but very nicely done, but, that green is seriously overpowering, ...

I did this at home in Q4R. I just hit ctrl-I in photoshop to make the grid view black.

WolfRadiant probably still looks like the radiant you're used to.

Wow.. Okay, tutorials/strategies for painting light textures for ambient lights, please. That whole idea is dead secksy. Well, this one isn't for an ambient light but the principle is the same. You've got a light source in a room, and that light is going to spread out from the source in volumes. Th...

i really like the space you've created in the first shot, especially the way it's lit up, but what's actually filling that space is a tad disappointing No arguments there. :/ I really just built an awesome ceiling and thought, "ok, now what" nice job on the HL2 look btw. ever considered s...

Okay, this is really kind of a dumb release. http://www.lunaran.com/pics/strombine/thumbs/strombine_1.jpg I've been doing a bunch of experimentation on the side with this engine, noodling problems and issues we're all pretty familiar with. They all got lumped into one map through various circumstanc...

I always liked ztn's maps. He was an inspiration when I was starting out.