IMO the ra/tele room is way too easy to control and it will be hard sneaking a ra from there. When moving it even closer to the tele it's almost impossible since all entrances can be covered easily and the drop from above is not possible anymore. Btw. I still totally dislike your two-way teleporter....

AFAIK q3 fully understands and supports the alpha channels of tga files. So no need for 'black or white backgrounds' at all, just use a program supporting alpha channels (like photoshop does).

As a regular (and quite good tbh) ctf player I jumped around in your last alpha yesterday. Will give some more feedback as soon as possible, maybe tonight or tomorrow. In short: It's already quite ok, but lacks some interesting areas for fighting. Mid could be a tad bigger, lower route is covered wa...

I also agree with everything sock already said. Gameplay is fine but it is no tourney map at all. Btw I noticed two minor errors while hopping along the platforms: First the map missed a texture. The cable going up from the keypad misses its texture on the small brush connecting the horizontal and v...

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Lost ftw!!

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Oh fjdskjf, i messed up the wolfenstein release with that of batman: arkham asylum. Of course it's already there for the pc, shame on me

Yeah, it's actually based on a modified Doom 3 engine. But there is now SDK yet, since the PC version will be released not until the mid or end of september.

Try running GTKRadiant in WinXP-Compatibility-Mode while also disabling Aero.

Running Vista or even Windows 7?

Just saw the presentation of the new development tools of the CryEngine3 recently presented at GamesCom. I must admit my german fellows are quite good in creating these tools, wish they would also be that good in content/game creation. Just have a look, IMO it is a great example where mapping is evo...

While using Windows, Paint.NET ist another great and free graphics program. It also supports TGAs and comes as a lightweight 1,6 MB Download (but as the name suggests, needs the .NET Framework to be installed).

[...]..though it is officially the first Q3 map that is unplayable on my system with r_speeds and all[...] You havent played Hipshot's Industrial Techmap, have you? :D Btw it's very nice how this place breathens again. Havent seen such a frequented beta thread for a long time. Keep up the good work...

Fixed those Shots for you:

I like the look of the second shot. Reminds me a bit of racing games (which seems to be good, since it's made for q3rally and defrag). But it's very hard to judge screenshots, if provided in this small size together with hardly any information about the map.

phantazm11: You played Uncharted recently, didnt you? Man this architecture reminds me a lot of that awesome game. Only the lightning is quite different, but that issue was already mentioned. sock: I really adore the brushwork you presented on the screenshots. Especially the sky light is superb. So ...

Dunno, are you sure the cvar even exists in baseq3? Maybe you'll set it in your config and hence it will be recognized in the console later on.
Maybe I can make some tests tomorrow evening.

Ok I looked deeper into this (without actually having a q3 copy available). First looked into the q3 source and realized that s_ambient seems not to be implemented in baseQ3. So I tried my luck with OSP, where I was sure s_ambient is available. And I came up with this: s_ambient <0|1> (default = 1) ...

Doesnt s_ambient just disables all target_speakers? Sounds logical since all game related sounds will be triggered by either the player or are hardcoded sounds for interactive objects (doors, teleporters, etc.).

Looks great and reminds me a lot of quake 1 (which is good).

eX Texture Set by evillair comes to my mind.

Edit: flesjflwkejf, evillair of course. Dunno what came into my mind while writing that...

You're welcome, hipshot. Glad to hear, that my input helped improving the map a bit. Will for sure test the updated version as soon as possible. Sadly, I'm rather busy currently but I hope I can give it a try during the next few days. Oh and something I was reminded by the new screenshots: consider ...

Visuals and architechture are outstanding, great job MegaMan44. I really like the fog blended into the skybox in the MH room. But I fear the gameplay will not work out. The flow on the upper level is quite dodgy. You can just go around in one direction and in the end the only option despite going ba...

As already stated the map is just too open. Especially the long wide corridors are a pain to travel while holding the flag. In fact you should try to make the map much smaller. At the moment it almost consists of corridors which dont offer much possibilities for escaping nor fighting. Another thing ...

Ok, here we go... Let's start how awesome this map is. I really, really love the visuals, the flow (excellent work with the planks) and the overall layout. It's tight but moving around is very fun and challenging. But (and there's always a but) I came along some suggestions while trolling around. Ma...