Quake 3 retro map: reqapartament (work in progress)

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Hi! After more than 15 years since I made my last map for Quake 3 Arena (reqtourney1), I’m symbolically coming back to create one more project

'reqapartament' – still a working title – is my personal retrospective and an attempt to recreate an old apartment, filled with memories from the past. Two rooms, a kitchen, a bathroom, and a few interesting 'secret areas' – all of this is sure to bring players a lot of joy and nostalgia

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/kD_QaIg6zSo

The map is primarily designed for 1v1/FFA gameplay, but I’ve also planned a CTF edition for a later release.

Launch scheduled for the first quarter of 2025!

Previously, I published similar works under the nickname 'Requiem.' If you’re curious, the previous reality-based maps had the file names: reqbathroom and reqkitchen, you can download them from lvlworld

And a few screenshots:

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The map was reflected in great detail, and that's because I have a ton of photos from my childhood, and later I also took a lot of pictures myself with my first digital camera Plus, of course, there are a lot of positive memories. Here are some reference photos:



In addition, I have a technical floor plan of the apartment with dimensions, and detailed measurements of the apartment elements are from a study on OWT-67 panel blocks in the polish book "Housing Construction Systems" by Eugeniusz Pliszka. For furniture dimensions I don’t know, I estimate them by analyzing photos in Photoshop, and I got the measurements for BlackRedWhite furniture directly from their customer service, as they sent me PDFs with assembly instructions I adopted a scale where 1 cm in reality corresponds to 3 units in Radiance.







So, let's back to work

[Hipshot]

That looks very nice man.
Those interiors with the stereo setup and all.