Trimgasm! 

that looks awesome. I much prefer small maps with detail like that than huge maps with plainess everywhere. 

Good luck! Hope this marks your triumphant return to quake mapping! 

 

Gotta love it. Beautiful. 

Because I have pressing matters to attend to -

http://www.quaketastic.com/files/screen_shots/sensf1.png 

You better have rolling boulders around the corner from there. 

Interesting, good stuff. 

Note: Textures and lightning not yet done. Only checking basic layout / item placement for now.

After wanting to jump into level editing for years a friend recently asked me to make a 3v3 -> 5v5 TDM map for an event and this is roughly what I came up with.
I just want to check feedback on anything that needs changing badly.

Linky: http://www.mediafire.com/download/uvxnf915bd4svg7/spz1dm2ftk_test.zip 

Whoops, should have mentioned it's for Quake / QW 

i think its worth posting despite the gun.
http://i.imgur.com/re4mmwk.jpg 

http://i.imgur.com/81RoXoQ.png 

Strogg invaded netherworld 

I was excited, but your forgot r_drawviewmodel 0

-1/10 

harvesting your brushwork 

Works pretty well for like 15 minutes of work. Leaves could be added with fences maybe. And different coloured version (more brown) would be very feasable for barrier structures.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15588722/post/func_msg/bambootest.png 

Fucking hell mfx that's some fine brushwork in this shot: http://i.imgur.com/fQ3VK3f.jpg

Looks like if Studio Ghibli did Quake 

thx. Go map! 

Hi. First time user. I'd like some feedback on a level I'm currently working on. It's a remake of the first level of Monolith's original game, Blood. I've added a few if my own touches to the concept to make it look more like a modern work.

Please watch this YouTube video to see a complete run through of the map.

http://youtu.be/wqaZqz-MM6g

I'd love to hear any criticism and suggestions.

Thanks!

Ruin 

Very promising.

Outside bits look good. Rocks could do with some more rounding off.

Inside bits boxy and a bit cramped.

Textures are consistent but look a bit like arse.

I'd say, keep the design and layout, upscale the inside rooms a bit, add some more interesting quake-like designs and details to them, and go for a more subtle texture set. 

This is just a quick test I made, which I think works pretty well.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15588722/post/func_msg/brickstile_test.png

Basically it still is only 8 different blocks from the source 128x128, but they are distributed around the 512x512 so there is a less obvious tiling grid.

Older for comparison:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15588722/post/func_msg/brickstile.png

Also this version is already somewhat dirtied up with tints and the like, so ideally I would do the tiling pass on the cleaner version, and then dirty up from there, so the dirt is actually unique. I reckon for stuff like bricks and the like, things that tile across bigger areas, this is worth it, no? Do we even need small 128x128 versions? 

as a fan of blood I really like the look of your version of the map. :) 

texture is very well done... though I think if you want the texture to be used alongside or fit in with the current set of textures then it needs colours from different parts of the palette. When you look at even some of the most simple textures in quake it's very rare they stick to the same colour row. 

Atm this one uses colours from 4 rows I think, but they are all brownish, apart from the little grey bits I got in there. That kinda stuff will be what I will do later on when I got a really good base to work from and sorted out some other colour variants first. Little bits of green, blue, whatever works nicely.

Though I am not necessarily thinking about how these will work with the original textures, since I want to make a full set, trims, buttons and all of that. So mappers can just use my set if they want, but it should work OK with the original Quake stuff nonetheless.

Also when it comes to all the wads that are floating around out there, from the Dooms, Heretics, Hexens, stuff like Kingpin and what have you. All of those are kinda different styles and people still mix them together (more or less successfully)

So with that in mind I will just mainly focus on making a selfsustained set where people will not generally think "Oh, I need this one texture from the original Quake here." 

Everything on the right track, but get rid of that 'kin' horse that's following you!