People is answering: "because it's archaic art". What surprises me is that more people would be largely using Q3 textures to map for QS or MarkV, but most of you rather stick to traditionals.

This is not really any different to the "more polys = betterer" "argument".

Open up any Sock map. Note how awesome the texturing is, and how the low-fi textures compliment the low-fi architecture and the low-fi monsters. Once you start randomly adding hi-res to certain aspects of the game and not others, the cohesion just breaks down. 

Yeah, I mean obviously you can set up Quake to look however you want, but just in service of explaining why I myself like to disable texture filtering I'd say the same things as Warren/Kinn. The game's visuals were designed a certain way, and while that doesn't mean it's immune to improvement, it does mean that changing certain things may "break" its look by making it less harmonious.

On a similar note that's why some things about the look of Unreal/UT rubbed me the wrong way. I like those games _a lot_ and am only teasing if/when I get involved in the "Quake vs. Unreal" wars, but I always thought they tried to do too much with texture detail for the level of geometry detail that they had available. It's probably at least partially just because I imprinted on Quake first, but I always thought it had a very nice match between its chunky geometry and pixelly/impressionistic textures.

Unrelated P.S.: negke is playing some cool Than maps right now on twitch.tv/negke 

Just for the record, I've seen amazing things people here do using 1996 textures. Scampie just posted some. 

more resolution is not more freedom.

I have fun making content for this game rather than doom3 or unreal4 because I can spend as long on an entire quake level as one model in those engines. 

Sock's mod has a nice alias prebinded: 'pixels'. It lets you switch between crisp textures or blurred textures simply without having to remember the obscure GL_WHATEVER_MODE_SETTING command, so you can all set it to whichever you prefer. 

More resolution is more work, nothing more. 

alias filter1 "echo Point Sampling -OFF-; bf; gl_texturemode 6; r_particles 1; bind F1 filter2"
alias filter2 "echo Point Sampling -ON-; bf; gl_texturemode 3; r_particles 2; bind F1 filter1"
bind "F1" "filter1" 

the 'bf' is a nice touch

"shazam! pixels!" 

let's make it a powerup you pick up in game. 30 seconds of pixel-vision, and you can jump twice as high. 

Hi-res Minecraft powerup! 

http://imgur.com/a/qoq41

not a whole lot to look at without textures / detailing. just working on the layout. might inspire someone with the basic architecture though 

Looks like it will be a really nice DM map. Love arenas.

What QuakeWorld client is this? 

http://www.quaketastic.com/files/screen_shots/5thadbase1.jpg

http://www.quaketastic.com/files/screen_shots/5thadbase2.jpg

Just thought I would leave these here. 

This and #12560 are the same? It's evolving really nice. These screenshots are beautiful. Again, you guys squeeze sweet juice from these textures. Kudos. 

looks nice 

Yes, it's from the same map. The second shot isn't really lit. But I enjoyed the silhouette so much that I thought I would share. In-game it's a bit too dark. 

I enjoyed it too :) 

http://imgur.com/a/LDmA3 

Very nice! Looks like it could have been a good map for the last jam! 

Looking brilliant, the rockwork especially!
Go map! 

adib: thanks, ezquake. 

forgot to add im doing some level design streaming tonight. just working on that dm map cleaning up the brushwork and changing a few things before texturing / lighting / detailing.

http://twitch.tv/foogs_ 

im awful at the art part :(

http://imgur.com/a/YJnut 

Sweet broken floor. I could see the layout when you noclipped. It will be a fast 1v1 arena, right? Those are my favorite. 

hype.