There are two bounding box sizes in Quake: 32*32*64 and 64*64*96 - there needs to be enough room for the whole box to fit plus a couple of units leeway. So in order for a monster to be able to walk the stairs, there must be enough room above and in front of it. To examplify, make a brush of the same size and try to move it down the stairs without it touching or intersecting anything.

Try r_showbboxes 1 to get an idea how it looks in game. 

Giftmacher in da house:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C8Wql_dXkAAZOFT.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C8WqqdJXgAAT04t.jpg 

 

looks awesome 

really nice ! 

Hi, this is my first map, looking for at least 1 person to look for bugs before an "official" release. The map is Id1 with a skybox, the readme has instructions, a story and more.

Map Beta file: http://www.quaketastic.com/files/redfield1_beta.zip

Some screenies:
http://www.quaketastic.com/files/redfieldscreen001.jpg
http://www.quaketastic.com/files/redfieldscreen002.jpg
http://www.quaketastic.com/files/redfiedlscreen003.jpg
http://www.quaketastic.com/files/redfieldscreen004.jpg
http://www.quaketastic.com/files/redfieldscreen005.jpg

Thank you everyone, I look forward to feedback anyone can give. My email is in the readme for bug reporting. 

Congrats on almost getting ready for a release!

Nighttime terracotta with some lava is a nice mix! 

You got mail sir 

keep it up 

 

Thank you all for the comments and especially the demo Daz. I'll be making whatever changes I can according to feedback before I post the map up officially.

Thanks again! 

Before releasing, if you're using ericw's light compiler, won't you try to apply some Phong shading in these columns? Check this out: https://ericwa.github.io/tyrutils-ericw/

Anyways, I love when people dare on brushwork. Looking forward to play! 

gl_texturemode GL_NEAREST_MIPMAP_LINEAR 

I made some statues as details/fillers. The sphinx-like ones are cute; as for the other ones, however, they kind of look like penguins or pidgeons wearing ties?! Maybe if they carried crates on their heads.... 

are officially a Lovecraft monster.... 

....but not the negke map I am looking for. 

...it turns out that they worshipped penguins. Who would've thought it? 

guess I was wrong... I love bsp prefabs like that 

I made a Quake Team Fortress map using Trenchbroom. I thought I might add a SS.

http://imgur.com/OZEspcg

It's hosted over at tastyspleen.net::MegaTF Classics (74.86.171.201:27502) 

Cool stuff, I like the moat! 

....but the overall style of that map looks very cool :) 

I wonder, is there an active TF community? 

Tip: make the top of the mountains a large rectangle, all back edges running in a straight line, in order to have only five sky brushes with smooth surfaces. Saves some polys. 

Sorry SS = screenshot.

Your best bet on finding a TF game happens on Fridays.

I made the sky that way so to give the towers the honor of being the tallest object in the map. The mountains are shorter so the sky had to be extended to accommodate the towers. Kinda makes them look bigger or maybe helps to focus the eye on them a bit more.