ever heard of jpg and low bandwith connection? 

is a proprietary format and in the interest of my laziness i will use the format that fuhquake exports to ;p 

i give you jpeg

http://www.qwplayers.org/inertia/visuals1.jpg 

Anyway, the screenshot looks good, keep it going. 

sham dont lie plz, it will do no good to him 

looks simple, minimalist. Well it works, lighting behind the GL looks gay though, fix it! :) 

is that the same map you were beta-testing a couple of weeks ago? 

shambler: thanks, will do

daz: thanks, will fix

tron: yes 

png supports compression, you know. Maybe you should use it. 

Any suggestions as to how I might improve the stair aesthetics? I could give them a flat, diagonal edge instead of jutting steps, but not quite sure what tex fits just right for the side-wall of the stairs themselves.

http://www.phait-accompli.com/q/s4/pre/m1s1.jpg
http://www.phait-accompli.com/q/s4/pre/m1s2.jpg 

stairs have been made in the past... look at them 

Phait: Texturing thick stairs like those is a tough task sometimes. As you suggested, putting a flat edge on the sides will give you more options. If you do that, then you can go with either a flat texture like you have now, or a horizontal panel. Either way, you might consider making them thinner.

inertia: Way to be helpful. At least suggest a map that has similarly styled stairs. 

It's hard to tell from those shots - it seems you want advice for the bottom of the stairs. I would say make the bottom much more detailed instead of thick stairs - make the bottom of the stairs thin a little and put some wierd tech-ish detail underneath, such as pipes or just wierd equipment. 

What the hell? You must be thinking of gif. 

Thanks. I think I'll go with making them thinner and smoothed, with something beneath them. 

coagula-thingy: nah, I don't know/think that voidism is such a big problem in this map - it's not like it's few small platforms in a big void but instead is fairly forgiving on mis-movement / flying around from rockets. The RA thingy seems a bit gimmicky, but has to be playtested... Might generate some interesting tactics. "If we take quad, they get ra" and timing becomes pretty important too.
Overall i'm itching to play this... :) 

k, this may do for now...
http://www.phait-accompli.com/q/s4/pre/m1s3.jpg
http://www.phait-accompli.com/q/s4/pre/m1s4.jpg

I gotta break up some of the walls yet. 

Make sure you rotate the texture on the sides of the edge brushes. 

I wasn't gonna, actually but maybe I will. Oh also to note, these aren't the latest shots of that area - the light-thing underneath the stairs as you can see isn't even connected in those shots. 

Yes you damn well will.

Have a think about it - would, in a futuristic enviroment, the angled edge of a stair consist of woefully inefficient slabs of random stuff butted together, or would it consist of long strong beams??

One thing people should remember even about Quake is to think what stuff is for and how it would be constructed. Stairs are stairs so make them like stairs. Same for doorways, windows, arches, roofs, gothic pillars, floating fortresses, satanic torture devices....they should all be what they are supposed to be. 

Phait; Yeah, more stuff like that.

cliffs != walls 

Sorry I'm not Kinn. :) 

Made two bats for Quake1. The first one is rather complex, 381 verts and 1076 triangles, and it looses a lot of textures on the backside.
The wings are made of just one sided triangles.
http://members.home.nl/gimli/fitz07.jpg

The other one is smaller, 275 verts and 750 triangles, and it has a double sided wing.
It looks as if this one has no gaps.
http://members.home.nl/gimli/fit10.jpg

What causes this loss of textures, causing gaps
in the model? Every time I patch them they just reappear. 

Have you made sure the triangles aren't present, just facing the wrong way? Sometimes the normals get flipped in the conversion process. 

I imported the model to QMLE by *.3ds and *.dxf
Then some vertices were wrong situated and I corrected them.
In the frontside they are well , but on the top they don't seem to render. When I patch the topsite, then the frontside disappears.

http://members.home.nl/gimli/quake.jpg