Right, the sound is great now, just lowered the looptime to 15 sec before it gets annoying.

I see the lightstrike is rather pale, and affects the light by dimming it.
Maybe I shouldn't worry too much about inside light, as long there are windows.

I suppose the light can't be brought back to not-lightned for an instance?

here is the file so far. 

though I think it would have been cool to have the lighting done as the lightning model used in the LG gun... Definitely a cool start though. Couple this with some rain fx (I'm sure there was a mod for that) and you could make a really creepy haunted castle/mansion map 

The line:

lightstyle(0,"z");

is what's leaving the lights on. The letter in the "quotes" is saying how strong the light effect should be. Some examples:

"a" is pitch black
"e" is quite dark
"m" is normal lighting level
"s" is brighter than average
"z" is as bright as you can go.

So in order for the lightning to not be permanent, you need always end on a
lightstyle(0,"m");
not "z" like the current code does. 

@fithelfant - making the tesslacoil I used a bold beam to reach the player. Not so easy to make it a split beam. There is a beamcode in the chtong map, but it excludes doors.

@Preach -I see,
great to see those parms, shouldn't know where to look.
Good to make it go from dimm to bright.
Still it feels a little bleached.

I dug into the SOA code,
it uses a lightning code that can make it fullclear for a moment.
"TheCrypt" has an example, where I expected such eyecandy.
Timing will be a cripple problem with a static entity. 

Updated the the weatherflash with blitz.zip on Quaketastic with sound and scattered light.

Although the framecycle for the sprite is 15,
in game it appears 17-32-47.
So there's a delay of 2 sec.

Trying to use progsref for adding a flash fails going out of pattern.
I think it's because the static entity is apart of the game engine.

Thanks for support, Preach! 

Quaketree - no bandwidth, it was hosted on PlanetQuake, so it took me time to do but no ���. No favouritism either, I didn't know who any mapper was. Just a straightforward desire to promote mapping that was equalling or improving what Id had done. It was a long time ago and I probably went about it in a fairly crude or tactless way but my motives were pure. 

Mechtech - Titan1 looks great, nice strong designs and funky details. I agree the frilly stuff is a bit frilly, I also think some textures could be toned down, but keep this one going for sure.
Titan2 is not my style, it looks like HL1 in the Quake engine. I can see some designs and ideas are cool but I think the style needs to be made more harmonious with Quake and it's monsters.

RingOfQD. Nicely detailed but please just go ahead and make a map!! 

...and this is what i have so far
http://i.imgur.com/5ceLd8F.png 

Those that have downloaded the test map. Let me know if it works. If anything is broken, if it crashes. The textures, lighting and layout are done. I am interested in game play breaking bugs. If it's done I'll finish the second map and be DONE.
The whole thing started with this level from Duke3d.
http://www.mediafire.com/view/hc4g06mwcm165ep/e2m1_01_small.jpg
That was amazing back in the 1996

beta map
http://www.mediafire.com/download/2vdtbb0ci47af46/titanbeta7.7z 

http://i.imgur.com/NbmPj7D.png
http://i.imgur.com/lRVU5yH.png
http://i.imgur.com/6cxOgwP.png 

Is this a Doom or Doom II wad? 

 

nothing better than the double shotty 

Greetings,

This will be my first public release, titled DARK CITY. It is intended to be a non-linear survival horror experience.

http://i.imgur.com/rx6SeRf.png
http://i.imgur.com/BWKdEQZ.png

Beta to follow in coming weeks, time permitted. 

Screenshots are a bit bright and washed out. Maybe tone down the lighting a bit?? 

But at least the map is true to its name. 

must need to change my monitor setting or something. 

Screenshots you take in game will always look stupidly darker when viewed later. Increasing the contrast and brigthness by about 15-20 tends to fix that. 

 

I should take both possibilities, that the map is too dark and that the screenshots are a misrepresentation, into consideration.

However, I might explain further that part of the non-linearity of the map stems partially from the need for players to activate electrical generators that turn on lights to reveal new areas. So in many cases I have to make sure that the light is dark enough that the player will not see or be able to access those areas until the have toggle the appropriate lighting. Perhaps this makes screenshots a bad way to go, lol. 

For brightness, just make a histogram of the screenshots, better than eyeballing it.

Though it will always be ridiculously dark, cause it's Quake. 

I'll try that. I also started using fade multipliers. Here I've tried extended the geometry and added ambient light:

http://i.imgur.com/raIyx4O.jpg 

look fine to me. 

excited to play this! 

nitin

They do? How is that possible?

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/161473/Misc/Untitled-1%20%40%20100%25%20%28Layer%201%2C%20RGB8%29%20_2014-02-16_07-20-27.jpg