You use the floor textures as walls and ceilings rather freely, nothing particularly wrong with that, but it did make me think that this is another map like "the fly" from 1997 by Markus Klar.

For now, I'd say you should focus on texture alignment rather than choice, quite a few of little pesky errors in the metalwork from the last shot.

Looks like a vertical and multi-level map so far, keep the Z-axis going! 

First map process, that is some pretty decent lighting and the textures are not too shabby either. It is a bit mish mashy with the textures so I would work on making things a bit more consistence. Looks like a pretty foreboding map!

Keep it going! 

What otp said, dont mix wall/floor textures too much. Else it looks good, go map! 

Damn, it's been a while I passed through here, and I never posted before, but these screenshots are looking mighty fine. Makes me want to make a Quake map soon :P 

Thanks for the tips y'all. I can see the misalignments otp was talking about it, and I've found more elsewhere in the map. As for the wall/ceiling textures, I kind of just stuck those on there based on the color palette I was going for without much regard to what they're normally used for in Quake. I had initially used a different wall texture (from ogro.wad) but decided it didn't look good in-game, plus some of those textures have nasty fullbrights. I'll have to experiment a bit with different wall textures. 

My all time favorite Quake theme takes the floor and uses it as the wall and the ceiling as the floor, it's great. Limbo map from the first mispack, h2m5 or 6 I think.

So don't worry about it. Your skeleton textures seem out of place though. 

I'll think about it... honestly the textures just look like brick to me, I don't really register them as floors even after it's been pointed out. 

Brick is only used in this pattern when it's a floor. 

Oh yeah, 'nested' like that. Yeah I will change it. 

 

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CkZm77uWEAUBBFy.jpg 

Remake of your mapjam 2 map? Awesome! 

 

 

 

I don't like dark roots. Should be more of the snowy rocks instead. 

http://i.imgur.com/FFEYYeh.png 

... flying arches ;) 

much better than the roots 

Better than kebab tentacles. 

while the roots had their issues they looked evil which went well with Quake. This ones need more work on it to look like rocks (too geometrical i guess), right now they look like leaf barnacles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollicipes_pollicipes or like quartz crystals. 

The original dark meat tendrils looked interesting and unique.

All this design-by-committee stuff is just watering it down to something bland. 

I prefer the rocks to the tentacles. 

There's doing something new to break a pattern, and there's a detail sticking out like a sore thumb, which the meaty parts did.