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the essence I want to achieve in all my mods is sort of cartoonish style so when I reach a certain level of detail previously planned I stop.
this is my method of mapping or else you could never get any map finished! Hi. Second beta of my Deep Scars map. It's suppose to be RC now, meaning there are clips, item layout should be final, ligting and textures were fixed in few places and so on. Will appreciate any feedback :).
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16372046/q1shw2_b2.zip Check the skull textures. Some of them are cut off in the middle. The stretched textures on all all 45 degree walls look bad. I don't like the base floor textures here; the grey/blue one was better (contrast). There's also another 4*4 tile floor texture in brown.
One thing you got to keep in mind when using 32 unit tiles on the floor is to make sure the dimensions are right on every floor, otherwise they'll be cut off which looks wrong. An example for this is the floor under the GL. However, this can be easily fixed by making the edge trim 32 units wide and replacing the upper texture with metal4_4. Also note that metal4_4 has distinct seams on each side - this means it has to rotated according to the adjacent brushes. There's a rogue space behind a brick recess near the lower RL. The stairs look a bit out of place. They were okay in the first map, but not so much here. Maybe change the texture, or put 16-wide ramps on each side of them. I think there is too much health. Or at least too unevenly distributed. Quite a few spots that have 2*25 medkits but are also in relatively close proximity to more medkits. Maybe one of the large health boxes from the lower floor up to the LG, and the other ones a bit more spread out, or something. Hehe all were complaining about that floor texture before :). I liked it better too, maybe will get it back then. Will look into stuff you mentioned.
Or try a completely different texture. I only meant there should be some contrast between floor and walls, which the present base floor doesn't offer.
Sorry for a little off topic, but I just wanted to show you two new maps introduced with Quake Live february update ;).
Concrete Palace: http://shadowsdomain.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/ql_concretepalace_01.jpg Dies Irae: http://shadowsdomain.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/ql_diesirae_01.jpg More about it: http://shadowsdomain.wordpress.com/] http://shadowsdomain.wordpress.com/
^should work Nice work/congrats as usual, ShadoW. Dies Irae seems to be one of the few QL maps with a unique theme, however also somewhat samey colorwise. The design of the maps feels good, though I would have wished for some more refined ceilings and also more sophisticated (less flat) transitions between upper geometry and sky.
You really seem to like that staircase design. Under some train tracks
The weird blue metal things are the trains. I haven't textured them properly yet :p Train yard area in WC :E Doesn't look like much in game atm, but it's a fun amount of entities I suppose... Decided to play with the Ikbase set for a change I really liked the quiet bits of OUM, so going for that kind of feel I think :E sounds interesting. i'm all for doing unique combinations.
been trying koohoo/heretic2 + ikbase which isn't bad. Since you're talkin about textures.. I need to know about possible legal issues
tHaNk But I think you can use all of those wads. Some contain some permissions stuff in the info/readme, and it is good manners to put a credit with any public releases for everyone who 's work you used, but you never hear about anyone getting onto any trouble over using quake wads.
If you were using them for commercial purposes then I guess that's a whole different ball game. You would have to check any permissions info you can find for all of your resources, and take if from there I guess... Never been in that situation. Unless commercial use is explicitly allowed and you are certain about the legal background of the content, you can use it.
Many of the WADs at Quaddicted are actually content copied from other games. Violating copyright. No right holder ever cared so that has been done since the dawn of Quake levels. You definitely cannot use those for a commercial project. id Software also does not allow use of their art for commercial projects. ok.. but what about old projects like SHRAK, MALICE,.. did they buy license from Id ?
I've heard that nowadays licensing Q1 engine for commercial project is $10.000 right ? Can you create a permanent thread about legal stuff ? You can't license the quake engine anymore. Iirc, there was a page on idsoftware.com that stated that.
Also, yes, the devs for malice and other (official) missions packs and total conversions did have to get a license. i wouldn't be so concerned dude. Quake's a 15 yr old game, it's pretty unlikely you'll get sued for releasing a free map (with stolen textures) that probably only a 100 ppl are gonna play. Hell if I were still mapping I'd be stealing textures out of some of all the latest games and converting them to wads.
Can't remember what I stole back in the day... pretty sure I ripped all the FAKK2 ones and used those in Carved in Flesh. Most of the good games back then using ID tech 2/3 had their textures ripped. ..only 100 people? I thought q1 community 'd have been at least some thousand scattered around the world :(
[Kona] If all fails I'll have somethin to feed my portfolio, I'd really like to work in the industry IdSoftware homepage still has a business/tech link but doesn't work!
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