Bit of progress on a room you're in for about five seconds

Started a smaller Base level out of boredom 

... really nice ! 

ZealousQuakeFan why don't you split the level in two? 

I hate this base/standard style..
..too orthodox, boring, old if you can get what I mean :)

you could try change theme for example 

Same here. Original base wasn't never that great to start with - the weaker of the Quake styles. There's plenty of newer base textures to use without sticking with the originals that we've already had 500 others maps in. Just my opinion though. 

atm Base is the only theme I have any confidence with :p 

Try combining idbase with something else.

Try having a theme.

Use new textures / models. 

http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files/screen_shots/rock.jpg 

awesome Mechtech 

Maybe a bit too much color. Took me days to add the green waterfall, just before preach released his waterfall tut. Creepy colorchannel.

http://members.home.nl/gimli/torm00.jpg
http://members.home.nl/gimli/torm01.jpg
http://members.home.nl/gimli/torm04.jpg 

Looks good, I especially like the last screenshot.

Try switching on antialiasing for screenshots though.

Criticism: The texture alignment on the pipes needs work; try to make the plates fit the width of the pipe's side. Just scale and rotate the textures as needed. Alternatively try using simpler textures on the pipes.

The colour of the lava doesn't fit completely with the rest - have you considered slime instead of lava?

A tiny amount of fog might look pretty good here as well.

I really like the overall look of it though. 

look's great madfox :) and all look alight!

:) 

Really nice ! 

I used another way to brighten the screenshots.
Something like bright/100% contrast/78%.
Small size makes moir�, but normal screen tends well.
Normally I use gamma 150%, but then it flattens all grey.

I tried for once to keep my polys on grid. (and get of course) Pipes have the bad condukt to screw the textures.

It's actuallt green water, I don't know why the glow is that intensive. Places where I use the +fall texture with func_illusion get dark in compare.

The break in my heart is a big hom in the bottum of the map. I tried so long to get rid of it that it is stopping my mapping progress. 

Bits of the curved pipes look off grid to me btw :E 

I like your attention to lighting madfox. Keep it up :) 

I'm working on a new survival map and thought I'd get some feedback before I go nuts and map everything out.

https://www.dropbox.com/gallery/33279452/1/dazsurv2?h=1c62fd

1st photo is the reference shot, I decided to go for a night-time setting however as it suits the game a bit more. Anything stand out as being particularly shit? Let me know! 

looks pretty good so far. are those stairs on the screenshot 007 made of displacements? 

I tried it with standard brushes but wasn't getting the detail I wanted, god I love displacements! 

that looks great so far! don't forget to keep posting shots! 

i think it would look better with the heavy fog but daylight setting... dunno, it would bring out more of the winding path brushwork with more light or something.

dunno if that makes any sense. 

made some more of the map now it'll be easier to get an idea of how it will look. I'll post some test shots when I find some more time to work on it. 

quick skybox, lighting and fog change to test daylight, could still use some tweaks i think, the ambient light is still too low so a lot of the map is still in shadow :P

https://www.dropbox.com/gallery/33279452/1/dazsurv2?h=1c62fd 

a little hard to tell how good it will look atm since the skybox is kind of sticking out like a sore thumb right now. :P

but yeah, basically what i was talking about... giving it a silent hill look (the film anyway). 

i'd use a little more blue-ish fog. but that looks good also.