To me, the best way to use this sort of system would definitely cut down on the bloomy effect a lot of those particles have. Have each emission be a single pixel, or maybe two or three. Things like embers from fire, streaks of blood from gunshots, that sort of pixel-y, stylized look would fit well I think, especially considering QS's reputation as "a modern engine for pure quake" rather than being associated with pretty shinies.

Just... keep the aesthetic and you'll probably be popular in this community :p 

If the style's different, then a little recoloring of the textures shouldn't be hard. And if you want to keep the same aesthetics, you can always use DMC's textures (which I adapted for Quake for my mod, and you can download the .wad file from here: http://www.mediafire.com/download/jv7i5kj9a96ap96/dmc.wad ) 

You can't have a robust particle system without also allowing the possibility that someone will use it in a way that's about as tasteful as a zoophile felching party. 

Touching up the skins - maybe, but I was talking about the more elaborate designs in general.

Regardless of whether it was forced by the tools or hardware available at the time, Quake weapons look very crude, like they were hacked together in a society that possessed only basic technology and/or didn't care about aesthetics. Primitive and deadly. 

Learn a new word every week with Kinn! 

will the effects be available via quakec? 

AFAIK they are, but I'm not Mr. QuakeC and know little about it. 

Egypt by Drew and Hrimfaxi, from February 2006.

Great architecture and real sense of scale. Quoth not overused at all. Nice map. 

Thanks, Kinn. Now I'm counting the days until someone makes a goatse particle... 

I believe the Large Hardon Collider is currently trying to create the Goatse Particle. 

I didn't know the LHC people were stretching their anus. Where are they on the prolapse front? 

Still waiting for the perfect "black" hole to come along, I think. 

Have we stumbled into Clerks 3? 

Man, I just know when I see that post that func_msgboard is really shooting up the PageRanks... 

Has anyone else tried loading saves on maps that have changed? Mine produced some fun results.

In other, off topic (well, it ought to be in mapping help at least) news... I have no idea what to do with the area the video is in. I can't figure out how to build anything fun there. I ALSO can't figure out how i'd want to get rid of it, though. Maybe i'll have to bite the bullet and nuke all that brushwork, we'll see... 

 

Why get rid of it? It looks cool. Do you mean fun gameplay-wise or detail-wise? 

Gameplay. It looks great, I could keep it with just a few monsters... That might be what I do, I guess. It'd be a lot of work if I kept it though, you can see in the video how unfinished it is. Straight edges everywhere! 

If you're building this for AD, you could set up an ambush with some monsters behind breakables. Or perhaps a little nasty trap involving lava below?

As for straight edges, a little vertex editing in TB could fix that, or adding some cavern entrances in the stone walls to break the lines. 

Another means to both add some gameplay and break the lines of the stone walls could be to set up some platforming along them with ledges and pillars. 

It's a Quoth map, but the same sorts of things can be done in quoth anyway so that's fine.

I'm not sure about adding hidden monsters and stuff. I think i'd rather teleport them in infront of the player, if anything. It's a simple pathway from area A to area B, there's not going to be a lot of clutter. (What would the monsters even be? grunts in boxes? dogs??) I'm becoming more and more convinced that I ought to just finish decorating the area and have it be a simple pathway.

Speaking of decoration, here's what I'm aiming for. I've done a section of it already, but it's a lot of really boring, time consuming work to get the level of detail I want.

Also, none of the rockwork in my map is func_detail-ed. I really need to go back and fix that, vis might actually finish quickly then... 

"it's a lot of really boring, time consuming work to get the level of detail I want."
Well, quality work is never done with a snap of the fingers!

If I were you, I wouldn't rely too much on monster teleport - I'm far from being the only one who finds it cheap. I see what seems to be a series of dark alcoves above, I would preferably use these instead of teleportation to hide some monsters and trigger them to jump on the player. 

Having monsters teleport in is a gimmick that has been used since the original Doom. While "cheap and easy" does come to mind, I prefer "done to death". That's not to say I haven't done it myself. 

I know, I was there back then. Somehow I find it more acceptable in Doom than in Quake but still, it has always bugged me a little.