played with some torus stuff and came up with the all too obvious pipes and some curvy ceiling...
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Inspired by q3?
Now that I see lava down there I am surprised the other shots are so
ghehe yeah but im thinking about ditching the lava and replace it with fade to black fog of death or something...
well i havent really had problems with imageshack *apart from a minor popup :roll: * but ill use another if that pleases you 
updated the pic with different host...
an editor shot is a little more apropiate for viewing then maybe
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Quote from ThrikYeah, way too dark there. Are you using a CRT perchance? One critical issue with CRTs that affects any kind of visual work is that over time they lose their tone gamut, which means darks become darker and eventually dark greys/colours merge into just black, and it gets increasingly worse. People usually pump up their brightness/contrast/etc to compensate but invariably end up making it look like a mess for people on properly calibrated monitors like mine.LCDs don't suffer from this issue. If you're not using one, I suggest thinking about upgrading since you're a visual designer. If you are using an LCD, I suggest checking out some thorough calibration sites like this.
tnx for the info never really heard about that before but yes im using an old 19" crt ill try to tweak it a little but i dont think it will really get better since i already tried a lot of things.
anyway my current planning is to upgrade my stuff by the end of the year so i geuss ill just have to hang in there for now
just had to take some time off from grale so i made a new quake/unreal kinda map roughly 15 hours of work so far
lets say im just goofin around with geo again 
texturing needs no mention i pressume... and uhm that also counts for the lighting.
pics are 1600x1200 and theyre *once again* pretty dark for some folks *yes i do know my monitor is a little bright ghehe*
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also for those who know and/or are interested.
just to be clear im still working on grale but progress is very slow right now.
since i never actually finished a map before and a map at this scale takes a damn f*cking lot of work.
especially since im also working on my modeling and texturing skills *not that grale has any of my own currently* and i have a more than fulltime job right now.
ill show of some new stuff when its ready so really no saying when that will be
really good stuff... makes me want to do such a study too. unfortunately im not yet in the position to do so 
good luck with your project next year
Quote from twizthe whole website is down
I want to seeeeeee
about damn time!
anyway i hope they will make it a real lighting preview instead of those 3d view positioning "shots"
just played it a bit and it definitely shows they made it in such little time...
allmost all those "school project" games suck ass because they dont have the time to get it working right 
looks pretty cool indeed...
downloading now
and i thought google earth was cool 
compiling = done 
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tnx for the previous comments 
all are taken into consideration and ill see what i can come up with :wink:
release date? uhm.... when its done
p.s. the lighting really starts to bother me eyes now 
some early shots of the hallways connecting the lower to the upper parts of the map *i wont add any more i promise :wink: *
i felt they where really needed because i realised this wont just be played like i do, for instance not everyone enjoyce low grav and such....
further down i made the last part of the 3dskybox and in the last pic i changed the layout of the map 2 because of gameplay reasons.
got a few more layout changes not shown here but theyre not quite ready to show just yet.
sorry for the last pics not being ingame i dont really have the time to compile too often.
also in reply to ferret: normals are in the works im trying to diversify the rock texture by using multiple normals for the same texture gives it a subtle difference in it throughout the map.
about the color schemes im stil looking for ut's dm_gothic alike lamps to place in the map to replace some of the torches
crits en comments are very much apreciated.
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dont think it would be a problem seeing the used things stay with the same license owner, however when i started mapping i recreated dm-Gothic and deck16 from the orignal ut for hl1 never released it though since i thought they probably wouldnt really like that 
any idea's on how that would work out?
textures are made by PhillipK
im currently trying out some different normal maps for the rocks
probably do another compile soon...
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another teaser
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started working on the 3dskybox as you can see
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did a fast compile of it just to check it out...
looking really nice you got some interesting shapes in them i like that
only on some of the pics they look a bit too plastic
really nice map only thing that really bugs me is on the 7th pic you can see that the lights on the floor are too far away from the light source itself
