looks awesome! well done and thank you:)

The shadows are so sharp and I think I see some ambient occlusion as well at some places. Are those Q3 light-maps, or did you prebake everything into the textures?

edit: I would love to have the map just to fly around.... please:)

no gameplay = go for CA

hrhrhrhrh

good guy mapmaker
making textures for 5% of players playing without picmip

That screen looks boss tho :D

honestly tho, who can stand the textures on t4? only passable on picmip 0 or 10, anything in between looks obnoxious

http://www.quakelive.com/forum/showthread.php...edge/page2

looks great, too ad the texture set in ql is so limited .(

Wow, this is gorgeous. Good job.

Like I mentioned at Q3W, this stuff is boss. I can only imagine how much effort went into putting everything in place. Or the compile times. :)

Q3 engine still kicks ass :}

Indeed it does =)

i like your site with the little texts. nice to read something about the ET maps, never read about it, good history document.

will there be a download version of the crane where we can walk through?

I know this is not the usual post for a games site but this map is Q3 and I know people here still enjoy Q3, so I thought why not! It's not like I could post this on a Unreal website! :)

The shadows are a special high resolution external map and I spent a long time tweaking the compiler settings to make sure there is very little blurring of the edges. I really wanted to push the tech as far as possible and try to create something that people need to second look to realize it is Q3.

I don't have any plans to release the map, it is just an experiment, something to test the textures. I will release the textures and then everyone can create their own industrial playgrounds.

The shadows are a special high resolution external map

Could you please elaborate this a little bit?

I created 1024x1024 external lightmaps. You need to change the shaders and compile with the latest version of q3map2. Also should tweak the sky shader to produce less dither on edges.

This articles explains how to setup the external lightmaps:

http://sgq3-mapping.blogspot.ca/2009/01/using...htmap.html

Thanks for the link!

I have to admit I don't know much about Q3 mapping tbh, but it looked like a huge shadow-map only possible in the latest game engines, so that's why I asked:)

The pre-baked fog effect turned out really well imo, I even see it getting thicker by distance somehow:)
Is it impossible to make the glasses a bit more realistic?, because perhaps that's the only thing I miss from the map.

If you will have some times once, please write a few lines about what changes could make this engine a much better one from a mapper's perspective. Your experience and input would be greatly appreciated.

Anyway, you are very talented... and thank you very much for showing us the the capabilities of the Q3 engine!

Yeah, this is something I forgot about factory environments how dirty and unclean the glass can get. The glass does have dirt on it but it is far away so you never seem much of it. I did take some screenshots from inside the crane cabin (on my website) and you can see the difference up close.

I am not sure it is worth anyone's time updating the Q3 engine when you can download UDK from Epic for free. Even the latest HL source engine is years ahead of where Q3 is for useability.

Don't take it too seriously, I just tried to give some constructive criticism, that's all:) I wanted to point out something what could make it better and what I know it could be done in Q3 (I know a lot about CG and game engines, but - sadly - almost nothing about Q3 mapping:/). So it was only a friendly notice:)

I agree that Source is awesome and you can see the vast amount of development resources Valve put into it to please the designers. It runs super-fast on anything, while still scales very well on stronger hardware (just like UDK). But this is not about other (great) games, but Quake only where idtech is the engine what we have, and I just can't see any version of Quake moving over UDK or Source anytime.
Quake is the game closest to our heart here on ESR, and also it's the mother of all fps games no question about it. I hope it will never die, but get better and more and more polished in the future, and that's where your input could come handy later:)

Your experience and mapping skills are pretty much priceless to the community, and it would be sad to see it disappear without notice. You could have found out many things over the years what nobody else did, so your knowledge can come really valuable imo.
Sadly I don't know much about Q3 mapping, but I'm thinking about little but very important things what could make a big impact (eg.: backward compatible support for 1024x1024 lightmaps, or (just guessing) something what would make nurb surfaces or models much more usable from the artist's perspective, etc)

I understand it's something what would be a great effort to share, so I just ask you to do it once you will have a little time and the mood also:)

edit.: btw, the photos are really great and some of them seriously look like surreal and CG :D. I really appreciate you shared those, thanks a lot!

Don't worry, I took no offence to your comments, I thought they were good constructive criticism. It was also mentioned (the windows looking too clean) on other forums, it is just a shame I realized it too late after finishing the map.

I have written a lot of Q3 related mapper/designer articles already:
http://www.simonoc.com/pages/articles.htm

There are a couple more I want to do, but they take me a long time to write, setup with images and double check they are technically correct.

I love this work. The shots are just amazing, and definitely I would never guess it wes Q3. I'm looking forward for the texture set release!

Quake has one of the best gameplay out there, but the graphics is just so old and clunky. This is what I would like to see on the big stages.

Textures released :
http://www.simonoc.com/pages/materials/tpindustrial/index.htm

Share stories of people getting mad at you for taking pictures!

I was taking some pictures of light fixtures and this guy come over and started hassling (constant questions of why?) me because he could not understand why I would be interested in a dirty old tube light. Then his friend comes over and gets all angry about what I am doing and demands I leave. People don't like people doing things they can't understand ...

Maybe they were doing something they didn't want you to catch on film :D
Great looking map and textures btw!

upload map, i wanna walk around :[

i heard its like 1 fps or so

Thought it was for quake 4 for a second. :D

Killing it as usual!

The textures look great, and in terms of geometry and mechanics, I could really buy into most of the environment. I don't know what they are pulling out of that pit but I'm sure it must be something interesting!

** The bridge crane images from your website don't load for me.

$$$ q3 engine

for some reason this reminded me of ut99. looks cool!