God of all Quake mappers i've seen

[Moose or Chuck]

http://www.planetquake.com/nehahra/screens.html<br>Its pretty amazing stuuff. But anyway, i been working on putting out a new mod, so far i've checked Special Forces, Which is awsome, but i can't find a bot for it Minakota which is a sailor moon thing, but it don't work. And some other crap this is depressing work here. I got SF to run, and load levels so, whenever we get a server up, we can play SF the single player for it crashes my ppc, and its like 19 meg.

[Paul]

those maps look supoib

[Moose or Chuck]

they are super high polys i think

[Moose or Chuck]

thesee are my favorites<br><br><br><br><br>the second one is just amazing, it looks like it was made in Q3a or somethin

[Moose or Chuck]

this mod takes 200mb, and requires a 3d caard :*(

[Matt Keys]

Well, I have the 200 mb, but no 3d card, I think I will give it a try anyway though.

[randall]

I'm sorry, but anyone can make a cool looking high poly map.<br><br>The real mapping Gods are people like LevelLord (Ritual) that can make a whoopass map with ultralow polycount. He's the f u c k i n g  K I N G !

[Moose or Chuck]

There are people that don't have a 3D Card? WOW

[randall]

Only lately have laptops been available with 3D acceleration, Moose.<br><br>Yeah, you may have a faster system Moosey, but I can play Unreal Tournament with a wireless modem while waiting for my plane to arrive at the gate.

[randall]

but my desktop computers have 3D cards. They are pretty damn cheap nowadays, especially for the older Voodoo cards.

[Matt Keys]

Moose, what brought that up? if you thought I was saying that I dont have a 3d card in my computer you read it wrong, I dont have one in my PocketPC. I have already got all the files for this mod and I am going to try it on PocketPC to see how bad the fps are. Any guesses? 2-3fps? Want some in game screenshots?

[Moose or Chuck]

well randall, i want to see some good low poly maps like this, i'd love to have them on my ppc, i've got tons of space now, so i waanna plaaaay.

[randall]

I won't be making any high poly maps, because they are unplayable. Even the Sin and UT maps I am working on are low-poly (around 550-600).<br><br>I have played alot of UT maps that look great (1000 polycount), but they suck ass online and lag out. Needless to say that type of map doesn't get circulated much.<br><br>Anyone can create a great looking high poly map- it's not a miracle and doesn't require a great amount of skill. As a matter of fact, most new mappers first mistake is to go hog wild and have too much detail.<br><br>The miracle is keeping the polycount below the threshold of decreased performance. Look at anything by LevelLord (Richard Gray) at Ritual... that man is a Mapping God. All his maps look like they should have insane polycounts, but they are fast as hell.<br><br>

[Moose or Chuck]

did he make any Quake maps?

[randall]

Yeah, I think he was on the Ritual team when they did "Scourge of Armageddon". It was an addon to Quake.<br><br>He has worked on all the major Ritual titles- Sin and FAKK2, and even submitted some maps for HalfLife.