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Happy New Year (and a bit about terrain generation for Quake 1 maps)

Another year has passed and now we’re here in 2021, all hoping to get back to a more normal life sometime this year. Anyway, over the holidays I’ve spent a little more time working on my upcoming Quake 1 map, “Fire, Water, Squish“. I had to create an...

3. January 2021

• Gaming
• Mapping
• Quake

Quake 1 Mapping: “Damaged” or “Aged” Architecture

As part of the map Fire, Water, Squish I was trying to achieve a damaged and/or aged architecture look in some places. Basically I built it around the idea of having a solid “stone” core within the walls, covered by thinner textured walls (the blueish...

28. November 2020

• Gaming
• Mapping
• Quake

Quake 1 Mapping: Multiple moving func_door entities connected to a single button

Another room from my upcoming map “Fire, Water, Squish”. The initial idea of the sliding floor (as originally seen in DM2: Claustrophobopolis) somehow didn’t seem enough. To make it visually more interesting I decided to add some more moving elements...

24. November 2020

• Gaming
• Mapping
• Quake

Quake 1 Mapping: Some more information regarding func_train and lighting

Following up on my last post, I wanted to provide you with a few more thoughts and details. As you can see in the editor screenshots, I put the individual func_train entities (for the moving chain segments and the lift) into different positions to...

19. November 2020

• Gaming
• Mapping
• Quake

Quake 1 Mapping: func_train and what’s possible…

Most of you who are interested in Quake 1 mapping will have come across the func_train entity at some point. I also used to know about it, but until recently never thought whether it would be possible to build some kind of massive “chain” constantly...

9. November 2020

• Gaming
• Mapping
• Quake