Castle in the Highlands

By Nathan "jitspoe" Wulf

Beta 3

Entry to the Quake2 Cafe's 10th mapping contest.

Recommended settings for vanilla Quake2:

intensity 2
gl_modulate 2.3
vid_gamma .85
s_loadas8bit 0
s_khz 22

For this map, I really wanted to push for a unique, immersive environment that didn't even feel like it was in the rather limited, dated Quake2 technology.  Bird sounds taken from "Morning in Scotland" video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGq9mV2jy6k.  All other sounds recorded by me, including the little tune played on a tin whistle I got for $2.50 at a thrift shop. ;)  Most of the textures were created in Filter Forge.  Higher res versions were used in my Paintball2 mod (http://www.digitalpaint.org/).  Skybox rendered in Terragen.

There are some subtle things, so explore and listen closely. :D


Map details dumped from BSP:

Total Brushes       	2102
Modifiable          	1910
World Brushes       	1851
Brush Faces         	11314
Modifiable Entities 	21
Fixed Size Entities 	192
Lights              	25
Sky Brushes         	20
Water Brushes       	1
Clip Brushes        	63
Target Entities     	46
Targetnames         	72
Detail              	1188
Hint                	41

Compile time: ~45 minutes