Here i have renamed the map.
About the config file i didn't send it because it is useless at the time the map must be finished before i select textures ,items ...
also i'm working on bumpmapped textures.

I added the readme file and renamed the boing_x.wav into boing_xokicomp.wav.
Thanks for your advices,don't hesitate to give me more.

Nice one, looks really good.
What application are you using to make this?

I use Milkshape it's really easy of use and it import and export md3 files

Since 2 weeks i'm working again on skycastle.
I have the aim to finish it once and for all.

I would like to have your critics about it.
What should be done ?
- numbers of weapons in some places(too much or not enough?)
- Improvement of some rooms
- places which are too empty( there are a lot i guess )

I'm also thinking about making a capture mode with this map.

Don't hesitate to give me advices because i need them, it's my first map.

This should really be a single player map. There is no way you could do DM with this. It's an amazing piece of work though. And I'm flattered you used some of my architecture.

"ONE SHOT, ONE KILL"
-Official Motto, U.S. Army Sniper Reg.

I will be there for the next release!

Not in Sauerbraten. Eisenstern might've got this backported to the fps-game I guess .. but that's moot now :-/
Scripting really only comes into SinglePlayer maps .. or your personal config; MultiPlayer just has the aliases for bases and such - but no interactive scripting.

Thanks for the explanations when i took a look to the scripting i was astonished when i saw the sentence that it was a comprehensive language.
I was thinking about adding effect associated with some events. It would have been really cool.
But i guess it's a good thing that it's not possible.
I would have to work 1 more months to add thoses scripts.

Ok yeah i know there are many defects in the map.
Anyway i have to make many modifications all over the map.
Since the grid level has been increased i can correct and had some details i couldn't do before.

ATM all the teleporters and bases are set.
I changed the plain grass using the autograss script.
I corrected the flying island so it looks less square. I used some bumpmaped rock textures.
I also remade the tower so it looks a bit nicer.
Now the 4 little towers have a base(capture) and are linked with a tunnel inside the big surrounding walls, they also have lights and jumpers.

For the sewer i'm gonna put a death area so when somebody fall out he doesn't get under the map cause it doesn't look very nice.
Now I'm gonna remake the tower in front of the fountain, the bridges and some rooms i did before.
There are some jumpers i need to put to accelerate the gameplay like for example on,in and aside the big walls.

I also wanna create some environnemental sounds(for the jumpers, teleports and bases) and put some lights and particles(white smoke for the waterfall,...).
I'm thinking about changing some flat textures with bumpmap ones.

I think that the map is gonna be online around end of July for testing.
Sorry for those that didn't manage to run this map before but this version (it's explicit i guess)won't get in any ways less detailed.

Some pictures soon.

PS Does anybody know how the glowing effect applied to the skyboxe in nmp8 is done? It looks like there's a specularity or something.

I think the glow is simply taken from white/bright parts of the skybox. In my Alt skybox, the glow is insane because its almost all white and bright blue.

you could try bloom,
Try /bloom 0.2 for a start and play around with it.

Hmm, if I'm not mistaken, you can't set Bloom as an map-var, so it's not permenant with the map ( I could be wrong, cause this is so in Blood Frontier )

Looking Good! I can't wait till this is done, It was always the best map for hunting people down and sniping. The long range is great, and its a beautiful map. I hope to download soon. =D

have you tried the /yawsky command to spin the skybox to a specific potition in order for it to fit you sunlight ent?

Not really because that's not what i'm looking for.
My problem is that i have to simulate a unfinite position for the light source of the sun.

To do that i tried to put a light very far away from the map and at a position where globally when I look to the sun the light ent is in front of the sun on the skybox and creates the corresponding shadow.

The problem is i can't put a light far enough to create a good illusion.

It comes from the fact that the light ent spread light in every direction from its source and i for a sun it is perceived as if there was only one direction.

Therefor i thought it was the purpose of the skylight command and i can only get the sun orientation as it was 12 am. I think it would be absurd to create such a command if you can't change the orientation of the light or it should have been named "lunchtimeskylight" :).

i doubt you can make this... if there were dynamic skyboxes that could emit light at the sun's potion (with the corresponding light at each daytime) then that could solve your sunlight ent problems
but that would require aes of development for SB :P

so the only thing you can do is try to align the light with the skybox's sun as best as you can

Well, I think skylight works a little more literally, as in the skybox itself emits light, not just from directly above. From all directions.
(Of course, I haven't checked the docs or anything, but I think that's how it works.)

What you MIGHT be able to do is create a sun for each of the little islands, and put the entities in sky-textured boxes to shape the light (or spotlights... do they work with sunlights?).

they do work like this! (i tested it) but the problem would be that it would be a lot harder to align its sunlight correctly without having 2 shadows or combined colours at the same time :S
so this solution is non effective...

That's why i used a single light position.
I made some simple sketches to illutstrate what i'm trying to do.

The first skectch is what i expect of the skylight command:
Sketch 2 is what i've done.
I guess i should try to put the light as far as i can(sketch 3) so the light rays look closest to parallel(as a normal sunlight would be like in sketch 1).

thats the only solution you have for this.
but you can use the boxed sunlight ent to create some cool light tricks

Do you mean there's a special kind of light entity called boxed sunlight?
Are do you mean using creating some boxes with the sky texture and a sunlight inside?

You could put a sunlight ent in the far corner, /yawsky until the sun is in the corner, then purt a spotlight near the sunlight ent and direct it at the world. That'my best solution.

you CAN, in fact, keep scrolling until the sunlight is out of the level bounds. Its very hard to get back, but works. Just line youself up with the suns light direction relative to that of the sun in the skybox, and scroll away like you never have before,

I'll try that tonight when i'll off of work :P

While it may work great, everytime you load up the level you get a warning saying that an entity is outside of the level. Still, it's worth a shot if nothing else.

How bout /mapenlarge untill its "friggen monstrous" then add it? I know some people get mad at that, so somebody please explain why its a bad idea please.

Because then the engine has to deal with all that space. Even if there's nothing in it, it still has to do processing on it.

I suggest "/showmat 0" before taking a screenshot if you insist on doing it from editmode :P

Isn't screenshot bout to F12 by default?

you can get this map from the ctf release if you need it that badly

deleted because there is a more recent version.
download skycastle-r http://www.quadropolis.us/node/2203

I hope of not they are two different map.

Long gone--this node is from 2006, and Quadropolis has had at least two disk crashes since then (I think).

However, the map was still in the old Sauerbraten CVS, so I grabbed it, repacked it, and reuploaded it here.

I am currently working on a re-version of skycastle, it has been changed a lot for sauers gameplay but still has a lot of the same feel as this one, but there are major differences. Hopefully I can have it finished within a month or two.

-Best regards Sub Zero.