[WIP MAP] Fear of Velocity

[C.Brutail]

This is a development thread about a new DM map, I'm working on, to have a sneak peak, and to ask for some help I might encounter.
A few weeks ago, I was listening to Quake 3 Arena: Noize, the official soundtrack for Quake3. There's a song in it, named "Velocity of Fear" , that inspired me in a way.
The idea of a new DM map was formed:

Eons ago, there were two powerful mages on a distant planet. The two magicians have had a terrible row, about who's more powerful. To decide, both of them tried to open a large, interdimensional portal. But their magic has became unstable, and their portals have gone out of control: apocalipse has come to them, and their planet. The massive blackholes they've created have virtually torn their planet apart, instantly killing everybody.
But magic can be strange. The tower of the magicians _almost_ remained intact. A few rocks stayed in the center of the gravity zones of the two massive portals, rendering them floating in the middle of nothing for enernity...
... or untill the constant battle over the place doesn't destroy it all. HappyRocket Corp. has recently found the place while searching for new arenas to fight for Nexuiz. Thanks to the projection technology in teleportation, they can easily spawn players to anywhere they want. Everybody at the Corporation's HQ agreed, that the post-apocaliptic scene would be a perfect place for the most fast paced battles anyone could imagine - because the players have to bare with the constant danger of two enemies: the other gladiator's fires, and the gravity of the two major blackholes.

This is the story so far. I've started the basics of the map: I have a halfy torn tower, and a few rocks floating in a very foggy air. This will be the tower, where the Quad damage is placed. You can get back to the main fighting area by jumping from floating debrish to debrish, while in constant danger of falling down. The main area will be a ruined castle. Te basic concept is to make a spooky atmosphere, so I'd like to have dead plants (eg. a dead tree), skulls and skeletons all over the place, and fog. Grey, thick fog. There will be two large swirling blackholes in the top of the sky, and in the deep too: the upper one will have a "gravity zone" too, so those, who rocketjump or laserjump too high, will be caught, slowly dragged, and killed by the portal.

However, as I lack some skill, I need others help too. I've decided not to map in secret, but I'd like to ask others too to help me. Eg. with the skeleton/skull models, or the blackhole textures ( I've made some by myself, but they aren't looking so good, and I haven't found any free, GPL compatible skeleton models either).

What do you think about this map idea?
I'll post screenshots tomorrow, when I get home.

*edit: corrected some typos

[torus]

I need screenshots :\

[cortez]

I need screenshots :\

me too

[Sepelio]

For some reason warp portals and chaos marines come to mind.

Screenshots

[kyre]

Braaaaiiins...


Err, sorry, screeeeenshots...

[C.Brutail]

Here you go, screenshots:

[Mirio]

Cool

[Moneo]

Looks good! But it seems to me that the floating debris should be bigger (some of them I mean). Will players be able to get on those debris?

[C.Brutail]

Agreed, I'll make those larger, that was only a test for me how floating debrish looks like
And yes, players should be able to jump on them, that's exactly the plan

[torus]

looking interesting. I would say, on what you've got right now, you should

a) make the tower itself more interesting. The room part that is open is just fine, but the tower itself is kind of boring, and also way too narrow (imo).
Also, you should try to find a better texture for the tower-cylinder than those bricks- they repeat in an ugly way. Either that, or scale them up.

b) More light pl0x!