Alfader and Nergal have been working on a project to re-texture Quake using DarkPlaces features and they call it the Quake Reforged Project ( http://www.quakeone.com/reforged ). Although DarkPlaces is the target engine, the textures work with Qrack (less DarkPlaces features) so they presumably should work fine with ezQuake.

Some samples:









According to the site, the work is licensed under the GPL. And the discussion thread where they have been posting screen shots is here.

That looks awesome, gonna spend some time checking it out.

This look very nice, but so far they've only done monster skins right? The map textures and weapon models is not theirs right?

But it looks very nice so far

Looks awesome, do i need a super computer to run it at 10 fps?

I *think* the map textures are Rygel's Texture Pack. Rygel has posted his stuff here before and it is hosted @ Quaddicted still I think? [Unless Spirit got mad at the bandwidth consumption, hehe.]

More pics ...

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looks stunning

They released full monster pack few days ago!

Yeah AAS, but I don't get it... it still looks bad on the low-poly models :/

Zalon, just turn on your imagination!
Probably ultra gfx & lighting preset in darkplaces will help too

Yeah, I'm just wondering why they don't update the models as well? To me it feels like a waste with such high quality textures on those low poly models :/

Is that a floating redneck?

The level textures look really awful. Is that a metal grating in the corner?

Lol.

It's custom textures for E1M2.

I agree about the models. Another gripe I have with Darkplaces, Tenebrae etc is the fakeness that heavy bump-mapping and lighting bring to the game. All the walls and some of the models look like they have been bump-mapped and covered with tinfoil that has the actual texture. I'm not saying it has to look realistic, it's a game, but now it just looks too fake / tinfoily. This isn't such a big problem with games like Mass Effect which have futuristic and very metallic materials in the maps and everything is very plastic like to begin with. But in a game like Quake, where you have a lot of more oldschool and worn out materials like rock and abandoned bases, it just doesn't work.

I think the project has done a great job with the textures themselves. The Death Knight and Ogre textures look really sweet, the DK especially, since its armor is metal, so the aforementioned problem doesn't affect it as much, but the Ogre as a more organic beast suffers from the tinfoil effect.

Just look at the walls in this pic, it looks especially weird when the floor doesn't stand out at all:



Tinfoil Ogre: