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I just wanted to know if people had any links to good websites for either level design inspiration (photos, paintings, concept art, etc.) or just for architectural reference. We had a thread like this on the old qmap, but we know how much good that does us.
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Some Of Mine: 
Abandoned Places is the old standby for the rotting industrial sites of Belgium: http://www.abandoned-places.com/

Modern Ruins expands on those themes to include sanitariums, prisons, and boatyards in and around new york state and pennsylvania: http://oboylephoto.com/ruins/index.htm

This guy has tons of travel photos featuring architecture from around Europe and the world: http://www.photo.net/travel/

Buffalo Architecture and History has features on hundreds of buildings located in Buffalo, NY, and information on major architectural movements embodied by those buildings: http://ah.bfn.org/ 
Metl - For The Last Time, Quit This Title Cannot Be Empty Crap 
 
I found this:

http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/index/index.html

It has photos of Conwy, so it must be good. 
Abandoned Buildings & Interesting Structures 
www.urbanadventure.org 
Abandoned Buildings & Interesting Structures 
www.urbanadventure.org 
 
And Not Forgetting... 
http://urbanexploration.org for days when urbanadventure.orgis stressed out.
Out of curiosity, what stuff do you people look at most, and is there anything not there that you'd be interested in me aquiring?
Glad you like the web site. 
Panic! 
we're looking at fotos of abandoned places like plants, factories, wastes, etc. just to get some inspiration. the first site i found ages ago was henk's apandoned places. but that's not enough for our greedy appetite. so we're still looking for the new sites with loads of photos of industrial objects.
of course these sites aren't our primary food supply, we seek for inspiration everywhere. but these sites gives us little help anyway. 
Metl 
i know i'm adding to your list of todo (or maybe not, i know you're a good coder) but do you wanna make this a section or sticky (bit like texture sites). i think its worth it imho
99.99% of people i'm sure are interested in architecture.
0.001 are interested in burnt rubber...lol 
Inspired... 
I've been viewing alot of Doom 3 screenshots and I'm more amazed than ever. I may build a high end machine just for this game... I'd been thinking to just go with 1Ghz cause that'd suit me - but with Doom 3 coming out.. this is like, history.. So I'll probably bump up those specs.

But anyway, I'm inspired to work on some textures for Q1. I'm sure I can do it, I'm already good with PS (not to brag). So what would you guys like to see and use in your maps? 
Textures 
Anything that incorporates most or all of these characteristics: Dark, gritty, fantasy, surreal, evil. 
Yes 
definitely E V I L 
Free Images: 
Art Noveau 
I have found this style very inspiring of late. 
Elek: 
Rorshach's recent "ivory" texture set got me thinking along art nouveau lines recently. I don't think it's going to happen until ... oh, who am i kidding? it's never going to happen :P 
 
I always wanted to recreate top towers of Gaudi's Sagrada Familia cathedral... 
Ya Speedy... 
That man's work rocks!
http://deanoman.com/eur0340.htm 
Metl 
site is fab. i could just print em and stick em to my bedroom wall. i love nature/inddustrial/urban etc.

cheers for the link 
Another Travel Album: 
Micheal She's photo gallery includes photos of his visits to Rome, Bizerte, and more, intermingled with pictures of his birthday parties and stuff:

http://www.binaryio.com/mshe/gallery/ 
Nice Pics 
nt 
Hey Guys 
What's going on in this thread 
WTF DO YOU MEAN? 
i always see this phrase.

ok, you just using a different name to wind us all up. 
Machu Picchu 
The ancient Inca city of Machu Picchu in Peru serves as a nice reference for stone ruins. It reminds of Koohoo and Uzul.

Since I don`t know of a specific site that has lots of good pics, I`ll just link to a Google image search for "Machu Picchu".

http://images.google.com/images?q=machu+picchu 
Re:phait Textures 
I want plastic textures: bright, shiny. Sick of Dark, gritty, evil. Old. 
Map For Quake3 
 
Bah 
get stuff from various 3d programs like 3d studio...

they have textures. it might be illegal to use em tho! 
Brilliant 
 
Asian Reference 
Welcome to www.orientalarchitecture.com, a photographic survey of Asia's architectural heritage. Here you can view over 6500 photos of 462 sites in seventeen countries, with background information and virtual tours. This website is a collection of photos from many different contributors.

http://www.orientalarchitecture.com/

Lots of great reference there. The only down side is that the images are all roughly 600x400. 
Hmmm Mebbe I Should Up Some Photos I've Taken In The Past That Have In 
pired me... why did I type that in the subject title... OH WELL ... 
Image That Has Inspired Me 
Damn You 
I have been looking four years for that picture after I saw a program on telly about the guy who made it and didn't catch his name. And then you come along and go all hey guys check this shit out! on me. Meh! 
Heh 
I remember the program, 'Making Their Mark' iirc; each episode followed one artist as they created an image specifically for the program. I held on to that particular image and used it for...oh, you know. 
Mike Wilks 
Wow, that guy is awesome. 
LD Theory 
Maybe some people have links to good articles on leveldesign theory ?

For example gamasutra features, like http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20030603/licht_01.shtml 
Speedy: 
could be, but that's probably a topic for another thread. 
Worth Making It A Thread Probably 
useful articles like that are hard to find, the ones on the TeamShambler site spring to mind though 
As In, They're Good, Not Useless 
 
Pinched From Q3W 
http://www.ludd.luth.se/~silver_p/kutna-1.html

some good stuff for inspiration and thinking. 
Copied From A Post By ELEK In The General Abuse Thread 
Thought You Guys Might Like This Page, Specially Von...
#2505 posted by ELEK [24.50.194.43] on 2003/11/02 16:36:05
http://www.hfinster.de/StahlArt2/archive-CheratteHasard-grube-cheratte-01.12.1991-BW-132-1-en.html
 
Small, But Sound 
fulscreen 15Mb, but I like it.
http://members.home.nl/gimli/qua01.gif 
Umm 
Shouldn't the curve be flexing while the spike is piercing it and not before? 
Grenadine Data 
True, but this looked more jelly.
wanted a spark in it, and more rushy...
with the id comes the others.

I posted a bigger one, but the same name
returns me the stamp folio-size. 
I'M SO INSPIRED! 
i'm going to go make a badly animated quake symbol in rubicon2!!!!!!1 
Madfox 
With a little more effort those could have been haiku. 
 
from below us, light
foolish foe dives out of sight
lava ends this fight 
Queer 
2 good replies 2 2 bad, not bad.

http://members.home.nl/gimli/Qua03.gif 
 
waxing crescent flees
spike from above is endless
penetration now 
<- Not A Rocket... 
distrans: that sounds so hot. 
 
blood red pulse around
my foe who shrugs off rockets
regeneration 
And All Because 
you can never have too much Piranesi...

http://149.201.61.100/hauptseite/piranesi_biografie/abb01.html 
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