you are not procurring anything, you can always contact the owner, explain what you are doing, and get an arranged visitation. What is the point of taking the risk without any real gain? Try explaining you were trying to get pics for tilable textures to a bunch of cell mates. 

This is my greatest mapping inspiration,

http://images.google.com/images?q=gazebo%20design&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

Yessss! 

because taking risks is fun. it can make whatever little gain feel like much more. ;) 

But is it Good?
http://www.dreadgazebo.com/eric.html 

Playing Arabian Nights when it came out and liking it emensely. Visiting your site reminded me of that experience. Makes me wanna do another run through some time when I have the free time.

Necros: Yeap. I think I understand what you mean about risk. Like raiding a hotel pool at 2 Am even when you can afford the fare for a room. It is the cheap thrills that sustain my existance. 

http://www.dm-exp.org/gallery 

<Friction> AMAZINGLY inspiring site for extra heavy duty industrial designs
<Friction> http://www.dubtown.de/

Not mine, just pasted from IRC. 

http://www.scathach.de/index.htm
Not scat.

Oh, and awise fwom your gwave! 

thanks for the dubtown.de link... lots of cool busted up machinery. ^_^ 

http://www.torontosurplus.com/

This seems to be an online store for buying old parts and equipment, but there are tons of nice photos just for browsing purposes, too. Example: the Oscilloscope page, which has 40 or 50 nice pictures of oscilloscope instrument panels:

http://www.torontosurplus.com/tes/tes60.htm

Enjoy 

I don't know if it has been already view but, looks good ..

http://textures.forrest.cz/
http://www.planethalflife.com/studio/textures.asp

Enjoy ! 

http://www.islamicarchitecture.org/ 

nice one metl. Sometime soon I might post some pictures of a house i visited while it was under construction that looks like a q3 map, interesting place. 

this weekend in San Francisco's chinatown called "Empress of China" or something, but i didn't have my camera with me, and google doesn't seem to have any good pictures of it.

Trust me, it was cool. 

i've googled for fuedal asian mansion/fortress pics, but haven't found any good sites. If anyone knows any that I haven't checked, please lemme know so I can start research on my next map. 

http://www.planetquake.com/starbuck/wovoka/wovoka.html

I uploaded some pictures of a house in development I was lucky enough to look around. This home is is the $25 million price range, and everything is custom-made, even the $17,000 doors. The owner is a casino owner, and was a very nice guy, which surprised me.

The thing that strikes me is how much it looks like a Q3 map, but the real influences are from Native American culture (the name comes from this too) such as parts of the house inspired by the shape of the Teepee. Also, the house was designed to work with nature, using a few of Frank Lloyd Wright's ideas. Unlike Lloyd Wright, however, they've been landscaping extensively and placing boulders and hills in order to make nature "more ideal".

Also, in something that, ironically, also relates to Q3 mapping, the caretaker complains that the building focuses too much on aesthetics, and the 'flow' of the house and practicality have taken a back seat. So it's got crap gameplay, but it sure looks nice.

First page is exterior shots, 2nd and 3rd are interiors. Look out for the 'detailing'; there are lights carved into rocks, custom triangle floor grates, and custom stair light trim, and more! Enjoy. 

Yes, nice house !!! It give me some cool idea for my next maps... ;) 

What kind of framerate were you getting in that outdoor area? 

I had a dream after a few days of mapping where my body was a sealed map being compiled into a bsp while my flesh, mere extrageneous material, was being stripped away. 

Put your analyst on danger money. 

Seriously HeadThump, that's freakier than my dreams. 

... with lot of modern building photos, and many others...

http://www.bigfoto.com/themes/architecture/



.. with many architectural japan design (visit all links !!) After a quick look, there are photos about traditional houses, bridges, gardens, etc..

http://www.japan-photo.de/e-archit.htm



Enjoy ! 

Right. Let's get one thing cleared up:

Does anyone actually use any of these sites for inspiration and reference AND ACTUALLY CREATE ANY MAPS INSPIRED BY THE SITES?? 

We just fap all over them when we see them first time, and then wait for someone else to make maps like them. 

.. are you really hurry to play a Japan-style map ?? So you need to be a more patient: I've just found these site... and I've not yet explored all the pages... or perhaps are you jalous not to be the owner of this thread, don't you ??