Mapping reference gold mine.

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Also a good one

agagaga I used to try and map little scenes based off abandoned-places photos. Some very nice stuff there

Not very useful for direct texture use, but it's definitely very inspiring!

http://www.terragalleria.com/

First of all, the guy is one of the best photographers i know. He's made thousands of gorgious pictures and they're so good that i actually once spent a day browsing through them all. While many of the photos won't be useful for level design, many others will be. There are some buildings that are so crazy i wouldn't have thought of making them, but they're real:

http://www.terragalleria.com/images/np- ... e0821.jpeg

Anyway, great website, lovely photos. Also good for when you need a new desktop

I love abandoned-places...

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I actually tried to re-create this pic, but i failed horiblly on the hl1 engine

roflmao...

I've used this reference sites at work for the past 2 years. Figured you guys would have known about them by now.

Some of those picture are just...wierd.

I started up a thread like this on map-center a while ago. Some great links in there: http://www.map-center.com/modules.php?n ... pic&t=5481

Nice stuff, thanks. Bookmarked the lot

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I actually tried to re-create this pic, but i failed horiblly on the hl1 engine

ha! i remember that!

great sources for inspiration. love abandoned-places.com. great ref pics .

Oh, by the way, i think if you want good ref pics, the best thing to do is.... get out more. But i fear this might be the wrong place for such a revolutionary piece of advise

U rock backslider

those pics would make for cool hl2 maps...

Thats the point MJ. They are references

AAh! what a nice found.

This map for the win.

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Sorry for double post but this pic rox from Dubtown.

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map it