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(Image from Mayang's Free Textures - http://www.mayang.com/textures/ )

Anyone recognise where this is from? I believe it was used by Cyan in Myst V, for Releeshan, actually. I wonder if anyone has seen any other texture/references used by Cyan? I'd love to see some, if you've found 'em.

EDIT: Warning, huuuge image!

Yes. Part of that is the image found on the Releeshan Flags.

Yes, I remember I found the texture Cyan used for the round lights in Todelmer (the ones made of concentric circles). It was something like a worn rubber piece used to get traction.

if texture is nothing more then a Jpg file is it possible to go out and just take pictures of rocks, boulder's, mountains, caves, forest ext ext, and us those??

for instance if your gonna make an age that is set in the New Mexico desert what better place to get a texture for the ground then in New Mexico

Technically, it is indeed possible to take photos of things, and use them as textures, yes. The trick is to take pictures that are usable for that purpose. Mind you, you will still need to model the objects. =)

Cyan does indeed use lots of photos for textures, but they rework them heavily.
For Riven, they sent people to junkyards for nice rusty metal textures.