Chacal's texture library

[Chacal]

Greetings!

From 2008 to 2015 I was traveling around the world and I collected hi-resolution pictures for the specific purpose of making a texture library for Uru Age builders. I have now published them as public access albums in Google Photos.

Most are 3072 x 2304 and were taken from about 1 meter at right angle from the surface. In many cases, when the surface was large enough, I took a mosaic of 9 pictures arranged like this:
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I also have two albums with images intended as inspiration for Age builders.
Inspiration 1 has images taken at the same time as texture images, in some cases they show the scenes from which textures were taken.
Inspiration 2 has images from the web, I made no note of their source and did not produce them. This one I published in 2012 actually, I just moved it to this new library.

Link to home page: https://sites.google.com/view/chacaltextures

Links to individual albums:

Bali https://photos.app.goo.gl/gLpDqdaJ74ztSxtg9
Beijing https://photos.app.goo.gl/wDKPjf1LTJvpaTnv7
Cyprus https://photos.app.goo.gl/ZFg3iSFNz7F8B4x78
Kyoto https://photos.app.goo.gl/HCFHHw77yz6ph59G7
Kyoto - Daitokuji https://photos.app.goo.gl/6e53Whq1XexrY55D7
Kyoto - Ginkakuji https://photos.app.goo.gl/kxbom5LEmpZH3fnK9
Kyoto - Honen-in https://photos.app.goo.gl/oqKTf7aTDbHaDNw69
Kyoto - Nanzenji https://photos.app.goo.gl/HVZ84ST6gXz3itAb9
Kyoto - Path Of Philosophy https://photos.app.goo.gl/jcXMubWxSfYtKUMW8
Kyoto - Ryoanji https://photos.app.goo.gl/vJLHknaXAd9z9T4s5
Kyoto - Tenjuan https://photos.app.goo.gl/MqeaFPHLjGawCBVs7
Melaka https://photos.app.goo.gl/V4uokQY25nzWXa7LA
Mexico https://photos.app.goo.gl/ViBTJF94pF6gQUkZ8
Nara https://photos.app.goo.gl/nEYK4nACdpNaYiZZA
Seoul https://photos.app.goo.gl/XiGgrQvXzCCqh5hL9
Inspiration 1 https://photos.app.goo.gl/2SynoVW3461UdwDJA
Inspiration 2 https://photos.app.goo.gl/tQ3ML61B5C1ucdoF8

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Hoping this work will be useful.
Chacal

[Eh'ko]

This is an incredible gift for all Writers and a very comprehensive resource, thank you Chacal.
I will definitely try to incorporate some of your textures in my own work

-: D'eux :-

[ametist]

Thank you so much, Chacal! So many beautiful images, many I can see I would like to use, as Deux said.

[Sirius]

Cool ! Free high res textures are usually hard to find. I'm glad you could shoot so many. I hope you had fun traveling everywhere (it really sucks that tourism is now impossible due to covid... let's hope this thing blows over quick.)

Perhaps a moderator could pin this post.

Hmmm, I'm thinking maybe we could also start a Wiki page with URLs to various assets useful for builders. We have your textures, the high res Cyan ones, I recall there was an initiative to make a library of 3D objects for builders to use too at some point...

[Chacal]

I hope you had fun traveling everywhere (it really sucks that tourism is now impossible due to covid... let's hope this thing blows over quick.)

I was traveling to international ISO meetings, with a little time for tourism on the side.
Sure had a lot of fun, and apart from textures I also brought back a wife and kid.


I swear I didn't know I had these in my luggage, officer. Someone must have slipped them in when I wasn't looking.