Subscribed. I have been twice at the Alhambra (I am spanish) and I'm never tired of doing it. I want to return one day.
If you like this stuff, you may like the city of "Medina Azahara", in Cordoba. I have never been there althoug is near to me, and I have to visit it, it's from the Xth century and it's not very known outside of Spain.
Ah, and the columns are from a wrong restauration in the XIXth century. In the drawing you uploaded you can see that they were made from brick, originally.
I am really happy to hear that you have solved your problems, L.VII.C. 
All the walls I have from the Domus Aurea are in the pages I linked before. I have something more from another places, but I don't remember where I obtained them. Please don't be dissapointed, I didn't knew that page when I told the textures I had.
As I have your mail now, you can edit and delete it. A spam boot could read it and send you spam email.
I have sent you the textures.
Edit: I usually use free software, as I do my projects for free. So I don't have Poser, 3Dmax, and so on...
No problem, I hope to see one day your model finished
I have another suggestion for you. With this software you can easily make a nude human for the statue of the Colossus of Nero.
http://www.romereborn.virginia.edu/_images/gallery-2-1/Colossus_medium.jpg
It's easy to model on the figure, as it's nude in all the hipotetical drawings I've seen. At least that's what I think...
I have found the textures, if you want them send me a private message with your email. To be honest I don't remember the sources...
hepf, that second video uses the same textures, too.
Edit: Some of the textures I have are among the following ones I have discovered right now. They are taken from Domus Aurea.
http://www.corbisimages.com/Enlargement/LX001882.html
http://www.corbisimages.com/Enlargement/LX001869.html
http://www.corbisimages.com/Enlargement/LX001881.html
http://www.corbisimages.com/Enlargement/LX001886.html
http://www.corbisimages.com/Enlargement/LX001877.html
You can investigate on that page, but I am sure that there must be a way to obtain them for free (I believe that those photos have rights, I am not sure). Those images have some years...
@gaieus said:
Pichuneke: what a great resource that site is referring to:
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/DLDecArts/DLDecArts-idx?id=DLDecArts.GramOrnJones
Yes, that's the book. In fact I now remember that I visited that link. But I am afraid that I may have lost the files with the "reconstructed" paintings of pompeii from XIX century. I'll look for it later, I am working now.
It's an amazing video.
I see that he has used textures from books from the XIX century. I have most of them, but I don't remember where I downloaded them (I found them on the net). If you want, I can send you an email.
It's not roman art (greek, persian...) , but I believe that this link will be interesting for you:
Tessellation related Photo plates from Owen Jones' 1853 classic book, "The Grammar of Ornament". Sourced from the University of Wisconsin's digital archive of decorative arts: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/DLDecArts.GramOrnJones
Flickr (www.flickr.com)
hepf, I just want to say that I enjoy reading about roman art, archeology, and so on, but I am not an archeologist. It's just a Hobby.
Respect Meta Sudans I have been reading about the excavations in past years, and you say that... It's a honour to write here! 
In my free time I do archeological 3D for fun, but fortunately I have work now, so they are a bit abandoned...
It's very interesting that simmetry. A friend, archeologist, gave me some data about a building, and doing a fast 3D model you can discover things that you would not have seen without it. You are doing first level investigation.
It has not information about Domus Aurea, but I believe that this account of Flickr will be very interesting for you.
As for my english, I have limited skills , I always have to look at the english-spanish dicitionary, but at least I can make myself understood 
Bye from Spain, hepf.
A small pool in the connection with the lake? I don't know if there is an archeological basis for that, but it seems the most logical solution to me. You know, connecting the waterfall and the lake.
@l.vii.c said:
pichuneke
@unknownuser said:
Sketchup 8 is a "Sketchup 7.5". But there is a problem there.
Perhaps the most practical solution would be start using Sketchup 7 or 8.
Anyway I hope that an expert comes here to teach us what's the problem and how to fix it.
I installed the eighth version today and I have similar problems too
In addition, the image quality on all models became much worse and all models are rotated with the brakes, components disappeared etc
So I had deleted the eighth version.
I believe that you must have some troubles with the configuration.
I have a problem to guide you, as I have the spanish version. But go to Window -> Preferences -> OpenGL
And select use maximum texture size, hardware aceleration, fast response, antialiasing 4x and so on. As I have the spanish version I have translated the options to english myself, so some things may differ.
@artysmedia said:
@pichuneke said:
Muy bonita artysmedia, se nota cuando se hacen las cosas con ganas y cuidado.
Ey, que esto sólo lo hice en un par de horas, eh?
¿2 horas sólo? Me quito el sombrero. I told you that seriosly, believe me. I am going to start speaking in English. English speakers here are probably thinking that we are offending them in spanish, which is true, of course 
Muy bonita artysmedia, se nota cuando se hacen las cosas con ganas y cuidado.
That small part of the building makes me think about the rest of it. How is it? Will you model it?
Anyway, congratulations.
Sketchup 8 is a "Sketchup 7.5". But there is a problem there.
Perhaps the most practical solution would be start using Sketchup 7 or 8.
Anyway I hope that an expert comes here to teach us what's the problem and how to fix it.
Ah... I have some problems opening your model with Google Sketchup 8. I don't know the reason 
I upload a photo with the problem.
I have written about your model in this thread:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=79&t=31406&start=60
I suposse you know it.
I am doing a fast render of your colosseum (I know, you can do it very well, too ), I will upload it later.
Edit:
800px:
1374 px:
What can I say... every time I see a new model from L.VII.C...
Colosseum
I cant't help... just a link to a photogrammetry forum:
http://www.pgrammetry.com/forum/
I think that it's very interesting.
I keep reading you (and enjoying). I don't have the time I had some years ago to get involved with you, but at least I can tell you that you are doing it very well
Meanwhile I will continue with a little temple here, a theatre there...
