Texture Web Sites

[Redrobes]

List for excellent texture sites. Please refer to each site for details on reuse of their textures in works.


http://www.cgtextures.com/
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/05/27/smashing-texture-contest-results/
http://www.spiralgraphics.biz/index.htm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31288116@N02/sets/
http://grungetextures.com/
http://www.estoneusa.com/
http://home.earthlink.net/~k42mene/MasterDrywall/Finishes.htm
http://www.tutorialsforblender3d.com/Textures/Textures_index.html
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Texture_Tools
http://www.textureking.com
http://www.squidfingers.com/patterns/
http://mayang.com/textures/
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/tag/textures/
http://texturelib.com/
http://lostandtaken.com/gallery/tag/paper

[pyrandon]

Wow--that IS a great site! Nice find!

[ravells]

Superb and really easy to navigate....excellent find, redrobes!

[Redrobes]

Hey guys listen to this...

I dumped about 70Mb of textures at this site and idly put in a request if anyone could get some Persian rugs for my Werthers Skull (Feb Map Challenge). I had to make up some rugs using fractals.

Well Marcel went out and photographed a whole suite of them including all the frills around the edges....

http://www.cgtextures.com/textures.php?t=search&q=rug&cat=22019

Amazing ! I wouldn't have the faintest clue where to go to even take the photos...


Edit -- Whoah check the res of these texture files out too...
http://www.viewing.ltd.uk/viewingdale/temp/forum_demos/PersianRugs/PersianRugRes.png

[ravells]

nice rugs!

[delgondahntelius]

Great find RR... excellent work, all of you people just make me feel so happy and warm and fuzzy....

:D

Have some rep :)

[ravells]

More textures here (http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/05/27/smashing-texture-contest-results/).

We should really gather all these great texture sites into one post and put them into a sticky.

[RPMiller]

More textures here (http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/05/27/smashing-texture-contest-results/).

We should really gather all these great texture sites into one post and put them into a sticky.
Well we do have this thread that is sticky: http://forum.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=724

You could just append this thread onto the end of that one if you wanted.

[ravells]

I guess, although that one was meant to be land and sea fill textures only so it didn't get flooded.

[RPMiller]

That's a good point. Perhaps we should make separate sticky threads for each category? What do you think?

[ravells]

Rather than create another sticky perhaps just edit the first post and list all the texture sites listed here to date?

[RPMiller]

That could work as well.

[Steel General]

I didn't see this one listed, but it seems to have some nice textures and such on it... Spiral Graphics (http://www.spiralgraphics.biz/index.htm)

[ravells]

They have some really nice terrain textures on there. Great find, Steel General. Hmm they are also looking for beta testers!

[RobA]

Moved all the links to the first post and added two more sites:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/31288116@N02/sets/
http://grungetextures.com/

I also changed the post title and set it stick as suggested.

-Rob A>

[Redrobes]

Oh cool Mayang is back up. That used to be *the* place for textures then it went offline for ages - so long that everyone thought it had gone to the four winds. I wonder how long its been up again. Thanks for posting.

[Lucas_Adorn]

Uh just got some really nice textures by doing a google search on 'golden marble'. lots of interresting links there also.

http://www.estoneusa.com/index.jsp?page=collection&id=1
http://home.earthlink.net/~k42mene/MasterDrywall/Default.htm?Path=http://home.earthlink.net/~k42mene/MasterDrywall/Finishes.htm

[Aylorian]

Quite a few nice looking textures here. Searched the forum for 'blender3d' and didn't see this listed anywhere:

http://www.tutorialsforblender3d.com/Textures/Textures_index.html

Hope you find something useful there.

[Aylorian]

Found this great list of texture making programs and texture utilities / sites on the Second Life Wiki:

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Texture_Tools

[Midgardsormr]

I ran across TextureKing (http://www.textureking.com) today. It doesn't have a lot of large scale photos, but it has a quite generous license. Might be useful for modern and sci-fi mapping/objects.

[kimey]

Not sure if you know this one. I'll post anyway.

http://texturelib.com/

[novice42]

For a list of many free texture sites see http://arnokohl.wordpress.com/2011/03/03/texuren-1/ and http://arnokohl.wordpress.com/2011/03/06/texturen-2/. The links are commented (though in German only)

[Mark Oliva]

We have a large number of free textures for free download and commercial as well as personal use in the Vintyri (TM) Cartographic Collection on our website. The material all is released under the Open Game License 1.0a.

http://www.vintyri.org

[jaerdaph]

Today on the Official Google SketchUp blog they featured A Treasure Trove of Textures (http://sketchupdate.blogspot.com/2011/09/treasure-trove-of-textures.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OfficialGoogleSketchupBlog+%2 8Official+Google+SketchUp+Blog%29) with a link to an article on John Pacyga's SketchUp For Landscapes blog (http://sketchupland.posterous.com/great-texture-websites-for-sketchup-and-photo) featuring links to a ton of sites with seamless textures that can be used with SketchUp, Photoshop, GIMP, CC3 and more.