15 years ago

Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads, & Effects *** New Textures by Rusty333P Added Jan. 2014

Here are the links I know about for CAW textures. If you know of any others post here and I'll pop them in the top post.

Terrain Textures

14 Caw Textures by Rusty333P @ tumblr

http://i.imgur.com/62U9jaE.jpg

15 Caw Textures by Rusty333P @ tumblr

http://i.imgur.com/gRzOeGv.jpg

Roaring Heights Textures, Roads, INI Files and Colour Ramps by Zerbu @ mediafire

http://i.imgur.com/AoxyCqE.jpg

Oasis Landing ini, color ramps, and Future World Designator @ Cawster
Oasis Landing Textures, Roads, by Zerbu @ mediafire
Oasis Landing Textures, Roads, by Mr. C @ EA Caw Forum Added Nov. 2013

http://i.imgur.com/sIzG5TB.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/fe2u5oc.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/bhJUjfH.jpg

Midnight Hollow Textures, Roads, Height Map,Distant Terrain, INI & Color Ramps auntielynds @ MTS Added June 2013

http://i.imgur.com/Go9fNS0.jpg

http://i39.servimg.com/u/f39/17/38/99/71/mh_roa10.jpg

Boardwalk Wood Plank Texture Pack by aminovas
http://i.imgur.com/xxidQXO.jpg

Isla Paradiso Textures, Roads, INI & Color Ramps by Zerbu @ mediafire

http://i.imgur.com/xADyQsx.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/bJqTVtY.jpg

Collingwood's Terrain Textures by MrCrumplebottom1 Added June 2013

http://i.imgur.com/YRV9tkv.png

Dragon Valley Textures, Roads, Height Map, INI & Color Ramps auntielynds @ MTS Added June 2013

http://i.imgur.com/XwosP4G.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/s9Zp3Bl.jpg

University Town Textures & Roads auntielynds @ MTS Added March 2013
Nothing exciting, but here they are. :wink:
http://i.imgur.com/VkARDvP.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/EIOd9qs.jpg

Aurora Skies Textures, Roads auntielynds @ MTS Added Feb. 2013

http://i50.tinypic.com/309ki6b.jpg

http://i49.tinypic.com/15wyrlh.jpg

Monte Vista Textures, Roads extracted by 123456123456123456 @ Mediafire Added Dec. 2012
Monte Vista Textures, Roads, Height Map, Distant Terrain, & ini & Colour Ramps extracted by auntielynds @ MTS

http://i.imgur.com/dib6Q.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/dUkMS.jpg

Mr.C's Supernatural Textures & RoadsEA Caw Forum, added Sept. 2012
Moonlight Falls: Textures, Road, Height-Maps extracted by Atakoy @ MTS

http://i.imgur.com/09LG1.png

Sunlit Tides Textures & Roads - mediafire download
http://i48.tinypic.com/6gv637.jpg

Mr.C's Lucky Palms Textures & Roads EA Caw Forum, added July 2012

Lucky Palms Textures & Roads - box download added June, 2012
Lucky Palms Textures & Roads - mediafire download
http://i45.tinypic.com/28sqwyh.jpg

Twelve Tempting Terrains by Simmiller @ MTS added April, 2012

Starlight Shores Textures & Roads - mediafire download
Starlight Shores Textures & Roads - box download
http://i.imgur.com/N8XvB.jpg

Lunar Lakes Textures & Roads - mediafire download
http://i.imgur.com/coPkw.png
http://i39.servimg.com/u/f39/17/38/99/71/8zbte10.jpg
http://i39.servimg.com/u/f39/17/38/99/71/hlvkj10.jpg

Appaloosa Plains Textures - mediafire download
Appaloosa Plains Roads - mediafire download

Appaloosa Plains Textures - box download
Appaloosa Plains - Roads box download

http://i.imgur.com/UGt0a.jpg

I have 47 new textures for you by HturnerP added Sept, 2011
http://i39.servimg.com/u/f39/17/38/99/71/hturne10.jpg

MrCrumplebottom1 HiddenSprings Textures extracted by Mr. Crumplebottom added Aug 28th, 2011
MrCrumplebottom1 HiddenSprings Roads added Aug. 28th, 2011

New Grass, Water, and Sand by NILXIS @ Nilixis Sims3 added Feb 7, 2011

Textures Extracted from other EA games by Ouerbacker added Jan 29th, 2011
http://i39.servimg.com/u/f39/17/38/99/71/q_110.jpg
http://i39.servimg.com/u/f39/17/38/99/71/q_210.jpg

Apocalyptic/destroyed terrain paints by VampireSim @MTS added Jan. 18th 2011
In this post are distressed, in game textures as well.

CAW Terrain - Simple but useful recolours of EA terrain paints by Armiel @ MTS added Dec. 30th 2010
http://i39.servimg.com/u/f39/17/38/99/71/armiel10.jpg

Late Night ,Bridgeport Textures Extracted by Emmies
Bridgeport roads extracted by Emmies Added Nov. 6th 2010
http://emmies.dreamwidth.org/3821.html
http://i55.tinypic.com/23jr51u.jpg

Twinbrook/Ambitions Textures extracted by Drowssap
Twinbrook/Ambitions Roads extracted by Drowssap
http://i39.servimg.com/u/f39/17/38/99/71/ep02_t10.jpg
http://i39.servimg.com/u/f39/17/38/99/71/ep02_110.jpg
http://i39.servimg.com/u/f39/17/38/99/71/ep02_310.jpg

:!: Beach Rock Texture Pack with matching in game Terrain Paint by HystericalParoxysm @ MTS
These are some of my favorite, go-to textures

130 Custom Textures Pack by Stw405

Horror Texture Pack by Chellemh29 This is her thread
This is the mediafire link to Chellemh29's textures

New Terrain Textures for CAW - Extracted from Ts2! by MrCrumplebottom1 added Sept. 4th

Faerie Grass set by Ghost at CS3 @ mediafire
Matching Sidewalk Tiles: Terrain Paints and Texture Files by Simsimsillion
Snow & Ice Textures from auntielynds added Nov. 2010
Auntielynds Water Textures Folder
My Opacity Folder
http://i.imgur.com/2Sdoa.jpg

BSI Regina's Caw Textures & Shire Road mediafire
https://app.box.com/s/983oxlxng0u2txe5wvbd box download

http://i.imgur.com/obz1gQg.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/NTm02x8.jpg

Caw Terrain Packs & Create A Road: Urban Street Pack
Ice age Terrain Pack by Ashillion
http://i.imgur.com/6kPeauA.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Afc5uEr.jpg

Eruption Terrain Pack by Ashillion
http://i.imgur.com/uPCo6mR.jpg

Badlands Terrain Pack by Ashillion
http://i.imgur.com/AbZq8U1.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/g9WLYM1.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/kYOPzPm.jpg

Fossil World Terrain Pack by Ashillion
http://i.imgur.com/cHYF9yp.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/rQFxVQ4.jpg

Create A Road: Urban Street Pack
http://i.imgur.com/9Mq00sK.jpg

Martines CAW Textures Megapack
http://i.imgur.com/qtMuu.jpg

English Road Textures! ;D by MrCrumplebottom1 added Jan. 30th, 2011

Drowsapp's Snow Tire Track Road
http://i51.tinypic.com/afhdef.jpg

Water_Cat1s French Road Texture

Wyndhane's Custom Roads Pack Pictures
Download Link

CAW Textures by MerryWiddow
http://i39.servimg.com/u/f39/17/38/99/71/mw_tex10.jpg

Viewing your .dds textures so you don't have to guess

Mystic Thumbs .dds Viewer for Windows
Source Texture Organization

Instructions for installing your new textures:

When you download click on save and then download them where you can find them.
Okay now you have your files downloaded I will walk you through putting them into your game. I'll write this for beginners like I was just a few months ago.

Find your files and then open up Windows Explorer.
On the left hand side under Folders, go down to Documents,
then to Electronic Arts,
then to The Sims 3 Create A World,
then to UserToolData.
then click on SourceTextures.
Now just drag and drop the new .dds files into the SourceTextures file.
http://i35.tinypic.com/2lv1hkg.jpg

Adding the Textures to your World Palette

http://i44.tinypic.com/30x9yit.jpg

Make Your Own Textures

If you would like to try your hand at making your own textures here is a link:
The Easy Way to Create Terrain Textures or here is a quick tutorial:

Using Gimp

1. Get gimp, and the .dds plugin. Links here, and how to do the plugin, very easy...Free Image Editors for use with Caw

2. Pick a pre-existing texture from your Source Textures File. If you want pink grass, get a grass texture you like. Choose something that's not too dark.

3. Drag and drop this into gimp. you get a pop up like this, un-check the Load mipmaps box.

http://i38.tinypic.com/kbbng0.jpg

4. Click on "Colors" on the menu bar, and the "Hue-Saturation"

http://i38.tinypic.com/6sdg78.jpg

5. Now you get this pop up and you just mess around with the sliders.

http://i36.tinypic.com/15g9gm8.jpg

6. Under "File" click on "Save as", and name it, and click "Save".

http://i35.tinypic.com/2155zk.jpg

7. Then just save with these options, and your done.

http://i37.tinypic.com/1zdmalw.jpg

At this point I always do another "Save as" and save it as a jpeg. now when you are looking for your textures, you can see them.

You can also get your own new textures. Google "Free Seamless Textures" and you'll get a bunch of different sites with interesting textures. Just make sure they are cropped to 1024x1024, or 512x512. You'll lose some detail in the texture if they are 512, but for some textures you only use to highlight it's better to have them at the 512, they are a much smaller file size, which will help lower you're overall world file size.

Easy Peasy :mrgreen:

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bsiregina
15 years ago
I am bookmarking it because I'm all the time trying to convince people to download more textures. ;)
auntielynds
15 years ago
Once you put them into the source texture file they will be packaged with your world.
auntielynds
15 years ago
Hey Ashillion! I love your "Stuff"!
I've been wanting to use your Eruption pack textures in like a cool Dantes Inferno type world. I have to finish my current project first though. I'm sure everyone would like to thank you for sharing your stuff :D
auntielynds
15 years ago
New textures added by Chellemh29 & Simsimillian.

Regina, I added your thread about your textures, but now I don't know if you've updated that thread to include what you've learned about the 512x512s. Let me know if you want me to take it out or not.
Sterek4Life
15 years ago
Excellent topic, thanks so much. This thread should be stickied.
bsiregina
15 years ago
I don't know if i should post this here or ... But i had "some" problems with Regina's site??? My Firefox kept blocking the site saying it had some dangerious software it downloads without knowing it and has some trojans O.o???
I ended up just risking it cause i wonnit to get the terrains and it wasn't a problem it seems,

If Google and Firefox put one of those blocks in place, there's a good reason for it to be there. It makes you feel like a total idiot when it's your site being blocked, but I'd rather my site be blocked if something like that happens than have someone accidentally picking up a piece of trash that someone decided to drop there.

I don't think I can emphasize quite strongly enough that if a person happens across a site with that block in place DON'T venture past it!

Basically a hole had been knocked into one of our fences and three of BogSims's pages were infected with malware at some point Friday. I didn't know about it until yesterday but as soon as I did went straight to work on it, then today our entire server has been run through a cleaning to make sure I got everything and to check for further vulnerabilities.

At this point everything is cleaned and secure and just waiting on the review from Google.
water_cat1
15 years ago
auntielynds, could you please change the title on the link for my road textures to something new, i have available french crossing and corner fix, full opacity map, "no detail" map and snow roads. Not just french crossings
auntielynds
15 years ago
Okay, Fixed.

If you would like it worded differently type it out the way you would like it.

Thanks
sees317537
15 years ago
question # 1
drag and drop dds.files straight to texture file??

i cant get the gimp plugin page to work ...

REGINA!!! HELP HUNNY, SHOULD I DELETE ANY TEXTURES I DOWNLOADED LAST WEEK ????
I JUST LITERALLY BOUGHT THIS NEW COMPUTER FOR CAW AND MY DREAM BUILDING PROJECTS...
ARE THE DOWNLOADS SAFE?
auntielynds
15 years ago
I'm not exactly sure what your asking?

Find your files and then open up Windows Explorer.
On the left hand side under Folders, go down to Documents,
then to Electronic Arts,
then to The Sims 3 Create A World,
then to UserToolData.
then click on SourceTextures.
Now just drag and drop the new .dds files into the SourceTextures file.

I don't know, is this what you are referring too?

And for the second part of your question , if you are referring to the issues Regina has been dealing with at Bogsims Institute, as of yesterday her site was completly clean. Absolutly no threats. I think she spent the better part of a week going through every file. What a nightmare that must have been.

If you want to check in with her I'd post on her thread dealing with her textures, there is a link on the first page, below the links to her textures. She's not as likely to check this thread.

I hope I answered your questions, and congrats on your new computer!

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