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

auntielyndsauntielynds Posts: 3,071 Member
edited March 8 in Nominated Threads
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

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15 Caw Textures by Rusty333P @ tumblr

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

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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

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

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Boardwalk Wood Plank Texture Pack by aminovas
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Isla Paradiso Textures, Roads, INI & Color Ramps by Zerbu @ mediafire

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Collingwood's Terrain Textures by MrCrumplebottom1 Added June 2013

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

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University Town Textures & Roads auntielynds @ MTS Added March 2013
Nothing exciting, but here they are. :wink:
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Aurora Skies Textures, Roads auntielynds @ MTS Added Feb. 2013

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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

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

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Sunlit Tides Textures & Roads - mediafire download
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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
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Twelve Tempting Terrains by Simmiller @ MTS added April, 2012




Starlight Shores Textures & Roads - mediafire download
Starlight Shores Textures & Roads - box download
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Lunar Lakes Textures & Roads - mediafire download
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Appaloosa Plains Textures - mediafire download
Appaloosa Plains Roads - mediafire download

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

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I have 47 new textures for you by HturnerP added Sept, 2011
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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
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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
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Late Night ,Bridgeport Textures Extracted by Emmies
Bridgeport roads extracted by Emmies Added Nov. 6th 2010
http://emmies.dreamwidth.org/3821.html
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Twinbrook/Ambitions Textures extracted by Drowssap
Twinbrook/Ambitions Roads extracted by Drowssap
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:!: 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
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BSI Regina's Caw Textures & Shire Road mediafire
https://app.box.com/s/983oxlxng0u2txe5wvbd box download

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Caw Terrain Packs & Create A Road: Urban Street Pack
Ice age Terrain Pack by Ashillion
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Eruption Terrain Pack by Ashillion
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Badlands Terrain Pack by Ashillion
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Fossil World Terrain Pack by Ashillion
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Create A Road: Urban Street Pack
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Martines CAW Textures Megapack
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English Road Textures! ;D by MrCrumplebottom1 added Jan. 30th, 2011




Drowsapp's Snow Tire Track Road
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Water_Cat1s French Road Texture


Wyndhane's Custom Roads Pack Pictures
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CAW Textures by MerryWiddow
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Viewing your .dds textures so you don't have to guess

Mystic Thumbs .dds Viewer for Windows
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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.
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Adding the Textures to your World Palette


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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.

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

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

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

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

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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:

Obtaining DDS Plug-ins and installation
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Comments

  • diestlerdiestler Posts: 455 Member
    edited March 2010
    Very helpful! This should be stickied or bookmarked too in the Q&A. I had to dig it up from several pages back.
  • 2329s2329s Posts: 60
    edited March 2010
    woohoo finaly some good textures!!
    very helpful thanks :mrgreen:
  • BSIReginaBSIRegina Posts: 5,110 Member
    edited March 2010
    I am bookmarking it because I'm all the time trying to convince people to download more textures. ;)
    Thanks to AdBlock: currently blocking 184 annoying animated siggy .gifs ;)
  • melissagibbmelissagibb Posts: 752 New Member
    edited March 2010
    Awesome! Thank you. :mrgreen:
  • melissagibbmelissagibb Posts: 752 New Member
    edited March 2010
    I have one question... Are the textures base game compatible?
  • auntielyndsauntielynds Posts: 3,071 Member
    edited March 2010
    Once you put them into the source texture file they will be packaged with your world.
  • ashillionashillion Posts: 39 New Member
    edited March 2010
    Thanks for linking my stuff here!
  • auntielyndsauntielynds Posts: 3,071 Member
    edited March 2010
    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
  • auntielyndsauntielynds Posts: 3,071 Member
    edited April 2010
    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.
  • IvinoraIvinora Posts: 1,165 Member
    edited April 2010
    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, (my bitdefender didn't complain afterwords.. :/ so maybe it was my comp. although i never had this error before except for Final fantasy XI where gilsellers send you e-mails to try and hack your accounts... .) but still might be something to look into if other ppl have this problem... .
    Just thought i'd let you know, just incase... .
  • Missaaliyah812Missaaliyah812 Posts: 618 Member
    edited April 2010
    Excellent topic, thanks so much. This thread should be stickied.
  • BSIReginaBSIRegina Posts: 5,110 Member
    edited April 2010
    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.
    Thanks to AdBlock: currently blocking 184 annoying animated siggy .gifs ;)
  • water_cat1water_cat1 Posts: 751 New Member
    edited April 2010
    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
  • auntielyndsauntielynds Posts: 3,071 Member
    edited April 2010
    Okay, Fixed.

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

    Thanks
  • veronda522veronda522 Posts: 59 Member
    edited April 2010
    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?
  • auntielyndsauntielynds Posts: 3,071 Member
    edited April 2010
    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!
  • Evergreen226Evergreen226 Posts: 15,600 Member
    edited April 2010
    Muwahaha :D I couldn't find Martine's links, but then I remembered I bookmarked this!
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  • PINKLADY1PINKLADY1 Posts: 142 Member
    edited May 2010
    Thanks this was very helpful.
    Bookmarked

    Pinklady1
  • happyjmehappyjme Posts: 1,741 Member
    edited May 2010
    someone from EA should realy add this post to the favorites at the top of the list so it never gets lost. I'll book mark it for now though.
  • BSIReginaBSIRegina Posts: 5,110 Member
    edited May 2010
    Yesterday I uploaded updated files of the dirt and green granite textures, and included a couple that I haven't uploaded before that go with those. These new textures are meant to replace the old ones but for my own sanity I renamed them slightly so they'll have to be put in the Source Texture directory, then the texture in C-A-W edited to point to those files instead of the old ones and the old files deleted.

    I tried to post yesterday but this site has been hating me for days now, and until yesterday I was just too sick to care. So, I'm going to try to post this and see if it works. (Hey, it worked!)
    Thanks to AdBlock: currently blocking 184 annoying animated siggy .gifs ;)
  • Chrisw9Chrisw9 Posts: 125
    edited May 2010
    Quick Question: I really hope this isn't one of those 'always asked' questions... but I recently downloaded the textures into the 'SourceTextures' file and they work perfectly fine in CaW ... but when I go into 'Edit in Game' Mode.. it doesn't look quite as nice. Haha, For instance, I have two textures sort of overlapping in one area and in 'Edit in Game' only one texture is showing while the other has turned into this ugly pale brown... wasn't sure if I was doing something wrong? Should I not over lap textures? Really hate to be a pest. Thanks!!
  • auntielyndsauntielynds Posts: 3,071 Member
    edited July 2010
    New Ambitions Textures added by Drowssap!
    Post edited by Unknown User on
  • drowssapdrowssap Posts: 2,007 Member
    edited July 2010
    i see my link up there :oops:

    yey :D! thankyou :)
  • auntielyndsauntielynds Posts: 3,071 Member
    edited July 2010
    Drowsapp,
    I thought with all these new Cawsters out there I'd bump up the post. I haven't seen the Caw forum this busy in a long time!
    Thank you for taking the time to extract and upload the Ambitions textures for all of us to use.
  • drowssapdrowssap Posts: 2,007 Member
    edited July 2010
    i know :shock: its been busy on here
    i was actually looking to see if i could find a height map, but came across them :)
    i found parts of a sort of transparent height map
    [IMG]http://i28.tinypic.com/m991qw.jpg "width=200"[/IMG]
    but then i dont know what good the height map would do either, it seems EA's tool is more advanced than ours, because the water seems to be on two different levels

    seems most of the questions being asked are fairly simple, people getting back into CAW since the update, perhaps we'll see a freakishly talented world builder emerge from the crowd :)

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