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 Textures14 Caw Textures by Rusty333P @ tumblr
15 Caw Textures by Rusty333P @ tumblr
Roaring Heights Textures, Roads, INI Files and Colour Ramps by Zerbu @ mediafire
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
Midnight Hollow Textures, Roads, Height Map,Distant Terrain, INI & Color Ramps auntielynds @ MTS Added June 2013
Boardwalk Wood Plank Texture Pack by aminovas
Isla Paradiso Textures, Roads, INI & Color Ramps by Zerbu @ mediafire
Collingwood's Terrain Textures by MrCrumplebottom1 Added June 2013
Dragon Valley Textures, Roads, Height Map, INI & Color Ramps auntielynds @ MTS Added June 2013
University Town Textures & Roads auntielynds @ MTS Added March 2013
Nothing exciting, but here they are.
Aurora Skies Textures, Roads auntielynds @ MTS Added Feb. 2013
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
Mr.C's Supernatural Textures & RoadsEA Caw Forum, added Sept. 2012
Moonlight Falls: Textures, Road, Height-Maps extracted by Atakoy @ MTS
Sunlit Tides Textures & Roads - mediafire downloadMr.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 downloadTwelve Tempting Terrains by Simmiller @ MTS added April, 2012
Starlight Shores Textures & Roads - mediafire downloadStarlight Shores Textures & Roads - box downloadLunar Lakes Textures & Roads - mediafire downloadAppaloosa Plains Textures - mediafire downloadAppaloosa Plains Roads - mediafire downloadAppaloosa Plains Textures - box downloadAppaloosa Plains - Roads box downloadI have 47 new textures for you by HturnerP added Sept, 2011
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
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
Late Night ,Bridgeport Textures Extracted by Emmies
Bridgeport roads extracted by Emmies Added Nov. 6th 2010
http://emmies.dreamwidth.org/3821.htmlTwinbrook/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 Stw405Horror Texture Pack by Chellemh29 This is her thread
This is the mediafire link to Chellemh29's texturesNew 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 FolderMy Opacity FolderBSI Regina's Caw Textures & Shire Road mediafire
https://app.box.com/s/983oxlxng0u2txe5wvbd box download
Caw Terrain Packs & Create A Road: Urban Street PackIce age Terrain Pack by AshillionEruption Terrain Pack by AshillionBadlands Terrain Pack by AshillionFossil World Terrain Pack by AshillionCreate A Road: Urban Street PackMartines CAW Textures MegapackEnglish Road Textures! ;D by MrCrumplebottom1 added Jan. 30th, 2011
Drowsapp's Snow Tire Track RoadWater_Cat1s French Road TextureWyndhane's Custom Roads Pack Pictures Download LinkCAW Textures by MerryWiddow Viewing your .dds textures so you don't have to guessMystic Thumbs .dds Viewer for WindowsSource Texture OrganizationInstructions 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.
Adding the Textures to your World PaletteMake 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.
4. Click on "Colors" on the menu bar, and the "Hue-Saturation"
5. Now you get this pop up and you just mess around with the sliders.
6. Under "File" click on "Save as", and name it, and click "Save".
7. Then just save with these options, and your done.
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
Obtaining DDS Plug-ins and installation
Comments
very helpful thanks
The Sims Creators' Consortium
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
The Sims Creators' Consortium
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.
The Sims Creators' Consortium
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... .
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.
If you would like it worded differently type it out the way you would like it.
Thanks
The Sims Creators' Consortium
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?
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!
The Sims Creators' Consortium
Bookmarked
Pinklady1
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!)
The Sims Creators' Consortium
yey ! thankyou
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.
The Sims Creators' Consortium
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