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    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads, & other Effects

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    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects Empty Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads, & other Effects

    Post  Admin Sat Jan 29, 2011 5:22 pm

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

    Terrain Textures
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    14 Caw Textures by Rusty333P @ tumblr

    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects 62U9jaE


    15 Caw Textures by Rusty333P @ tumblr

    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects GRzOeGv



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

    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects AoxyCqE



    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

    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects SIzG5TB

    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects Fe2u5oc

    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects BhJUjfH



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

    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects Go9fNS0

    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects Mh_roa10


    Boardwalk Wood Plank Texture Pack by aminovas
    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects XxidQXO




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

    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects XADyQsx

    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects BJqTVtY


    Collingwood's Terrain Textures by MrCrumplebottom1 Added June 2013

    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects YRV9tkv





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

    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects XwosP4G

    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects S9Zp3Bl





    University Town Textures & Roads auntielynds @ MTS Added March 2013
    Nothing exciting, but here they are.  😉
    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects VkARDvP

    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects EIOd9qs





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

    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects 309ki6b

    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects 15wyrlh





    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

    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects Dib6Q

    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects DUkMS





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

    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects 09LG1





    Sunlit Tides Textures & Roads - mediafire download
    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects 6gv637





    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
    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects 28sqwyh





    Twelve Tempting Terrains by Simmiller @ MTS added April, 2012




    Starlight Shores Textures & Roads - mediafire download
    Starlight Shores Textures & Roads - box download
    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects N8XvB





    Lunar Lakes Textures & Roads - mediafire download
    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects CoPkw
    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects 8zbte10
    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects Hlvkj10






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

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

    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects UGt0a





    I have 47 new textures for you by HturnerP   added Sept, 2011
    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects Hturne10





    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
    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects Q_110
    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects Q_210





    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
    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects Armiel10





    Late Night ,Bridgeport Textures Extracted by Emmies
    Bridgeport roads extracted by Emmies Added Nov. 6th 2010
    http://emmies.dreamwidth.org/3821.html
    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects 23jr51u





    Twinbrook/Ambitions Textures extracted by Drowssap
    Twinbrook/Ambitions Roads extracted by Drowssap
    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects Ep02_t10
    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects Ep02_110
    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects Ep02_310




    Exclamation 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
    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects 2Sdoa






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

    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects Obz1gQg
    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects NTm02x8





    Caw Terrain Packs & Create A Road: Urban Street Pack
    Ice age Terrain Pack by Ashillion
    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects 6kPeauA
    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects Afc5uEr

    Eruption Terrain Pack by Ashillion
    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects UPCo6mR

    Badlands Terrain Pack by Ashillion
    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects AbZq8U1
    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects G9WLYM1
    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects KYOPzPm

    Fossil World Terrain Pack by Ashillion
    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects CHYF9yp
    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects RQFxVQ4


    Create A Road: Urban Street Pack
    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects 9Mq00sK







    Martines CAW Textures Megapack
    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects QtMuu







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




    Drowsapp's Snow Tire Track Road
    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects Afhdef


    Water_Cat1s French Road Texture


    Wyndhane's Custom Roads Pack Pictures
    Download Link





    CAW Textures by MerryWiddow
    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects Mw_tex10







    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.
    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects 2lv1hkg





    Adding the Textures to your World Palette


    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects 30x9yit






    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.

    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects Kbbng0

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

    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects 6sdg78

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

    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects 15g9gm8

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

    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects 2155zk

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

    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects 1zdmalw

    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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    Post  Admin Sun Oct 30, 2011 9:59 pm

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

    Terrain Textures
    .

    Martines CAW Textures Megapack
    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects QtMuu

    BSI Regina's Terrain paints from Bog Sims Institute
    Custom Terrain Paints
    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects HH2fK

    BSI Regina's Game Extracted Terraian Paints
    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects HzBw2

    BsiReginas Thread on her Terrain Textures


    Appaloosa Plains Textures - mediafire download
    Appaloosa Plains Textures - box download
    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects UGt0a

    I have 47 new textures for you by HturnerP added Sept, 2011
    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects DM5OV

    MrCrumplebottom1 HiddenSprings Textures extracted by Mr. Crumplebottom 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
    Broken Tarmac Textures 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 Nights Bridgeport Textures extracted by Drowsapp Added Nov. 2nd 2010
    Late Night ,Bridgeport Textures Extracted by Emmies
    Ambitions Textures extracted by Drowssap
    Exclamation 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 The download for the .dds files is in the third post down.
    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
    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects 2Sdoa

    Ashillion is in the process of moving these textures to a new blog, I've just linked the new blog, and I'll update once they are all transferred.
    Fossil World Terrain pack by Ashillion
    Ice age Terrain Pack by Ashillion
    Eruption Terrain Pack by Ashillion
    Badlands Terrain Pack by Ashillion




    Custom Roads

    Appaloosa Plains Roads mediafire download
    Appaloosa Plains Roads box download
    I'll get a pic of roads up soon Very Happy
    MrCrumplebottom1 HiddenSprings Roads added Aug. 28th, 2011
    English Road Textures! ;D by MrCrumplebottom1 added Jan. 30th, 2011

    Bridgeport roads extracted by Emmies Added Nov. 6th 2010
    http://emmies.dreamwidth.org/3821.html
    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects 23jr51u

    Drowsapp's Snow Tire Track Road
    http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/205736.page
    Terrain Texture Links, Custom Roads,  & other Effects Afhdef

    Water_Cat1s French Road Texture, crossing and corner fix, full opacity map, "no detail" map and snow roads
    http://customsims3.com/forums/thread-206.html

    Wyndhane's Custom Roads Pack
    http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/45/230346.page#top Pictures halfway down page
    Download Link

    BSI Reginas Custom Roads from Bog Sims Institute
    CAW Custom Roads
    CAW Game Extracted Roads

    Exclamation Twinbrook roads extracted by Drowsapp New added Sept 12th
    http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/262254.page;jsessionid=5AA8A328208C915CB8E99325ED63A3A9.015060

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