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Free Texture sites


Forrest.cz Texture Library
http://textures.forrest.cz
More than 800 textures in 15 categories, some of them in good sizes.

ElectroWebAnimation free textures
http://electrowebanimation.com/scripts/texture/
Various textures, in various sizes.

Alias Wavefront Texture Farm
http://www.aliaswavefront.com/en/Tmpl/Maya/html/index.jht ml?page=/en/Community/Download/source_images/source_im ages_m.html&style=normal
If this first link fails, navigate from aliaswavefront.com to Community; Maya; Download; Source images) - Good quality images in many catagories of good maps.

Cid's materials and textures
http://www.saturn-online.de/~cosmo/mats.htm
A mix of lower and higher res .jpegs maps (some over 1k, most below) in many different categories.

Christian Bradley's Texture CDs
http://www.christianbradley.com/texturecds/
Although the cds are for sale, there are some excellent samples for free.

Jeremy Engleman's Public Textures
http://art.net/~jeremy/photo/public_texture/index.html
This amazing 3D artist has made available 700 free photographic images for your to process as textures. Many images are in raw condition, need fixing and mending.

Noctua Graphics free textures
http://www.noctua-graphics.de/english/freetex_e.htm
Excellent textures in 512x512 (some larger, some seamless), in various categories. Check out all the categories, some will surprise you!

Rubicon Digital
http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~stefan/code/index2.html
Some good textures in good sizes, some seamless.

MarlinStudios.com
http://marlinstudios.com/samples/sampst8.htm
Commercial texture website, but has a few samples of each CD for free. Go to each product page and scroll down to find Free Texture Downloads link.

AlienSkin free textures
http://www.alienskins.de/alien.html
Weird metallic and alien-skin like free textures in very good sizes, some 512x512 and others 1024x1024.

Dr. Ozone textures
http://www.ozones.com/texture.html
A few 640x480 good textures.

Absolute Cross free texture packs
http://www.absolutecross.com/textures.htm
Tons of fractal and irregular textures, separated into "packs" for download. Textures are all 256x256 seamless.

The 3DSMax WWW Experiment
http://www.theexperiment.com/3dsmax/texturesframeset.ht ml
Good sized textures in various categories.

Free textures from Mastering 3D graphics
http://mastering3dgraphics.com/public/freestuff/textures/pas t_textures.html
Textures are listed by date posted. Some are not not seamless but very good in size.

Avalon/Viewpoint
http://avalon.viewpoint.com/
An old and established site for models and textures. Good textures, although not a very good viewing method.

Stormvision 3D
http://www.stormvision.net/textures/index.cfm
Various all purpose textures separated into categories. Most are 256x256, not that large, but interesting.

TotallySeamless.com
http://www.totallyseamless.com/gallery.asp
Many excellent quality textures, some in good sizes, totally seamless.

3DCafe.com free textures
http://3dcafe.com/asp/textures.asp
Large library of free textures, divided into categories, in excellent working sizes. Check out the Metals, for some very good material.

Morek's free textures
http://www.o3games.com/morek/download.htm
Lots of excellent VERY large textures.

CG Texture Library
http://oss.medialab.chalmers.se/textures/
All purpose textures, in various sizes. Need to sift through to find good sizes and quality.

Lannie's 3D Textures
http://3dmodelworld.com/textures.asp
Good sized textures, need pre-processing, but with lots of thumbnails and interesting patterns to choose from. Textures might be from Chris Bradley(??)

Sean's Texture Dump
http://www.sabren.com/~sean/Index.html
Another web site with a variety of medium sized textures.