Custom Textures

For all of you out there who are too lazy to make/google textures:

List of links to websites containing textures for use in maps. Devided into catagories based upon possible usage.

Sites can always be googled, but of course alot of junk turns up, and this page is an attempt to sort through that, and list sites known from experiance.

WARNING:

REMEMBER: If you want to use any of these textures in your map, check the website's policy on using and distributing them. Using the textures in your map, and then putting your map up for download on [FileFront] or another website COUNTS AS DISTRIBUTION.

Some websites will let you use and distribute the textures however you wish.
Some will let you use/distribute the textures so long as you do not do so for a commercial purpose, i.e. sell them.
Some websites will let you do the above so long as you indicate the source/creator of your texture in the distribution medium, i.e. your map. This means you should cite your sources in your readme.
If the provided info about the texture contains a name, most likely the name belongs to the texture's creator. You should give them credit in your readme.

Websites that sell textures are more leniant with thier distribution policies.

Always read the website's policy for distributing there textures, and give credit where credit is due.

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Name - Link to site.
Description - What the textures could be useful for. I.E. base textures, skyboxes, inspirations for static meshes, they could be turned into static mesh skins, etc.
2^x - Textures are compatable with Unreal Engines limitation to texture dimensions being powers of 2.
Tiled - Some or all of the textures are seamless tiling textures.
Catagorized - The textures are devided up into catagories.
Many - The site contains A large assortment of textures to choose from.
Subscribe - Requires you to subscribe before you can access the textures. Of course, they give you thumbnail teasers
Free - Weather or not the textures cost money.
Policy - link to info about usage policy (see warning above)

The List

Name	Description	2^x	Tiled	Catagorized	Many	Subscribe	Free	Policy
[3D Cafe]	Nearly all imaginable catagories. Some are very large. Site also has free models.	Some	Some	Yes	Yes	No	Some	[Policy]
[Free Seamless Textures]	Base textures, various sizes	Yes	No	All	No	No	Yes	[Policy]
[Environmental Textures]	Mostly photographs, some graphity, some skys and ground	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	[3] Policy (as MS-Word .doc)
[Turbo Squid]	Everything you could possibly imagine, from sky to plants to architecture. Some are very large. Free models	Some	Some	Yes + Search	> 10,000!1	No	Some	[Policy]
[3D Millennium]	Good textures. Wood, Leather, Shadow Projection Maps(?) All have thier own bump maps!!!	Yes	Yes	Yes	fair amount	No	Yes	On the same page
[All In 3D]	Good variety, clouds, metal, water, bump maps, the front of an air conditioner	Some	Some	Yes	Fair amount	No	Yes	[Policy]
[Allegorithmic]	Very cool materials! Contains everything necessary to make a complete shader. i.e. specular, reflectivity, opacity, bump, diffuse, displacement maps!!!! also effect filters	2048²	All	Yes	Yes	No	Yes?	?

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