I have amassed so many files over the past months while working piecemeal on my world but I haven't had time to upload everything! So, I'm just going to start uploading a few here and there and maybe eventually I'll get stuff totally organized and uploaded.
Snow Texture It's that time of year and a number of people are building snowy worlds and a few of them are having a hard time finding a good snow texture and I just happened to put this one together so figured I may as well upload it. What you're seeing in the picture is a quick custom road I threw together running through the snow.
KILL TILE Grass Texture: After spending a few weeks building I was so disgusted by the in-game grass textures that I just couldn't take it any more. The color was a sickly yellow-green and on zooming out the tile was driving me to distraction. Okay, really, I know they don't affect some people the way they do me but I was taught by the good people in the Sims community that a repeating pattern wasn't supposed to repeat itself in a way that made it looked tiled. Maybe the difference is the people creating the game textures went to college and I didn't, I dunno. At any rate, these textures will tile MUCH less than the originals. You need to know, though, that if you use one you use them all because the game textures DO NOT blend with these.
And please if you don't like the colors, feel free to recolor them to your heart's content!
Before
After
Close-up Detail (As you can see, it's still highly detailed close-up.)
Build Your Own Texture Packs-Flowers: Since I use so many remade textures I also needed things like flowers and crops to match those. I pulled the flowers off of one of the game textures then reworked it to get rid of the extreme tiling (it still has a little bit of tiling). This is a single .png image that can be added to ANY grass texture you wish to use. The flowers in the image are purple which can easily be changed to any color you want in an image editor.
Here it is in Create-a-World:
Build Your Own Texture Packs-Crops: There are four different transparent .png images here which can be pasted over ANY dirt texture then saved as a .dds for use in CAW. I used textures with obvious colors, like red and purple, so they can easily be recolored with any hue map that recognizes different colors. To get different directions for the crops just rotate them accordingly.
