LoveTextures.com: Creative Commons Textures

Bart · September 2, 2009

I ran into this texture site the other day. They currently have 205 textures, neatly categorized and all licensed under a CC-BY license. Maybe you’ll find it useful. Enjoy!

Author Bart

I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.

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Nice

2 September 2009 at 11:43

nice !!

AdobeMan

2 September 2009 at 12:15

not bad

roofoo

2 September 2009 at 13:06

Thanks, I could always use more textures!

Daniel Genrich

2 September 2009 at 13:27

Well,

nice photos but 50% are not suitable as texture. But taking pictures of potential textures is hard anyway. Most require editing (at least when I try). ;-)

Jon

2 September 2009 at 19:54

Some nice photos, but where’s the textures?

Photos of scenery or objects don’t count as textures, and the photos of surfaces are mostly too close up to be used as a texture. More variety within a pattern is needed for it to work as a texture.

And, in my book, if it ain’t tileable, it ain’t no texture.

A quick google for ’tileable’ and I found this (Texturize 2.0 plugin for GIMP) which looks rather useful, though I’ve not tried it myself…

http://www.manucornet.net/Informatique/Gimp_Texturize.php

There’s a lovely example on there of a tileable cracked earth texture. It would make the basis of a great skin texture for an alien/monster/mutant/etc.

velu

2 September 2009 at 20:52

I see plenty of good raw materials for texturing in there. Tileable isn’t a prerequisite. besides, it’s easy enough to tile it once you know what you want.

I’d much rather have the original photo and use what I need than have someone’s idea of a generic one size fits all texture. You’re going to have to edit it if you want to do a good job anyways.

Good find.

ijstaart

3 September 2009 at 00:41

Site doesn’t load here…

ralmon

3 September 2009 at 00:46

Wow good find. Thanks. I find it useful. Thanks again.

ijstaart

3 September 2009 at 07:39

The site is still down here, but not for everyone else.

What’s up with that? Are Dutch people not allowed to visit the site?

Lany

3 September 2009 at 17:14

Very welcome any CC textures/images collection!

Thanks

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