Building a Huge Library of Free Images for Everyone

    Hi All,

    I've uploaded some brand new Stone texture creations of mine on my "Stone-Artistic-Tile-able" page. They're 100% free to download and use in your projects with attribution.

    You can access them (and my thousands of other images) from here:

    Free Texture Images | Soundimage.org

    OTHER HELPFUL LINKS (I Hope)

    Attribution Information:
    Attribution Info | Soundimage.org

    My Game Music Mega Pack:
    Game Music Mega Pack (1460+ Tracks and Growing) | Soundimage.org

    My Music Genre Packs:
    Game Music Packs (by Genre) | Soundimage.org

    Custom Music:
    Custom Music | Soundimage.org

    How to Donate to Support My Efforts
    Donate to Support | Soundimage.org

    As always, enjoy, please stay safe and keep being creative! :)

    Hey Everyone,

    I've created some cool new distressed paper textures to share with the community...maybe useful for old maps, signs, backgrounds and other things. You'll find them here on my website:

    TXR – Paper | Soundimage.org

    As always, they're 100% free to download and use in your projects with attribution, just like my thousands of other images, music tracks and sounds.

    HOW I CREATE MY IMAGES

    My texture images start as pictures that I take in the real world with my DSLR. I then import the images into Photoshop where I work with them, often mixing them with other images I've taken to create new textures. It's really fun...kind of like being a texture image mad scientist...lol.

    Anyhow, I hope some of my textures are useful. Have a good week and please stay safe. :)

    Happy End of August Everyone,

    I made some cool new rusty metal textures to share with you...you'll find them here:

    TXR – Metal | Soundimage.org

    They're completely free to use in your projects with attribution, just like my thousands of other images, music tracks and sounds.

    MY GAME MUSIC PACKS

    Speaking of my music tracks, if you happen to be using them in your projects and wish to bulk-download all of them at once (instead of one at a time from my site) you can do so with my Game Music Mega Pack. Here's the link:

    Game Music Mega Pack (1460+ Tracks and Growing) | Soundimage.org

    And if you just want to bulk-download tracks from a specific genre, you can do that as well here:

    Game Music Packs (by Genre) | Soundimage.org

    Enjoy! :)

    Huge thanks for keeping this library going, Eric - the rusty metal set is exactly the kind of thing that saves a weekend when you are blocking out an industrial map and need something better than flat grey dev textures to judge silhouettes and lighting.

    Since a few people in this thread asked about filling gaps while they wait for the right free photo, here is the workflow that has worked for me on the last couple of layouts. I keep two separate buckets: shipping assets, which stay CC/attribution-clean from libraries like Soundimage, and pre-production material, which never leaves the whitebox stage. For that second bucket I generate concept frames and moodboards with an ai image generator ( https://soralum.com/image-ai/image-generator ) - prompt in the mood, the era, the light direction and the material story of a room, get half a dozen frames, then pin the two that read best next to the BSP in the reference viewer. It is much faster than hunting for a photo that only half matches the space you already blocked out, and it forces you to describe the scene in words first, which usually exposes the fact that the layout has no clear focal point yet.

    Two caveats worth repeating for anyone new to mapping: generated frames are direction, not shippable art, so never bake them straight into a texture set you plan to release, and always keep the licence trail of the real assets you ship. Used that way the two sources complement each other - free photo libraries for the trim sheets and decals that end up in the map, generated boards for the mood pass that tells you which corridor deserves the expensive lighting. Thanks again for the constant updates, the metal pack is going straight into my reference folder.

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