Collecting 90s Texture CD Links

[Melooon]

OK SO, having cool textures is really important for websites and 3D work. Now you could download them from texture sites, BUT you can also get some way cool weird ones from old CDs.

Here is a running list of CDs Iv found, if you find any more post below, AND if you find any out in the real world, please upload a link!

Also note MANY ARE UNTESTED - If you try one and can or cant get it working, please let me know!

Random CDs: (Most are untested)

• 1078 Weird Textures - Trippy and VErY 90s
• 101 Graphic Textures (1995)
• Textures and Backgrounds (1995)
• Abstract & Graphic Backgrounds Disk 2
• Textures By Arc Media (1997)
• 520 Photoreal Seamless Textures (1999)
• Missy Hamilton Textures (1994)

Unknown Chinese texture set: NOTE the names don't fully relate to whats on the disc. (Tested all working)

• Wood Texture Vol 2
• Water Texture Vol 3
• Fire Texture Vol 4
• Forrest Texture Vol 16
• Leather Texture Vol 19

Corbis Stock Images Collection:

• Motion Collection 150 Abstract Textures
• Motion Collection 151 Psychedelia

[2010]

holy crap these are so cool !!!!

[whatnotwho]

These look really cool!!! Tyy for sharing!

[myry]

I love 90s texture packs, and I have a few on my PC that I've also downloaded from archive.org. These ones, a series called Bakku no Oni, are from Japan, and some textures in them were actually used in N64 games like Super Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time!

• Bakku no Oni SHOKU (1995)
• Bakku no Oni SABI 2 (1994)
• Bakku no Oni WABI (1994)

There's also this very handy github page called Render96, where you can see all the available ones in the series and download links for them. The ones I listed above are the ones I've downloaded and tested to be fine, but I'm pretty certain all the texture packs listed here work!

[twan1]

This gives me a cool idea (at least i think it's cool)

I wanna try throwing these into hammer (the level editor for source games)
and maybe i could make a silly tf2 map with these! 

[vvinrg]

oooooh i love this. i've not got anything to contribute, but i might burn a few to cd and try making part of my site in frontpage on my w9x machine

[Melooon]

One thing I should add to this post! My resource site TextureTown was created after this post and includes a huge number of textures from these CDs - you can explore it here 

[Cobra!]

I would love to use these for my games, but I’m concerned about copyright and if I can use these for commercial works. Does anyone know either way, or how I can get a license to use them?

[Melooon]

Does anyone know either way, or how I can get a license to use them?

While its not always clear cut; most of them are either unlicensed (they just didn't think of it) or they have very open ended licences like this one - any ones that did have more complex licences are essentially abandonware now because the companies that made them often don't exist anymore When I was in college there was a collection of discs like this and were were encouraged to copy them freely (I wish I had!!)

[Cobra!]

Sweet, will check them out, thanks!

[wetnoodle]

I have none to add but these are all so cool! Thank you for sharing!

[WynnDawnstrider]

Oh you should make sure to check out this video, as well as the Render96 wiki if you haven't before!

https://github.com/Render96/Render96Wiki/wiki