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- Stuff we Need to find!
- Autodesk Texture Universe
- ImageCELs CD-ROM (Has matches for Super Mario 64, Crazy Taxi)
- Cinema Supply Vol. 4 Act 1 Walls Trees Tiles Rocks The Sky
- Cinema Supply Vol. 5 Act 2 Walls Trees Tiles Rocks The Sky
- Cinema Supply Vol. 6 Act 3 Walls Trees Tiles Rocks The Sky
- Cinema Supply Vol. 10 Act 4 Walls Trees Tiles Rocks The Sky
- Cinema Supply Vol. 11 Fabric In Leather, Cloth, Etc
- DiAMAR Backgrounds and Textures 1
- DiAMAR Backgrounds and Textures 2
- DiAMAR Backgrounds and Textures 3
- DiAMAR Backgrounds and Textures 4
- DiAMAR Backgrounds and Textures 5
- DiAMAR Backgrounds and Textures 6
- DiAMAR Backgrounds and Textures 7
- Visual Disk M2 METALS
- Visual Disk M3 FABRIC (Need Full Res)
- Visual Disk M5 GLASSES (Need Full Res)
- Visual Disk M6 SAND (Need Full Res)
- Visual Disk M7 PAPERS (Need Full Res)
- Visual Disk M8 WALLS
- Visual Disk M14 STONES 3
- Visual Disk N1 OCEANS
- Visual Disk N6 WAVES
- Visual Disk N9 WINTER LANDSCAPE
- Visual Disk N12 AUTUMN (Need Full Res)
- Visual Disk N13 CLOUDS 2
- Visual Disk N17 PLAINS (Need Full Res)
- Visual Disk N21 TREES 2 (Need Full Res)
Links for image series and content that need better documentation
Megacollection of 90's textures
A huge assortment of textures from the 90's and early 2000's. It is uncertain if these contain everything from the programs/CD's listed or if the images are the highest quality available. Matches inside here have been found inside Sonic Adventure, Mario Party 4, Tomb Raider, and San Francisco Rush 2049 so far
Contains images from the following:
3DStudio
Artbeats
Dosch
Marlin Studios
Michal Franc Textures
Mixed bag of textures from various places. Some are identified from 3DStudio but most are unidentified so far. Matches were found with Sonic Adventure.
Contains images from the following:
3DStudio
Textures For Professionals CD ROM Edition (1994) By Visual Software
There's no current known games that use these textures, but it was available in 1994 meaning there's likely to be early 3D content that uses it.
Pixar Texture Library
Textures created by Pixar in 1993. Currently no matches found but assumed to appear in various early Pixar works.
Half Life Source Textures
Released and created by Karen Laur, a texture artist at Valve. These are personal photos taken to create the textures for Half Life. Includes .psd files giving a inside look at how some were made.
Imageland Series
Has matches found inside Sonic Adventure.
Mixa Collection
Only known to be used with Sonic Adventure currently but more than likely appears in more games.
CD's 1-10 are known to be from 1994.
ION Images Collection
Not known to be used in any games currently. Date of creation is unknown.
ImageGap Images Collection
Matches found inside Sonic Adventure
Big Picture Image Collection
Nothing is known about this series other than it's from the early 90's
KN Image Collection
Nothing is known about this series other than that CD's float around Japanese auctions
Super GU Image Series
Same company that published the Bakku No Oni series. Little is known about them.
Art Beats Textures
Textures not known to be used in any games yet but series is known to be from earlier than 1996.
Artbeats released a lot of stock video CD's which are known to be used with Sonic Adventure 1 and 2.
Vivid Details Photo Series
Nothing is known about this series other than that it's from the early 90's
Digital Stock Photo Collection
Large photo series with American origins but was listed for sale in Japan around 1996. It's likely to be sold earlier in that region. Later purchased by Corbis.
Corel Photo Collection
A very large image series from the early 90's, various downloads for these image CD's can be found on archive.org but it's not known if any games used them.
PhotoDisc Image Collection
Long running image series known to have its start around 1991. Volume 8 was used for the American box art of Super Mario 64 for the sky background. Was bought by Getty Images.
Doom Source Photos
Various information about Doom's source images linked here for those curious.
Resident Evil 4 HD Project
Fan project to restore Resident Evil 4's textures in higher quality. Although not a link for image CD's, it details incredible work that's been done to track down the real world locations these images originated from.
Fotosearch.com
Website containing various photos from a large assortment of companies around the world. Listed here for those looking for more places to search.