I recently found that Google has an advanced image search option called-possible to modify and use commercially.
This led me to a number of websites with public domain photos, including public domain textures of walls, rock, sand some of which are really good
so it would be great to pass this information on to all the gamers on the planet, so that we all go out with our cameras, take pictures of the city and the nature around us to have textures of 1 million types of different things, and upload them to public domain photo websites, forfeiting our copyright so they can be used in games.
I also have a texture site - Free Textures from Texturegen -*which I’m trying to build into a great resource for high resolution textures. There are nearly 1000 images at the moment, all shot or created them all myself. Most of the textures are 3000x2000px, so should be pretty versatile.
The textures are free to download and use for both commercial and personal projects - you can use them pretty much as you would any royalty free image you would normally pay for and no credit or back link is necessary.*
Thanks for all these links guys and gals, I have struggled to find truly public domain decent images. I didn’t know google had such an option… does it mean the images are totally license-free or are they actually creative-commons or must mention the author type things?
wow wow, you guys are constantly bombing unity forums with hot chocolates, yammy I gotta place these somewhere.
Now deviantart is good too. Though you might carefully read each user’s terms and conditions as well. Some users are really nice. For example roula33 Nearly 4-5GB brushes/textures/photos, all free for any purposes. Though she did not ask for any credit, I am gonna deliberately credit her:) .
In this case, though, I can tell you with absolute certainty that it can include things like GPL’d works. Technically they do allow commercial use and modification, but only if you release the resulting work under the same license and give attribution! That’s pretty restrictive.
I know this because I just did a Google search using that option and the very first picture I looked at was like this.
It’s entirely possible that Google will get the license completely wrong, too.
I think the point here was to list ways to find free images without doing tons and tons of searching and investigating. Not that we’ve succeeded, mind, but “use a popular image website and check out each artist individually” is not really helpful.
We can narrow it down by specifying artists then. deviantArt is like a huge huge resource for artist. With the added user previously, here is another nice one http://calthyechild.deviantart.com/ and http://black-b-o-x.deviantart.com. What about a collection of such users?
I gotta place these somewhere.