Happy New Year to Everyone! If you are going to ask why chemicalrain.net is redirecting to creative-central.net, don’t worry you are on the right website. That’s because I combined these two sites already. Although, there are still more works to do aside from changing the theme again which I love to do, anyway, everything else are changing.

I have registered Creative-Central.net 2 months ago, although I haven’t decided what do with it during the last months I still bought it because of the domain availability and easy search engine targeting the domain, better traffic so to speak. As you can see, it has now a full blog look on it and lesser free downloads.

I have put off my avatars section since a lot more sites are doing it while the texture category will be moving on to as blog section. I won’t be giving you one or two pieces at time but a bundle instead.

Textures has a lot of different types. There are 2d textures where you can use for your 3d models that comes with an alpha texture sometimes. Alpha textures are black and white textures which you could use for transparency and guided grids for your 2d textures. There are fractals which is perfect for 3d effects such as particles if you wanted to use it for some online games like secondlife.com. There are background textures such as 3d renders and patterns, and; ofcourse the usual texture that is known to the creative community which they use for enhancing their designs.

On the other categories, the desktop wallpaper section is still there untouched, however, I’m going to shift from 1024×768 to 1280×1024 or higher. The ordinary 1024×768 is already phased out because monitor quality nowadays has higher resolution and it would look crappy on some people who are using better video cards on their computers.

Wallpapers are my favorite! It’s easier for me to conceptualize a wallpaper than do a raw texture hehe! It gives more meaning to the design per say without the trouble of scripting it and putting it up from image to codes. My SL screenshots are almost no-edit. I edit it on the SL client itself as they have good lighting and sky effects, plus colorization. Not to mention the details in-world are better than 2ds. I am a great fan of 3d, please don’t take it against me. Infact, I have done 3 wallpapers for this update.

The layout categories are now being categorized as Web Design as pre-made layouts aren’t anymore as popular as it is. No offense meant, but on how i see things, people would rather download a theme or a ready made template that is fully-coded for their site. Themes and templates comes with a specific code for some web softwares such as WordPress or Joomla. Inside the zip file it has its source code and if you purchase themes from premium sites it also comes with the raw psd file which you can modify anyway you wanted. So, overall, a theme or a template is the fully-functional layout ready for upload and use.

So, I would be giving you those when I got more time on my hands, probably sooner. But for sure, I’ll be providing you more links where you can find better themes and templates. It’s a good way to practice HTML, CSS and PHP without pulling your hairs how to start from scratch.

On the brushes category, I am not sure how many of you are using Photoshop, Gimp, Illustrator, Corel or PaintShop, it is a .abr extension which is compatible for Photoshop CS1 to CS4. It is always nice to include the raw file on it but since what I’m giving you is free so I won’t include any image files or raw on zip as its under Creative Common’s License. You may see the Terms of Use for more information.

Very well, more updates soon. It’s just an long intro here. I would probably be updating more often now. Laters!