Currently, any active player will get an large number of the same textures from many different creations. This comes from the fact that if (as an example) creation #1, #2 and #3 all use the same texture, the game will store 3 different “Albedo” files of the same texture in 3 different folders. Now I can suggest a change to the naming convention of such files that would allow for ALL textures to exist in the same folder AND prevent multiple occurrence of the same one… Picture this :
Devs could easily make a single folder for all the textures, and assign each one a coded name like 89289-261125-224014-598-900.jpg (for a 89289 bytes file, created on 26th of November 2025 @ 22:40:14, which is 598x900 in size).
What are the chances that 2 textures would end-up with the same name on canvas ?
This file naming would make it possible to have 100000’s of textures all bunched up together in the same folder without any conflict/overwriting involved.
So when you import a texture in-game, it would already name it appropriately on your system with this naming convention, and keep that name on Canvas if you upload.
No matter how many of your creations uses the same textures, and even if other players use them, the system would find that unique identifier is already in a user’s folder and not redownload another “Albedo” in a new folder for that texture like it does now.
No more doubles/triplets/quadruplets, etc. showing up in Build mode (making it much quicker to load on top of it), and much less room taken on the user’s disk.
See a sample below of how many doubles/triples I get of each textures…
And it’s only going to get worse as I download more creations that uses the same textures.
For texture you can set the settings in the game’s menu and it’s supposed to keep your texture private and not shared. You should turn it on. Does not help with houses or Zois, so I upvoted you all the same.
I noticed that too – the textures are duplicating when I download them with the clothes. I’d like to get rid of them, but I’m not sure if it will break the outfits.
My idea is not talking about protecting the ownership… That is another subject altogether.
This one is to make sure we do not get doubles/triple (or more) of the same textures.
So I ask, respectfully, to stay on topic or use NyushaDM’s thread (or other that have popped up for those issues.
Thank you !
Regardless of the author hiding the textures, they still end up in our texture download folder, and we can do whatever we want with them (re-upload with our own name). You just can’t see them visually in the game and on Canvas, but in fact they’re sitting in your “MyTextures” folder.
Even more important for the game to rework the textures so we dont end up with multiple of the same one.
As for your authorship issue, once they fix it for houses and zois, I am pretty sure they will be able to fix them for textures as well. At least, I hope so !
Personally I could not care less if someone uses one of my textures as it would fill me with pride, then again I do not specifically upload texture on Canvas, they are part of my creations for ppl to use as they please. Sure I would like to be auto-credited though (hence auto-credits are important !).
But my main goal is for all texture to be saved with a unique name, all in the same folder. Not only this will be FAR easier to manage, but it fixes my issue in the OP.
Your idea is great! The main thing is that you’re heard. I constantly manually delete duplicate textures from the “MyTextures” folder. So this headache with duplicate textures is annoying for me too.
And I also think that we really need more filter options for the textures. Currently all is in one place and it becomes very annoying to find the right texture when you search for a specifc one. We should be able to give tags e.g. carpet, wallpaper, flower pattern, certain color, knitted pattern or whatever else and then sort by these tags.
