UPDATE: Thanks for all the suggestions. You can’t remove shine, stencils, overlays, etc. from flooring, and I searched my entire in-game flooring library for anything that might work and cane up empty-handed. I miss TS2 and the floor and wall creation tool - I could make anything, and at the scale I wanted too... thanks again - I’ll keep looking!

I’m looking for flooring that is groutless, in a checkerboard pattern, four squares to a Sim tile (see photo). I want to be able to customize both the color and the material. There is something in the masonry or stone flooring, but it has a dirty/worn mask. Is there anything out there? It seems flooring is slim pickins for TS3. If it doesn’t exist, is there a way to get rid of the mask in the existing flooring I found? I want clean, crisp and bright colors for some retro basements I’t making. TIA!

You can try this - for removing stencils, overlays, masks - https://modthesims.info/d/478307/re...01-16-2014.html

Maybe you could just alternate the squares with a plain texture?

I quickly alternated black and white carpet squares. I kind of like this room!

I thought about the option to remove the overlay with this method after I posted this (my game was shut off at that point). I will try it. Thanks!

I appreciate your reply. I didn’t use the first option because it has grout lines, and the second option is a smaller scale than I’m wishing for. Thanks anyway!

I did start with this method, but the pattern is a lot larger than I’m wishing for. Thank you for the suggestion though!

It's very easy to make your own patterns with the Create Pattern thingy - https://www.carls-sims-3-guide.com/...e-a-pattern.php

https://www.researchgate.net/figure..._fig4_292606446

p.s. I think the grout lines are recolorable, if I'm not mistaken. (game patterns)

In game tile pattern with grout recolored black. I turned the black and white all the way to the darkest and the lightest in the second picture.

That would have been perfect! I resorted to creating my own in TSR Workshop. I took the “dirty” terra cotta tile I mentioned earlier and removed the multiplier that provided the dirty appearance. We will see how it turns out shortly!

Here is my attempt to create a new multiplier mask for the terra cotta tile flooring to simulate linoleum. 2 of the 4 squares have the pattern running up/down, the other two left/right. It needs some tweaks, but better than anything I could find in game or (downloadable) CC. I have to use really dark colors to get really medium shades; not sure why but I'll work on it.