Reeex on water tiles.

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Jul 27 2009, 9:03 am
How to get your water in 7 steps.


1) Find or make a palette you like for water. I used fool's palette from "Middle of Nowhere"
2) Fill in a 32x32 with your base color.
3) Take a shade lighter and make a tile-able grid. Make the base line 2-3 pixels wide.
4) Take a shade lighter than that, and go through the middle of the line.
5) Take a shade darker than your base color, and shade in the middle of the base color
6) Take your lightest shade and lightly go through and add highlights
7) Take your darkest color and more shadows, etc.

I might add more for different water types later on. Tell me if you learned anything. Not that elaborate of a Tutorial, but its a tutorial. ;]
Jul 27 2009, 5:19 pm
You failed at killing the grid lol xP, I would also increase the contrast a little
Jul 27 2009, 10:12 pm
In response to MdNight
Using nothing but one tile, your pretty much going to have a grid. Lol
Jul 27 2009, 11:56 pm
In response to Reeex
Thats why people make it on a larger scale or make diffrent things to break it like rocks and suck :P
Jul 28 2009, 1:23 am
In response to Chris-g1
Who said you cant follow the tutorial TWICE to get two tiles? ;]

But yes, your right, adding things like rocks and more tiles make it way less griddy.
Jul 28 2009, 2:10 pm
In response to Reeex
Reeex wrote:
Who said you cant follow the tutorial TWICE to get two tiles? ;]

or save your self the hassle and just make a larger turf tile like chris-g1 said.
Jul 29 2009, 3:10 am
In response to Mohfar1
Sheesh, harass the tutorial no one else made why don't you. <_<
Jul 29 2009, 10:52 am
In response to Reeex
Reeex wrote:
Sheesh, harass the tutorial no one else made why don't you. <_<

Its not harassing, its explaining the other options.
Jul 29 2009, 10:53 am
Good mini-tut. I have no idea why people are giving you such a hard time with this.

If you think a tutorial should mention or focus on something that the writer missed (as in this case, breaking the grid) - simply add a comment like 'I think it's also worth mentioning that you can use this tut to break up the grid a bit more by making two tiles with alternate paterns...' or 'If you want to break the grid up a bit more, you can use this same technique with 64x64 tile textures...' There's zero reason to state it like Reeex did something wrong here.

Anyway, good job, Reeex on a fairly often asked about subject. Now do one on animating it :)
Jul 29 2009, 11:14 am
In response to TheMonkeyDidIt
TheMonkeyDidIt wrote:
Good mini-tut. I have no idea why people are giving you such a hard time with this.

If you think a tutorial should mention or focus on something that the writer missed (as in this case, breaking the grid) - simply add a comment like 'I think it's also worth mentioning that you can use this tut to break up the grid a bit more by making two tiles with alternate paterns...' or 'If you want to break the grid up a bit more, you can use this same technique with 64x64 tile textures...' There's zero reason to state it like Reeex did something wrong here.

Anyway, good job, Reeex on a fairly often asked about subject. Now do one on animating it :)

If i came across like that, then i did not mean to... :)