Very Easy Improved Water Animation Tutorial

じ☆ve冰风

Hey guys!

As allways I'm here to teach you a very very easy way for you to improve your water animations. In fact, it's so easy you don't have to do almost anything!

This tutorial is Beginner Friendly.

After the tutorial you'll have your water looking like this:









So Let's Start!

First Part - Applying the Effect

#1- Download the image below and put it inside the "Parallaxes" folder of your game:

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#2- Download the image below and put it in your "Tilesets" folder. Make sure the name is set to "Outside_A1".

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#3- Open your project and create a new map. This map must contain water in it and may not have transparent areas.

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#4- Open the map's properties and below "Parallax Background" set the graphic to the "Improved Water" one. Check "Loop Horizontal" and "Loop Vertical" and set their values to 1.

#5- Test to see how it looks!

Hope you enjoyed the Tutorial! 


SpoilerAlso hope you enjoy a little extra I put in the "Outside_A1" Graphic. A grass tile animation that makes it look like it's moving due to the wind.



Now for the second part. I'm writing this part for the most curious ones that might want to make their own graphic for the improved water parallax.

SpoilerSecond Part - How to do it?

#1- Make a caustic image that can be tileable. Like this one for example:







#2- Grab a cloudy image, like one of the ones that already come with RPG Maker and place it in a layer below the image above. (Must be a multiple of 32 for the tiles to loop right.)

#3- Loop the caustics image until it fills the size of the cloudy image. Collapse all the copies into one layer if needed.

#4- Reduce the opacity of the top layer until you are satisfied with the result.

#5- Now open the "Outside_A1" image and reduce the opacity to about 70% in the water tiles. So it will enable the Parallax graphic to mix with the water one to give the cool effect.

And voilá! Effect done.

Thank you for your time, and let me know what you think!

Busted Ed


You can view the effect happening in my demo "Busted Ed's Tips n Tricks" that can be found here:

http://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?/topic/19717-updated-bustededs-tips-n-tricks/


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