Xooxer wrote:

I know I said I'd wait to release these, but I just finished some animated water and I thought I'd share. I probably still need to tweak the colors, and I'm sure these tiles don't exactly line up (so you'll have to cut and paste them manually until I fix that). Here's a little gif of the animated water in action:



and the current set:

Great job, i really like how smooth the animation is.

I can't take much credit for the wavy water ripple. I used a program called Texture Maker that can produce procedural, animated effects like that. It's mainly used for 3D game textures and bump maps. The layout of the tiles mimics other 17-tile sprite sheets I've seen (mainly used in 2D console games), rather than trying to force terrain features into a single 32x32 space with 16, 47, or 256 tiles, as many BYOND games do.

Haha! I knew it, at first I thought it was done with Photoshop water ripple effects, but I do remember a terrain maker thing like you said. Also, the only problem people or games might have with these is there fluentness, like how well they match up, cause if you have these awesome terrains, then a crappy sprite it won't match up and make it look worse, it might be the first time said but you made them TOO good xD

Oh, I thought you were just doing a giant turf pack xD, and most-likely the people who are going to use them aren't that good at art, but yeah, i'm hopeful these will replace the current RPG Maker ones!

I can do larger turfs, or more alternatives. The problem with doing a single large turf image, though, is that not everyone will know how to re-assemble it to work right, since usually not every 32x32 chunk of that 64x64 image will tile well with itself. I am working on a project right now that uses a single 512x512 png for basic ground cover, but because it's covering turfs, you have to assign each turf an icon_state in the right order for it to cover the map correctly. It tends to be a pain, so I went with "easy to use" instead.

Can you be more specific? The water's edge pixels are *slightly* off in a few places, due to having the image start at 128x128 and reducing it to 32x32. A small bit of detail was lost because the bilinear reduction didn't take edge wrapping into consideration, so the edges are a pixel off in a couple spots. I might be able to eliminate that by offsetting a copy of the animation by half its width and then applying the reduction again. That would cause the middle of the copy to match the edges of the original. A quick selection of the middle of the copy pasted over the edges of the original should solve the wrap distortion.

Awesome work.Love the animation