Under water effect for No-Mans Land river

[+quack74]

Came upon this by accident fiddling around with the TrenchRiver.tga. Played with the Alpha channel and a little paint and now the bridge looks like it's under water.

 

[Hansa]

Nice!

[+Wrench]

are the rails painted on the tile?

 

If so, you may need to paint their section fully black in the alpha

 

or, leave as is, to represent a bridge that's already been "dropped"

 

(that look really COOL too, btw!!)

Edited December 5, 2013 by Wrench

[+quack74]

Well I intend to leave it. I was going for that collapsed look. I did paint the part of the bridge that is out of the water black in the Alpha channel. The section I wanted submerged I just painted the grey tone of the water. Simple trick really. It could be useful to create a sunken ship tile for a south pacific map perhaps where the waters would be more shallow.

Edited December 6, 2013 by quack74

[+whiteknight06604]

wonder if there is a way to have some water filled shell holes?

[+Wrench]

shouldn't be that hard... a simple matter of dropping (painting) a circle, doing a bevel/emboss to raise it, some shadowing (maybe a drop shadow?), and painting in the tga section, leaving a part of the rim dry (black in the alpha)

 

remember, though, most 'river' sections are about 50 pixels wide (on a 512x512 tile) so careful placement will be necessary

[+quack74]

Funny you should ask about water filled craters. I already started making them. Looks pretty good. I don't have a pic yet. I'll post later