Need a water texture.

I make board games for fun, and have hit a brick wall in texturing my board. I am making a dungeoncrawl-esque game and need standing water. Every texture I try, either looks like really good running water or really bad standing water. I need either a good example of standing water that I could try to make my own filter off of or I need a really good standing water texture.

If anyone is up to the challenge...

wasn't sure whether you were after stagnet water ........ this is a photo I have which might be of help

Work in progress, getting closer to what I want, but obviously not quite there. This was 10 minutes of expiermentation.

The noise came from uber's smooth stone filter that he posted on the v2 gallery section.

Himmelveil Sewers

Hey Redcap:

I'd start with one of these:

Water caustics, by Indigo Ray http://www.filterforge.com/filters/7651.html
In the Pool, by Apple: http://www.filterforge.com/filters/5672.html

Then, make it driven by an selection. The selection = the depth of the water. Then then add a blur to the source image for the 'deep end' and blend it with a 'murky color' and a 'murkiness control'. That way it will get nice and skanky looking as it gets deeper, and stay nice and transparent at the shallow ends. (Hope that makes sense.) I'd wire it up for you, but don't have FF on this machine.

Some tips about water:
Things inside water are not at all specular.
The surface of the water is specular, and little bits of junk floating in it give it texture from the surface tension.

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tigerAspect wrote: Here's some inspiration for you: World Works Games: Himmelveil Sewers Expansion preview

Hey, nifty.

OK, check it out. Take a texture. (Such as this sample from from the link above, for the sake of demonstration - which everyone should run out and buy.)

So, i mask off the section so that the selection is the water 'depth'. It's like a ramp.

Oh, i forgot to mention: make a copy of the base layer, because you're going to need it. The filter gives you this:

(only instead of white it's actually transparent. I think you might also want to tweak it for smaller waves and to make the alpha channel less blurred and more tapered toward the end at the shallow bits.)

See those little ripples on the shallow end, and around the edges? I cheated: that's a layer style effect, using trusty old bevel and emboss. Here are the settings:

Keep in mind that you want fairly small little ripples. They're just the surface tension of the edges. Too large of ripples will look make your water look like jell-o.

Just for comparison, here is the Caustics filter, same process. Looks like very clear water...

Wow, Corvus. Nice use of my filter and Apple's, I never thought of this.