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How to change water color (Tutorial) FIXED IMAGES

Aar2697PAar2697P Posts: 500 New Member
edited March 8 in Nominated Threads
Today I'd like to show you how to change the water color in Create A World. Its fairly simple and shouldn't take too long. So here we go.

Step 1:
First of all we make the water body, whether its a pond, lake, ocean, or river, whatever. (Use the Steep Valley tool)

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Step 2: Raise the terrain in the water with the gentle hill tool until you can see terrain, but water over it.

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Step 3: Now we use the Flatten Terrain (NO GENTLENESS) tool. I used Strength for 75 and Falloff to 5 and the size changes over time.

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Step 4: Now this is the fun part. In the terrain tool, click on Paint, add a new layer, and select a texture. This is what I'm using: http://img523.imageshack.us/i/water4xw1.png/

Next we color the watery land with the texture.
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Step 5: You can perfect it now by fixing any things like texture on real land, etc.

This is how my world looks so far (its not near done):

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Comments

  • smash1012smash1012 Posts: 1,153
    edited January 2010
    thanks :] i wanted to make murky water. but i couldn't figure out how!
  • Aar2697PAar2697P Posts: 500 New Member
    edited January 2010
    smash1012 wrote:
    thanks :] i wanted to make murky water. but i couldn't figure out how!

    No problem. :)
  • enkeli63enkeli63 Posts: 6,637 Member
    edited January 2010
    Oooooh, thanks! 8) I wanted to make an area with nearly black water, because I'm making "sacred places" for different types of sims and am working on a special landscape feature that will be sacred to evil sims. I'll give this a try and see if I can make ominous-looking water.
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  • TzmsimsTzmsims Posts: 126 Member
    edited January 2010
    Great tutorial. I actually made my pink ice cream sea for Candy Land using this exact same technique.
    enkeli63 wrote:
    Oooooh, thanks! 8) I wanted to make an area with nearly black water, because I'm making "sacred places" for different types of sims and am working on a special landscape feature that will be sacred to evil sims. I'll give this a try and see if I can make ominous-looking water.
    You know what you could do since this is extremely shallow water? Put a bunch of the deathfish spawners in it and lower them so you can't see the fish. Then at midnight the deathfish spawners will emit their dark cloud over the black water! Perfect for a landscape that will be sacred to evil sims :wink:
  • Whales_RockWhales_Rock Posts: 3,872 New Member
    edited January 2010
    ....... I love you xD
  • JadeleineJadeleine Posts: 2,158 Member
    edited January 2010
    Thanks! This was really helpful :)
  • Aar2697PAar2697P Posts: 500 New Member
    edited January 2010
    ....... I love you xD
    Lets make my sim avatar and your sim avatar get married. Lol, I'm so gonna do that. I'm gonna see what the kid will look like. I'll be back to you.
  • Aar2697PAar2697P Posts: 500 New Member
    edited January 2010
    ....... I love you xD
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    Ummm, I hope you sleep well tonight.
  • catsmeow498catsmeow498 Posts: 111
    edited January 2010
    Awesome! Thank you
  • AlisoxAlisox Posts: 1,640 Member
    edited January 2010
    Aar2697P wrote:
    Ummm, I hope you sleep well tonight.
    lmao
  • lala2sweetylala2sweety Posts: 1
    edited February 2013
    :shock: to much but COOLIO

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