Creating Water Particle textures

Unity Engine
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Hello Unity forums!

I wish to ask if anyone knows how to create water particle textures similar to that in the standard assets or unity bootcamp? I have been having troubles making my own that look anything near bad, so I thought it would be best to ask here!

I’m using GIMP (I’m a poor person), but that should not make a huge difference. Unless Photoshop has a super-awesome-create-any-texture-you-desire function!

So if anyone can point me to some tutorials or programs for generating this kind of thing, it would be great!

-Aj, the Super Cheese

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I don’t have a link but this would be my approach:

Do you have a graphic tablet? That makes it easier … not only for this one but in general. It’s not a must for the particles, though.

  1. Use a texture that resembles the general watercolor/texture of your game (http://www.cgtextures.com - good point to start). Optinally take photos of rivers, the sea, lakes or whatever on your own also works of course. Cloudy water works better since otherwise you either only get reflections from the sky or the ground of the lake :wink:
  2. take a small part of that and crop it to a square texture
  3. Create an alpha channel in your texture
  4. in that alpha channel draw something that looks splashy/cloudy. Some very faint dark grey overall form and a few drop-like highlights. Don’t define a direction for the splashes but keep it rather general.
  5. do a few variations in varying sizes
  6. Create your particle system(s) with your textures and create something splashy loking: short splash in all directions with large bursts and a few defined smaller more opaque particles in the direction of the walk. Maaaybe a few flat particles with waves emmiting from the leg in the water. But that’s a lot of particle systems alread. Just be careful not to over-do it :wink:

Hope that helped a little

cheers

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Thanks! A tablet is one of the things on my big list of things I want! I’ve used the Bamboo fun, but other than that, I’m not very much in the knowhow about these things! I’ll see what I can come up with!

Thanks again,

Super Cheese

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Thanks again! This technique has worked very well! I need to get better at doing it, but straight away, it produced results that I was near happy with!

Thank you!

Super Cheese