Messing with the GIMP and Battlemaps

**msa** · 08-26-2009, 07:49 AM

Bez, thanks for the advice! I'll have to look at the DMG a little more carefully and try to find that part you talked about.

Originally Posted by BeZurKur

I guess a water texture directly from above is harder than I thought.

You might try to create a ripple around the perimeter of the shore. In gimp, here is what I do:

1. Create a transparent layer
2. Select the land
3. Grow the selection by a larger amount
4. Fill with the highlight color
5. Shrink the selection by a small amount
6. Cut

To break it up and stop it from being a solid line, I'll do this:

1. Create a white layer mask
2. Fill with random correlated noise
3. Blur by 20-50 (depending on map resolution)
4. Threshold and find a value that breaks it up attractively

I also sometimes throw some distorts, or I'll mount the highlights on a black (or white) background and do a spread->blur->curves to make it a little less even.