How do you use the Exterior water tiles?

[Liak]

Since those new water tiles are quite different from the VX Ace RTP, I was wondering how everyone uses them. Any tricks you found to make them look great?

 

[Seriel]

Oh?

I just use them as is.

 

[Liak]

Have you tried doing something with the dark water tiles before?

 

[Seriel]

Yeah, before I did this:

But that looks dumb in MV, in fact i'm not even sure how to do it anymore :/

 

[Liak]

Yes, that's exacty the reason for this topic. I liked the old water tiles, so I wondered if you could make some nice-looking effects with the new ones. I tried making all borders dark and I tried making all non-border areas dark, but that didn't look too good. Then I tried making only lower parts of borders dark, to give riversides and islands some "height", but I'm not sure about that one either.