Like the title says, I have a small stream flowing through the caverns I am developing (developing my my own use, no one else’s. Well, my players…). I would love to find a way to animate that.
I am guess that what I need to do is create my own animated gif/image and use that. But I have never created an animated image of that complexity. I don’t mind doing it, but honestly I have no idea how to start. I was hoping someone could point me the right direction.
Hey, so indeed animating water like that will be quite hard. You can use Video formats too, just make tiles that you put upon the map.
For quick water animation I like to use PhotoMirage on my end (though I would wait for some kind of sale), but anything can be done with art programs too. It doesn’t need more than 2-4 frames for movement, which can be done by onion skinning, creating 4 separate images, and gluing them together with a gif maker.
You can definitively find free options like Krita for this.