Sparkly Water vs Normal Water

[AMIS]

Being Scottish...price counts!

[Sheep]

Originally Posted by The CEE

I also find that mixing sparkly and opaque water tiles together on the same map is unattractive. While I vastly prefer the eye candy provided by the first edition sparkly water, opaque water tiles are all I own.

Ditto.

[davidlhsl]

I always reach for the sparkly water first, as I have more of them. I have considered treating the two types differently for house rule purposes as others have mentioned (deep vs. shallow in my case), but never really implemented it yet.

[Red Eyed Jedi]

I'm one of the few who voted solid. I have only one sparkly water tile, and I am to OCD to ever use it, so it always sits in the box. I guess that ROTV was the last in line during the switch over to solid tiles. It came with red and blue dice, and 1st edition rule book, but only 1 sparkly water tile.

[Arch-vile]

Wow, that's actually pretty cool. I wonder how that slipped in there. Surround it with Concrete and it could make a cool Wellspring or Portal for something evil to spawn out of...

[Hogg]

Originally Posted by TheExplodingCheez

wow, I always liked the normal ones better. Mainly cuz if you put the sparkly ones on a terrain piece, you can see through it a little.

Check out my thread for some ideas using the translucent tiles:
http://www.heroscapers.com/community...ad.php?t=29384

Originally Posted by Bloody Bogle

I find that I often find myself using sparkly for colder water or running water (ie;waterfalls, next to ice/snow, etc.), and normal water for still water or warmer water (next to swamps, as lakes).

I've seen several people mention this idea in the past, its pretty cool. Also you could have deep and shallow water spaces using the two different tiles.

[Bolo]

I have traded all my sparkly ones for the normal ones. I always hated the sparkly one, too girly.

[luminarygothica]

I won't vote, because I don't have sparkely water to judge it by. As what Betawolf36 said, I would also use it for the Well Springs. Since I only have regular water tiles, I built a Temple/Shrine/Fountain-esque for my Well Spring. But also influenced by another person, I use the Basic as the Pre-Well Spring and the Master side as the Post-Well Spring dip. Setting it up now, but yet to play it that way. See how it goes. Want to try to use Sparkely Nail Polish as another person did a tutorial on it, just hesitant on IF I mess it up...to have my own Sparkely Water tiles.

[Gurei-Ornery]

Originally Posted by luminarygothica

I won't vote, because I don't have sparkely water to judge it by. As what Betawolf36 said, I would also use it for the Well Springs. Since I only have regular water tiles, I built a Temple/Shrine/Fountain-esque for my Well Spring. But also influenced by another person, I use the Basic as the Pre-Well Spring and the Master side as the Post-Well Spring dip. Setting it up now, but yet to play it that way. See how it goes. Want to try to use Sparkely Nail Polish as another person did a tutorial on it, just hesitant on IF I mess it up...to have my own Sparkely Water tiles.

You could probably just use nail polish remover if you don't like it. Try one, if it ruins it, I will send you a regular water to replace it. I'm curious how it turns out for you.

[Purplebeard]

If you just can't stand your flat color water tiles and want a quick fix.....

Most hardware and art stores sell blue sparkly spray paint. Looks pretty good once you put it down. After it dries (give it a day.) go over it with High Gloss Clearcoat and you have an acceptable sparkly water tile. I included a couple of shots of my boards with custom sparkly water tiles done like this. In the second shot you can see the regular factory made tile next to the custom tile ones for comparison. Sorry, don't have any closeup shots of them besides these right now.

[luminarygothica]

Originally Posted by Gurei-Ornery

You could probably just use nail polish remover if you don't like it. Try one, if it ruins it, I will send you a regular water to replace it. I'm curious how it turns out for you.

I will see what happens, luckily my wife will give me her nail polish to use.

[GaryLASQ]

Originally Posted by Bloody Bogle

I find that I often find myself using sparkly for colder water or running water (ie;waterfalls, next to ice/snow, etc.), and normal water for still water or warmer water (next to swamps, as lakes). I think sparkly looks nicer, but they both have their purposes

I do the same thing. Sparkly goes with Snow/Ice, non-sparkly goes with Swamp.