Cool Image on that site. I had no idea water reflection was so hard.
I had an idea though. If you had a texture you wanted to use and you had a decent paint program that supported layers you could:
1. open that texture
2. save it under a new name so you don't mess up the teture you like
3. make a new layer over the texture and ensure you ar working on that layer only
4. arrange to fill that new layer with a gradient fill from dark to light where Dark = BOTTOM and Light=TOP
5. Now using the layer control palette you BLEND the tansparency of this layer to the one below it. There are a lot of different methods for blending supported by Paint Shop Pro 8, I have no idea about other programs.
6. merge all layers as soon as you get what you want.
I do reccomend trying severl different blends and numbers of transparency before puttin in your program.
--Rook
I had an idea though. If you had a texture you wanted to use and you had a decent paint program that supported layers you could:
1. open that texture
2. save it under a new name so you don't mess up the teture you like
3. make a new layer over the texture and ensure you ar working on that layer only
4. arrange to fill that new layer with a gradient fill from dark to light where Dark = BOTTOM and Light=TOP
5. Now using the layer control palette you BLEND the tansparency of this layer to the one below it. There are a lot of different methods for blending supported by Paint Shop Pro 8, I have no idea about other programs.
6. merge all layers as soon as you get what you want.
I do reccomend trying severl different blends and numbers of transparency before puttin in your program.
--Rook