Weapon Alpha

[Valo]

I just went swimming today and I looked underwater a lot, I should be helpful here iguess
The blue filter is realistically correct - looking underwater without goggles things have a bit of a blue tint.
Also, instead of putting it into code, why not make a something percent transparency tile, and place it over the regular light blue water tile?
As in like 50% grey or something

EDIT: better example, lemme just share the tiles themselves :EDIT

I would prefer doing it by coding the object/enemy/player to filter itself than by placing a transparent sheet over water areas because I already draw water versions of the tiles, thus the only thing that needs tinted would be non background stuff. I feel tinting over the background would ruin the cleanness of the watered tiles.

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you could pull a sonic 3, upon entering the water a splash graphic is shown, which is just a clever way to mask the changing of the sprite, to a different palette, you could simply make alternative versions of the sprites with a new palette  for all sprites relevant to water (jumping and falling for entering and exiting the water, swim, maybe run if you want to run on the underwater floor, etc.) you can use that as a chance to make a palette not so washed out.

I would do it that way if gm could easily do palette data rather than me making a sprite set layer of every color in an objects set.I'm personally against hand recoloring it simply because of the amount of sprite sets that would create, layered or not. While the effect would look VERY nice, i dont think it is the most efficient solution.