Help to finish a background

[Blue Frenzy]

I am having trouble finishing a background. I need to know how could i fuse the sand and the rock in the borders.

I have no idea of what to do there and how to make the sand to fit better the rocks. Any idea?

[Cyber Rat]

Maybe animating the sand overflowing and falling off the tower? It makes sense if it's in a desert environment.

[Blue Frenzy]

I Dont want to put animated sand everywhere in the game :S

[Cyber Rat]

Then just color the edges so that they look like they have a layer of sand on them. Make them more yellow or something along those lines.

[JEV3]

All of the 2d Sonic games had a special kind of tile that went right beneath the surface, like from the checkerboard wall to a darker version with the grass over it. The problem here is that it looks like you're trying to do the same thing, but instead of the sand appearing to go over the blocks, it appears to be behind it.

First divide the surface from the tiles under it, it doesn't matter if you are going to end up getting rid of this line, but it should help you judge where you need to work. Then see if you can shade the sand so it appears to come out of the bricks instead of being a flat surface behind it. Then I'd suggest having the brown tiles closest to the sand have a dusty yellow texture that slowly gives way to your normal texture. For the sake of simplicity, I wouldn't take up more than 1-2 tiles for this, but its your call.

See if that works... I would tinker with it myself to experiment with the shading, but there appear to be some rather nasty jpg artifacts there. One unrelated note, the lighting on the sides of those bricks are pretty much the same color as your sand... you may want to change the hue to something more orange to prevent any confusion. Its subtle but should help avoid any visual confusion by keeping yellow-tan to the sand and brown-orange to the bricks.

Good luck!

[Blue Frenzy]

Here is it, i am not able to do it :S You can play as you want.

pun.rar

[JEV3]

So here are some experiments. What I did was made the sand more 3-dimensional, and then took the sand in the foreground and expanded it to cover over the blocks using appropriate shading. Then I used the burn tool in Gimp to darken the tiles closest to it to keep it looking like its bulging out.

It's not perfect, but maybe it will point you in the right direction.

[Blue Frenzy]

That looks like jelly sand is suposed to drop down on edges, thats why I was trying to keep it inside. Actually sand is quite nice, but I have to find a way to make it to stay over the ground.

Deserts are really though xD

[Blue Frenzy]

This is what i was able to do :s

still not sure

[JEV3]

Sorry for not checking back, I had to deal with computer issues. Its all good now, so I can try when I've got a good grip of everything going on IRL.

[JEV3]

Here's another attempt. Dunes for background and something different for the texture.

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