Changing the water texture

[Hugget Sukker]

I came up with the splendid idea of using modified water for a combat grid in my mod, but I wonder if that's possible for a mortal hobby-modder. Can it be overridden in some lightly obscure way, or do I have to go through something, so time-consuming (and difficult) that I'll regret ever asking?

 

[dansaDisco]

ReplaceableTextures\Water\

Is the mpq folder where the water textures are, thing is only that the water is animated by like 40+ blps, so you'd have to import quite a lot :|

 

[Hugget Sukker]

Ohh. I did think I saw that one coming. So, they're actually not one file? But 40+ files. Thing is; I can't look in the mpq myself right now. Can't do anything like that till in a month or so. I've been stricken with a disease called MacOS, but my doctor will soon prescribe me a PC. I would have thought it was a single file. You know, like those textures that look sortaf like a comic book.

 

[Just_Spectating]

however, if it were like that, it would have to be a very big file, or else the water would have very low quality, and water needs to have good quality to look like water.

 

[Hugget Sukker]

True. Makes sense. That's all too bad, but thanks anyway.

Then I just wonder if there is any other way that would be good for making a combat grid that covers the terrain and can be turned on/off during play.
And come to think of it, water would be a really bad way, 'cause it wouldn't lay over the terrain unless the terrain were completely flat, and I would suffer from lack of water in all my maps.
I don't think there is any good way to do this. The only one I can think of would require vast amounts of dummy units or items. EDIT: And it would look like s**t. Another engine
would be preferable if I were to ever realize my idea.