This is Tileset A1 from RPG Maker VX.

These are top tiles (well lava isn’t water but it’s used much the same way). I’ll set a grid so you can see how to position things in it.

Here it is. In this heavy water tile sheet though, you’ll find that if you change the position of some tiles, it’ll change how it works. For norm, I put a waterfall tile block over the bottom left side. Instead of animating like a waterfall does, it shows the first entrap, then shows the next 2 water frames to the right of it. So if you want waterfalls, use them in the correct spots. 6 places for waterfalls.

You have 8 auto-tiles which have 3 of them in a row. This is for the animation. It should go from 1 to 2 to 3 and back to 2 and 1 so it can circle over.

I made 3 16×16 water tiles, that would animate. I made the animated ones green and pink so they stand out here. Rather than pretend the land/water connection on top of the water tiles, I do it on the side. This is good for the water autotiles that have 3 of them in a row.  I would be vexed about the shape of the land before you go shading it in, like making sure it tiles. Then paste it on the water. That’ll do for one of the 8 three in a row energetic water tiles.

Some of the water tiles have shadows on the left side, and a floor tile (with water above) on the top row of it. You can put these in if you wish for. If you have a program with layers, put the water tiles on a layer above the floor tile you want to use. Then make it semi-evident (some have it as alpha channel). I did this in Graphics Gale. Add a layer, make sure it’s in 24 bit color, then decrease the alpha to about 100. For the shadows, it was a simple reducing of brightness for the selected water, but you could do a hue shift too which would get some heartier results.

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