Creating Windows and Creating Underwater

[Equinox231]

If this has been addressed in other posts, please accept my apology for reintroduction, and I'll take any and all links to discussion of this nature.

I'm fascinated by large areas of houses being made to look underwater, either being entire rooms or perhaps large aquariums.  Aside from the aquatic-themed vegitation and marine life, how exactly does one accomplish creating a large section of water, particularly with the rising bubbles I keep seeing?

Secondly, in several breakout/housing additions where people have built entire structures out of tiles and room dividers, I have seen from the inside and outside sections in the wall that are windows of a sort.  Again, most of the images I have seen aren't really clear on the item structure going into it, so I'm curious what ideas are out there to simulate a window when building a free-standing structure.

Thanks in advance for tips and advice!  As I said, any links to discussions of these points would be greatly appreciated if available.

[Yunay]

Equinox231 wrote:

...so I'm curious what ideas are out there to simulate a window when building a free-standing structure.

My favorites:

1) Polished Ice Tile

2) Vampiric Mirror

3) Stained Glass Square (if you like colored glass windows)

All framed by crafted tall colums or railings of some sort.

Yunay

[Lizabethan]

I also use those items to simulate water or windows with the addition of a Tapestry of the Steam Lord (for water) and Misty Fog Tiles (for both) from Moonlight Enchantments.

Windows in general are mostly done now by leaving gaps and framing it with building blocks. My personal favorite way, though, is to put one round counter at the top and bottom of the gap between two dividers and then frame the counters with icy/misty tiles for a nice bay window.

For the bubbles, there's an SC item called Wand of Effervescence that can be put on a mannequin and sunk, or the alchemist item Illisia's Alchemy Flask obtained from Shadows of the Betrayed. Some people also use the Icy Snowdrift from Frostfell for the bubbly effect.

[Aderissah]

There are also NoTD crafted black cauldrons with green ooze that bubbles. They smoke and bubble, can sink them down for more of a swamp/marsh type water