waterfall help

[hawk_767]

Hi O'm starting on my first terrain which is an island that is going to have an oasis in the center of it. I was planning on puting a mountain by the oasis and then haveing a waterfall flowing in to it. But I started the map at cliff lvl 2 and shallow water so wenever I try and make the source for the waterfall in makes a deep hole down to the water. Does anyone know how to make it so the water is just on the mountain as a river or a little lake?

ThX
Hawk

 

[Mor)L(unE]

Instead of using cliff make a hill and then add waterfall, looks way better. and then put big rocks to the sides of the water fall and lower the waterall abit, then youl have 1 nice looking waterfall

 

[Wraithwynd]

Make certain that the enforce water is off. I can't recall the exact name.

Then try to use the cliff up and then the water - mind sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't

If it does not work, then you need to customize a water fall, extending its min and max scale as far as possible. Plop one in the map, select it and hit enter then reduce the z as low as possible and extend the y and x as far as you can.

At the top of your mountain make a depression with the lower (not cliff) tool. Making it smaller than the length and width of your water fall. move your water fall to lay over the depression and then hold down ctrl and using the page down key to lower the water fall until it is filling up the depression - it will look like water.

 

[hawk_767]

Thanx the enforce water height limits didn't work but changing the water fall made it lokk good. Thx for the help

 

[Mor)L(unE]

No problem

 

[Craka_J]

Here's how to make a waterfall. I won't go too much into details, but here's how to do it. It's fairly simple too:

Step One:
Make a Deep Water cliff. Make it take up most of the map. For realisim, this may not be the best idea, but it's just a simple example.

Step Two:
Make a Steep Cliff (two levels up) that takes up alot of room in the middle of the water.

Step Three:
Now make a size three circle of Deep Water where you want the waterfall to be. This should make the Steep Cliff and the Deep water under it combine them both, making a waterfall. The waterfall won't look great, but to complete it, go in Doodads/Water/Waterfall and place waterfall doodads where the new waterfall is.
~Craka_J

 

[Ivanneth]

If I'm right, there's a whole heap of tutorials on how to make a waterfall.

 

[Craka_J]

Probably. I never bothered reading them. Guess I should so I can just direct people towards valid tutorials instead of having to make up my own over and over again heh...
~Craka_J

 

[Mor)L(unE]

Im doing the more drect approach :0 but i should make some tutorials aswell

 

[Craka_J]

Here is are two tutorials that should prove very useful for you.
How to make Waterfalls
How to make smooth rivers
I guarantee that these tutorials will help you!
~Craka_J

 

[Oziris]

Add trees and many rocks and i think when u start with shallow water and rise a cliff that u cant make and original waterfall so,u can make a doodad water fall

 

[Ivanneth]

What? That makes no sense.

 

[Gilles]

I think Oziris meant that when you make the terrain all water then raise it, you can't make high water then lower water to make waterfalls, you have to use doodads.

 

[Ivanneth]

Ah. We all know that, don't we? Lol

 

[Craka_J]

lol
<3's Oziris's random comment that had no purpose.
I had posted two ways you can make a waterfall. One way was my little mini-tutorial, and the other was the two links that lead to how to make a waterfall/river more efficiently. No need to re-explain how to make a waterfall right after my post lol
~Craka_J