Terraining - Rivers

[Andrewgosu]

Making Smooth Rivers​

In a jungle​

Frozen Throne required

Getting started

Make a map sized 32x32 using Sunken Ruins tileset. Set the initial cliff level to 3-4 and initial water level to shallow water.

Firstly, untick the Enforce Water Height Limits.

Step 1 – Making the base for the river

After creating the map, you see a map full of water. Select „Increase one” tool and raise the whole map map. This looks something wierd to do, but its not.

Step 2 – Making the river

Now, select lower tool and start carving the river itself. Lower the terrain until you see water popping out. Make a nice curved river.

TIP: use smooth tool on the shores to get rid of squariness.

If you dont use this tehnique and simply lower the terrain you get something like this. Pretty squared and not natural eh?

To recap:

Step 3 – Making some hills

For hills, use the raise tool. Make some medium sized hills around the river. The map isnt very big, so little hills are better than big ones. If you want to use this tehnique on a bigger map, Obiusly bigger mountains give a better effect.

Step 4 – Adding trees

Pick some Canopy and Ruins trees and use them on the little hills you created. Leave the shores untouched, because we need them for doodads.

Step 5 – Enviroment

To give the map a jungle like looking, select some eviromental doodads like bushes, cactails, rocks and lily pads and use them to create a jungle. Apply them to the forest, as well on the water itself. Shrub is one of my favorite doodad, when it comes to making jungles. Use it on the trees to achieve the jungle look. (Vines are also good).

Step 6 – Final Touch

As you can see, there is something missing. All the jungle rivers tend to be green instead of blue. Its because of their muddy base. Set the water tinting to dark green. Much better!

Also, I add some wild boars, running wild in the spooky jungle…Probably chased by those nasty murlocs.

TIP: Using rain weather effects gives the jungle more natural feeling.

Optional Step - Making the river uncrossable by ground units

To make it uncrossable, select the doodads and find pathing blocker (ground). Then apply it to the both shores of the river.

And you are all done!

 

[phyrex1an]

Part 1

 

[GoldenHelm]

Water:S?

When i lowered the ground no water came Why

 

[Andrewgosu]

Make a map sized 32x32 using Sunken Ruins tileset. Set the initial cliff level to 3-4 and initial water level to shallow water.

Then increase 1 the the whole map with the tool, and the use lower tool.

 

[Bird]

If I already have a map with units and everything on it - and THEN I want to use this tutorial, am I out of luck? Or can this be achieved after the fact.

 

[Bird]

Actually I just tried doing this from scratch and it didn't even work. I keep lowering the terrain and water never shows up.

 

[Andrewgosu]

No, just apply hollow/deep water where you want to create smooth water. Then raise it by 1 or 2 and finally use lower tool on the spot where you used hollow/deep water.

 

[Bird]

Andrew you gotta be more specific when you are saying "lower tool" and "raise tool" we don't know if you mean lower/raise the cliff, or just height tool.

That other guy, and myself, both can't get any water to show up using your directions.

 

[Andrewgosu]

~Moved to the Tutorial.

 

[Bird]

Is there a way to have a good-looking river (your version) than *cannot* be walked across. Your rivers look nicer, but can be walked across - where as the ugly normal rivers prevent people from crossing (which is generally the point of a river)

 

[Dino.pl]

Sorry, but I had to reply to rate your tut (5 stars of course ).
[I had to, because I have javascript turned off]

EDIT: Hey, it isn't rated!
Maybe I have pressed wrong "submit" button?

 

[AceHart]

[Off topic]

> Hey, it isn't rated!

It is.
But, one vote is not enough to show up...

 

[Andrewgosu]

Is there a way to have a good-looking river (your version) than *cannot* be walked across. Your rivers look nicer, but can be walked across - where as the ugly normal rivers prevent people from crossing (which is generally the point of a river)

Pathing blockers*
Regions*
Even doodaads* Rocks, trees ect.

Offtopic,

AceHart, I have always wondered, who is that pussycat? From which cartoon?

Ty for rating Dino.Pl.

EDIT: I added the pathingblocker part to the tutorial.

P.S How can I make a link with tags which directs to only one post in the thread?

 

[IrReLeVeNt]

Great tutorial and I just got through making my river following your guidelines, but I made a few minor changes. But awesome tutorial, and oh yeah I used a different technique to make the land. I started out and the map was all shallow water, so I just used the raise height tool and raised all the land forming the shores and still got the effect you did. But again thanks for the great tutorial.

 

[Bhoudha]

Nice tutorial you got my rep on this!

 

[WarLuvr3393]

Nope, I did everything exactly what you said and I'm not getting anything. This hasn't help me at all. 1/5.

 

[zylack]

I followed everything it said. Great tut. Worked for me! 5/5 +rep

 

[WarLuvr3393]

What did you do? I made everything shallow water, I set the cliff level to 4, I raised everything 1 level, I made shallow water, raised that up, then used the lower tool and nothing happened.

 

[Andrewgosu]

made everything shallow water, I set the cliff level to 4, I raised everything 1 level, I made shallow water, raised that up, then used the lower tool and nothing happened.

The part in underline, uh? Shallow water twice?

 

[WarLuvr3393]

So, I just raise the whole map of water, then use the "lower" tool and water should show up, right?

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