Water Smoothness problem

[RocKNRolL]

Hello.
I am beginning designing a new game, and i ran into a weird problem.
I looked for solutions but i couldn't find anything smiller to what i have.
The edges of the "river" is squered!
I have tried using the "Enforce water height limits" in advanced, but when i marked it the water disapeared - when i used lower tool or raise it just disapeared :S and when it is unchecked it shows that..

Help please.

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Thank you.

 

[MrCrowley]

Im guessing your automatically putting in your own water and lowering the terrain right? Well like tiles in World Editor, water takes up those "squares" or tiles (dont know how else to explain) in the same way the tiles do. If you lower down all the terrain around your water, you'll notice that at a certain point, all your water "squares out" because you only placed so much.

How do you solve this? Whenever your making smooth, flattened rivers, always place your water beyond the boundaries, or "banks" of your river, to avoid squaring.

Im not sure if I explained that really well...I know it sounds choppy.

Good Luck xD

Also if your lazy like me, and really dont want to smooth over everything again...just fill it with rocks.

 

[RocKNRolL]

How do you solve this? Whenever your making smooth, flattened rivers, always place your water beyond the boundaries, or "banks" of your river, to avoid squaring.

ummm do what?? :SS
lol sorry i didn't understand what you mean by "place your water beyond the boundaries, or "banks" of your river"...

Explan me please?

 

[l1lshadow]

He means make the water wider than the area you want, for an example this is what you want it to be |~| so you extend it like this ~~~ instead of ~ and then lower the area you want hope that clears things.

 

[MrCrowley]

Ugh, sorry i was never that good at explaining. Let me show you in pictures.

1)So say i want to make a forest with a creek running through it as outlined with the blue line:
http://i31.tinypic.com/vpu9mw.jpg

2) Even though i only wanted the water to be in that skinny, blue area, i place the water in a much greater width as shown here:
http://i29.tinypic.com/5zffv6.jpg

3) So now that i lower the water, I donw have any ugly squares along the "banks" of the river (or where the water ends and the dirt begins).
http://i27.tinypic.com/hv85rm.jpg

4)What you were doing, was lowering the ground, outside of where you placed your water. Notice how those ugly squares begin to appear once i lowered the ground farther away form the stream.
http://i31.tinypic.com/33yhpg5.jpg

Does that help? xD

 

[RocKNRolL]

Omg thanks
See this is an example that anyone can explain things right
Thank you for the bother! +rep :thup: