Creating a Dam with GeNa Rivers

[Clyde]

Using 2 separate splines to create a dam.

[BunnyViking]

nice, what did you do to get the lake ? separate plane ?

 

[Clyde]

2 minutes ago, BunnyViking said:

nice, what did you do to get the lake ? separate plane ?

 

No, just made a really wide river. Takes a bit of playing with to get it right, but doable.

 

[Clyde]

 

These are the settings for the lake spline:
 

[Clyde]

One other note:
The height of the node near the dam should be such that it determines the lowest level of the lake above the dam.  The node at the far end away from the dam should be just a bit higher.  This may require playing with the height of the terrain below each of the nodes (Turning on "Auto- Update On Terrain Change" can help during that process).

[BunnyViking]

Ah i wondered if you just did a superwide river 😄 Really need those splines to have arbitrary width per node (but I havent played with the beta splines enough to know if we can do that yet)

 

[Bryan]

Very nice! 

 

[Swyfft]

On 1/13/2022 at 6:43 AM, Clyde said:

On 1/13/2022 at 6:42 AM, BunnyViking said:

nice, what did you do to get the lake ? separate plane ?

No, just made a really wide river

gotta love this answer 😄

Edited January 15, 2022 by Swyfft

[Bryan]

On 1/14/2022 at 9:36 PM, Swyfft said:

gotta love this answer 😄

You should have seen some of my early day testing. 
I made really really large rivers and got yelled at all the time they were not rivers by the time I was done with them hehe. 

[Adam]

We get our sport where we can 🙂

[Peter]

An update for those following / stumbling upon this thread: We have released the dam content pack - a collection of assets that will help you to reproduce the results shown in the post above and more. You can see it in action in this speed level design video here:

The pack is available in our download section for our Canopy Pro subscribers here:

Dam Content Pack Download

To reproduce the results shown in the video, please follow the instructions in the Canopy Library documentation article.