I'm having a hell of a time trying to do rivers inside the WorldBuilder. It's impossible. I mean, I know the basic stuff like tiles are either north or west of a river, and I figured out that left-clicking lays down a river and right-clicking erases it, but for the life of me I can't get the things to connect how I want them to. This is by far the most frustrating part of my whole map-making adventure.

Are there any good guides around that might help me out? The only one I've found was the WorldBuilder manual PDF, which basically said "don't worry if you mess up rivers, you'll figure it out." Not very helpful.

thanks

- Dan

Hi!
This is because rivers are vectors and need a direction to work (the way of water ). Try to begin a river and choose a direction (2 click) .Then right click to reinit and restart !
make your first river with 2 clicks for every segment and you will understand how this function work !

thanks, but I knew that already. Click once to choose where the river is flowing from, and click again to choose where the river flows to.

I can't get a river to go in a U-shape (e.g., to the west, south, and east sides of one tile). I place my rivers in the proper order and end up with multiple river sources and mouths, which connect in completely unexpected ways.

I can't get two rivers to run side-by-side if there's only one tile between them. WorldBuilder insists on connecting the two rivers together.

etc.

it's a real pain, and the map editors I've found either can't read my map without crashing (too big) or screw up the direction of the rivers. Fixing it by hand-editing the map file is tedious, so my last attempt was using the WorldBuilder. ick.

- Dan

Hello !
I will try to explain how to do ,but i'm a bit short in english ! perhaps after 20 posts i will achieve to say what i want to say ! ( sorry for that )

ex: to get the U shape :

When you erase a till (or right click just for rivers ) you erase the river in the south and east of the till

So, first do the east segment of river of the till . it will have another segment in the till south of the first and erase the part of this river. You get the east river of the till
Then ,do the south segment of river and erase the segment that is in the south of the west till of the first . You get east and south river of the till.
Then do the west segment of river and erase the east segment of river that appear in the north west till and you get a U shape !
So to make every segment ,you left click, left click , then right click and right click to erase the part of river you don't need ! and you get the only one segment you want!

For the rivers that are side by side .I try and have no problem ,so i must have misunderstood you ! But try to always begin to do the river starting by the east, then south ,then west and finally north ( of the till or of the map )!

Ask me if this is not clear! and i will call a friend wich have a degree in english to translate me !? LoL

ahh, I see. Thanks.

I was trying to make rivers starting at the source, then clicking on tiles until I got to the ocean. I didn't try your method but it makes sense; I guess it was not obvious to me. :crazyeye:

hopefully that will help... thanks again.

- Dan

If you still need an alternative answer, try MapView, a REALLY good program for modelling rivers.