Water on top of cliffs

I have seen blizzard maps that have pools of water on top of cliffs. The type of water pools that smoothly transition to dry ground. How does one do this?

Ramps on the water edge is the easiest way.

Make the deep water first, then surround it with shallow water, then click View and uncheck water. Then just turn the "cliffs" you see into ramps.

Ramps on the water edge doesn't make a pool that has smooth edges all around. The type of pool I'm talking about is what you'd get if you made a map with a water plane covering the whole thing then raised some terrain out of the water with the raise terrain tool. You'd get a smooth transition from water to land. The only problem is I can't seem to use that technique if I want the water up on a cliff.

I see. Here is an Idea (IDEA, as in I haven't tried it)

Raise the cliff level to 1 above where you want the water, UNCHECK the "cliff water level" thing on the advanced tab, then creat the shallow watter, then use the "cliff -1" tool to remove the "ring" of cliffs it added around the aread, then use the height modification tool to make your water the way you want.

Just an Idea, might work.

Worked. Thanks a bunch.

Glad to help.

Click the Enforce water heights box, so it doesnt enforce water heights. Then you can put water on the edge of a cliff with ease. Just make sure you click it back to enforce after your done. Or did i miss the original question entirely?

Yeah you missed the question entirely. It's ok though cause someone else helped.

Or create a new map and make its initial level shallow water. Then you can raise ground on the whole map to create it smoothly wherever you want. That's how blizzard does it anyway...

thats the easiest way, but it takes longer, especially if there isnt much water on your map