| 11-02-2003, 05:18 PM | #1 |
I've seen a lot of people asking about how to create a body of shallow water without cliff edges. The simplest answer is to either make the body squarish and ramp off the edges, or make the whole map shallow water and raise what you want to be land. But lately I've been thinking, while making some waterfalls... Why not take the "floating water" trick used to make waterfalls and use it for this? Just set your terrain tool to "Apply Cliff - Raise 1 Level" and raise a small block of ground. Under "Advanced" uncheck "Enforce Water Height Limits" and switch your tool to "Apply Cliff - Shallow water." Now click somewhere on that block of raised ground and keep dragging until you've turned the whole block into water. If it creates a "hole" with cliffs around the side, it hasn't worked. World Edit seems finnicky about doing this, so just Undo and try again. Also, sometimes WE won't let you do it in certain places on the map, but it will let you in others... so try raising another block somewhere else - Make sure it's on the same cliff level as the place you want the shallow water though! If it's worked correctly, you'll have a chunk of shallow water floating inexplicably above the ground. Take that shallow water tool and click inside the floating water, and you can drag it out across the ground to create water anywhere you want on that same cliff level. once you're done with that, to get rid of water you don't want, set your terrain tool to "Raise 1 level" again and raise all the spots you see water where you really don't want it. Then go back to "Advanced" and check "Enforce Water Height Limits" again, switch your terrain tool to "Lower 1 level" (or "same level" if you work that way) and drop those cliffs back down - the water disappears. Finally, to hide the weird floating-ness of the water, you'll have to raise the terrain around it. The advantage of this method is that you don't have to raise the whole map to hide all the water you don't want! And, you can put the water at multiple cliff levels in the same map, to create waterfalls, rivers, etc. Hope this helps anyone who's had this question! Go make some... uh... Aqueducts? :infth: // Ligature |