Estuaries May 15, 2010, 12:52:05 am As shown in the attached screenshot, currently, tidal rivers do not have wide estuaries when they meet with the sea. It would, I think, enhance both appearance and gameplay challenges if tidal rivers such as that shown could be generated with estuaries (i.e. - they get wider when they get near the sea) to match their real life counterparts. Quote Selected
Re: Estuaries Reply #1 – May 15, 2010, 09:28:18 am Well, an estuary is more or less the end of a river, asuming all rivers in game end up in the sea, so a possible solution would be to create a end tile for rivers that represents the estuary. Quote Selected
Re: Estuaries Reply #2 – May 15, 2010, 12:02:20 pm I'm not quite sure how that would work to make estuaries wider than they are now...? Quote Selected
Re: Estuaries Reply #3 – May 15, 2010, 05:12:49 pm more of a problem for experimental, where the tile size can be set to 250 m. In standard the tile size is already 1 km, that should be enough for estuaries. Quote Selected
Re: Estuaries Reply #4 – May 15, 2010, 06:04:07 pm What counts is the relative size of the estuary compared to the width of the river itself. The shape of the river mouths is currently incorrect. Quote Selected
Re: Estuaries Reply #5 – May 15, 2010, 06:36:28 pm The river gets wider: It is a full tile plus two border tiles at the lowest hight level. Quote Selected
Re: Estuaries Reply #6 – May 15, 2010, 06:43:13 pm The estuaries don't seem to widen enough in proportion to the width of the pre-estuary tidal river, though, as in the picture. Quote Selected
Re: Estuaries Reply #7 – May 15, 2010, 08:06:47 pm I can't help but notice that there aren't actually any river tiles in that screenshot, only sea. Quote Selected
Re: Estuaries Reply #8 – May 15, 2010, 09:05:39 pm Quote from: AP – on May 15, 2010, 08:06:47 pmI can't help but notice that there aren't actually any river tiles in that screenshot, only sea.Tidal rivers are generated in game by lowering a channel of land to sea level on map generation. Quote Selected
Re: Estuaries Reply #10 – May 15, 2010, 10:40:29 pm Quote from: prissi – on May 15, 2010, 10:30:30 pmThat is the widening ...Yes, but they'd widen further just before they reached the sea. Quote Selected
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