[Freeciv-Dev] Re: New River Generator

["Mike Jing" <miky40@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

That looks fantastic.  Just one question, in the first two screenshots the 
river doesn't seem to branch at all.  Is this related to the amount of river 
generated?  Because in the third picture there are a lot more rivers and 
branching.
Mike


> From: Erik Sigra <freeciv@xxxxxxx>
> To: freeciv-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] New River Generator
> Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 20:36:52 +0200
>
> Hi,
> I have improved my river generation algorithm very much today. I think
> the rivers can't be made much better than this with the current
> terrain system. Now the rivers are much smarter. If they start at a
> sea corner, they no longer usually fow far away somewhere. That is
> because they now prefer to flow away from mountains and hills, and
> flow towards oceans, rivers and swamps, as you can see on these
> pictures:
>
>     
> <ftp://ftp.freeciv.org/pub/freeciv/incoming/my_rivers_swamp_river_1.png>
>     
> <ftp://ftp.freeciv.org/pub/freeciv/incoming/my_rivers_swamp_river_2.png>
>     
> <ftp://ftp.freeciv.org/pub/freeciv/incoming/my_rivers_swamp_river_3.png>
> Erik Sigra,
>
>      now preparing the publication "River Generation Made Easy,
>      11 Steps towards the Perfect River" :-)
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