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River redo

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Gary Hayes

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I was wondering if anyone had any advise on whats the best way to turn this Arkansas River so it runs how it should?

The red shows where I *should* go, but as you can see the default river has a mind of its own. Also I am making the raised and lowered river levys and using sbuilder to make the flattens, I have the airport at 81 meters, and the river basin at 76m. Well this worked out ok, but I have a very long and graduated slope to meet the lower levy when in real life its quite a sharp slope.

So to combat this I created a 3rd flatten in sbuilder and put its edges RIGHT to the edge of the lower flatten, this gave me a more sharper slope but still a little to long. Also it is very rugged.

Am I going about this all wrong? If so I am wide open for suggestions.
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Hi,

As you mention that you are working with SBuilder already, I would also define the new river shape in SBuilder, with a LWM polygon. On some places you might have to cover the old river with some VTP polygons to turn it back into land.
 
hmm ok makes since...

About the flattens, whats th ebest way to get a precise levy wall and also a trench for a road tunnel?
 
Ok I have got the river reworked, now I got the awesome shoreline lol.

Anyone know how to get rid of that?

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I think you would have to use a VTP exclude for the shoreline.

About the flattens, the mesh system does not allow very sharp clifs in your mesh. So some sort of slope will always be there. It also depends on your FS settings how sharp this can be.
 
Thanks Arno!!!

Yea I just abandoned the tunnel idea, and I have a good enough effect that looks like a ridge on the end of runway.
 
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