Quadspinner Gaea - Creating more aggressive rivers

[@kylemcneill5751]

coming back to this one after some time haha. The techniques you have up your sleeve never cease to amaze me!

[@cowsmanaut]

You making some new terrains? Can't wait to see it!

[@the-astropath]

Nice tip, I've always struggled making nice rivers in Gaea.

[@Stereo_mechanics]

Thanks so match

[@caldeira3D]

i wanted to create roads instead of a river, you help me a lot. thanks

[@WarlockSRB]

Can one with Gaea create a whole planet for example? Instead of only a quad (aka 4x4km) to make a spherical land with radius of let's say 10-15km etc? Thanks...

[@cowsmanaut]

in the build menu you can set terrain scale, it has an impact on a few of the simulation tools (erosion, snow) You can also do large tiled builds. Some people have used Gaea to do planet textures, and I myself have used it for a few very large terrains (over 30km) and were currently trying to work out how we'll manage a small continent that is explorable with different biomes.. so, depending on what you want to do, it impacts your workflow, planning and limitations... but in the end, yeah, 10-15km is possible.

[@Arms2]

My rivers node wont build at all... kinda weird

[@cowsmanaut]

For that I would check on the quadspinner discord channel. Maybe you hit a bug. They should build without issue. Do you have the latest build?

[@Ramon_asekas]

What do you think about the way of doing this tutorial? kzbin.info/www/bejne/bYnJlYmPi7KMqZI I have an environment composed of mountains with quite a steep slope, and if I use the river node and increase the water and width parameters, it deforms the narrow steps of the mountain too much. That's why I usually use the river with a lower profile. Then I remove the flows node and with masks and combinations, I get the result that suits me best. After that, I do an auto level, and subtract it from the general height map. I'm going to try to combine that method with yours, which I find incredible. Great tutorial, you do a great job, congratulations!

[@cowsmanaut]

I make deeper use of the flow map in other ways including the river creation process in the "Mastering flow" videos. It is perfectly valid as a process and can help in texturing. I think the key thing is trying to keep track of scale, which isn't done in that Renderbucket video. Which is fine for a more stylistic approach. I would highly suggest looking at references and applying technique as a secondary. For example, what I show in the video above I would isolate to specific areas rather than using over the entire river system. Hope that helps.