Rivers with progressive width

Medio · January 2017

Hey all.

I´m working on my map´s rivers using a technique which works perfectly but takes some time: instead of drawing a river, i draw parts of the river. Ocne it´s done and the river has the look i want, then i start to edit each part and take some width away so i can get an effect of a river with more flow close to the sea. I´m posting an example.

My question is, ... is there any way of just drawing a river and give it a decrecent width so my tech was faster?

Thanks in advance.

Dogtag · January 2017

I draw the whole river first, then use the Split command (SPLIT) to break it into sections, then I select each section and change the width slightly.

Cheers,
~Dogtag

Loopysue · January 2017

I do that, but I draw it with the freehand draw tool to give it a bit of natural jiggliness. Then I split it. Then I select all the parts and make them smooth with the straight to smooth tool in the right click menu of the fractalize button. I find it works better than trying to manipulate lines that are already smooth.

Medio · January 2017

Will try both methods. Mine works fine but i find it a bit slow. Thanks!

Monsen · January 2017

You can also check out Joachim's excellent River macro.

Medio · January 2017

I had forgotten it, i read it when it was published but just didn´t remember it. Thanks, that´s what i was exactly looking for, let´s see if it´s really useful...

Medio · January 2017

Tried it and created the macro; didn´t really like what i got, will have to recheck it.

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