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How to set smooth descent to the rivers shores like at lakes and sea?



Now mapgen7 generating only river canyon.

I've tried it very quickely and haven't managed to get it with v7.
You can try Valleys Mapgen, that generates rivers (they are very narrow, you can change it in settings, like vmg_river_size = 10 in minetest.conf)

That can't be done in mgv7.

paramat wrote:That can't be done in mgv7.

- So how it set in mgv6?
- Do you know any fork of mapgen7 with smooth descent at the rivers?

mgv6 doesn't have rivers AFAIK.

Yes mgv6 doesn't have rivers, just sloping beaches down to lakes.
My 'watershed' branch has smooth descent https://github.com/paramat/minetest/tree/rivergen
Or see the c++ version of Valleys Mapgen linked to above.
For (slow) lua mapgens see my watershed https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=8609 and riverdev https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=9210 mods.

i would really see some screenshots from your new rivergen, how do the rivers look like?

paramat wrote:My 'watershed' branch has smooth descent https://github.com/paramat/minetest/tree/rivergen

In this 'watershed' branch lava starts at y = -768.

If you compile my 'rivergen' branch the mapgen (called 'watershed') is hidden and not selectable, you have to run a mod to select it:



The mapgen is in development and needs lots of tuning.
Lower screenshot here https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?p=194182#p194182