HELP!!!How to connect water areas with different heights?

[ChemRailFan]

I'm new to surveyor, and if there are two water areas with different heights, how do I connect them together? Or how do I adjust the gradient of water? Thank you!

 

[Jananton]

I'm new to surveyor, and if there are two water areas with different heights, how do I connect them together? Or how do I adjust the gradient of water? Thank you!

Well, in fact you can't. You can have several water surfaces of different heights, but you must make sure they aren't connected. If needed to connect them you should go for other scenery elements, like waterfalls, dams or river splines even, to mask the gap between surfaces. This remains a puzzle for many prototypical landscape modellers.

Greetings from sunny Amsterdam,

Jan

 

[ChemRailFan]

Thank you, Jananton! And where can I find waterfalls, dams, river splines, etc, in surveyor?

 

[Jananton]

Well, the first place to look for this kind of things would be the DLS of course.:hehe: If you fire up the CMP and in the search filter window you select author and type in "cyberstorm" you find a collection of rapids and other stuf. Some are usefull for the purpose you're looking for. There is more offcourse, but it's a start.

Btw, for using the DLS and or the CMP that came with trainz you need to register your version of trainz. Since your post didn;t show the version you have, I suppose you didn't do that yet.

Greetings fom nighttime Amsterdam,

Jan

 

[rweber95]

Thank you, Jananton! And where can I find waterfalls, dams, river splines, etc, in surveyor?

Sirgibby has a whole series of waterfalls and rapids payware. He has one that is builtin, see waterfall sample,<kuid:47439:25650>.
Vulcan has made a whole bunch of scenery items related to a dam installation. See Dam Concrete,<kuid2:60238:21133:1>

Bob

 

[pware]

Or you can make your own waterfall or rapids by using the surveyor land height tool to create a slope between the two regions of water then use one of the many waterfall or river rapids textures to paint the surface, add a few rocks for effect. It works.

 

[Vern]

From TS2006 and above there are some built in water splines, look for "Fluss" or similar in the splined objects. This is one of the joys of Trainz, many of the more useful items are listed in the native language of the creator (in this case German) or weird alpha-numeric codes (the ProTrain buildings). So it's always worth Googling the German translation of what you're looking for and doing a search on that in Surveyor.

 

[Sampug394]

or weird alpha-numeric codes

I fully agree - I've found several useful items by surfing through the endless numerical Assets.