JonMyrlennBailey
Well-known member
The dam should be an arched dam. That is a damn that is curved. The convex side should be the side water flows into. Water should be discharged from the spillway on the concave side. I have a dam on my reservoir whose spillway dumps into a river which is flowing toward a lower ground elevation on my Trainz map. The trouble with Topology water chips is that they can only be square and level with no option to slope them downward. There are river water splines that can be made to cant downhill but they look phony and have no ripple animation. For this reason the water level is the same on both sides of my dam as the dam wall is thin and the large water chips would protrude through the dam wall from the lake side and parts of their edges and corners would be exposed in mid air on the river side if the water lever on the river side were lower than that on the reservoir or lake side of the dam. The water pressure is greater on the convex side because when water presses against it, it actually compresses the dam material making the dam, ironically, tougher. The pictures below show the engineering logic of dam construction. My dam prevents my lake from flooding its shores while holding my reservoir (man-made lake) with boats, marina, day-use recreational park, boat ramps, sportsman's access road, private lakeside homes, dock
s, train and road bridge over it, Vulcan's train vehicle float plane and fishing scenes to maximum capacity.

