world machine questions
polycounter lvl 14
Hello ...
I am trying to use World machine to carve and erode a nice continent , I would like to be able to produce nice flows out of the mountains, make the mountains possibly look natural and ready for a future further erosion in other tools to simulate the rivers .
The continent is part of a larger map that I will compose later, baically I erode one region at time... I have loaded so a mask to hide all surrounding land as input .
so basically my confic is double input , one for mask and the other for the file heightmap to erode , then they both are linked to an erosion filter, and then I bring out to outputs ...
My issue is that when I use some particular erosion models they erode beyond the sea level causing sea drops and lakes despite I used a mask to preserve the coastlines, is there a way to avoid make the erosion go under the sea level? and is it possible to have a better resolution preview in the window 3d ? I have put all to max but I can't guess what will be like the erosion unless I start it .
My other question is I tried to output a 16 k x 16 k image I have 32 gb ram but even if it doesn't reach the limit andf it stays with memory save under 19 gb the operation after a while gets stuck ( or so seems ) forever and I am forced to quit .
Finally for rivers and large rivers, is there a best way to erode to make WM produce by itself nice river flows? Or it just creates erosion flows frokm the mountains?
Any tutorial on that ?
My biggest issue though is to avoid the erosion go under the sea level if that's possible at all?
I am trying to use World machine to carve and erode a nice continent , I would like to be able to produce nice flows out of the mountains, make the mountains possibly look natural and ready for a future further erosion in other tools to simulate the rivers .
The continent is part of a larger map that I will compose later, baically I erode one region at time... I have loaded so a mask to hide all surrounding land as input .
so basically my confic is double input , one for mask and the other for the file heightmap to erode , then they both are linked to an erosion filter, and then I bring out to outputs ...
My issue is that when I use some particular erosion models they erode beyond the sea level causing sea drops and lakes despite I used a mask to preserve the coastlines, is there a way to avoid make the erosion go under the sea level? and is it possible to have a better resolution preview in the window 3d ? I have put all to max but I can't guess what will be like the erosion unless I start it .
My other question is I tried to output a 16 k x 16 k image I have 32 gb ram but even if it doesn't reach the limit andf it stays with memory save under 19 gb the operation after a while gets stuck ( or so seems ) forever and I am forced to quit .
Finally for rivers and large rivers, is there a best way to erode to make WM produce by itself nice river flows? Or it just creates erosion flows frokm the mountains?
Any tutorial on that ?
My biggest issue though is to avoid the erosion go under the sea level if that's possible at all?
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The best place to ask this is over at the WM forums, the creator of WM is very active and so are many experienced users :poly121: