Hi there. I recall seeing a tutorial about this many moons ago, but now that I'd like to try something like this out in out of my rural areas, for the life of me I can't seem to find it.
What I'm effectively trying to do is have a small stream (made from plopable water) empty out into a larger river (made from lowering the terrain below sea level), and make the transition look seamless and realistic. I have some of the necessary tools (e.g. JRJ transparent plopable water, waterfalls and the associated flora/rocks), but I can't seem to get it to look good, especially since I have problems masking the transition in elevation between the above and below-sea level portions. Can someone recommend some good tools/terrain mods/tips? Thanks.
I can tell you, that it makes it much easier if you are willing to have one or both of the waterways dirty. This way, you can take advantage of the muddy water effect lot made by jeronij. It can be used to hide the precise location of where the plop water (PW) ends.
If not, you present yourself a rather different challenge.
One disadvantage of jeronij's Transparent PW in this situation is that it won't tolerate being plopped underwater, so you can't use any sort of fade-away-under-the-water type trick. You can however, have a very shallow section of water at the end of the stream, and there, you can put the TPW over top, and near the end of the PW, you can use a large number of plants and rocks to mask the ending somewhat. Of course, it also helps if your water mod looks similar to the PW you're using.
If you're working in a hilly area, your best bet is gonna be a waterfall, as these can be manipulated to land in the water, and you wouldn't have to worry about the 'transition', but I'm guessing you're trying for a more level area, no?
If you want to see some pictures of how I've done it, you can go to the last couple of pages of my MD (see link in signature) where I made an estuary that had PW rivers running into it. It's not perfect, but I think its not-too-bad.
Good luck, and I hope I've helped!
Thanks very much. To be honest, I've been much too busy with work to have a go at it lately (or to even check this forum), but I'll play around with it this upcoming weekend. I did try playing around with waterfalls in the past, but it always looked very contrived. I'll have another go at it.