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    Guild Apprentice Sam Conifer's Avatar
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    Thank you for all the valuable information. I wanted to make a forested lake and river terrain. Here is a version with a scale included. I'll have to get used to drawing up a scale early on. If it is useful I have included the Wilbur file from which I am deriving my rivers from.

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    I do want to have wide rivers, so based on the opinions above that must mean I need longer tributaries, and due to the lack of space available that might mean I need less rivers. Does that sound right then? I expect it would be hard to see the way tributaries actually look within a forest.
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    Hah, actually looking up the amazon river width I have to change my statement about intended river width. I want the rivers to take up plenty of space on the visual map, but at the same time I want to work with the scale I have included. The Amazon River is like 7 miles wide. I don't want anything like that.

    I think I have to refigure my river width or scale.
    Last edited by Sam Conifer; 03-18-2011 at 04:21 PM.
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    Circumference (C) of the Earth is about 25,000 miles or 40,000 km.
    Highest point on Earth is 5.5 miles (8.9 km) above sea level (ASL/BSL).
    Lowest point of land on Earth is 1/4 mile (0.4 km) BSL.
    Lowest elevation in the ocean is 6.8 miles (10.9 km) BSL.

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