Sorry didnt spot that. I took the height field that you posted and your color and made a 3D view. Also, I took the output from the river run and put that on top for reference. If you like these images then you can have the app - its a freebie.
Anyway - here's some pics. I guess Nick will have to verify if you have the right method.
I did some more tests using my GTS to see if it could predict the river flow but it struggled with this height map too. The first image is what its like if I set it like soft mud and let it erode wildly. It cuts deep channels into it because of the large drops in height.
Trying again with lower erosion and also adding what I call frost erosion in that when the gradient gets too high it smooths out steep cliffs then it drops out those spikes and also does a better job with the erosion. I was having fun so I rendered it with some textures too. I really like the result - looks like a waterfall type scene. Anyway - either of the two images get some basic similarities in the water flow so there's some general / vague consensus here about where the water might go. Its still a sim tho - its all guesswork.
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Redrobes, I've downloaded ViewingDale. I put the Height.bmp and Color.bmp, but only see grayscales... What's happening?
Don't know ! Can you resize or make the dimensions of the images 512x512 each ? And it might be helpful if using full color images though its not supposed to matter. Other than that you might have an older type of graphics card or a driver issue.
Cova-
Can you provide the source greyscale in png? the jpg artifacts mess up any processing.
Attached is a incise based precip run using wilbur to show where it places rivers.
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Here you go RobA...
On the Wilbur pic the left river looks like its flowing down, around, and then back up the hill again. Whats it really doing ?
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