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    Wip WIP, are these rivers "right"?

    Any advice would be wonderful, thank you!

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    Administrator Redrobes's Avatar
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    I am afraid not ! You should generally avoid two rivers exiting into the sea on different sides from one lake.

    See this tut I did:
    https://www.cartographersguild.com/s...ead.php?t=3822

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    Unless these are canals. Which means that they're all at the same altitude they contain salty water.

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    Besides the topological problem already addressed (Rivers don't split except in certain specific localized and temporary circumstances, and lakes are just wide sections of river), you seem to be thinking of rivers in an overly linear way. Don't think of a river as a line but rather think of a river system as something that covers an area. Divide the land up into river basins, then fill them all with multiply branching rivers that cover them. Drier areas will have more spread out rivers than wetter ones.

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    Okay, I've made some changes.

    Is this better?

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