Tutorial: Going Down The Creek
Hello to All!
Again it took some for me to update and this time I do have some bad news. It seems I lost my joy playing the game but my RL is such a mess at the moment that even in these rare moments when I could fire up the game the inspiration, the joy was gone. I hope it comes back, it gave so much to me the last eight years. Anyway I promised you a tutorial and after that I guess I'll find some stuff for a construction site report.
Tutorial: Going Down The Creek
Something that I never understood where all these hundreds and thousands of really huge waterfalls in SC4. Honestly, how many of them do you know IRL? Niagara falls of course, Victoria falls, Rhine falls at Schaffhausen ... and then I have to pass. And in SC4? Oh well ...
But how is a creek going down a valley? Well, mostly over small steps and rapids. Between them you can find larges sections with almost no slope at all. And how I set up a creek like this is the topic of today's tutorial!
The rough terraforming. For my taste the combination of ElRail and BRF TunnelAndSlope works fine here. The slope-free sections are laid out with patches of grey streets.
In this ...
... and this perspective you can clearly see the slope in the elRail sections.
Since all better alternatives are under construction at the moment I chose Edmonton rapids for the slope sections. I do not remove the patches ...
... before all rapids are on their place!
Now it's time for the PW. In this case I've chosen PEG's Tahoe PW.
Streets along such creeks have been secured by retaining walls against sliding and washing out rather early. The rather moist air along such walls next to creeks is an ideal place for fern, moss etc. 
To Rock Or Not To Rock,
This Is Now The Question ...
If you really want that much big rocks along your creeks you need the suitable topography with steep flanges in the middle of hills and montain. You will NOT see so much rocks somewhere in the Great Plains because there isn't enough energy to move them there!
Some weed between and next to the rocks ...
makes a nice transition to the adjacent forrest.
Here you can see a bigger step in a partially straightened creek (retaining wall!). Steps like this ar some times necessary to destroy the kinetic energy of the water!
Again PEG's tahoe PW, different perspective though.
After some detailing we get this.
That's it for today, some day you'll hopefully see more of this map.
Have fun!
Bernhard
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