Subject: Re: Quasi-realistic algorithm
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 18:44:21 +0100
From: Hansjörg Malthaner <hansjoerg.malthaner@danet.de>
Newsgroups: rec.games.roguelike.development

Artur Biesiadowski wrote:
>
> Hansjörg Malthaner wrote:
>
> > Oooops didn't read the qestion carefully enough. If I start filling if
none
> > are lower, the whole plain gets filled. That avoids circles, but I'm
afraid
> > it eats up too much of the land in average.
>
> This where amount of water can go into equation. You create a river and
> it ends up a lake. When lake is big enough, evaporation/sinking to
> underground waters will suck up water faster that it can flow from
> river, so you end up with medium lake and no outgoing river. So there is
> no risk of 'flooding' all plains which happen to be surrounded by hilly
> areas.

Excellent idea :)

> Artur

c.u.
Hajo