Topic: rivers and ships

Tibor Topic Opener Joined: 2009-03-23, 23:24 Posts: 1377 One Elder of Players Location: Slovakia	Posted at: 2014-03-26, 21:30 Hi, I am trying to generate a map with rivers and I have a question if seafaring on rivers is possible. Look at this screenshot: My question is: can ships sail on rivers? I would say they can but there is probably some minimal width of a river needed for this. So what width is it? Also the height of rivers is changing from 0 (the lake in the middle) to like 30 on springs. This should not be a problem I presume... Thanks for answers! Top Quote

einstein13 Joined: 2013-07-29, 00:01 Posts: 1116 One Elder of Players Location: Poland	Posted at: 2014-03-26, 22:01 Tibor wrote: Hi, I am trying to generate a map with rivers and I have a question if seafaring on rivers is possible. (...) My question is: can ships sail on rivers? (...) Yes, ships can travel through the rivers. River has to have at least 2 units width. The heigh can be any. Also any slopes can be used by ships (it only affects on speed of travelling). You can see the map "Colonies" (https://wl.widelands.org/maps/colonies/) or any other with complicated coastline. On map "The maze" you can see slopes too einstein13 einstein13 calculations & maps packages: http://wuatek.no-ip.org/~rak/widelands/ backup website files: http://kartezjusz.ddns.net/upload/widelands/ Top Quote

Tibor Topic Opener Joined: 2009-03-23, 23:24 Posts: 1377 One Elder of Players Location: Slovakia	Posted at: 2014-03-26, 22:30 Thanks for quick answer! "2 units width" - you mean 2 fields? This seems very little to me... I was expecting like 5 fields or so... But I have no experiences with seafaring. Anyway 2 fields width suits me very much. This means that ships will be able to get to the upper ends of rivers. Tibor Top Quote