World Creator 2024 Introduces A New Rivers System

BiteTheBytes has launched World Creator 2024.1, a new version of its real-time GPU-based terrain and landscape creation tool, starting the series of annual updates.

The main feature of this release is the new river system, empowering artists to create any type of river, procedurally or by design. You can either let the software generate the river for you, based on the terrain you see in the viewport, and then modify it by hand, or you can create your own river by placing springs and flow points.

The river system gives you several different ways, which are presented below, to build your network. Automatic generation will analyze your terrain, calculate flow paths, place and connect springs and river nodes, and assign different river types accordingly: