Rivers on a landscape as a separate object...

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Hi there,

I have a project where I need rivers to be overlaid on a landscape and follow it’s contours.

I know I could just have them as a part of the texture as so…

http://i.imgur.com/NG4IWeL.jpg
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but I actually need the rivers as a separate object ( as this will be interactive and the rivers need to be able to be turned off and on, on many textures that will be on the landscape)

So when I import the rivers as SVG’s, they come in as so…

http://i.imgur.com/hwD0HSI.jpg
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but are curves that look like this close up…

http://i.imgur.com/FhhGYY3.jpg
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so when I convert this to mesh it gives me triangles all over the place and wont help when I need to Shrinkwrap it to the landscape, so is there any time saving way to speed this up or do I have to manually recreate all the rivers like I have done here for one…

http://i.imgur.com/pV4JDZ6.jpg
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Hopefully that makes sense and i look forward to your replies…

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you can have 2 textures, one with the river and one without. and turn them on and off just like you would with the object.

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Oh you can, sweet I’ll have to look into that. I’ll be using Blend4web so hopefully that works too.