how do you get a good looking river?

hi, im kinda new to blender but i know all the basics.

ive created this sort of volcano with i river running past it and ive got another object that im hoping will be the fluid in the river. The problem is, is that when i bake the fluid (with the domain object), the fluid turns into a weird shape that wasn’t anything like the fluid.

can someone please tell me what im doing wrong and also how to get the river to flow like a real one.

thanks in advance :slight_smile:

http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/SoCFluidTutorial1

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-RogerWickes

ive already looked at the fluid tutorials and it doesnt really help me to make a river, thanks anyway.

-RamboBaby

i’ll take a closer look at that later, it look quite good, thanks.