Rivers
The new river tool of CC4 creates meandering waterways and sprawling river networks for a whole continent or island with a few mouse-clicks. Rivers get wider as they flow from their source, connect in believable ways and run into the sea where you would expect them too.
Rivers have always been a topic that could vex the amateur cartographer, and to draw them realistically can be challenging. The new river command that comes with CC4 gives you a shortcut that can create a single river or whole river systems with the push of a button. You still get full control over the output, from colour shading and texturing, through setting starting and ending width, to moving individual nodes about.
To the left is an example of an island river system created with the river too, where you can see the intricate and natural looking result. Creating the same by hand would be extremely time-consuming.
You can also draw your rivers individually, setting their starting and ending widths, connect them to existing rivers and add them to your river network.
Rivers are a new type of drawing entity that have varying width along their length and specific properties like colour and fill style for each of their spans between nodes. This makes them extremely versatile and open to expansion and additional use cases in the future.
Will you be able to have them Smooth as well as non-smooth? and still have the colour and width graduation as shown?