Creating water gaps

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Influence Noise to flow in general direction

Procedurally control of continent-level features is a pretty challenging thing! I’m guessing what you’re looking for here is to make something that looks like the tectonically-compressed folds that become mountain ranges on the edges of continents. If you can deal with having only a single direction that the noise is folded in, you can use a Placement device and turn up the anisotropy to create directional noise: [image] In Build 4044, out imminently, the Scatter device gains the ability to…

The above combined with this would make some great Appalachian “ridge-and-valley” sort of terrain: