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Hey, guys!

I need help with the river's map, I already finished my terrain but i'm stuck at the river...How am I supposed to do it? What are the shades for the colors and what do I have to do?
 

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Hey, guys!

I need help with the river's map, I already finished my terrain but i'm stuck at the river...How am I supposed to do it? What are the shades for the colors and what do I have to do?

pink = ocean
white = land
different shades of blue = depth of river (used for combat bonuses)
light green = start/source of the MAIN river - other smaller sources which join need not have a light green source, but will need a red where they join your main river
red = other sources join the river
yellow = river branches out, so opposite to red.

make sure you use the colour palette from the base game river file

rivers need to end in the ocean/a sea - a pink section. If you have a river running through a lake (all lakes must be pink like the ocean), just pretend the pink isn't there and go right through it.

make sure that each river pixel is joined at a right angle, and that each river pixel only has two others adjacent to it (in addition to red/yellow joiners)

when your river reaches the sea, keep it going for several pixels into the ocean
 

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Yeah, thanks. I got it but I have a question about the shades of pink, does it matter? Because when I try to get it from the vanilla rivers map it doesn't give me the same shade.
 

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Yeah, thanks. I got it but I have a question about the shades of pink, does it matter? Because when I try to get it from the vanilla rivers map it doesn't give me the same shade.

I'm not certain, but I would assume so, as when colours are used, one rgb digit off and you may as well be 100. What graphics program are you using? I use GIMP, and when I open both my custom map and the vanilla map at the same time, I get the palette from vanilla as one of the ones I can select. To be honest, regardless of your program of choice, you should be able to find the RGB value of the vanilla rivers pink and bucket fill your custom ocean with it.

Edit: Are you using 24 bit in your custom rivers file at the moment? That might be why can't get the shade to show. You need to do it in 24 bit then convert to 8 bit using the palette from the vanilla rivers file. I had the same issue with my terrain file and it turned out I had converted to 8 bit with the wrong palette :p