Underground Rivers? Create a tunnel for water??

[JerVaughan]

Is it possible to force a river to go underground for part of the map? I'm trying to build Boulder, CO and a portion of Boulder Creek is forced underground with the city above it.

I've been searching for way/mods/assets to do this, but with no luck.

[Shuggames]

There is a way to do it as I did something similar with my most recent map. Well a way to simulate it anyway. What you're going to need is Bloody Penguin's awesome Extra Landscape Tools mod. You can get it here...

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=502750307

This allows you to place water spawns as you would in the map editor. So what you can do is have 1 as the origin point, then where the water goes underground, you place another one. The water height is adjustable so all you need to do is make the 2nd one have a lower water table than the first one and it will absorb water instead of put out water.

Here is an img that may help...
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=713497571

and without the water view on for reference...
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=713502363

The source of the water is offscreen to the right, but it flows through the damn to the 2 water points near the mountain (on the right side). These are lowered enough that it keeps the water level where I want it to make a lake and absorbs the rest of the water so it doesn't flood everywhere.

On the other side of the mountain those 2 water spawn points generate water so it looks as if it goes through the mountain and comes out on the other side.

I haven't tweaked these since I first made them and plan on making them look a bit more realistic but with very little time you could definitely recreate an underground river.

[MolteBoy55]

Originally posted by JerVaughan:

Is it possible to force a river to go underground for part of the map? I'm trying to build Boulder, CO and a portion of Boulder Creek is forced underground with the city above it.

I've been searching for way/mods/assets to do this, but with no luck.

Not yet at least. I too wish they would add water tunnels. But now the easiest way I can find as replacement for tunnels is following method:
At the start of the segment of the river put so many waterpumps until it's able tosuck all of the river in it. Then connect to water pipes and at the end of the segment place sewage cannons. Connect up and there you go! Make sure that the pipes are only connected to pump and cannon. No interfering with city. NOTE: this is not aestetically pleasing. The bes you can do is to hide it away with trees. Extra landscaping tools is also recommended to make it look like a tunnel exit.

[JerVaughan]

Thanks for the help!

[Steven Seagull]

This literally saved me from days of bad words against the pc XD thanks!