Erosion_2 in Action
Erosion_2 was meant to be incredibly flexible from the beginning. While compared to Erosion_1 it may look like it has fewer controls and therefore less complexity, you can get an amazingly vast range of results from those few settings.
Downcutting, Erosion Scale, and the Shape controls play a large range and their combinations can produce very different results - especially when you increase the Duration.
Below is a set of 24 different looks achieved from the same terrain by simply applying Erosion_2 in different ways.
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Default Settings |
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Duration: 117.4Downcutting: 0.059ErosionScale: 16.7SuspendedLoadDischargeAmount: 0BedLoadDischargeAmount: 0.2 |
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Duration: 117.4Downcutting: 0.059ErosionScale: 87.2SuspendedLoadDischargeAmount: 0BedLoadDischargeAmount: 0.2CoarseSedimentsDischargeAmount: 1 |
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Duration: 117.4Downcutting: 0.059ErosionScale: 517.3BedLoadDischargeAmount: 0.20CoarseSedimentsDischargeAmount: 1 |
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Duration: 117.4Downcutting: 0.243ErosionScale: 517.3BedLoadDischargeAmount: 0.207CoarseSedimentsDischargeAmount: 1 |
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Duration: 117.4Downcutting: 0ErosionScale: 20000BedLoadDischargeAmount: 0.207CoarseSedimentsDischargeAmount: 1 |
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Duration: 117.4Downcutting: 0.353ErosionScale: 20000SuspendedLoadDischargeAngle: 36.3BedLoadDischargeAmount: 0.587BedLoadDischargeAngle: 34.0CoarseSedimentsDischargeAmount: 1CoarseSedimentsDischargeAngle: 31.4Shape: 0ShapeDetailScale: 1 |
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Duration: 117.4Downcutting: 0.353ErosionScale: 20000SuspendedLoadDischargeAngle: 36.3BedLoadDischargeAmount: 0.587BedLoadDischargeAngle: 34.0CoarseSedimentsDischargeAmount: 1CoarseSedimentsDischargeAngle: 31.4Shape: 0.085ShapeSharpness: 0ShapeDetailScale: 0.053 |
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Duration: 117.4Downcutting: 0.353ErosionScale: 20000SuspendedLoadDischargeAngle: 36.3BedLoadDischargeAmount: 0.199BedLoadDischargeAngle: 34.0CoarseSedimentsDischargeAmount: 0.067CoarseSedimentsDischargeAngle: 31.4Shape: 0.085ShapeSharpness: 0ShapeDetailScale: 0.053 |
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Duration: 196.7Downcutting: 0.253ErosionScale: 20000SuspendedLoadDischargeAngle: 36.3BedLoadDischargeAmount: 0.441BedLoadDischargeAngle: 7.9CoarseSedimentsDischargeAmount: 0.391CoarseSedimentsDischargeAngle: 24.0Shape: 0.079ShapeSharpness: 0.199ShapeDetailScale: 1 |
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Duration: 106.5 |
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Duration: 106.5Downcutting: 0.183ErosionScale: 20000ShapeDetailScale: 0.019 |
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Duration: 106.5Downcutting: 0.183ErosionScale: 20000BedLoadDischargeAmount: 0.095BedLoadDischargeAngle: 34.069Shape: 0.367ShapeSharpness: 0.261ShapeDetailScale: 1 |
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Duration: 90.4Downcutting: 0.111ErosionScale: 653.6BedLoadDischargeAmount: 0.113CoarseSedimentsDischargeAmount: 1ShapeDetailScale: 0.039 |
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Duration: 64.5Downcutting: 0.5253405ErosionScale: 124.0BedLoadDischargeAmount: 1CoarseSedimentsDischargeAmount: 1Shape: 0.633ShapeSharpness: 0.089ShapeDetailScale: 0.016 |
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Shape: 1ShapeSharpness: 1 |
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Downcutting: 0.711ErosionScale: 3713.4SuspendedLoadDischargeAmount: 0Shape: 1ShapeSharpness: 0.711ShapeDetailScale: 0 |
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Downcutting: 0.683ErosionScale: 201.8BedLoadDischargeAmount: 1BedLoadDischargeAngle: 21.5CoarseSedimentsDischargeAmount: 0.139 |
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Duration: 164.9 |
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Duration: 57.8BedLoadDischargeAmount: 1ShapeDetailScale: 1 |
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Duration: 90.4Downcutting: 0.045ErosionScale: 195.8 |
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Duration: 67.2ErosionScale: 204.8SuspendedLoadDischargeAmount: 0.171BedLoadDischargeAmount: 1BedLoadDischargeAngle: 24.8CoarseSedimentsDischargeAmount: 1CoarseSedimentsDischargeAngle: 15.8 |
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Downcutting: 0.073ErosionScale: 8350.7SuspendedLoadDischargeAmount: 0Shape: 0.635 |
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Duration: 134.5SuspendedLoadDischargeAmount: 0BedLoadDischargeAmount: 0.039BedLoadDischargeAngle: 37.6Shape: 0 |























