Tips & Tricks

Re: Professional Waterfall Tutorial in 4 easy steps

peekay5000 — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:25:02 GMT

the tip about using fencings is the best...

BTW it would have been much better if you woulod have just posted the images rather than providing the links, but anyway..
Thanks a lot for the tutorial...

Re: Professional Waterfall Tutorial in 4 easy steps

Mystrelia — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 02:26:40 GMT

Thanks so much! This has been extremely helpful. :)

Re: Professional Waterfall Tutorial in 4 easy steps

Carcharodontosaurus — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:34:43 GMT

THANK YOU SOLDYNE!! I never thought of using fences! Thanks again!

Carcharodontosaurus

Re: Professional Waterfall Tutorial in 4 easy steps

Candy apple — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:41:13 GMT

Thanks! Nice tutorial... I guess I never quite figured out that you can't have diagonal waterfalls.

Re: Professional Waterfall Tutorial in 4 easy steps

Zoo_Boy12 — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:04:40 GMT

thanx for the tip i kept getin problems with it

Re: Professional Waterfall Tutorial in 4 easy steps

DinoMaster — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:24:23 GMT

Cool waterfall. That explains why sometimes I can't make waterfalls. They have to be parrallel to the zoo walls.

Re: Professional Waterfall Tutorial in 4 easy steps

Renagade — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:13:10 GMT

Thats great I haven't actually tried using fences with mine before, meybe it will make mine somewaht tidy now lol

Re: Professional Waterfall Tutorial in 4 easy steps

montanaseaotter — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:47:51 GMT

Its pretty cool Even Though i all ready now that stuff

Professional Waterfall Tutorial in 4 easy steps

soldyne — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:57:09 GMT

This is an excerpt from my Zoo Tycoon 2 strategy guide on gamefaqs.com
http://www.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/game/919850.html

Let me know what you all think and let me know if any of the links are broken or need adjusting.

- Waterfalls

Everyone loves to make waterfalls. the tools in ZT2 make waterfalls very easy
to create. one thing to remember is that a waterfall can only be made
on a cliff that is paralell or at right angles to the zoo walls. sorry, you
can't make diagonal waterfalls.

Start off by creating a dry mountain complex of your waterfall vision using
the cliff, ditch and flattening tools.

http://img408.imageshack.us/my.php?image=waterfall1io5.jpg

once you have all the levels flattened
and planned out you can use fencing to lock in the cliff edges.
without the fencing you might inadvertantly affect the shape and size of your
mountain plan when you place the water since the water tool can overwrite
cliffs and hills.

http://img407.imageshack.us/my.php?image=waterfall2sb2.jpg

once your fencing is in place begin placing either shallow or deep water at each
level of your complex and ensure that there is water above and below the
areas you want a waterfall to be placed at. also make sure that the water
line is right up against the cliff edge. also make sure that you have enough
water above and below. you need at least 2-3 tiles width of water before
a water can be placed.

http://img249.imageshack.us/my.php?image=waterfall3xa1.jpg

now recycle the fence and paint the cliff edge with more water and a waterfall
should appear automatically so long as the cliff face is at the right angle.

http://img405.imageshack.us/my.php?image=waterfall4eo8.jpg
http://img245.imageshack.us/my.php?image=waterfall5iw1.jpg

You do not need to use fencing in order to create a waterfall, you just need
two levels of water and a right angle cliff and the waterfall will form. the
fencing is used to ensure that the waterfall vision you have will work out
the way you intended.