Closing the gap between reflective water and soil

[Ian Wells]

When making transition from reflective water to the land the V&S result shows a gap as seen below:

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I have added verts, moved them horizontally and moved them vertically but cannot improve the result
What am I doing wrong?
Thank you for your help
Ian

[pmgolf]

I assume the gap doesn't have a face you can select... that would be too easy.

Pete

[sagevanni]

Hi Ian,
In my experience you have to make sure the water verts are level......the same exact height. Also try not to have any verts close to the waterline below the water level. A little experimentation should make things look the way they should.

Highlight all the verts of water and flatten them.....................Then do your V&S and have another look.

Sage......

[braden1308]

could there be an extra set of verts in there from the extrusion?

[Ian Wells]

Gentlemen,
Thank you for the replies.

Sage was 100% correct in his diagnosis.

I did have all the water - and there is a lot of water at Victoria National - at the same level when I laid out the course, but I must have moved some of the many verts while I was adding the details.

Thank you all.
Ian

[sagevanni]

Hi Ian,

I did not mean to say ALL the water must be at the same level unless it is all connected in some way by let's say creeks and such. If you have separate bodies of water they can all be at different levels but you have more of a chance of anomalies that way. It's all in experimentation to see what works but being LEVEL is the main thing.

Sage............

[sagevanni]

Hi Ian,

Forgot to mention..........Glad everything worked out.

Sage.....

[Ian Wells]

Sage,
Most of the water on Victoria National is linked and therefore at the same elevation. There are a number of isolated lakes as well that have a different elevation.
Thanks again for your help.
Ian

[sagevanni]

Hi Glenn,
You EXACTLY right on that point. One has to be VERY careful with extrusions.....!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have had double verts sometimes and did not even know it till it was "to late". In that case I've had to go back a repair faces.

Sage.....

[Adelade]

Did it fix the issue though, Ian? While having reflective water being completely flattened indeed is important, I was under the impression that this particular reflection gap issue was an inherent flaw of Links' graphics and not among the issues that are caused by water not being flat, because I've seen a similar "gap" here and there on many, many different courses (I think it depends a lot on the exact viewing angle and the shape of the ground). I could be wrong though.