To combine the rivers, select them all, and set their path and fill to "None", then group them together. Here I am editing the pattern nodes to make this segment more narrow: The nice thing about pattern along path is that the original path (the river) can still be edited, and the pattern will just follow.ĭraw a tributary (again with the pencil tool, then simplify and smooth nodes), keeping the direction in mind again. You can click on the Node Edit tool in the path effect dialog, and you will be able to change the pattern dynamically, seeing how it looks on the path: Click the clipboard icon to paste the pattern we had copied back in the first step on to the path. From the "Apply new Effect" dropdown, pick "Pattern along Path" then click "Add". With the river curve selected, open the Path Effects dialog (path->path effects). here you can see the curce I drew with smooth node handles: I then use the edit path by modes tool, select all the nodes (ctrl-a), and click the "make selected nodes smooth". I use the pencil tool, then simplify the shape using ctrl-l (path->simplify). Start at the origin of the river and end at the mouth!. select this and hit ctrl-c (or edit->copy): My lines here aren't straight, they have a slight curve on them.
The width a the right-hand size will be the width of the river mouth. Start by drawing a long, horizontal taper. I'm not sure what version I have (I always use the nightly windows unstable builds) but this require Live Path Extensions which are available in the last stable release.Īlternately, you could use the Path along path extension to get a similar effect, but not editable.
Here is a real quick way to make nice, tapering rivers in Inkscape.
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