The Pool - Compo 23

Quite nice. It has a lot of interesting details and very good lighting methods. I liked the circular pools with the little waterfalls. Music was also a very nice touch.
The HL2 textures look good, but the default water texture you chose is actually horrible...
Some tips.
*When making a waterfall, make the scale of the texture in the Y axis a bit higher, to give it a good distortion and sense of speed.
*When making a multiple-brushed waterfall, use alt+right-click to give each brush the same alignment values. In some parts of the mini-waterfalls, some segments had the water moving in a different direction!

yea the water looked more like blue slime make it much more transparent.

WHAT? you made a pool too? so did I! but, i canned the map, after got annoyed with its lighting

External download link is dead.

Erm.... it could be but it isn't for me, please try again as it seems fine now. Thanks

It worked this time. Very nice map.

- ok i played again and saw the scroll textures that are running the wrong way. For such a small map you should have noticed that. And in the bottom pool, the water is split in half which makes it appear to have a line going through it. It looks like you didnt finish the glass on your rails well maybe because of the error but you should have fixed it. In my opinion I hate pools that are the same depth all the way through and they are in yours. Also you could have rounded off the bottoms of them. And in my opinion you shouldnt have added such an annoying sound to the button that turns on the waterfalls. Like i sayed b4 as well, The waterfalls would look much better if much more transparent. And you should have given the beggining waterfalls a sound. Since the error in this map was that there were to many entities, maybe instead of making so many, you could have grouped them together.
+ Anyways, besides all that the map was pretty neat. The splashes coming from the waterfalls was a realy great touch. I realy liked the small waterfall coming from the spa. For a big pool area, i could say you pulled it off.

thanks for the feedback

The waterfalls at the beginning did have sound, strange that they didn't work for you though. The glass was also one of the issues I had with the max entity limit, and grouping them didn't seem to help. I agree about the swimming pool depth - i thought about that at one point but completely forgot to take it further.

If I have some spare time, I might work on this some more, and maybe try and show off some more of the HL2 textures.

Very nice job, this Water map looked great, I went around the map about 3 times looking at things woundering how you thought of them, but the HL2 textures made the map Much better, 5 Stars.