I also found a way to seemlessly blend the ocean into the sky in HL and have it look really nice.
Please post an example map!
I would be very greatfull.
They're cheaper to render
Yeah right!
Just look at trapt's original compo entery. I tried making such a map(only worse) with brush trees and it didn't lag at all. I agree that model trees are nicer but they are dengerous, they can rize the Epoly count sky high!(about 50000 epolies in trapt's map)
I also had a problem with the model trees in trapt's entery, the blue parts weren't transperent!