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The CONTENTWATER tool texture removes collision from a brush and mirrors the brush faces inside out. It also marks the contents of a brush as water, allowing you to swim in it, but only if it's a world brush.
Mirrored faces on a func_illusionary textured with CONTENTWATERMirrored faces on a func_illusionary textured with CONTENTWATER
Click here to check out an example map using CONTENTWATER by Windawz.

Useful Applications

Volumetric Lighting

Volumetric lighting can be textured with CONTENTWATER in order to make it look more realistic.
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Conflicting Entities and Textures

CONTENTWATER can't be used on entities that don't produce a brush model, such as func_detail or func_group. It also conflicts with the following tool textures, resulting in a mixed face contents error: The HINT and SOLIDHINT tool textures cause no errors, but they shouldn't be used with CONTENTWATER.

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