Large Bodies of Water

[tedrock]

this is what happens when i border water with a skybox with water. when i'm up close it looks fine. they both have their own evn_light with the same settings. do i need a cubemap in both (3d skybox and play area)?

 

[apocguy]

I have an idea for the swimming barrier. You could a have a couple layers of trigger_push, ever 15 feet or so the push could become stronger. Players would think this push is some kind of current.

 

[Earl]

I'm probably wrong, but that almost looks like a fog mis-match.

But I think a more permanent solution would be to create a water texture for the skybox that behaves exactly the same as the world water. (Just has to handle being scaled by 16). It might be possible with .vmt editing, but worst case you have to write your own water shader.

 

[Narkissus]

i guess i never mentioned that actually inside of my map i do not have a fog entity at all, just the skybox has fog.