Swimming Pool

Hello good people.

I'm sure this has been asked before, but a search doesn't yield any useful result.

I've been trying to build a swimming pool, but all I can do is make a very high one, which isn't too realistic. If I dig land away to make room for the pool, the land fills with sim water, which I don't want.

How do other swimming pool builders do that? And even more trickily, how do they build their pools so buyers can use the pool without having to dig a hole?

Thanks in advance,

Xylo

Raise all the land so that the bottom of the hole is above the water line. That's it.

Yes - sounds logical. But not overly elegant...Especially not when one sells the pool, for instance to new residents.
However, if that's the only solution, then that's how I'll do it.
Thank you once again, Chosen.

Xylo

I ran into the same issue, and the pool I sell is designed to be above land for that reason. I do have one customer who managed to "sink" it on his land, but that took a lot of terraforming. Probably more than more customers want to do. My pool comes with a sloped deck for easy (and low prim) access. Or you can make stairs but that's more prims.

OK Sue, thanks.

Xylo

I've installed a number of different pools, and have built several from scratch myself. The largest is a high-mountain lake, over 50 M in diameter... O^o!

If you are on low-lying ground, like a 21M elevation 'Pancake Island', you'll have to put up with Linden Water in your pool. No avoiding that, period. What I did in one instance like that was to terraform my hole and position the pool so my scripted water was just a few milimeters above the Linden water plane, The result was it still looked like "pool water", albeit a bit darker, and it worked just fine.

Above 25 M or so elevatiion you can usually terraform a pool-depth hole without hitting Linden water, which in most sims is at the 20 M elevation.

An in-ground pool will require terraforming to dig the hole - no getting around that one, either.

For above-ground pools, design them just like in the Real World - with a ladder or steps on the side or a set of steps and a nice deck surrounding or on one side of it.