I've experimented with swimmable ponds, with varying degrees of success. But, does anyone know of a wall paint (or wallpaper/mural) that could be applied to an actual swimming pool wall that, when viewed through the blue pool water, would look more like a naturally occurring swimmin' hole? I guess something suitable for the floor would be good, too, although that seems to be easier to color nicely, for some reason. I know there are animated fish, and I can plant cattails and whatnot around the edge and cover the water with lily pads, etc. But there's just something about that water color. I'm assuming there's probably a way to change the color of the water itself, (without using overlays) but I can't recall seeing one specifically. Don't get me wrong - I love the overlays, for some situations. I just have a hard time getting them to meet correctly without overlapping or leaving gaps, for larger pools... a nice wall/floor combo would be a much simpler, more elegant solution, I feel.

maybe this mud wall covering
https://www.thesimsresource.com/dow...wall/id/417081/

Looks promising; you can never really tell, though, with pools, how it's going to look underneath the blue water. I'll give it a shot; thanks!

Maybe colored pool lights in addition to walls and floors? I've made some, they come in the colors of the NL neons. If you combine colors they do merge, like red and blue do give off purple.

I think seasons added some dirt/grass floors right? Some other more mm styles of flooring.

https://modthesims.info/d/302204/ma...e-flooring.html
https://modthesims.info/download.php?t=603202

I tried various things... the problem, as I see it, is the pool water itself... the Maxis folks went a little overboard in their water-tinting efforts. IRL, water is clear. From the air, water bodies reflect the blue sky... or the gray sky, if it's cloudy. Unmodded Sims pool water doesn't even do that. As a kid I enjoyed looking through my grandpa's camera lens filters, but I noticed that mixing light doesn't necessarily work the same way as, say, mixing paint... and I think that's sort of the issue here: the ultramarine filter of the Maxis water messes everything up. As you can see in the screenshot, things which look like they might work pretty well on the surface - like garden-soil tiles - are mostly turned a funny shade of purple under the water... except for the green wall paint (at right), which just becomes darker blue [shrug].

CycloneSue's brown clay wallpaper (arrow) suffers the same fate. In an empty pool, it'd be great, and I'll probably use it somewhere as regular wall paint. But that blue water... I thought that maybe a dark orange would counteract the blue (makes sense on a color wheel), so I tried the orange-ish ripple pattern Maxis cement for the floor, which became... is that puce? I dunno, I'll probably just end up going with the green and brown overlays - which also have a nice opacity, like muddy pond water - and hide the seams with deco plants and whatnot.

BTW - HL, in my modern hoods I definitely do use your neon pool lights, which are way better than the standard ones. Here though, I'm trying to make a swimming pool that doesn't look like one, for historic purposes. The swimmable ponds work okay, but once in a while the animations get weird, and for a community lot with potentially a whole bunch of swimmers, I was hoping to cut down on weirdness as much as possible.