A Deep Dive into CS2's Pool Day

After more than 20 years, Pool Day has been remastered for Source 2 🏊
Join me as I dive deep into the beauty and inner workings of this remarkable CS2 map!

0:00 Workshop Maps
0:45 History
1:25 Models
2:22 Fast Texturing Tool
3:04 Meshes
3:32 Normals
4:14 Diving Board
5:10 Slides
6:00 Pool Floaties
6:55 Tiles
8:28 Roof
8:51 Pool
9:44 Reflections
10:16 Easter Egg
11:22 Outro

Special thanks to:
• leplubodeslapin for sharing fy_pool_day's assets with me for the purpose of creating this video

#cs2 #counterstrike2

[vectormanforever]

I didn't know source 2 could do all this. Holy shit that quite a huge step up from the hammer I used to use like a decade ago.

[herotroll]

S2's Hammer is honestly more of a modelling software than a traditional level editor.

[r.g.thesecond]

Hammer2 is Blender now?
I'm happy that Source2 is making the line between objects and map geometry ever more blurry, but for me personally it is yet another 3D tool I have to learn (Gladly, mostly)

[GilliganTF]

I dunno why but seeing a remake of one of my all time favourite maps in CS 1.6 inside CS 2 is just beautiful i remember playing with my friends at school on our free time, saying "counter?" And everyone booting their laptops just to play pools

A total dream

[demogaming]

Damn creating props straight from Hammer? This feature is so incredibly useful, I wish Source 1 had something like this. Even with propper the geometry can't be too complicated and it has to be on the grid. Cylinders, or any other complicated shapes are out of the question

[uprank]

S2 Hammer actually feels alot more like an actual game engine editor akin to the likes of unity and unreal VS just being a map editor. Glad to see how much control valve is giving us!

[ItzaLukkeri]

You do have to wonder why some Source 2 features were removed from CS2. The part about the water slide just made me wish tile meshes were in this game, and also weird how parallax textures don't work considering bullet holes are parallax mapped and I think so are some of the windows on Italy.

[puxrb]

This map maker did a great job of using/showcasing a lot of source 2's features. I'm really impressed with the knowledge on display here.

[ginger]

"this is LED switching off" is such a cool way to end the video i subscribed instantly

[TheScaryBox]

Wow, those grates kinda blew my mind. Whether anyone classifies any of this as simple or not it is all remarkable how far the tech has come.

[kobrutalityplays]

i didnt think i would scream WHAT YOU CAN DO THAT NOW???? at 2am to a fucking source video but my god valve this editor

[Pigness]

I remember playing pool day on a minecraft gun server way back in the day, should show how much community impact this map has

[Calibree]

i did not know S2 hammer can do all of this. this is such a big big step up

[leplubodeslapin]

Thank you very much for this awesome video, I really hope it gives motivation for people to maybe start toying with Source 2, and I wish someday we get a Team Fortress 2 on Source 2 in a way (by valve of S&Box) so that the map making communities would be able to move onto S2 !

[Goomey]

Damn this is pretty impressive. I'm currently working on making cs2's first hns server whilst my friend is porting maps. The porting is such a struggle since you basically end up manually rebuilding a solid chunk of the map and even then there's some functionality that flat out doesn't exist in cs2. Resulting in some very jank, sometimes very genius, fixes

[EllipsesDots]

fy_pool_day and fy_iceworld were some of my fondest gaming memories as a kid on 1.6

[GeneralZimmer]

I fucking love this tribute. This makes me quite happy and real excited for playing it again. It was one of my favourite maps in cs 1.6 and even tho I didn't like the look of it in csgo, I still played it a fair bit before the whole esport thing, matchmaking, and skins.

[KalkuehlGaming]

Being able to teleport relative to position and momentum is wild.
There are so many possibilities to have fun with this.

[otwlohs]

I fucking love source 2, it isnt obnoxiously realistic like UE. It has that sweetspot on subtle realism that isn't overly demanding which I just love so much

[wolf]

Damn. Source 2 is amazing, and this is an amazing map!