can any one tell me how i can get water for a swiming pool and then make my char
swim under the water

this will sound cheap and corny, but this is what i did.

1. use a block, scale it wide and deep enough for your level. make it a map entity, and texture it with a water texture.
2. give it the default water action from the templates, you can play around with the wave action and stuff with the behavior after assigning it the action.
3. add cbabe to the level with the plbiped01 action, and watch her swim. you can dive with c and surface with the space button.

thats what i did. now you have to play around with the murkiness of the water with the fog, and add some caustic lighting with some codes around here, look in the aum and contributions.

as far as a water shader for the surface, i havent been able to get one working for my huge water level.

oh, by the way, this is for A6 templates, i have no idea how it's done with A7.

ok cheers ill try that
but what if i want to use the player walk fight action aswell?

is there any tutorials on makin water.
and to get it looking real.

ps i tryed what you said about making the water.
and it worked. but is there any tutorials on water.
what shows you many things you can do?
ie seting diffrent waters adding lights and shaders

i really want a real looking water effect or as close as.

If you have an older version of TrueSpace, or the current one, version 7.51, There is a website that has a plugin for generating waves, and ripples, which is useful for making wavy water, or cloth moving, like a flag. I've tried this plugin in Truespace 7.51, and it's called WaveGenerator 1.5. It works great!

Here's the link (it's a free demo):
http://www.kinneret.co.il/lgsoft/prod01.htm

By the way, TrueSpace 3 is free and you can get it here:
http://forms.caligari.com/forms/ts3all_free.html

- just fill out the form, follow the steps, and your serial number will be e-mailed to you. If you don't have DirectX, you can dowload it there too.

Here's another link with tons of TrueSpace plugins:
http://freecp.sourceforge.net/

And here's one with lots of shaders (including "fake caustics", and many others):
http://www.geocities.com/herbie_west/shaders.html

Hope this helps ya!