I realize that it might be too difficult to program the game to make player made ponds swimmable. Fair.
Since you can select the water type for a swimming pool, some that looks like pond water, and place pond effects and even some pond items on it, except for logs and make it fishable, can we get a pool trim that is just dirt, to make the edge of the pool look even more like a pond?
That idea of a dirt trim is a great suggestion. I place a pond around a pool to make it look like a swimmable pond. I use the move objects cheat to place a lot of foliage, things like water lilies and rocks around to disguise the edging. The best rocks and plants for this are found with the debug cheat IMO (bb.showhiddenobjects and bb.showliveeditobjects). But a dirt trim or a more rocky trim would be useful.
The sims can swim in those ponds you place from debug. Just place a diving platform near it (think you need to use MOO cheat) and they will dive into the pond and swim around and then teleport themselves out of the pond. Use the largest pond size for this. You can even put pond plants and effects on them and you can fish there too. I have such a pond in my game and it works beautifully.
For pools, would be nice to have one of those trims that look like brick, it's usually used for man made ponds, but a natural looking pond trim would be great too if they also make it match the colour of the neighboring terrain.
I wish we had more places a Sim can bathe since EbN, so few worlds/areas have outdoor places a Sim can bathe with Natural Living Skill
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