Creating waves

Wow i've been busy asking questions today.

Has anyone tried creating wave effects in Source?

I remember in HL 1 they had some easy way of making water wave effect. Havent seen any examples in HL2 yet though/

Water in a level should be used sparingly in HL2 (its still buggy, and it takes a lot of the budget) shallow water is fine (like in de_aztec), but with waves im assuming it will be deep enough to swim in (which is a big nono)

As for the actual waves as far as I know it doesnt exist, water is tricky in HL2, it cant move the way it could before in HL1, so I dont think its possible.

Sadly with my map, i need lots of water. But ive tried to be clever, by dividing all the water up into sections using nodraw textures. For the HUGE amount of water i have on the map. Havent had any major problems so far and the frame rate is still a constant 200+

We are speaking fo CSS right? I dont know the effects of water in CSS
because I dont play it, but ih HL2 DM if you die in the water then a
glitch occurs where you cant sprint until you go back into the water
and then leave it. So if its CSS the you should be fine (suppose).

you can use plenty of water, as long as its not the expensive type.

On the topic of waves, look into func_water_analog and the "moving plane water textures". i think you can get some sort of wave out of that, but im really not sure.