Can anyone explain why 2 of the exact same lights look different? It is extremely annoying...
Posted Sep 8, 2016, 1:24 PM UTC
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Delete the light and install another one.
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Um... Because one has power and the other is off...
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They are both powered.
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Look at the screenshot, the item is highlighted and the icon is lit.... It has power
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That doesn't change the fact that one is displaying without power. Rather it's a bug or not... That's why one looks different.
It's okay though. I know you are compelled to comment on every single thing I say.
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Both are powered, both are casting light, both are displaying as powered. All that is in the screenshot.
I know you are always quick with your replies that dont help anyone, but please stay quiet if you dont know what you are talking about. Thank you
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Dude... The OP asked why they look different. Commenter said one looks powered on the other doesn't. You're the only one being an ass.
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People are commenting its off, but in the screenshot you see it actually has power.
Those new lights are just a bit bugged, they cast light on the floor and such, but it looks like they arent powered on. Not to worry, this wil be fixed the next time the settlement loads. So go outside and back in, fast travel away and back, etc, and those 2 lights will look identical.
Some other lights seem to be perma bugged and it makes a difference at ehich settlements you use them (in some settlements, some lights give off way too few light). Kinda shocking that lights from vanilla never have functioned properly, and even new lights have the same problems.
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I've tried leaving and going back and it is the same. Even tried to save and quit out. Load back up and still the same. Moving them has no effect either. If you scrap the bright one and rebuild it will be dark like the other one. Makes no damned sense lol.
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Ive found that restarting the game/reloading saves etc indeed has no effect.
Ive decorated my vault 88 with those lights, so i know exactly what you mean. But if i fast travelled away to go fetch some new materials, they would always function normally on return.
Also, might just help to pick up and cancel any wall conduits it would get its power from. So just select the conduit, and then cancel the selection. I always do this after i placed a few items, to make sure that all new objects update properly to take the power from it. Sometimes objects will only take their power from nearby switches for example.
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Have you tried storing the light and putting it back?
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Yeah I had that problem in Vault 88 as well. They cast light but don't light up the bulb. I had many bugs with lights. I tried installing one of these lights in a transition area between the old pre-existing vault and the new build. It worked for a second then it clipped through the wall and afterward I could not select it. To make it worse it registers as a broken connection so my power for the vault always reads in red. Too late to load another save as I built and did too much afterwards. I wish there was a way to just get rid of it since it keeps my power from reading green.
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One is off, the other is on.
They are both powered and emitting light. This is why I showed it in workshop mode. It shows if it is powered or not when looking at them.
Try replacing the dimmer light. Sometimes lights don't like to work for some reason I have that problem with posters all the time.
I've tried just about anything you can think of. When I try to replace the dim ones, they just end up the same. Scrapping the bright one and rebuilding ended up with it dim. However, if I only stored it, it stayed bright. Just odd behavior lol.
Try rebuilding the entire circuit that might fix it, hopefully your light setup isn't too complicated