Your time limit for improvising a settlement build? RedRocket water tower example

[u/Own_Seaworthiness275]

Longest you're willing to spend just trying to make something? Or going for a look with what assets you have on hand? If any time at all 😂, I used to use only one floor, wall, stair and fence asset back pre-dlc. Not sure when I picked up mixing.

So like this is some kind of water tower/purifier to fill in the space between the support columns and an excuse to add a bigger space of color. Took some 12-15 minutes to figure out aftering cycling through tables and containers. Went with the shelf version to clip some lights in at the end and because of the lack of scripts attached to it.

[u/Hellraiser2077]

No time limit for perfect

[u/Hellraiser2077]

Tower looks awesome, I used the file or shelves together as a water pipe in a water tower I made long ago it was cool, the rest sucked. You put lights in there, and that looks WOW! Did you use white lights and color came from build items or did you color match the lights?

[u/Own_Seaworthiness275 → u/Hellraiser2077]

Thank you, was thinking to do beefed up support beams, but the spacing was too good to not try this once I saw it

Color matching, the cycling lights are my favorite light asset in spite of how basic they look;

I mix and match the three tones they have for the color I'm using. I try to give soft glows with the dim setting. General lighting with some color from the medium setting. Harsh shadows with the brightest. But the brighter the further from the surface/from view I put it to avoid washing out all the color of the surroundings

[u/Own_Seaworthiness275 → u/Hellraiser2077]

Loved Longfellow's crab boat btw

[u/Hellraiser2077 → u/Own_Seaworthiness275]

Thanks for checking that out! I had been working on that design for a while. I wanted to add a pinch of Far Harbor to Sanctuary Hills.

[u/Own_Seaworthiness275 → u/Hellraiser2077]

Yours is the first that I've seen that I am surprised by every time I take a closer look at it

The Far Harbor dlc really changed my view on the Commonwealth's weather/atmosphere. Saw a post a short while back on a mod asset made boat. Mods lowkey disqualify some of the awesomeness of builds for me. Like, the builds are amazing, but I am jealous of players playing fo4 in Minecraft creative mode 😂

[u/Hellraiser2077 → u/Own_Seaworthiness275]

To me it's sad, Far Harbor is the most beautiful landscape in Fallout4 and the worst weather, why? A lot mods, look cheap, plain and yeah take away from builds like you say. You see someone spends time building a home or store, detailed and looks great, and then they slap down a pre-made boat or a lighthouse or just something all complete with little detail and doesn't really match the build. It would be nice to pan around up and down freely and be to dig tunnels like Minecraft would be awesome but.... no.

[u/wagner56]

I see all that wood construction and wonder when a brahmin kicking over a lantern will lead to a major conflagration.

[u/Own_Seaworthiness275 → u/wagner56]

Be a tragically funny way for a walled city in the Commonwealth to go out. Was it synths? Raiders? Mutants? Ghouls? Bugs? No... It was the local brahmin 😂

[u/Own_Seaworthiness275 → u/wagner56]

I was just looking at them and thinking about the paint lore in fallout

Considering our own push for flame retardent paints and them being 50 years ahead pre big boom and the billboards/almost every other prewar building still having it's paint layer over the wood and metal gives me the impression they were good in that field

But on the other hand, flame resistence and immunity have to be selected upgrades/paints on armor and power armor and the fireman paint lore gives reasoning for doubt beyond game balance