Is it possible to make a settings menu where we can adjust how much power the lights take? 100 Watts is just insane! All of my other lights take only 30. I have 5 geothermal generators pumping out 18,000 Watts, but my grid still keeps dying because of all of my power poles that I use to both light up my streets and connect all of my buildings to the power grid. Only the Floodlight takes this kind of power, and it lights up an area something like 6 times the size of the modern light.

Speaking of size, the wooden power poles use the same energy, but light up barely a quarter of the space. I wish the wooden ones lit up the same amount of space. I like how they look more, but they don't do anything to actually provide light on the paths or roads.

The best way, though far from a perfect solution, I've found to deal with it is smoothing the wall first.

@gloriousyuri The problem with the wall connector is that it keeps wanting to mine the rock wall instead of build on it. Maybe that's because of Replace Everything, but I've always had that problem with any modded over-wall thing, only the Ludeon wall lights/oxygen pumps don't have that problem.

I'm too stupid to figure out how to make a "pole" that works under the roof. But for caves, you can use the wall connector (top right one on the 5th image)

Would it be possible to make a "power column" (+ one with a light) that works under roofs so I can run wires through caves without having to run conduits along the ground?

This mod and the base mod are amazing, it is so nice not having to run conduits everywhere, and these are both functional and stylish! To answer the guy below me, the one with lights add 1, the normal ones are -1

does this add beauty?

thanks, you too

That was fast

now

UPDATE WHEN???????????????

funny that i found the lamp is 100% brightness,thats funny

@gloriousyuri I use version 1.4 of Rimworld due to some mods I love not being updated for use with 1.5. I think this mod is awesome and would love to play with it. Could you please allow this to be compatible with Rimworld v1.4? Thank you

any chance its possible to make them turn off in daylights?

1.4 pls!!!

Original mod (and this one most likely, havent tested yet) is TPS heavy and that is the fact. My guess that it has to do something with rendering wires. But its 100% grafic issue.

@GREED Weird, I never had any performance problems with it. Maybe the power poles mod is conflicting with another mod you have? I also heavily recommend downloading performance fish as well as using RimPy to optimise the textures if you haven't already. Can triple your performance.

Here are my reccomendations.
1: 1.4 variant: I really like the powerpole design, there is already a 1.4 version but it has boring looking powerlines.
2: More complexity: Make them have rarer, but more catastrophic shorts, which if they short they load the powergrid infinetly till repair or isolation and also cause all connected generators to break and catch fire.
3: proper asthetics: when its just a powerline, it connects only to the top insulators, when connecting to normal wires the insulators connect to the transformer.

The power poles mod is unfortunately not just a performance killer, it is a performance annihilator, This mod is beautiful but unfortunetely I'd rather save the performance until there is some kind of patch to fix whatever is slowing my game down so much. (I tested with the power poles mod on and off, it was 100% the power poles mode that is hurting performance so much, a solid 60% decrease in FPS and TPS when in 3x speed.)

:D

:3

@Benetrator - Beton
I wasn't even aware that the original was tps-heavy. all I did was swap some PNGs and tweak some values in the def XML

Is this as tps-heavy as the original?

Thank you!

@Rob Bobbert
Rebuild: Doors and Corners I believe

Great mod!
Also, where are those walls and windows in the fourth screenshot from?

HELL YEAH

Update: tried to make all the power poles a little bit taller, but I have to tweak the art a little bit to match the cable position

Legend. I tried to bodge one together but couldn't figure it out, glad someone competent had a crack at it.

nice mod!

insta sub

I love it! Can I gift you my soul?

Wow! Well done!!

yo this is actually really cool! the new textures look great, and the lamp versions are a really neat touch. great stuff

POWER POLE EXTEND!!!!!!!

in all seriousness tho, this looks perfect, u nailed it

i thought this was a mod about bodybuilding slavs