indycurt Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 I've been trying to find a solution to a weird lighting problem I'm having. I've searched the Internet and have found a lot of "lighting" issues, but nothing like mine. I'm building a brand new settlement in Sanctuary. I have placed street lamps (both oil and bulb). They work fine until I fast travel somewhere and come back. When I do this, all lamps are off. I have to go into workshop mode and select them to make them come back on. It is now happening with porch lights. All of them operate on "ambient" power, so the don't need to be hooked up to anything. I've search mods to see if it is a bug that has been fixed by a mod, but I'm not seeing anything that fixes this particular issue. Can someone give me an idea what this is? Much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissingMeshTV Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 Hey indycurt- By any chance are the lights that have been giving you problems from Homemaker? I ask only because the ambient power streetlights from Homemaker I've been using for nearly a year in my level 142 game have started to act wonky a couple of months ago, in some cases similar to what you've described. They also started to have a tendency to throw off a hideous, oversaturated yellow light when I would fast travel into a settlement. I never did track down a cause, just replaced them with the streetlights from Wasteland Workshop and the problems have gone away. Of course, now I have power lines all over the place. The lights being off when you fast travel into a settlement is a bug I still encounter with vanilla spotlights as well. You could try using the same lights in another settlement, preferably one where you haven't built yet, to see if you can replicate it there. If not, then you'll know it's something to do with Sanctuary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indycurt Posted March 20, 2017 Author Share Posted March 20, 2017 Hey There! The ones I'm using are the ones that are supposed to be "oil lamps". They don't even require power. I also noticed that spotlights I'm using from the SOE pack eventually go wildly bright to the point that the "whiteness" bleeds out everything their radius touches. It's my understanding from searching the net that it is a vanilla bug that only affects certain settlements, and Sanctuary seems to be one of those. Really frustrating. This is the first "bug" I've researched that I've come up with now difinitive answer or fix for. I appreciate your response! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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