Please, Power Lines not through terrain ...

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• Kouji_San Sr. Hινε Uρкεερεг - EUPT Deputy The Netherlands Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16271Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue

  January 2016 edited January 2016

  Agreed, also I want to be able to place the power rods horizontal and upside down. You know to traverse into the depth of the mushroom kingdom...
  

  Mario approves
  

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• zetachron Germany Join Date: 2014-11-14 Member: 199655Members

  January 2016

  This game has a lot of clipping issues it seems:
  
  - fish swimming through a base
  - leviathans clipping through
  - energy lines ignoring terrain boundaries
  - water surface showing up inside base rooms
  - day/night cycle appearing at lava castle cave
  

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• coldsnap Join Date: 2015-12-26 Member: 210395Members

  January 2016

  Why not just ditch the idea of power lines and just pretend they sunk into the sand.

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• Mr_Rieper7 South Africa Join Date: 2015-11-16 Member: 209299Members

  January 2016

  I always thought of the 'power beam' as more of a HUD representation of the connection, just to show the links.
  For all we know they could be sending the power via "subspace channel" or somesuch sci-nonsense.

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• Sabier3 Dunedin Join Date: 2016-01-29 Member: 212265Members

  January 2016

  I think power lines should stay, but as said earlier not be able to clip through terrain and being able to build upside down posts.
  
  They should also be less bright.

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• Merivo United Kingdom Join Date: 2016-02-01 Member: 212466Members

  February 2016

  zetachron wrote: »

  This game has a lot of clipping issues it seems:
  
  - fish swimming through a base
  - leviathans clipping through
  - energy lines ignoring terrain boundaries
  - water surface showing up inside base rooms
  - day/night cycle appearing at lava castle cave

  
  The fish is just the AI being more forceful than the bounding boxes.
  
  Correct clipping is pretty hard to achieve. It's one of those things that game engines don't do very well for you. I was quite surprised with how well done the base flooding is.

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• rhys_elcins UK Join Date: 2016-01-26 Member: 212148Members

  February 2016

  I don't mind that they go through the terrain, I always thought it was wireless energy transfer (microwave pulses)
  what DOES bug me though is:

  • inability to place them inverted (upside down to slightly below horizontal)
  • no attenuation of power (even if only 2%)

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