Electrical wires, can I make them go trough walls and ceilings

[Jmthebigman]

I wanna build a few lamps in my house.

Other options?

Tips?

Thanks in advance.

[jf3000]

Yes they go through walls etc. But careful going through the floor you may lose them which is fun trying to find the end of them.

[Ken Uaena]

you can or if you want it to be more pretty, put the cable outside with the electric outlet close to your wall (outside, near the area that you plan to place the lamp). Once you put the lamp inside, the electric outlet will automatically link to that lamp (through wall)

[Jmthebigman]

Originally posted by Nguyen Ken:

you can or if you want it to be more pretty, put the cable outside with the electric outlet close to your wall (outside, near the area that you plan to place the lamp). Once you put the lamp inside, the electric outlet will automatically link to that lamp (through wall)

oww thats a nice tip.
the generator is in the building next door so maybe placing an outlet there would do the trick.
how large is the area (in wood foundation squares)?

[Tearl]

Go vertical, then run your conduit overhead:)
Also, the lamps are really horrible for indoor lighting. They are very directional and very bright. But they can light up a large outside area quite nicely.
I can't wait for them to add an indoor light that casts like a torch (Omni-directional)

[Uzi [OTG]]

no need to put the electric lights inside a building as the game
treats the walls and cielings as transparent objects to the light
emitted by the electric lights.
Something I hope they fix and change as I find it annoying as hell.

So in meantime just place lamps outside the building, there is
plenty of light that will leak in to make indoors bright as sunlight.
Especially if your lamps are pointed at your building.

Orienting the lamps can be a real pain in butt unless you can cheat and use
the console FLY command. Which I do offline until they do it right and give us
a orientation tool for objects

OH, and if you want the remote to work right, you HAVE to place it on the grid
before you place any lamps on the grid that you wish to control.

Else it is a buggy POS that is useless.

[Jmthebigman]

Originally posted by Uzi OTG:

no need to put the electric lights inside a building as the game
treats the walls and cielings as transparent objects to the light
emitted by the electric lights.
Something I hope they fix and change as I find it annoying as hell.

So in meantime just place lamps outside the building, there is
plenty of light that will leak in to make indoors bright as sunlight.
Especially if your lamps are pointed at your building.

Orienting the lamps can be a real pain in butt unless you can cheat and use
the console FLY command. Which I do offline until they do it right and give us
a orientation tool for objects

OH, and if you want the remote to work right, you HAVE to place it on the grid
before you place any lamps on the grid that you wish to control.

Else it is a buggy POS that is useless.

remote???
yeah i havent really played around with electricity yet and havent found any guides yet thats why i made this thread.