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ToHiForAFlyToHiForAFly Join Date: 2010-04-24 Member: 71516Members
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... Who the hell puts a light behind a fan?
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  • Banjo84Banjo84 Join Date: 2010-04-08 Member: 71205Members
    The Janitor, when he wants to check for dustbunnies. But then three skulkers came by, so he didn't have time to kill the lights.

    Quite obvious really, when you think about it :)
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  • Draco_2kDraco_2k Evil Genius Join Date: 2009-12-09 Member: 69546Members
    The Cool department, duh.
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  • SgtBarlowSgtBarlow Level Designer Join Date: 2003-11-13 Member: 22749Members, NS2 Developer
    Me, Well at least one but i think am gonna kill it.
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  • pSyk0mAnpSyk0mAn Nerdish by Nature Germany Join Date: 2003-08-07 Member: 19166Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Silver, NS2 Community Developer
    Those damn Janitors are so focused on putting lights in the most fanciest places that they leave loose cables, barrels and crates laying around all over the place.
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  • ToHiForAFlyToHiForAFly Join Date: 2010-04-24 Member: 71516Members
    Watch out or the Onos will vomit out the Janitors mop
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  • Chris0132Chris0132 Join Date: 2009-07-25 Member: 68262Members
    Same people who persist in making five foot wide air ducts strong enough to support 100+kg despite the fact that the forces of justice WILL use them to infiltrate your volcano doom base and feed you to your own piranhas.
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  • MendaspMendasp I touch maps in inappropriate places Valencia, Spain Join Date: 2002-07-05 Member: 884Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Gold, NS2 Map Tester, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Shadow, Retired Community Developer
    Lights behind fans are the new crates.
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  • Chris0132Chris0132 Join Date: 2009-07-25 Member: 68262Members
    You do of course realise that as soon as the game comes out I'll be loading up the cinematic editor and making lots and lots of steam jets and then putting them EVERYWHERE.

    Steam jets > fanlight > crates
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  • MendaspMendasp I touch maps in inappropriate places Valencia, Spain Join Date: 2002-07-05 Member: 884Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Gold, NS2 Map Tester, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Shadow, Retired Community Developer
    But we had that in NS1! It's not new like dynamic lighting!

    Just wait until we get atmospheric lights again, it'll be atmospheric lights behind rotating fans, just great!
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  • Chris0132Chris0132 Join Date: 2009-07-25 Member: 68262Members
    Yeah but NS2 has a proper particle effect set, not just an animated sprite.

    Which means LOTS of really BIG steam jets.
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  • The_Real_QuasarThe_Real_Quasar Has the I.Q. of 12,000 P.E. Teachers Join Date: 2002-11-26 Member: 9998Members
    I swear they wouldn't be half as popular if they hadn't shown fans-with-lights-behind-them (FWLBT) in the first engine video a while back.

    It made sense in the video, because the light behind them was actually sunlight... But I've seen quite a few maps where there's just a slot in the wall, with a fan and a light, no air vents or anything behind the fan. Which begs the question - what is the point of the fan? How can it move air around properly if all there is behind it is a concrete wall D:

    It does look cool, but it's going to be very quickly overused. A much better use for dynamic shadows would be something that moves very quickly, but not very often, with an outline similar to a skulk. That'd scare the crap out of me, to be sure.
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  • QuovatisQuovatis Team Inversion Join Date: 2010-01-26 Member: 70321Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue
    Yeah, I thought about that too. It does look very silly having a light behind the fan. If it opened to the outside light it would be much better.
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  • ToHiForAFlyToHiForAFly Join Date: 2010-04-24 Member: 71516Members
    Would be awesome if there was like a vent and at some point there is an opening with a light in it. so you see the shadow of every skulk moving through the vent.
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  • FortuneFortune Join Date: 2009-04-27 Member: 67290Members, Constellation
    Guys there has been lights behind fans since Alien, 31 years later and you still can't handle how awesome they are.
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  • monopolowamonopolowa Join Date: 2004-05-23 Member: 28839Members
    my computer has fans with lights...just think of it as a pimpin' space station mod :P
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  • RobBRobB ＴＵＢＥＳ ＯＦ ＴＨＥ ＩＮＴＥＲＷＥＢ Join Date: 2003-08-11 Member: 19423Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    <!--quoteo(post=1768605:date=Apr 24 2010, 10:20 PM:name=Fortune)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Fortune @ Apr 24 2010, 10:20 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1768605"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Guys there has been lights behind fans since Alien, 31 years later and you still can't handle how awesome they are.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    There's awesome, and there's mindboggingly epic.
    You have to understand that most of these frys don't know alien that long.
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  • juicejuice Join Date: 2003-01-28 Member: 12886Members, Constellation
    Your causal chain is backwards. You don't put lights behind fans, you put fans IN FRONT OF lights. Otherwise they overheat, see.
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  • SN.WolfSN.Wolf Join Date: 2010-03-29 Member: 71115Members
    "hmmm, summers coming and that drop light in the garage would look sweet behind that 20" box fan in the closet" add a red light bulb and wammo! My own alien-like spacestation living room!

    An yes, all my pc fans have blue lights....all 7 of them....lmao!
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  • ns_insiderns_insider Join Date: 2007-09-30 Member: 62484Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    light behind the fan, mybe you can destroy it? so the fan wont spin anymore and the lights are out :>
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  • Dank McShwaggerDank McShwagger Join Date: 2009-06-10 Member: 67784Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1768634:date=Apr 25 2010, 02:47 AM:name=juice)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (juice @ Apr 25 2010, 02:47 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1768634"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Your causal chain is backwards. You don't put lights behind fans, you put fans IN FRONT OF lights. Otherwise they overheat, see.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Well played sir...

    if u dont like lights behind fans or fans infront of lights then make your own map with fans infront of windows or windows behind fans... same effect with more logic behind it... err... infront of it?
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  • KarrdeKarrde Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16264Members
    Every sci-fi tv series and movie in the 1970s.
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  • JimydJimyd Join Date: 2003-02-08 Member: 13289Members
    edited April 2010
    So where is my atom self-transporter device? Who needs a phasegate when you can have a VCR Controller disguised as a 2003(lol remember when Sci-Fi movies that thought the years 2000-2015 we were going to have personaly robots and flying cars and stuff) future tech device right in my pocket?

    I want my personal robot as well; so where is my Weldbot Commander?
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  • Skyforger2Skyforger2 Join Date: 2007-10-19 Member: 62681Members
    I agree be more realistic mapers please
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  • KoloyKoloy Join Date: 2010-04-26 Member: 71535Members
    I put lights behind fans! Why? Because it looks cool. :D
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  • ViolenceViolence Join Date: 2004-10-10 Member: 32199Members
    Maybe it's a lit ventilation shaft behind the fan!?

    You know, so the janitor can see while he scrubs marine blood off the walls.
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  • Lemming JesusLemming Jesus Join Date: 2010-04-13 Member: 71385Members
    I've got no less than five fan lights in my level. Fans have been scientifically proven by a panel of map designers that they are what makes a level cool. A map without a fan is a map I don't want to play on.
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  • ToHiForAFlyToHiForAFly Join Date: 2010-04-24 Member: 71516Members
    Maybe it is for safety, like DONT STICK YOUR HAND IN THE SHAFT
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  • Matt ReganMatt Regan Join Date: 2008-03-23 Member: 63946Members, Retired Developer, NS2 Developer
    Fans + Backlights = Future wooden crate.
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  • ToHiForAFlyToHiForAFly Join Date: 2010-04-24 Member: 71516Members
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  • JAmazonJAmazon Join Date: 2009-02-21 Member: 66503Members
    I don't think that anything can rival the awesome that is the inexplicable ubiquitous crate. We shall see though...
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