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Building a huge animated billboard is one of the most tedious but fascinating tasks a player can undertake in a "Fallout 4" settlement.
According to Imgur, Redditor/u/Rfarmer has made a revolution with their guide to big, immersion breaking billboards. Here are tips on how to create a big animated billboard.
Step 1
Start by creating an 18 by 8 grid of Light boxes. Each light box needs one power, which is frustrating but eventually you can go through it. Therefore, a gamer requires approximately 50 powers, implying that he or she needs five large generators.
Step 2
On top of the billboard, put as many generators as possible. A player can combine the power sources together to form a single big power bank, although caution has to be taken not to wire everything anyhow.
Step 3
Gamers should plan the animation needed in three parts: the parts to be always on, those to be on only during the first frame, and the parts to be only on during the second frame.
Step 4
The parts that are always on can be powered using a single source. In such a case, the generator bank will connect to a terminal, which will in turn link to lightboxes that will be on always.
Step 5
The fifth step is the most difficult since it involves setting up the parts that turn on and off with each frame. For the first frame, create a new generator bank, link it to a different terminal, then link to the time interval switches before connecting to the light boxes that will be on for that specific frame.
The second frame requires the same process as the first except for the boxes that will remain on for the second frame.
Evidently, all three types of light boxes will have their own power sources. Therefore, a gamer should set the interval time to "On" for 1s and "Off" for 1s for each of the two frames.
Since there is no way of telling the lights "turn on when the other lights turn off," a player should cut the power on one frame before reattaching it and checking the animation. In case the animation is off, cut the power and reattach again to see if the animation looks right. Rinse and repeat the process.
The clip below gives an illustration of what should be done in the entire process.
