This all started because I wanted to set up a 3-pole in Sanctuary.

Only thing is: it seemed to take forever to persuade three baulky, rebellious slaves to stop what they were doing and attach themselves to the pole. And by the time I had them all there, it was getting dark.

Well, no problem, I thought. Let's set up some construction lights. I have a mod that makes the settlement version actually emit light rather glow feebly, so I'll use them.

Only problem is, my modded lights use the building power grid, and I wanted to set these up at street level. So I needed building if I was going to power these things, and there wasn't really one with enough room. Long story short, I ended up putting a new level over my commercial platform and running power lines up from the ground floor generator.

I may have gone overboard a little on the lighting...

Just a little.

You know I said it was falling dark when I started this project? Well by the time I was done, I'd worked right through the night and a full on rad-storm, to boot! So when I was finally ready to stop and admire my handiwork, suddenly the sun was up and all the neon was pretty much wasted. So I hit the sack for 12 hours or so, in order to get the screenshots I wanted.

Then, of course, I'm no sooner in position and ready to start, then I get an alert. Apparently those godless commies over at Sunshine Tidings Co-Op are under attack. Well, they'll just have to wait. If I fast travel now, they'll all travel with me and probably get killed.

Actually, that's the point of the sleeping bags in the background. I wanted to be able to assign them bags so they stay when I was off protecting the Commonwealth from cute little raider chicks, but even that's a hassle if you're in a hurry. And anyway I still hadn't got my shots.

The main problem with this setup is how to shoot it. I mean on the one hand, I absolutely want to show that lighting. The floodlights, the neon, the marquees, that's all there to maximise the humiliation of the girls on the pole. It's all there just to draw attention to them and their helplessness. But because there's so much of it, and it's all so expansive, by the time I've got it all in shot, the slavegirls end up dwarfed by it all. And the other major point of the exercise is ... Boobies! So I can't get too far away fro that either.

Different angle, doesn't help as much as I'd hoped. The floor is way too close to flesh tone for a decent contrast. I like the feeling of looking down on the them, and it draws attention to the neon at least. Then again, it also draws attention the shortcomings in the neon. I should really redo those last two lines. Also, I seem to have put IOT [1] rather than HOT. I don't know what I was thinking...

Also, this was the shot that made me realise that their feed were clipping through the floor. I mist see if I can do something about that.

Anyway,boobies.

I might try adding a couple more poles.Maybe a trader stall where the sleeping bags are, so we have someone around to take payment. Possibly a couple of couches to encourage my settlers to come and enjoy the show. Maybe experiment with some of Crazy's animation mats. I had some problems with them in the last release, but it might be fun to see some of the product being utilised in the intended manner...

I'll see how I get on.

[1] I suppose I could always claim "IOT" stood for "Internet of Twats". Of course, some people would argue we already have one of those...