With the new Europe pack, a lot of great assets have come out with it. The decals, the LED neon pieces, and most of the pieces being flexicolor is a gamechanger. This particular piece, the European Ceiling fan is nice and would have been my favorite. We don't have fans in the game, and it really would add some motion and dynamics to any scene... but... it doesn't spin. It's just a light source and is not animated. Was this an oversight or is it designed to not spin? Hopefully in a update the excellent art team can update this piece with animation.
Ceiling Fan
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I would really like to see it move
Animated, yes, but also a cooling effect would be nice.
I second this. Not a huge deal but it would be a nice touch. I can't imagine it's a particularly hard change to make.
Consider me a 'fan' of both ideas.
Are there any Construction Pieces with animations? I could be wrong but I don't think there are, which could potentially make spinning fans more work than you'd initially think because developers would have to edit the actual Construction Piece design (like, the whole abstract parent class that all Construction Pieces are children of, to use the programming lingo that I remember from my Java for Non-Majors classes from college) to allow for animation.
Creating an entirely new fan object that's a "Facility" would probably be better, since Facilities do allow for animations (e.g. the donations box), and that may also be more appropriate if it's to have a cooling effect, since Construction Pieces generally don't have such game advanced mechanics.
Creating an entirely new fan object that's a "Facility" would probably be better, since Facilities do allow for animations (e.g. the donations box), and that may also be more appropriate if it's to have a cooling effect, since Construction Pieces generally don't have such game advanced mechanics.
There are. There's the spinning water wheel and the mechanical kangaroo statue from the top of my head. Besides, editing abstract classes really isn't that much of a hassle anyway
We wouldn't be using the abstract way of working if it really was that hard to extend upon it 
So yeah, tbh, it was one of the few criticisms I had with the Europe pack. I hope we get an animated version one day; or even better, a toggle.
The fan inside the cooler for animals spins.
The water wheel spins?!There are. There's the spinning water wheel and the mechanical kangaroo statue from the top of my head. Besides, editing abstract classes really isn't that much of a hassle anyway
So yeah, tbh, it was one of the few criticisms I had with the Europe pack. I hope we get an animated version one day; or even better, a toggle.
I've never used either of those pieces lol. Ok, I stand refuted.Yeah, but that's not a Construction Piece, that's an Enrichment Item. But as @Iben pointed out, there are other examples of moving Construction Pieces.
I don't know but this certain quote made me laugh a bit too much. But then, i'm also a big 'fan' of the fan being both animated and cooling.
