bug with onwall Geiger counter

[Evgencheg]

Description

onwall Geiger counter doesnt work

Description

Reproduction

1. Have radiation near onwall Geiger counter and Geiger counter
2. Check rads

Expected behavior

1. Use onwall geiger counter and it have radiation near

Media

Additional context

Translation: 1 media - onwall Geiger counter, 0.0 rads 2 media - Geiger counter, 4.7 rads

[stellar-novas]

The wall itself might be blocking the radiation, try placing it on a window?

[Evgencheg]

The wall itself might be blocking the radiation, try placing it on a window?

maybe... letme check

[Evgencheg]

The wall itself might be blocking the radiation, try placing it on a window?

yeah, wall blocking

[VMSolidus]

Since the onwall Geiger counter works by measuring how much radiation damage it's receiving, if any surface is reducing radiation damage, (including the wall it's on), the onwall Geiger will show this reduced amount. Generally when I map these, I try to put the onwall Geigers on top of a surface that doesn't block significant amounts of radiation, such as non-plasma windows, and as close to the potential radiation source area as possible.

[stellar-novas]

Hmm. Could we move the detector to the edge of the tile so mappers could choose (by rotating/mirror flipping) if it should be measuring "rads in the chamber" or "rads in the observation area"?

[Evgencheg]

Hmm. Could we move the detector to the edge of the tile so mappers could choose (by rotating/mirror flipping) if it should be measuring "rads in the chamber" or "rads in the observation area"?

yea, good idea...

[dvir001]

We have code on Frontier to offset wall mount jukebox to offset so the music wont be coming from the wall itself, I think the same logic can be added here to offset the rad collector zone from it.