2012 Chevrolet Tahoe - New York State Police (ELS) V2.2-AC

Oh this is nice. BTW what is the difference between a 2012 tahoe and a 2007 one?

Oh word??? You've just made this New Yorker's day. I just passed a couple of these on my way home, lol.

Just played with it for a bit. I love it, finally a Tahoe with something other than a Liberty!

However, not to look a gift horse in the mouth, might I take a moment to list a couple things perhaps worth noting?

1. Although NYSP Tahoes DO exist with this particular rambar (Setina PB-100), most of them use what looks to be like a Go Rhino, or something similar. (As seen here) This might be something that varies troop to troop, but that's how it is by me and most of the lower NY region.

2. The lights in the rear window are actually supposed to be an orange traffic advisor, not a strip of red primaries.

3. This is just a suggestion - set the rear taillights as wig wags. The real Tahoes alternate as seen in this video.

Not trying to devalue your excellent work or anything, I'm just a bit of a nitpicker, especially when it comes to vehicles I'm familiar with. I dunno if you have any future plans to update this or not, but I figured I'd leave this here for reference.

Thanks for an awesome model man, this was the final piece missing from having a complete NYSP set, and you filled it in quite well!

Looks Great!

@CG Blaze The issue any modeler has when making models based off real vehicles is in real life most agencies use many different configurations that often times are similar but not the same. So when you look at photographs you see that NYSP Tahoe's come in basically 3 different configurations (2 were represented here). Lights will be very similar but will vary slightly I suspect model to model. These lights are based off a youtube video so they are accurate to a real NYSP Tahoe, but I know other Tahoe's are setup a little differently as seen in your link. You should be able to change any light colors you don't prefer by modifying the related texture.

Generally speaking, the author has to make some decisions on what configuration they want to depict and run with it. It's not really realistic for an author to depict every version (I know that's not exactly what you meant by your comment), but you may just see a K-9 version in the near future!

@Ridgerunner

Interesting. If you don't mind, could you maybe PM the video you went off of to me? I'm quite curious to see it as I've never seen a [marked] NYSP Tahoe with reds in the windshield. I'm not doubting you, you should see some of the stranger variants I've seen around here. I once saw an NYSP CVPI with the same setup as the typical slicktop, but with the addition of a standard issue Liberty on the roof, for example.

As far as lighting goes, I haven't looked through the .wtd yet, but are the lights mapped individually, as they were on Cj24's previous LCPD vehicles? That mapping setup is the smartest thing I've seen implemented on a model thus far.

K-9 version, eh? I'm intrigued! Though, admittedly, looking through BxBugs' catalog has made me kind of sick of K-9's, lol.

Of course, I respect the decisions that go into producing a model like this. By no means take this as an attack on the work you guys have put in.

Speaking of which, nice skins man! Love the detail in the reflective stripes.

I ought to see if I can't grab some pics/vids of the unmarked cars the NYSP has been putting into service around here recently, they've got some wild Xmas tree setups on 'em...

How do you change the color of the car to the blue? Mine always spawn grey.

@CG Blaze: As Ridgerunner said, it's based off another video (here), and there're no Taillight wigwags visible, through the rear lightbar color isn't visible that good, it looked like red for me.

@HotShot2587: Are you sure you installed the vehicle correctly? There shouldn't be any problems.

My only complaint is no TA, i work in Buffalo NY and all the ST Tahoe's have a TA in the back window.

@Cj24: Me and Ridgerunner have been talking about this via PM, and I'll tell you the same analysis of that video that I gave him...

"I can totally understand why you guys saw that as red. What you see in the video is a result of artifacts being created from the video compression used to upload it. If you stop it at certain frames, the orange color shows through, but at other frames, it appears red because of how the YouTube compressor interpreted and subsequently presented the data it was given. I'm sure if you looked at the raw footage the orange color would be much more apparent. How do I know this, you may ask? Well, coincidentally, I work as a camera guy/film and tv producer for a living (Hence the CG in my name)."

As EMT401022 noted, I can say with a fair amount of certainty that what you saw was just a bad video of the standard NYSP traffic advisor. Again, no big deal, but it is what it is.

I've edited the emissive textures contained in the .wtd to represent the TA in the back with orange lighting, as well as the emerglights texture for a clear lightbar/red and blue emissive setup. If you're cool with it, I'll go ahead and upload them to Mediafire or something for everyone. :)

Then I guess I'll have to update it with a Traffic Advisor and taillight wigwags ^^

It's no problem if you upload those textures, might help some people.

First version worked fine, this one gives me an RC20 ctd every time I try and load it (rambar version).

Awesome! This is absolutely PERFECT! Now I can officially rate it 5/5.

I just passed one of these about 10 minutes ago...

Here's the edited lighting setups for anyone that's interested. There's a clear lightbar class file as well as a red and blue emissive texture and a modified version of the original emissive texture with the red rear lights changed to orange.

None of this would be possible without Cj24's EXCELLENT els mapping. This should really become standard for new models...

http://www.mediafire.com/?jj23ayjcq5flvtk

awesome...the more variety the better to please everyone...never been a fan of the new york red and white

do you have the spotlight coordinates for this? the 2012 chp one doesnt work

I have a problem with this when I downloaded and installed it model is grey and it isnt dark blue. What shall I do?

This is amazing! I have been waiting for a NYSP Tahoe for a long time. Also, the independently mapped ELS is amazing! I wish all cars were like that!

nice !

I have a problem with this when I downloaded and installed it model is grey and it isnt dark blue. What shall I do?

it needs washed lol download the wash and fix script

wat button turns on the lights lol sorry im new to gta on pc. an cj ur cars r sick!

how are suppose to download this because its not working ......somebody help me

@Cj24 Whats ENB is this?

My favorite model to date. Almost exactly like a true NYSP Tahoe except the grill lights are mounted in the bottom grill and they mostly use setina pushbars for their tahoes. As seen in these videos below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yLtWjsD7OY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp25aAaEmGA

The "G" in the plate is actually for my local troop.

Hey cj! You're my favourite modder. Your work is amazing. The tahoe ia an another great model made by you. By the way, your lapd pack is the greatest pack i've ever seen.