XScanner v3.23.44.3460

Hello again, would it be possible to have an option to attach 3D audio to actual peds? Moreover, having streams from sites like Broadcastify (real-time dispatch feeds)  being piped into the game instead of just playing mp3 files would be awesome— imagine having one of those feeds attached to Player/cops in-game! Endless content. LAPD - South Bureau Live Audio Feed (broadcastify.com)

Edited October 16, 20232 yr by Wolfx101

Cool to see this updated but I've stopped using the plugin and now use Broadcastify to listen to live LAPD feeds instead, would be cool if the plugin could play those instead of looping the same audio files.

8 minutes ago, MythicalMonkey said:

Cool to see this updated but I've stopped using the plugin and now use Broadcastify to listen to live LAPD feeds instead, would be cool if the plugin could play those instead of looping the same audio files.

It can but the 3D engine isn't designed for live feeds atm.

6 hours ago, khorio said:

As it says in the known issues on the main page, that functionality is broken in the current live version, will update tonight .

 

Actually it's a different issue. Will check.

Thanks for the quick fix. 🙂 Works great now. Glad you're back on the dev scene. 😄

I really like the background chatter part of the plugin. The dispatch lady talks way too often now during callouts, though. Especially during pursuits, she talks non-stop, saying "target heading..." back to back. Also repeats starting phrases like "be advised" or "all units" two to three times before actually completing the sentence.

Dispatch also expresses my code sign (1-Mary-3) as "One Mary Thirty" and "Ten Mary Thirty" after installing this.

Is one of my other plugins messing with dispatch, or is there a setting I can change where she talks less?

If I had to guess it might be incompatible with this, though I'm not sure yet.

50 minutes ago, beryllinthranox said:

I really like the background chatter part of the plugin. The dispatch lady talks way too often now during callouts, though. Especially during pursuits, she talks non-stop, saying "target heading..." back to back. Also repeats starting phrases like "be advised" or "all units" two to three times before actually completing the sentence.

Dispatch also expresses my code sign (1-Mary-3) as "One Mary Thirty" and "Ten Mary Thirty" after installing this.

 

Is one of my other plugins messing with dispatch, or is there a setting I can change where she talks less?

 

If I had to guess it might be incompatible with this, though I'm not sure yet.

 

XScanner does nothing of the sort on its own, so it's another plugin calling something odd. I will have a look. If it gets too annoying you can just disable the relay for now in the ini.

I have a feeling quite a few plugins are used to hammering the base LSPDFR scanner engine because it does not support queueing so it dismisses everything else as long as its playing, XScanner queue's up all requests it receives and plays them in order.
Wll need to investigate.

Edited October 16, 20232 yr by khorio

Is this still play radio chatter in vehicle like before? I'm sure this plugin is enable and running, I can set volume ingame, but when I stay in my police car and I cannot hear any radio chatter just like before, idk why

Edited October 16, 20232 yr by Gary Connor

25 minutes ago, Gary Connor said:

Is this still play radio chatter in vehicle like before? I'm sure this plugin is enable and running, I can set volume ingame, but when I stay in my police car and I cannot hear any radio chatter just like before, idk why

same issue here. I have updated to latest update and now i have the issue

37 minutes ago, khorio said:

XScanner does nothing of the sort on its own, so it's another plugin calling something odd. I will have a look. If it gets too annoying you can just disable the relay for now in the ini.

 

I have a feeling quite a few plugins are used to hammering the base LSPDFR scanner engine because it does not support queueing so it dismisses everything else as long as its playing, XScanner queue's up all requests it receives and plays them in order.
Wll need to investigate.

Thank you for looking into it. I went ahead and disabled the relay and found an issue with all lspdfr audio now being forced to a low volume. Probably the 0.19 default volume from XScanner. Without the relay, it doesn't seem to grab the volume from the .ini file anymore.

Disabling the relay does fix the issue during pursuits with Radio Realism FR and clogged up audio files. I believe the main issue was that XScanner uses location details that are at least twice as long, since they include "south of (nearby location)", which the base LSPDFR doesn't use. So while dispatch is naming the precise location, other audio logs start queueing up.

36 minutes ago, beryllinthranox said:

Thank you for looking into it. I went ahead and disabled the relay and found an issue with all lspdfr audio now being forced to a low volume. Probably the 0.19 default volume from XScanner. Without the relay, it doesn't seem to grab the volume from the .ini file anymore.

 

Disabling the relay does fix the issue during pursuits with Radio Realism FR and clogged up audio files. I believe the main issue was that XScanner uses location details that are at least twice as long, since they include "south of (nearby location)", which the base LSPDFR doesn't use. So while dispatch is naming the precise location, other audio logs start queueing up.

XScanner's volume should not affect anything outside of what XScanner plays.

I actually did include a spamcontrol because I was worried this sort of thing would happen but I never got round to implementing it, will update after I do some more testing.

22 minutes ago, khorio said:

XScanner's volume should not affect anything outside of what XScanner plays.

I actually did include a spamcontrol because I was worried this sort of thing would happen but I never got round to implementing it, will update after I do some more testing.

If I gave you my intro and outro sounds I created and been using for years in Moreradio mod, could you convert them to the file type you are using here so I can use those? I really like this mod!

10 minutes ago, Dippa said:

If I gave you my intro and outro sounds I created and been using for years in Moreradio mod, could you convert them to the file type you are using here so I can use those? I really like this mod!

You can just name them differently and change the intro and outro sound name in the ini. it looks for any matching wav/ogg/mp3 file in 
Plugins/LSPDFR/XScanner/Audio

and

LSPDFR/Audio/Scanner

57 minutes ago, khorio said:

You can just name them differently and change the intro and outro sound name in the ini. it looks for any matching wav/ogg/mp3 file in 
Plugins/LSPDFR/XScanner/Audio

and

LSPDFR/Audio/Scanner

Is there a certain folder within the audio folders I need to put them in? Reason being I don't see any files you had in any of the folders that say "Intro" or "outro". 😎

Edited October 16, 20232 yr by Dippa

56 minutes ago, Dippa said:

Is there a certain folder within the audio folders I need to put them in? Reason being I don't see any files you had in any of the folders that say "Intro" or "outro". 😎

it can be in any folder, XScanner does not really care which subfolder anything is in, its only there to keep it a tad organised.

11 hours ago, DooVan said:

same issue here. I have updated to latest update and now i have the issue

Yeah, at first I was tried to wait more time in the car, i thought it need maybe 1-2 min to load sounds or some kinda problem, but after nearly half an hour I can only hear callouts radio

21 minutes ago, Gary Connor said:

Yeah, at first I was tried to wait more time in the car, i thought it need maybe 1-2 min to load sounds or some kinda problem, but after nearly half an hour I can only hear callouts radio

It's a known issue, has been fixed in the last version which is now in testing. Will probably release it tonight 

9 minutes ago, khorio said:

It's a known issue, has been fixed in the last version which is now in testing. Will probably release it tonight 

Thx for the fix ;)

@beryllinthranox Hey, yeah XScanner seems to add intros to blocks of scanner chatter (“Attention all available units”, etc.) and will stitch the various audio lines with new radio cracks and so forth, as well as cancel out intended pauses with certain plugins— like AmbientAiCallouts for example, in my experience. Personally find it really cool actually as makes it all sound more organic but I see how it can be problematic at times. As for the pursuit updates, maybe you should increase (not ideal, I know) the intervals for the time being and see how that plays out. Could just build in functionality for XScanner to handle pursuits entirely and go all out with suspect descriptions too, then again I wouldn’t want people’s toes being stepped on— a collab maybe? Hopefully with regards to the volume control matter, it’ll be set as a independent option—irrespective of whether relay is on or not—as I’d love for it to still work with default LSPDFR. Don’t really see how it’s doing that for you though. Perhaps another option to toggle extra scanner (with it’s various parts not just a global on or off) stuff would be a good idea, but keep volume tweaks… default scanner is like x2 louder than the actual game; absolutely maddening.

Edited October 17, 20232 yr by Wolfx101

57 minutes ago, Wolfx101 said:

@beryllinthranox Hey, yeah XScanner seems to add intros to blocks of scanner chatter (“Attention all available units”, etc.) and will stitch the various audio lines with new radio cracks and so forth, as well as cancel out intended pauses with certain plugins— like AmbientAiCallouts for example, in my experience. Personally find it really cool actually as makes it all sound more organic but I see how it can be problematic at times. As for the pursuit updates, maybe you should increase (not ideal, I know) the intervals for the time being and see how that plays out. Could just build in functionality for XScanner to handle pursuits entirely and go all out with suspect descriptions too, then again I wouldn’t want people’s toes being stepped on— a collab maybe? Hopefully with regards to the volume control matter, it’ll be set as a independent option—irrespective of whether relay is on or not—as I’d love for it to still work with default LSPDFR. Don’t really see how it’s doing that for you though. Perhaps another option to toggle extra scanner (with it’s various parts not just a global on or off) stuff would be a good idea, but keep volume tweaks… default scanner is like x2 louder than the actual game; absolutely maddening.

 

Funnily enough XScanner pursuit updates is already a finished plugin and is in testing phase right now, it adds 7000 audio lines for over 50 triggers during pursuits so it is coming.

Outside of that XScanner does not insert anything other than what is being passed, although it might interpret it slightly different than what the lspdfr engine does.

XScanner also supports intended pauses if they are being passed along. Although the issue might be that certain plugins wait for LSPDFRs audio engine to be inactive which is now always true with the hook enabled. The update that is being tested right now hooks that function to pass if XScanners audio engine is busy playing or not so that will restore this functionality.

Feel free to let me know any plugins that cause you issues with the audio and I will look into it.

Edited October 17, 20232 yr by khorio

32 minutes ago, khorio said:

Funnily enough XScanner pursuit updates is already a finished plugin and is in testing phase right now, it adds 7000 audio lines for over 50 triggers during pursuits so it is coming.

Outside of that XScanner does not insert anything other than what is being passed, although it might interpret it slightly different than what the lspdfr engine does.

 

Feel free to let me know any plugins that cause you issues with the audio and I will look into it.

Let me test, let me test it, let me test it lol (happen to have some free-time). It definitely does add as far as AmbientAiCallouts—not really callouts per say so likely being treated as such— is concerned (I initially thought the intro was you tracking what area the Player is in as times she’ll say central units/downtown, etc.) and I have a separate issue with a status plugin were some lines like “10-11” ends up being cut off by a preceding line so you get “10-4, 11”, for example. 

Edited October 17, 20232 yr by Wolfx101

The issue that caused cut off lines was a problem with the audio file search which has also been fixed. It got confused with single digit files like 1/11 so that was most likely why.

You can hear XScanner Pursuit Updates in these videos (along with Most Wanted and Automatic Roadblocks 2 that are both in testing phase as well)

Edited October 17, 20232 yr by khorio

I installed XScanner and I turned the volume up all the way in-game and I still couldn’t hear anything. It was dead silent. 

So can you explain to me a bit more exactly what this plugin does? Does it add more realistic radio chatter to the game? I’m sorry. I’m just trying to understand exactly what this plugin does before I try it out. Thank you in advance.

10 minutes ago, CriminalJustice said:

So can you explain to me a bit more exactly what this plugin does? Does it add more realistic radio chatter to the game? I’m sorry. I’m just trying to understand exactly what this plugin does before I try it out. Thank you in advance.

It plays police radio chatter in the background. It does nothing to the default dispatch sounds. The best example is if you listen to police radio chatter on YouTube while you played. This plugin does that for you in game. 

16 minutes ago, CriminalJustice said:

So can you explain to me a bit more exactly what this plugin does? Does it add more realistic radio chatter to the game? I’m sorry. I’m just trying to understand exactly what this plugin does before I try it out. Thank you in advance.

It takes over the LSPDFR internal scanner functions, adding more descriptive position audio (locations based on nearby landmarks etc) and adds volume control to the police scanner.

The background audio plays in true 3d from your/npc police vehicles or from your player character, whichever you set it to.

It includes around 450 default background chatter, infinite amounts more can be added. I think devin plays made some more.