ELS reflections "reworked" 1.0.6

this is very realistic this is a definite download for anyone that wants to be more realistic.

Can this be used with radiance or any visual effects?

yes, sure ... radiance, etc. are "only" personal reworked visualsettings.dat files. By the next update i put my visualsettings in the download. The diference to the other files is the: misc.corona size and misc.corona intense, thats a trick to  give a power boost to the emerge lights. The side effect is, that all other coronas inc. Heradlights, Buslights, Commercials, etc. may override and the whole lightning is not balanced well, while the emerges are very good, no question!  With my own Visuals, i tryed to find the middle of that.

Now thats what i call realistic. Thank You!

Hi, will it also enhance the ELS lights corona from distance?

hi, ELS is only for the reflection "colour" ... it will enhance the corona of the reflection !! The car coronas that generates your "light-output" are controlled by the visualsettings. 

These ELS setting doing a bit the "opposit" you asked for, inside the setted radius of 75 meters, the effects are balanced.

 greetings

I've been looking for something that will fix the issue with the police lights shining through 10 buildings haha. Will this fix that?

is this a bug where if u get too far from your patrol car or a ai patrol car where your police lights turn off?

On 9/24/2019 at 12:19 PM, FHPDPOLICEDEPT5 said:

is this a bug where if u get too far from your patrol car or a ai patrol car where your police lights turn off?

No, it's not a lighting issue. It's basically just if you're blocks away from a scene and the lights flash on buildings when there is no way there could be reflections lol. 

43 minutes ago, medicbobs said:

No, it's not a lighting issue. It's basically just if you're blocks away from a scene and the lights flash on buildings when there is no way there could be reflections lol. 

i fixed it i turned up the corona distance to 3000 instead of 75.

1 hour ago, FHPDPOLICEDEPT5 said:

i fixed it i turned up the corona distance to 3000 instead of 75.

Oh shit ok. I'll try it out. Thanks!

1 hour ago, FHPDPOLICEDEPT5 said:

i fixed it i turned up the corona distance to 3000 instead of 75.

Whats the actual setting that deals with that? Is it in the visualsettings or actual ELS?

On 9/27/2019 at 5:57 PM, medicbobs said:

Oh shit ok. I'll try it out. Thanks!

Whats the actual setting that deals with that? Is it in the visualsettings or actual ELS?

els configuration setting in main directory

So from what I understand, if I'm correct the ElsMaxRangePl & AI is how far the light reflects off the walls/buildings?  I thought that was the visualsettings file.  After you install ELS you notice your emergency lights are very dim and users recommended radianceV to brighten and I thought RadV (Visualsettings file) changed the distance of how far the light reflected.  In 0.4 they created where there is a traffic stop that spawns and at night you can see the reflections off the walls/buildings.  So I would go look for the stop and after walking around 2-3 buildings in some areas and finally see the stop and think how could I see the lights off the walls from where this stop is?  Example is in Paleto Bay there is a traffic stop that spawns in the Ammunation parking lot.  I can see the reflections off the building of the Sheriff Station on the corner.  The Ammunation Parking Lot, which is on the East side of Ammunation, then another building and then across the street is the sheriff station and some how you can see the reflection.  I didn't know what the settings were in the ELS.ini except the traffic control which I had to set to false because it would cause the suspect to drive forward until it crashed.  From the ELS original download the ElsMaxRange for AI=500 and PL=800 so no wonder I could see the reflections through 3 buildings.  Also why is PL 300 more than AI?  In the wilderness maybe the light will bounce off trees and bushes.  Like you said maybe up that to 250.  I'll try this out.  I'll check out your visualsettings too.  I use RadV but would like to try someone else settings.  Thanks!

hey, sry for the late response. youve understand almost right, i think normally a range about 250-500 meters would be realistic, but it seems theres no real ELS shadow script that works with walls and corners, so that ELS is just a radius reflection, sadly ignoring buildings, etc. For me to avoid, watching the reflections about kilometers, 75 is a good value in the city, that look not so heavy. But at least it would be nice if the shadows would react  to the enviroment. Greets.

On 11/17/2019 at 5:21 AM, Largo1975 said:

hey, sry for the late response. youve understand almost right, i think normally a range about 250-500 meters would be realistic, but it seems theres no real ELS shadow script that works with walls and corners, so that ELS is just a radius reflection, sadly ignoring buildings, etc. For me to avoid, watching the reflections about kilometers, 75 is a good value in the city, that look not so heavy. But at least it would be nice if the shadows would react  to the enviroment. Greets.

Thanks for the explanation man!

I'm having issues with this ELS where the AI don't respond with lights and sirens.

On 8/30/2020 at 3:21 PM, OfficerDaniel69 said:

I'm having issues with this ELS where the AI don't respond with lights and sirens.

Go to your ELS.ini and make sure ELSACTIVEONAI is true. Other than that, maybe check your ini settings if you're using other mods like ultimatebackup, some of those make the units respond non-emergent. 

Need to update this topic. I was having issues with the 75 and 75 range. The AI were not responding with lights. I am using ElsMaxRangePl = 125
ElsMaxRangeAi = 450 and it's working fine again.