Help with lights and vehicles

[flipper589 0]

I have searched everywhere on here for help with two problems I have running LCPDFR. The first problem is that only one of the mod cars I've installed shows up and is available, and I don't know if there are any garages or anything where there would be other police cars to select. If anyone has any help they can give me on how to get the other cars I've installed it would be greatly appreciated. Also the second problem is in the one mod car I have, I cannot turn the lights on. I'm following the keys "<," to do it and it says light package 1,2, or 3 activated, but the lights don't actually turn on, and it messes with the siren. Is there something I'm doing wrong or an install package I'm missing? Anyone who can help with either of these problems would be greatly appreciated.

[Monty0112 150]

First of all, by saying only one car is available, do you mean that only one police car is driving around or that it is the original police car still driving around?

Second, is your car mod ELS enabled?

[flipper589 0]

Apologies for being a little vague, what I mean by one car is available is that; I've installed a couple of mod cars, I can only select one of them. The rest of the cars are all the regular ones from the game. I can't select all of the mod cars I've downloaded to drive around in. As far as my ELS being enabled, I'm going to guess that's a download or is that something that gets changed in a file or folder.

[flipper589 0]

I was able to get one more of the cars that I installed, however it won't let me add new cars to the vehicle images section, how do I go about adding completely new cars and having more available? Also I have ELS, I can change the lights with the original cars, however if I'm in a modded vehicle it doesn't let me change lights or turn them on, there are a couple lights that are steady on and I can't change them.

[Iconography 1,384]

You need to have the cars set to active = 1 in ELS.ini in order to use a car with ELS. If you literally ADDED cars to the game instead of replacing them, you can not select those vehicles with the LCPD:FR car selector. If you use ELS, the keys for lights are (by default) J and K, also L if you have version 6. You can not use SparkIV to ADD vehicles. View this tutorial: http://www.gtaforums...howtopic=420911

You can NOT use "<," to activate ELS lights. Added cars will NOT show up in game at all unless you follow that tutorial.

Edited September 5, 2011 by Iconography

[flipper589 0]

Every time I downloaded a car, it said all you had to do was place the vehicles .wtd and .wtf files in models, cdimages/vehicles. I was only able to replace not actually add using SparkIV, it only replaced for example FBI it did not add a whole new car which is what I want to do. That tutorial is not the best at explaining what to do, and I don't know where to go to get all that stuff so I can put new cars in. That tutorial you linked me to just starts out with step 1, doesn't tell you what program you need or where you actually go to do that stuff. Is there someone who can give a little better and clearer instructions on what to do?

[Guest]

What's the difficulty there? Just had a look at the tutorial and I kinda like it^^ simple and quite effective.

The named files are all in your GTA IV folder, just search them with the windows integrated engine (most of them should be somewhere in GTA IV/pc/data or GTA IV/common/data - but just search 'em). They can be edited with standard windows notepad. And for adding the wtd and wtf 's you use SparkIV oder OpenIV (just google it).

If you have some additional questions feel free to ask... Or maybe you ask directly on GTAForums as they are the guys for modding and we normally do not use any car mods (except some known working ones) because:

Unfortunately, we cannot offer support for bugs or problems caused by the usage of other software or modifications. Although we try to make LCPDFR as compatible with other mods as possible, it is always designed to be installed on a clean copy of the original game.

[flipper589 0]

Apparently I haven't worked on computers in a while, problem is in my GTA IV folder under Rockstar Games only things I have are two additional folders, one for music and one for video. I googled OpenIV but couldn't find a working copy. So I'm not sure where to go to actually edit anything, that's my problem. As far as if eventually I'm able to find where to edit is it as simple as just copying and pasting what that tutorial has such as:

"carcol.dat

cargrp.dat

default.dat

gta.dat

images.txt"

and

"a new car file(wft + wtd)

openIV"

That's my biggest problem, is I haven't found any folders or anything except for if I browse in SparkIV that would allow me to do anything to vehicles, and all that allows me to do is replace a current existing car. I apologize if I seem like a moron right now, which is how I feel; I'm just trying to get the best out of gameplay. Thank you again all for trying to help me with this.

[Iconography 1,384]

http://openiv.com/

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\grand theft auto iv\GTAIV on Steam or

C:\Program Files (x86)\Rockstar Games\grand theft auto iv\ on disc.

That folder is where you will want to search for those files, like "carcol.dat"

[flipper589 0]

I was able to get and open OpenIV, however I'm still lost as to how to add cars or replace existing ones with ones I've downloaded so that they function properly in the game. I keep reading the tutorial and I still have no idea what folder they are in doing all of that or how to do it. Every car i download just has the two files, car.wtf and car.wtd nothing else. So how do I take those and put those cars into the game so that they work properly? These cars are also coming from the site GTA Police Mods.

[Iconography 1,384]

Car files should go into C:\Program Files (x86)\...\grand theft auto iv\pc\models\cdimages\vehicles.img

Edited September 5, 2011 by Iconography

[flipper589 0]

I'm putting all the appropriate files where they go, and they seem to be working. I'm still having trouble with the lights though, what happens is that certain lights, one in the front and one in the back stay solid and I can't turn any lights on or off. I have downloaded and installed ELS, but not sure if I'm doing something wrong.

[Iconography 1,384]

Make sure in the ELS.ini file, the car you want is active. Example:

[ FBI ]

 

Active = 1

Halogen_Only = 0

Color_Light1L = 1

Color_Light2L = 0

Color_Light3R = 1

Color_Light4R = 0

Color_Light7L = 3

Color_Light8C = 3

Color_Light9R = 3

Offst_SLights = 0

Edited September 5, 2011 by Iconography

[flipper589 0]

ELS.ini file? Where is that located?

[Iconography 1,384]

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\grand theft auto iv\GTAIV

or C:\Program Files (x86)\Rockstar Games\grand theft auto iv\

[flipper589 0]

Thank you very much for your help, everything is working now. Thank you very very much for your help.

[Iconography 1,384]

You should also make sure that all other non-ELS cars (like the stock ones) are set to active = 0. This may fix some missing light problems that may occur.

Can be closed by a moderator, solved.