Can you control which cops spawn on the police boat through programming or something cause I want to make the police boat a coast guard boat and the police officers coast guard officers without making a lot of different cops on land coast guard officers. Any help is appreciated. 

I don't think that is easily feasible, or even possible. You can change the model of the boat however, but the officers on the boat are the same on land so making any changes, as you said, will change all officers. 

I don't think that is easily feasible, or even possible. You can change the model of the boat however, but the officers on the boat are the same on land so making any changes, as you said, will change all officers. 

 

My guess is that the officer's model will vary depending on what part of the city you are in, as that is what happens with officers on foot and in cars. For example, Alderney is patrolled by the state police model rather than the regular municipal police model.

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Is there something you can do in the coding of the game or even a way to add a ped specific to the boat like you add in a new car and allow it to spawn randomly. Wouldn't it be the same thing in a way.

As I said above, I don't think it's easily possible no. I'm not sure of GTA IV allows the importation and creation of all together new ped groups, and then adding said group to a pool of peds who only will use the boats. 

But you can do it with cars? That makes no sense.

GTA IV does not make any sense. Haha I'm sure a more able modder can help you. 

I'm pretty confident you could, in a script, force spawn boats with other peds in them. Not sure about having them standing in back, but you could certainly create a driver. It'd probably be roughly similar to cars. However, with cars, there are a lot of well-documented things to make them behave on the road; not sure how they apply to boats. Likewise, I don't think you could easily change natural spawns (i.e. spawned by GTA, not by a script; natural spawns tend to work better than force spawns if you just want them to cruise around.

Ok what I want to do is make the police boat that follows you when on water when wanted a coast guard patrol boat with coast guard peds but i dont want to replace other cop peds.

I have been looking around google and I have see that you can add new peds and where they spawn and I was looking at where they spawn but there was no category for the police that spawn on the police boats. If I missed something and you guys wanna take a look the file is called "pedgrp.dat" with out quotations. 

What you want to do is impossible without scripts, thus editing game files won't work. Trust me, I know a bit about the way the game handles peds :)