Hi everyone, 

 

May seem like a very silly question, but ELS 7 supports 7 extra slots, however I can't seem to figure out how to add the extra slots so spark see's them to add the vehicles.

 

I have created a new line in handling and vehicles.ide

 

Am I missing something?

 

Thanks

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This comment was copied from a comment on another post made by Rng43.

This has worked for me multiple times.

Remember that adding too many cars may cause your game to crash on startup.

 

 

In OpenIV add the file into the vehicles.img

 

 

I recommend using notepad++ to edit these files

notepad would just be a pain to use.

 

4 files are needed to be edited : 

 

handling.dat 
vehicles.ide
cargrp.dat
carcols.dat

all files are located in the Grand Theft Auto IVcommondata folder

MAKE BACKUPS OF THESE FILES BEFORE CONTINUING

 

vehicles.ide

In vehicles.ide copy police2 and paste below it and edit the first 4 words to this.

The first word is the Model Name (e.g. police3.wft) and the second one is the Texture file name(eg police3.wtd), third is the type of vehicle. Fourth is the name given to its handling info in the

 

Example:

police2, police2, car, POLICE2, POLICE2, VEH@STD, VEH@STD_RI1, 100, 999, 0.2348, 0.2348, 0.2, 2, 1.0 ,1, ext_requi+ext_strong+livery
police3, police3, car, POLICE3, SULTAN, VEH@STD, VEH@STD_RI1, 100, 999, 0.2365, 0.2365, 0.7, 2, 1.0 ,1, ext_gang+ext_strong+livery

 

at the moment don't worry about the numbers they just relate to the dirt on the car, wheel radius and the frequency of seeing the car.

 

Once vehicles.ide has been edited save it and open handling.dat

 

handling.dat

In handling.dat paste the handling info of the car you are adding below POLICE2 then rename it to POLICE3.

Save handling.dat and go to cargrp.dat

 

cargrp.dat

In cargrp.dat find police2 and add police3, next to it

the line should look like this 

police, police2, police3, polpatriot, noose, predator, pstockade, nstockade, fbi # POPCYCLE_GROUP_COPS

editing this file ensures that you don't see civilians driving the police car around, it groups specific cars to groups of people.

Save cargrp.dat and open carcols.dat

 

carcols.dat

This file just handles the default colors that the car gets spawned with. Find police2 copy and paste below it, then change the name to police3. If you like a specific color for the car to be spawned with use the col table they have at the top of the file.

 

it looks like this:

col
#BLACK's
10,10,10,-,black            # 0 black                
37,37,39,-,black            # 1 black poly 

if you want black to be one of the defaults copy " 10,10,10, " and paste it next to the other set of numbers in police3 that segment should look like this

police2,     113,74,113,
police3, 113,74,113, 22,34,72, 10,10,10, 

make sure you have a comma at the end of the line

 

Save carcols.dat 

 

Adding it to ELS 7.0

 

Open your ELS.ini file

Make 2 lines underneath

 

[ AMBULANCE ]

Status = on

File = default_config

 

The '[ CAR NAME ]' is the name of the .wft and .wtd files in your vehicles.img, written in all capitals

The 'Status = on/off' defines wether this car has ELS Compatibility

The 'File = _________' defines which vehicle config this vehicle will use (see ELS Manual for more details)

 

 

Then Add these lines:

[ EMERG1 ]

Status = on

File = default_config

 

Then click save,

 

Adding it to the trainer [simple Native Trainer]

 

In trainer.ini(located in the main GTAIV folder) find the Added Cars section 

//Added Cars //

[AddedCars] 

edit Enable1=0 to Enable1=1 

change ModelName1= turismo to ModelName1=police3

and then change DisplayName1 = Car 1 to the Cars name 

it should look similar to this 

//Added Cars //

[AddedCars]
Enable1=1
ModelName1=police3
DisplayName1=Police Commodore SS 

Save trainer.ini

 

Open up GTA IV, go into the trainer and spawn the new car in the added car section on the last page, then have some fun!!!

 

 

 

 

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Edited January 16, 201412 yr by ryantomaryan

By "extra slots" do you mean, for example an extra car, or extras as in the ELS itself. If it's the latter, ELS v7 actually supports 9 extras. If it's the first, I've never had any problems with ELS and added cars. They just seem to work automatically for me somehow :/. The tutorial mentioned above could be of some help though!

Thanks everyone, i will look into the quoted tutorial,

 

Trewq34 I mean the emerg slots that the ELS 7 user guide mentions, like you I've never had any problems with els and added cars, I just add the name in the els.ini and create a vcf for it and it works like magic, if only it was that easy for these new slots!!

 

Thanks Again :)

 

p.s can anyone recommend where I should post a problem with a lightbar? I'm still really new here! 

By "extra slots" do you mean, for example an extra car, or extras as in the ELS itself. If it's the latter, ELS v7 actually supports 9 extras. If it's the first, I've never had any problems with ELS and added cars. They just seem to work automatically for me somehow :/. The tutorial mentioned above could be of some help though!

He means an extra car with ELS compatability

Thanks everyone, i will look into the quoted tutorial,

 

Trewq34 I mean the emerg slots that the ELS 7 user guide mentions, like you I've never had any problems with els and added cars, I just add the name in the els.ini and create a vcf for it and it works like magic, if only it was that easy for these new slots!!

 

Thanks Again :)

 

p.s can anyone recommend where I should post a problem with a lightbar? I'm still really new here! 

 

No problem.

If you need any more help just PM me the problem and I will try my best to help

Edited January 16, 201412 yr by ryantomaryan

Update : followed the guide and everything is where its supposed to be, however now I can't import a wtf, and wtd file as emerg1 doesn't show in the pc/models/cdimages/ vehicles.img when opened with spark.

 

Any Ideas??

 

Ben, use OpenIV for importing into the vehicles.img.

Flwpheonix you are my new best friend! worked perfectly 

 

Just to make it simple for anybody who finds this post while trying to add the new slots

 

follow the tutorial adding new lines to handling and vehicles, cargrp and carcols

 

then using OpenIV add the wtd and wtf files to vehicles.img 

 

Sounds so simple when put like that!!

 

Thanks again to everybody who commented and helped me this morning!!

No problem...Learned the hard way too... ;)