Hello everyone,

 

I love this mod and I have been trying to play but...playing the old boring way is stupid. I would like cool looking police cars, cool lights, and all that fun stuff. Problem is...every time I try and install a model for my cars, some barely work, and the rest cause my player models, car models, all that to be invisible. I've been trying to get this mod to work for atleast a month now I've tried about everything and I'm really needing someone that will take their time to help me through this. All I need is a specific model, and the ELS system. If you can get that working for me, I would very much appreciate it. If you have steam, please add me there, that's how you'll most likely be able to contact me. If not, you can email me at doubled805@gmail.com.

 

Thank you so much. (I do not mind using teamviewer to make it easier for you to help)

What are your computer specs? Type "DxDiag" into the Windows Search Box and copy out your computer information from there. 

Hello, and welcome to LCPDFR.com. 

ELS makes car models invincible, that's how it works at the moment. It's stated in the ELS manual, which I assume that you have read. Also, it'd help a lot if you described what you have tried, instead of saying that you have tried everything. Thanks :) 

So ELS currently makes all player models and car models invisible?

 

Can I please be notified immediately when it is fixed? I would greatly appreciate it.

It has been doing that since the first version of ELS. Stick around the site and you can find out yourself if it is ever fixed. I've heard some rumors..

I see SO many people on youtube having very cool lights....where can I get it if ELS isn't working..?

 

 

^^ Only 2 months ago...can someone maybe link a lighting system that DOES work? ;P

 

*EDIT* Okay just looked up some more videos on youtube, there are people that are making videos TODAY with the ELS system. What is going on :/ All I want is just cool lights and im good.

Edited April 8, 201412 yr by jbonesleones805

What are you talking about? ELS is working, it has been released for a long time. It has a bug with the doors. You can still obviously use it, just be aware of the flapping doors.

I am fully aware that there are ELS videos. You can download the mod from this site.

Me personally think the standard lights are more than enough.

Edited April 8, 201412 yr by ineseri

Oh lol, well is it normal that some car models make all my player models and car models disappear? What causes that?

Probably is because your computer isn't powerful enough combined with that GTA IV runs really crappy with high poly els cars.

Okay so when the invisible stuff happens, all I have to do is restart my GTA. But I still have a few more questions. All these videos I'm watching are in nice cities, bright daylight and just looks..way better.

 

This is how I start my mod. I open gta, go into the normal one, not the episodes, hit start, and its the first part where you start in your apartment, walk outside, and it shows you that you can get health from food or whatever. Do I have to do something different to be in a better city with better lighting and stuff like that? It's all hazy and gloomy, just very weird looking, not appealing.

 

This is the city I start in, and I hate it. Horrible lighting and just doesn't look good. Do I really need to play the story to get further into different cities and stuff? If you look on youtube, almost everyone who has gameplay of LCPDFR, are in nice cities with good lightning, and looks great.

 

Skip to 2:40 (thats where I start, and hate it)

 

Edited April 8, 201412 yr by jbonesleones805

You can install and use ENB mods to ruin the original atmosphere of the game. 

 

"ENBSeries is 3d graphic modification for games like TES Skyrim, GTA 4, GTA San Andreas, Deus Ex HR, FSX, and many others. It work by modifying render functions calls of the games and applying additional effects.
It's divided to generic versions and exclusive. First category allow to run it on thousands of games, not all effects will work, but you can try several versions of mod to find best suited. Second, exclusive types of the mod, are games specific versions which developed to work with some game and rarely with same game engine.
Available effects are SSAO, SSIL, Depth Of Field, Lens FX, Bloom, HDR, Tone Mapping, Sharpening, Vignette, Sun Rays, Shadows, Detailed Shadows, Reflection and others in various versions of them."

Done. Looks nice now :)

 

Okay so you've been such an amazing help, just a little more help and I should be set. Now, I have ELS working and everything, but I'm noticing the impact of my lights are no where near as good as others. For example:

 

 

His lights are powerful and light up the streets around you, they are very bright. Mine are like that but do not go far at all, and are not super bright like his. (Yes I have ELS.) Is there any other mod to help the lights out to make them look more powerful?

Open up your visualsettings.dat and edit 

 

car.defaultlight.emissive.on

under the 

# Other emissive lights

-section. Edit the number, not the text.

Edited April 8, 201412 yr by ineseri

Okay so what do you think is a good number to use? It was at 10

Edited April 8, 201412 yr by jbonesleones805

You can search for it in the main GTA IV folder.

Okay so I changed it to 30 from 10, Idk if that's too much because im getting almost like a glare shiny streak above my car going back and forth when my lights are on, the lights definitely look brighter but maybe I went too high?

That's up to you, change it until it looks good :) Me, personally, do not use ELS because I think the vanilla lights are good enough. 

Okay I've tried everything I can to make the radius of the lights bigger, and better looking, I just can't get it to work. I even put the setting to 50! That's 40 more than what it was. Someone told me to do something with these settings...I put them in my default_config file in my ELS folder but that did nothing..here they are: 

 

[ ENV LIGHTING ]

Range_PRML = 70

Inten_PRML = 9

Range_SECL = 8

Inten_SECL = 10

Range_WRNL = 7

Inten_WRNL = 7

EnvMult_Morning = 0.2

EnvMult_Evening = 0.5

EnvMult_Night = 1.1

 

At this point, I am clueless. I do not know what to do. It seems so easy to increase the brightness/radius of the lights because everyone has that done on their videos, and I'm like the only one who is having SO much trouble with it.

 

Like why can't my lights look like this LOL! - Look how bright they are

 

Edited April 8, 201412 yr by jbonesleones805

Okay I am glad to say everything works now, I can't be any happier.

 

BUT - The last and final problem that we need to fix is my "fatal" crashes. Randomly I will crash with a "Fatal Error" and says to reboot my pc or restart my game. If we can fix this error, I will be set.

 

Any suggestions?

It's a random crash, not much to do about it. What's the specific error code?