So I've been playing LCPDFR .95 with ELS v6 and modded all my cars to custom ones.

While searching for cars on the policemods site I found a car that said "Adds a third car to LCPD" and it was named police3.

My question would be if I wanted to add another standard police car that would patrol the streets could I just make the file police3 and the game will recognize it? Or is that something that wouldn't work as easy as it sounds.

Thanks in advance,

The only way to add a car to GTA is to use OpenIV and literally add new files, but the game will not recognize the car as a police vehicle.

Either the car is called that to replace an in-game civilian vehicle, or it is meant to replace a car from The Ballad of Gay Tony.

You can rename the police3 part to whatever you want, as long as it matches an existing vehicle name.

Edited December 29, 201114 yr by Iconography

Not quite true. In GTA IV, you can add a car to police3, police4, and policeb, and the game will give it lights and sirens. police3 and police4 will also make cars pull over (policeb won't). So police3 and police4 are recognized as police cars. ELS will also work on those slots. But they won't patrol the streets; you need to spawn them with SNT.

EDIT: GPM has this, which will put a car in police3. You can then replace it with whatever you want (the included car is the BOGT Buffalo).

Edited December 29, 201114 yr by cp702

Not quite true. In GTA IV, you can add a car to police3, police4, and policeb, and the game will give it lights and sirens. police3 and police4 will also make cars pull over (policeb won't). So police3 and police4 are recognized as police cars. ELS will also work on those slots. But they won't patrol the streets; you need to spawn them with SNT.

EDIT: GPM has this, which will put a car in police3. You can then replace it with whatever you want (the included car is the BOGT Buffalo).

Just to clarify this, you can use openiv and add police3/4 to GTA 4 and it will recognize them as police cars(sirens/lights/people pull over)? Just want to make sure, because I've read this guide before that op talked about but I never game it a try..

Edited December 29, 201114 yr by NickieB

Not quite true. In GTA IV, you can add a car to police3, police4, and policeb, and the game will give it lights and sirens. police3 and police4 [...]

That's EFLC, not GTA IV. GTA IV has no slots for a Police3 or Police4 or policeb, those are EFLC only (specifically TBOGT). I meant that he could only try to import a police3 if he had TBoGT. You can't import that into GTA IV because there is no police3/4/b to begin with.

Unless there is hidden code that will work if you used OpenIV to add the cars into GTA IV (which I have never heard of) a file named police3 will only work on TBoGT. You can rename the file to fit a car in GTA IV, though. If he has GTA IV, he has to rename it. If he has TBoGT, he's good to go.

Edited December 29, 201114 yr by Iconography

It works in IV; I've done it.

EDIT: And you can add any new car you want to IV. There are a LOT of .dat edits, though; the link has instructions for all of them (off the top of my head: carcols, vehicles.ide, cargrps, handling; the link uses new files for vehicles.ide and handling, and changes other files to make it work). And, to spawn them, you need to use SNT (in "car spawning" menu, choose "spawn by modelname" and type your model name).

TL;DR: It's possible; just follow the instructions in the link.

Edited December 29, 201114 yr by cp702

It works in IV; I've done it.

You'll have to explain to me how, then. SparkIV can not import any car named police3 or policeb or police4 because they are not native to IV. Did you use OpenIV to add them? Perhaps it is different if EFLC is used via DLC rather than purchased separately?

But this adds a car with all the required files to make it function as a police vehicle. This does work because I have done it before.

But this adds a car with all the required files to make it function as a police vehicle. This does work because I have done it before.

Okay, that's the piece I was missing, I was under the impression it was two files, a .wtd and .wft.

Yeah, you use OpenIV to add them. The pack includes files called newveh.ide, newhandling.dat, and newveh.img; that makes it easier to tell what's native and what's not.

Yeah, you use OpenIV to add them. The pack includes files called newveh.ide, newhandling.dat, and newveh.img; that makes it easier to tell what's native and what's not.

yeah I apologize, I missed that part. I re-read the thread and found the link. I was completely dumbfounded as to what you were talking about until I saw the files on GPM.

I just tried it in IV and it worked. Can I add police4 also? If I can how do I do it? Can i just use open iv and add it like i did for police3 and do I have to make any changes to the .dat .ide...files?

Nevermind--I Figured it out, it does work to add police4

If your trying to add police4 and cant figure it out let me know. Its extremely easy

Edited December 30, 201114 yr by NickieB

Policeb also works (though the siren won't make anyone pull over; same with the police bike in BOGT [unless that's part of the model, not an issue with the coding? Don't think so, though]). However, police5 won't.

Only reason I asked was to see if I could get a third style police car to randomly spawn and patrol the city. It appears from the posts it isn't as easy as I thought it may be.

I tried to make a mod to make it patrol. I should look at it again sometime.

Hmm...haven't been successful yet adding police3, police4

Did you use the pack linked above? There's more involved than just putting in wft and wtd.

Yes...copied everything from the pack over, and just to see, tested to see if I could see the Police3 Charger that was on the .img file....crashed when typing police3 into the trainer to spawn it

Ok...got police4 to show...but no lights or sirens unless I use ELS....Police3 still crashes the game.

Ok...realize that Police3, 4, and B do not allow you to enter the computer database after pulling someone over...