I liked alot of the files by Bxbugs, but not have all of the cars with a same set up I deiced to try and make my own cars and hear I am around 2 years later. And I even helped alot of other modders get into the game, even if it was just the little thing 

Edited September 9, 201411 yr by 0taku

Well, I've had GTAIV since it was released way back when, and while playing I always drove around in an LCPD police car because, well, I like police cars.  It was fun driving around as Niko, going code-3 and having everyone move out of the way, but I thought it would be so much cooler if it was more realistic...

 

Couple years later, while surfing YouTube, of all things, I came across LCPDFR gameplay.  Whoa!  A realistic police-car game!  Then I found out it was a mod for GTAIV.  I have that!  Thus, it's how I started playing LCPDFR.  Then, being a person that likes airports, and finding that no one really had an Airport Operations vehicle (which I thought were pretty cool), I decided to make my own AirOps skins.  The rest, as they say, is history.

 

I don't know how to model, and would like to put in the time to learn, but simply do not have enough spare time.  So, I make skins almost exclusively (made a siren pack too, with another siren pack on the way with custom Whelen tones).  I use an ancient version of Photoshop (my favorite version!), Photoshop 5.5.  That's V5.5, pre-Photoshop6 and pre-CS, NOT CS5 lol.  Yes, I know.

Edited September 9, 201411 yr by sixium

I think it was mainly the desire to want to make vehicles my way and how I envisioned them looking. Which, just like XBR410...I wanted to make my local PD cars and I haven't even gotten around to them...

I started simple texturing because I wanted to create personal packs of liveries I had downloaded, whether from this site or others.

 

Cheers.

 

 

There wasn't enough textures that I liked, so, after teaching myself how to use Photoshop, I started texturing (this was back in early 2011). Since then, I've made hundreds of textures (most were never released and are now lost), and several sirens.

 

I still use Photoshop almost every day, however I've completely stopped making sirens (I've moved on to nightcore mixing, which is a whole lot less painful and a lot more fun). 

My inspiration was the one and only Custo. I always saw bunch of high poly cars or some peds from related to the NYPD or LAPD. There just wasn't good enough "lore friendly" stuff around so to speak and on top of that I wanted to fix some things Rockstar never did. Like the security guards engaging in firefights with cops and so forth.