Hi all,

 

So after some fighting, some reinstalling, and some late evenings, I finally have upgraded to LCPDFR 1.0d, the mods I want, and the cars I want (mostly) and it's all running buttery smooth. It's glorious!

 

I do however have one issue. I installed this Charger ('?do=embed' frameborder='0' data-embedContent>>) and added a custom skin I made. Works beautifully, ELS and all. I've now added a second charger () custom skinned it, placed it in the game, works great! No crashes.

 

Here's the weird bit:

 

1) the ELS on the first charger, works flawlessly without putting it's ELS ini file into the game's ELS folder/linking it to SLOTCONTROL, etc. Nothing required. I didn't drop a single file in, and it works perfectly.

2) The second Charger however, has it's lights positioned incorrectly. They're there, and functional, but in the wrong places. I put it's ELS cfg file in the ELS game folder, did the conversion from ELS7 to ELS8, and no change. They are still in the exact same spot.

3) As a note, I DID change the name of the wft and wtd files for the second charger from "fbi.wft" and "fbi.wtd" to "police2.wft" and "police2.wft" so that they would show up as I wanted them in the game.

 

My question is, firstly, why does the first car not require any mods to the ELS folder whatsoever and yet still works fine? Secondly, why does placing the correct file into my ELS folder not help the second car, and lastly, could the problem be stemming from the changes I made to the filenames?

 

Any help would be extremely appreciated.

 

Cheers

 

PS. For those interested, I've attached a few pics below of my handiwork. I took a Vancouver Police skin that was made for a model that is no longer available, and adapted it to work with the Redondo Charger. I also used the stock skins to create Vancouver Police uniforms. For those looking closely, NO the lightbars are not correct, they should be Federal Signal Valor's but, I don't know how to model, I just know how to Photoshop :P Also, I didn't know how to get rid of the chest badges on the uniforms (no such thing here in Vancouver), so I just clone brushed shirt/jacket pattern over top of them to hide them. I'm not overly picky so I'm happy with how its all looking so far :)

MODERATOR NOTICE

Your thread has been moved to the GTA IV Support Requests forum, as it is not an LCPDFR support request.

The first charger is probably running on the default ELS config in the ELS file. As for the lights being in the wrong places, I'm pretty sure that's a model related issue.