April fool?

 

2 hours ago, PNWParksFan said:

I am excited to announce that PNWParksFan Modding and Coastal Callouts have been acquired by a private defense contractor, for use as a virtual reality military training simulator. As a part of this multi-million dollar acquisition agreement and related non-disclosure agreement, I will be required to remove all of my modifications from public access at midnight tonight. Government entities will be able to license the Coastal Emergency Simulator for $1000 per employee per year for training purposes, but the system will not be available to private individuals. For more information please see this press release from the Federal Operational Organization Liaison. 

Nice attempt at an April Fools joke. No offense to you, however I doubt the Government would use a modification for a game as training purposes. Keep trying???

I got happy for you i thought in the begging it was true i had forgone n  about April 1st i was like aww good for him hes probably going to get a good chunk of cash for it. He deserves it hes jusst a great person. lol But i take it back even the great person thought lol jk

Edited April 1, 20179 yr by winglesschip209

April fools!!!!!

Development continues! A massive update just went out to beta testers, with more features and fixes than I can reasonably describe in one quick forum post. Here's a little preview of what's new: 

• I fixed spawning of boats with the unlimited boundaries mod, now you can call for backup or spawn a callout anywhere on the unlimited massive oceans
• I got the add-on cargo boats working, and wrote a new, more challenging rescue mission involving a sinking ship 
• Updated the copilot AI, now it flies at top speed when flying to destinations more than 500m away, and there's a menu option to slow it down if you want
• Added a menu toggle for the helicopter spotlight - still working on this, I've figured out how to make it aim at something, so I'll eventually have it track whatever ped/vehicle you might be following, but as of right now I'm having some issues with it still 
• Fixed a ton of bugs and added a bunch of new features

What I'm working on next:

• A function to deploy a marker - e.g. if you find the boat and need to come back to it later, or you find a ped to rescue but your helicopter is full, etc. This will let you drop a flare on the spot, and will leave a marker on your minimap
• Adding more detail to the new callout
• Making boat pursuit AI take advantage of the unlocked map boundaries, so fleeing boats have a chance of fleeing into the open seas
• New plane-related features

 

Here are a few screenshots from the recent development: 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also, I will be doing a live stream with @acepilot2k7 tonight at 6 PM Pacific/9 PM Eastern, taking a look at the new features. I will be joining the stream live over voice chat, and will have a drawing at the end of the stream for free beta access for one livestream viewer. Of course, you can also get beta access by joining the Parks Benefactor program at any time! 

 

 

Edited April 3, 20179 yr by PNWParksFan

Hello im Quietwaif and i donated And did the $8 a month thing and how do I know when I'll be getting beta access Also known as Dylan Snapp

 

I Think i put my discord name right Prk Pls help

On 30/03/2017 at 4:48 PM, PNWParksFan said:

 

I am working on adding features to support customization for non-US players, including the ability to configure some of the text displayed in the callouts, as well as vehicles and which ones should be used for what. I'm not sure yet how exactly I'm going to handle distribution of non-US vehicles. I've recently started discussing with some modelers and texture creators about creating some of the common SAR and maritime law enforcement helis/boats from other countries, but I don't know yet how exactly I'll distribute those mods. But long story short, yes, I am working on making coastal callouts compatible for non-US players.

Great stuff can see english modders doing some rnli stuff then for britain loving all the updates sorry not been able to get on for a while so been catching up on this thread great stuff parks sorry i missed latest livestream but have watched recording was awesome not seen in latest vids but in some of your earliest ones you could winch down and grab peds whilst still on winch is this still the case or has this feature been removed now?

Will we be able to drive the cutter

1 hour ago, Mbarnwell said:

Will we be able to drive the cutter

Yes. 

@PNWParksFan When will the cutter come out ? 

3 hours ago, BostonSwat15 said:

@PNWParksFan When will the cutter come out ? 

As always, there's no point speculating over release dates. Especially with vehicle models, as other people are helping with those and I don't know their exact schedules. There's a lot of work left to do with the model, and also with the script to support it. 

Just made a bunch of improvements to the boat pursuit AI. Previously I had a problem where fleeing boats would end up stuck going in circles, with police boats following them in circles, and it all got quite ridiculous and unrealistic. With the new pursuit AI I have developed, the fleeing boats will now take off in a much more realistic fashion. I've also worked a lot on the pursuit AI from the police side the past couple days, as well as the copilot pursuit AI. In short, pursuits are much more realistic and fun now! You can successfully terminate a pursuit now entirely from a helicopter by shooting out the boat's engines and/or shouting commands over the loudspeaker. If the suspect complies, any police boat in pursuit may approach to apprehend the suspect, without you ever having to leave your helicopter. Pursuits can also be conducted from a boat, in which case you can make the arrest if you are near enough to beat the AI to it!

 

Today's success: got a throwable life preserver ring working! Still in early testing, and I still need to add the capability to actually detect peds nearby and attach them to it. But I think it looks pretty legit! Thanks to skylinegtrfreak for help figuring out the collisions on the add-on prop and to khorio for reminding me how to dynamically adjust the buoyancy of a spawned prop. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8 hours ago, PNWParksFan said:

Today's success: got a throwable life preserver ring working! Still in early testing, and I still need to add the capability to actually detect peds nearby and attach them to it. But I think it looks pretty legit! Thanks to skylinegtrfreak for help figuring out the collisions on the add-on prop and to khorio for reminding me how to dynamically adjust the buoyancy of a spawned prop. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Looks great! You might want to add some rope functionality to drag the ring with the victim. RPH doesn't have Rope class, but I can definitely help you with that! I have som ropes working on the fire Hose in LSRD.

Just now, Fenix2525WOT said:

Looks great! You might want to add some rope functionality to drag the ring with the victim. RPH doesn't have Rope class, but I can definitely help you with that! I have som ropes working on the fire Hose in LSRD.

 

As you can see from my helicopter hoist features and boat towing features, I have ropes well figured out already and have an RPH wrapper class for it. I'm already planning to add the ability to pull it back in with a rope, as well as to make it so AI peds on your boat can also throw the ring. It'll also detect peds near the ring, have them swim closer to it if they're nearby, then attach them to it so they can be dragged back in. All still in development of course, but that's the plan!

Coastal Callouts Live Stream with Onyx starting in 15 minutes! 

 

 

Still working on the life preserver. Everything works, just a matter of tidying up the code and figuring out what kind of controls make sense for using it in the plugin. Good progress though! 

 

Per request, I improved the self-righting boats feature too: 

 

 

 

Finally got the life ring all integrated with the mod, and fixed some bugs with it. Makes ocean rescue callouts done from a boat a lot more legit, as now you don't even have to go in the water to rescue most peds! 

 

 

Spent some time on the Motor Life Boat model last night getting the emergency light to look more realistic. Now the rotator has an emissive texture on it, so the rotating light actually lights up! Looks a lot more legit than it used to, that's for sure.

 

 

@PNWParksFan Maybe this is a stupid question, but do you have any templates available for the boats included in this mod? I would like to make some skins before the release! :D