When are you planning to release an open beta or something?

12 minutes ago, Matt Grimes said:

When are you planning to release an open beta or something?

 

When Rick dies in the television show.

It's been a little while since I posted an update here, so here's a quick summary of what's going on with Coastal Callouts development: 

 

• I finally implemented a custom Grab feature, which allows the player to grab any human ped (even dead, injured, and cop peds). This has allowed for quite a few new related features, including different grab animations when carrying a ped in the water or carrying a dead or injured ped, and auto-grabbing peds when you reel in the life ring. 
• Related to the grab feature is the new dual hoist capability, which lets the player grab a ped while using the hoist. This is really helpful for rescues in dangerous scenarios where you may not want to or be able to get off the hoist safely, such as cliff rescues. 
• Dead peds can now be placed in the rescue stretcher, meaning it's now possible to recover any peds you find who are deceased. 
• I've created a new callout called "capsized boater", which features various recreational boaters who have fallen out of their watercraft and are in distress. This includes kayaks, canoes, jet skis, and even surfers on surf boards! Over 200 different spawn points for the new callout, taking advantage of some really cool parts of the map which don't get seen much. Did you know there's a giant underwater cave on the east coast of the map? 
• Work continues on several vehicles, including some enhancements to the existing boats and aircraft, and development of a new 87' Marine Protector Class Patrol Boat and a miniaturized dinghy to go along with it. 

So I know a lot of folks are of course interested to know what my plans are in terms of an eventual release date. Believe me, as soon as I know when it'll be ready to release, I'll tell you guys! Getting the grab update finished was a huge step towards that goal. The next major tasks to complete before I feel comfortable with a public release are as follows:

• Update the training callout to guide the user through the important new features which I've added since I created the training callout. 
• Improve the help messages and guidance to the user in the other callouts. Make key callout information easier to understand. 
• Create a custom installer. As anyone in the beta program can tell you, installing Coastal Callouts is very complicated - it involves setting up a custom DLC, modifying other game files, installing quite a few plugin and config files, etc. To minimize support requests and maximize user satisfaction, I will be making a custom installer to guide the user through the process. I am also working with various modders who are creating non-US Coastal packs, and will need to figure out some way to facilitate installing those customized packs. 
• Add a couple more callouts and some detail to the existing ones. There's actually quite a few callouts now in the pack, but there's a couple more I'd like to add before release. Of course, after the initial public release, I'll continue to develop new features and add more callouts over time. 

Thanks to everybody for following this project, and extra thanks to everyone who has donated to support the development. As always, I'm still hard at work and look forward to sharing the mod with everyone when it's ready!

 

 

 

 

 

Hello. My name is Matt Grimes. I was a Hurricane Harvey victim. He gifted my area with 20-30 feet of water. When you first started the $30 to Red Cross and you get the coastal callouts I spoke in Acepilot2k7’s discord about talking to you about giving the mod to the victims as well and explained that wouldn’t it make sense to give it to them so they can have something to do if they saved there computer. As a victim the nights are rough I’ve spent the last 2 + months destroying my house and watching my belongings get thrown into a dumpster and that is very depressing. The red cross hasn’t been to my area and deemed one of my neighbors as didn’t qualify when they had 4 feet of water in there home. They have been very absent. Would you take into consideration the idea of giving it to the victims for something to do to keep there mind off the fact that everything they owned is destroyed. Thanks (I have a Picture of the back of my house with water flowing through it.

The back of my house

非常喜欢

17 hours ago, GTA5xdlycs said:

非常喜欢

这是一个伟大的国防部。 （我也爱谷歌翻译）

On 11/17/2017 at 4:03 PM, Matt Grimes said:

Hello. My name is Matt Grimes. I was a Hurricane Harvey victim. He gifted my area with 20-30 feet of water. When you first started the $30 to Red Cross and you get the coastal callouts I spoke in Acepilot2k7’s discord about talking to you about giving the mod to the victims as well and explained that wouldn’t it make sense to give it to them so they can have something to do if they saved there computer. As a victim the nights are rough I’ve spent the last 2 + months destroying my house and watching my belongings get thrown into a dumpster and that is very depressing. The red cross hasn’t been to my area and deemed one of my neighbors as didn’t qualify when they had 4 feet of water in there home. They have been very absent. Would you take into consideration the idea of giving it to the victims for something to do to keep there mind off the fact that everything they owned is destroyed. Thanks (I have a Picture of the back of my house with water flowing through it.

Hope you are alright now

Edited November 28, 20178 yr by Lewispryor1

4 hours ago, Lewispryor1 said:

Hope you are alright now

Thank you kind sir everything is slowly but surely coming together

 

Will these mod be released soon?

1 hour ago, justinf102 said:

Will these mod be released soon?

There is still a load of stuff to be done. If you are as eager as I was, then I suggest you join the Benefactor program.

 

https://parksmods.com/donate/

oh ok, I just thought it would be close to finish since it's been so long,  but ill consider 

3 minutes ago, justinf102 said:

oh ok, I just thought it would be close to finish since it's been so long,  but ill consider 

Just remember, the mod is huge. It adds calls, peds, map stuff and vehicles. All of this takes time. 

18 hours ago, justinf102 said:

Will these mod be released soon?

 

It's still under development. I think we can safely say at this point (looks at calendar) yeah it's not going to be released in 2017, but it'll certainly be released in 2018. Most of the core features are now complete, so now I'm working on touching up all the vehicle models, adding a few more callouts, and designing and configuring the installer for it. I'll share more news here when there's updates!

On 18/12/2017 at 9:35 AM, PNWParksFan said:

 

It's still under development. I think we can safely say at this point (looks at calendar) yeah it's not going to be released in 2017, but it'll certainly be released in 2018. Most of the core features are now complete, so now I'm working on touching up all the vehicle models, adding a few more callouts, and designing and configuring the installer for it. I'll share more news here when there's updates!

Thanks for all the hard work to your brilliant mod. Can we expect the mini RIB to be attached to the 87' Marine Protector Class Patrol Boat or not

4 hours ago, Splodge123 said:

Thanks for all the hard work to your brilliant mod. Can we expect the mini RIB to be attached to the 87' Marine Protector Class Patrol Boat or not

 

We still have a lot of work to do on the 87' model, but we did figure out how to get the RIB to be able to fit into the ramp on the back of the 87': 

 

 

I still need to do quite a bit of work on the script for the small boat to actually be able to dock/attach to the larger boat, not to mention some kind of controls so that an AI ped can keep driving the large boat while you do stuff in the small one. I don't know yet how much of that will be included in the initial release and how much might come in a future update to Coastal Callouts, but it's all being worked on!

@PNWParksFan That looked pretty sweet.  You're doing such amazing job with this. I can't wait to see the finished release.  Thanks for continually sharing progress.

Nice

Looking Great! Can't Wait!

 

Hey PNWParksFan, I know you (Or was is skyline?) posted some pics a while ago of a heli landing on a boat. Do you think that will be a think while the boat is moving?