Ok here's a theory I thought of 10 minutes ago, I won't be able to test it for a while but if anyone else wanted to please try it.

What if you had one (or both) lightbars, with the same sirens, on a model set up as carmods, then you only had one lightbar on the model at a time. Would that mean that since the game is only reading one set of sirens at a time, you could be able to have dual lightbars with the same sirens?

4 hours ago, Macgregor said:

Ok here's a theory I thought of 10 minutes ago, I won't be able to test it for a while but if anyone else wanted to please try it.

What if you had one (or both) lightbars, with the same sirens, on a model set up as carmods, then you only had one lightbar on the model at a time. Would that mean that since the game is only reading one set of sirens at a time, you could be able to have dual lightbars with the same sirens?

No, Zmodeler won't let you export with multiples objects/meshes/dummies (hierarchy elements) of the same name

10 hours ago, Macgregor said:

Ok here's a theory I thought of 10 minutes ago, I won't be able to test it for a while but if anyone else wanted to please try it.

What if you had one (or both) lightbars, with the same sirens, on a model set up as carmods, then you only had one lightbar on the model at a time. Would that mean that since the game is only reading one set of sirens at a time, you could be able to have dual lightbars with the same sirens?

You could have 6 lightbars using only 2 sirens. This is not new.

5 minutes ago, Windows446 said:

You could have 6 lightbars using only 2 sirens. This is not new.

is that using my method or is there another one

11 hours ago, RoegonTV said:

No, Zmodeler won't let you export with multiples objects/meshes/dummies (hierarchy elements) of the same name

he is referring to vehiclemods, which are separate from the main vehicle (as bxbugs did for a cvpi showcased by prophet)....so there is no chance for duplication of the siren nodes tho

15 hours ago, Windows446 said:

You could have 6 lightbars using only 2 sirens. This is not new.

How is this done, again?

On 10/12/2016 at 7:22 PM, GravelRoadCop said:

Your thoughts on this ? It's a little project of mine this month. I am working on a Whelen themed carcol file for models with Whelen products installed. The video shows some of the flash patterns in action. I think I need to throw in more types of flash patterns to mix it up.

Edit : I just realized that i goofed up with video editing. Ignore the long black screen in the end.

My Tahoe brought a tear to my eye... that is gorgeous.

 

For anyone interested I have a new pack out now that uses carcols, this time for LSPD.

 

I haven't seen many people here employing scaleFactor with their models. You can edit the scale factor value to change how much the lights scale when turned on and this makes it easier to hide lights in the off position while still using coronas. Feel free to check out the carcols in my packs, you will see that for some lights I use scale factors as large as 100 without issue.

So I am curious, if i want to combine carcols to make certain cars work, what do i combine? Im currently using BEL, and want to add in OfficerWalters' NYPD Explorer that requires carcols for the back lighting to work. Can anyone help me?

I don't know if I should post this here, or maybe someone could help me do this, but can someone make this flashpattern? It's my all time favorite! The link should start where the pattern comes on, and it goes to 3:04

 

16 minutes ago, Mikofiticus said:

I don't know if I should post this here, or maybe someone could help me do this, but can someone make this flashpattern? It's my all time favorite! The link should start where the pattern comes on, and it goes to 3:04

 

All those patterns on the Valor and that one's your favorite? Damn.

9 minutes ago, Windows446 said:

All those patterns on the Valor and that one's your favorite? Damn.

I'mma open a can of worms on myself, but I personally dislike the Valor. I personally like the Liberty and the RX2700.

I've never been a fan of most flash patterns because they're super fast, spastic, and it just comes off as visually aggressive. I much prefer the more "classic" flash patterns.

6 minutes ago, Mikofiticus said:

I'mma open a can of worms on myself, but I personally dislike the Valor. I personally like the Liberty and the RX2700.

I've never been a fan of most flash patterns because they're super fast, spastic, and it just comes off as visually aggressive. I much prefer the more "classic" flash patterns.

>Liberty

>not fast, spastic, and aggressive

LoL I'm not a fan of all of the "crazy" Valor patterns either, but come on, there's better than THAT!

Oh wait, I missed something...

>RX2700

Oh boy... Have you seen Ohio State Highway Patrol? Actually reminds me a bit of NYSP's flash pattern...

 

Edited October 19, 20169 yr by Windows446

when gravelroadcop won't release whelen memes so you gotta make your own

 

 

Edited October 22, 20169 yr by Windows446

So I am going to attempt to completely take apart a siren setting and I need you guys' help.

 

 

This is siren 1 of siren setting one (police and sheriff)

 

If have an idea what some of these do, but I am not sure, so I wont answer. My main concern is I want to know the main steps to differentiate between flashing sirens and rotating sirens. Lets finally get one solid tutorial to siren settings!

 

First in the rotation tab:

• delta value...?
• start value...?
• speed value...?
• sequencer value...?
• multiples value...?
• direction makes it rotate other direction
• synctobpm...?

 

Second the Flashiness tab:

• Delta value (in radians) is direction from start the mesh is rotated
• start value is where it starts...
• speed value...?
• sequencer value is decimal equivalent of a 32 bit unsigned integer (binary) flash pattern
• multiples is how many times the corona spaws for each step of the 32 bits
• direction?...
• synctobpm...?

Third the corona tab:

• intensity value is the intensity of the corona
• size value is the size of the corona
• pull value...?
• face camera value...?

Other settings:

• color value... color
• intensity value...?
• light group value...?
• rotate value...?
• scale value...?
• scaleFactor is how much the siren scales down by to hide it
• flash value...?
• light value...?
• spotlight value...?
• cast shadows...?

@RoegonTV the answers to almost all of that is found through this thread. It's probably best to just look through yourself instead of having people waste time reposting it all

12 hours ago, Windows446 said:

when gravelroadcop won't release whelen memes so you gotta make your own

-snip -

 

 

Here is my 'unsynchronized' Whelen ComAlert pattern sequences. It is best used for light-bars, but can be also used for exterior body LED lights if you shuffle the sequence orders around. sequencerBpm value 1250 - 1300 is recommended.

 

----------------------------------------------------
01111000000001010111100000000101 [1] 2013624325
00000000101011110000000010101111 [2] 11468975
00001010111100000000101011110000 [3] 183503600 
-----------------------------------------------------
11110000000010101111000000001010 [4]  4027248650
10101111000000001010111100000000 [5]  2936057600
00000101011110000000010101111000 [6]  91751800

 

Edited October 22, 20169 yr by GravelRoadCop

Does anybody know if the sirens in @Thehurk's CHP pack are consistently numbered between vehicles? If so, has anybody made a realistic CHP pack for them? I might put something together at some point if nobody has yet. 

5 minutes ago, PNWParksFan said:

Does anybody know if the sirens in @Thehurk's CHP pack are consistently numbered between vehicles? If so, has anybody made a realistic CHP pack for them? I might put something together at some point if nobody has yet. 

 

Honestly, default lighting is sufficient for these cars. If you want hyper-realism, you can throw in a slight latency between each wigwag, but I don't think this is entirely necessary.

4 hours ago, Windows446 said:

 

Honestly, default lighting is sufficient for these cars. If you want hyper-realism, you can throw in a slight latency between each wigwag, but I don't think this is entirely necessary.

This isn't possible with carcols but I just thought I'd mention that newer CHP FPIUs change flash patterns depending on if its Wail or Yelp, which is pretty cool!  I linked a video below showing it. I don't know if this, or something similar, is what @PNWParksFan was referring too, but hopefully someone finds the vid cool :D
 

 

1 hour ago, rms8723 said:

This isn't possible with carcols but I just thought I'd mention that newer CHP FPIUs change flash patterns depending on if its Wail or Yelp, which is pretty cool!  I linked a video below showing it. I don't know if this, or something similar, is what @PNWParksFan was referring too, but hopefully someone finds the vid cool :D

 

It's a cool concept, but CHP's patterns, IMO, are really stupid. Slow full-flash for a yelp? I don't like it.