AI -- To ELS or Not to ELS. + Custom PED question

[Solidefiance 142]

How many people use ELS for AI cops vs. turning it off for the AI? 

 

Also, how would one go about having a specific PED spawn in a specific vehicle? For example, I've created a custom DLC pack with custom add-on cars, such as 'Sheriff3' etc, etc. Everything works as it is supposed to, but one thing has escaped me.....how do I get a basic sheriff cop PED to spawn in the custom add-on car? For now the basic LSPD uniformed officers spawn in the car, rather than the intended sheriff ped, for the sheriff car. 

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

[Reddington 4,447]

21 minutes ago, Solidefiance said:

How many people use ELS for AI cops vs. turning it off for the AI? 

 

Also, how would one go about having a specific PED spawn in a specific vehicle? For example, I've created a custom DLC pack with custom add-on cars, such as 'Sheriff3' etc, etc. Everything works as it is supposed to, but one thing has escaped me.....how do I get a basic sheriff cop PED to spawn in the custom add-on car? For now the basic LSPD uniformed officers spawn in the car, rather than the intended sheriff ped, for the sheriff car. 

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

 

1)  For right now, I have ELS active on AI.  However, I may disable it in the future.  I get so fed up of cops driving around code 3, or responding to a traffic stop backup call and the entire time the officer is waiting, his siren is blaring.  AI doesn't use ELS, so there's truly no reason for it to be for them.  That said, I don't know how ELS not being active on AI cops will change things - if at all.

 

2) In the vehicles.meta, look for this line:

 

<drivers>
        <Item>
          <driverName>S_M_Y_Cop_01</driverName>
          <npcName />
        </Item>
      </drivers>

 

Change s_m_y_cop_01 to s_m_y_sheriff_01, or whichever ped.  Do note, however, if you call in for backup, your backup.xml will override the meta, and you'll get s_m_y_cop_01 if you're in the city.  If you're in Blaine County, it will be Sheriff ped.  To my knowledge, the only way to change this is to change the backup ped in backup.xml.

[Solidefiance 142]

13 hours ago, Deputy Rourke said:

 

1)  For right now, I have ELS active on AI.  However, I may disable it in the future.  I get so fed up of cops driving around code 3, or responding to a traffic stop backup call and the entire time the officer is waiting, his siren is blaring.  AI doesn't use ELS, so there's truly no reason for it to be for them.  That said, I don't know how ELS not being active on AI cops will change things - if at all.

 

2) In the vehicles.meta, look for this line:

 

 

<drivers>
        <Item>
          <driverName>S_M_Y_Cop_01</driverName>
          <npcName />
        </Item>
      </drivers>

 

 

Change s_m_y_cop_01 to s_m_y_sheriff_01, or whichever ped.  Do note, however, if you call in for backup, your backup.xml will override the meta, and you'll get s_m_y_cop_01 if you're in the city.  If you're in Blaine County, it will be Sheriff ped.  To my knowledge, the only way to change this is to change the backup ped in backup.xml.

Thanks! Yes. I'm not a big fan of how Els works with Ai currently. Constant code 3, sometimes the ai doesn't even have their lights on at all, which is an odd sight to see when you're in a pursuit. Sometimes the ai will be code 3, but no lights (especially on traffic stop backup calls), like you mentioned. They constantly get stuck in a singular siren tone too, which both annoying and odd. 

 

One thing I was unaware though, I thought the ai took advantage of the els lights? If not, then I truly have no reason to have them use els in its current state. I only kept ai els on for the lighting reason, otherwise it's pretty buggy. 

[Reddington 4,447]

On 6/23/2017 at 1:40 PM, Solidefiance said:

Thanks! Yes. I'm not a big fan of how Els works with Ai currently. Constant code 3, sometimes the ai doesn't even have their lights on at all, which is an odd sight to see when you're in a pursuit. Sometimes the ai will be code 3, but no lights (especially on traffic stop backup calls), like you mentioned. They constantly get stuck in a singular siren tone too, which both annoying and odd. 

 

One thing I was unaware though, I thought the ai took advantage of the els lights? If not, then I truly have no reason to have them use els in its current state. I only kept ai els on for the lighting reason, otherwise it's pretty buggy. 

 

AI cops are unaffected by ELS. They cannot take advantage of ELS's features like we can.

Edited August 8, 2017 by Kallus Rourke