Hello all,
A fellow technician for enterprise equipment, so I have had great success with implementing then testing mod to mod.

Ive taken the time to collect 0.4+ compatible mods (90% by allbo) and get them all to work within each other.
Some .INI files need to be edited to avoid player frustration still regarding controller/keyboard control. No crashes are experienced in this fileset.
Further, The file set was produced on a "vanilla" GTA5 Vehicles &  sounds, - with regular Rockstar updates. 

Here's a quick look at the entire directory I propose to upload - if possible, I would like beta, and feedback, or maybe for it to be implemented in 0.4-2 or a optional update package with the LSPDFR installation. Installation of these plugins, and the desired configurations, including for the plugins not to crash each other, took a painstaking 10+ hours of fine tweaking binds, and beta testing plugin by plugin to locate faults that could cause a startup crash.
I can now consistently run this file set with no crashes.


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*Now,  I'm just curious who would be interested in such a file set?
And would it be added to the list of files for download? I'd Love to add to this plugin/callout bundle once more items become available.


The court system could work better, but with this file set, you are as close as it gets to a beat officer. Traffic tickets, random call outs, street crime, holdups, and numerous callouts, endless hours of non-crashing fun can be done with this package alone. 

Callout "bank heist" was disabled in the .ini as it would crash, or lag the CPU pretty hard.

Speaking of CPU.

Here are the specs, from the computer used for testing:




 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So, anyone interested?

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A quick note,

My PC maybe a bit under powered for some, but the game runs a solid 20-25 FPS with the mod installed and plugins running.
I found this to be a good base floor to test from, as more capable machine should be able to run this and the plugins, with additional plugins for ELS and special things like this.

Personally, I choose not to run ELS, or load modded cars, ect; because of instability issues associated with doing so.

Ive posted a Beta version of the file, to be reviewed and hopefully added ( forgot to remove the LSPDFR configurator.exe, oops )

Please look for the file there if your interested as it should be posted.

Soon, a "golden" stable version, with full documentation on installation and operation will be included.
As the page advises, if you are unsure how to install the file with no instruction, please wait until the Golden version is released.

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1 hour ago, Joegerberjoe said:

Ive posted a Beta version of the file, to be reviewed and hopefully added ( forgot to remove the LSPDFR configurator.exe, oops )

Please look for the file there if your interested as it should be posted.

Soon, a "golden" stable version, with full documentation on installation and operation will be included.
As the page advises, if you are unsure how to install the file with no instruction, please wait until the Golden version is released.

- 1369666

 

 

While I understand wanting to help the community, there's a reason that there are no "all in one" mod packages on here, 5mods, or any other legitimate GTA mod hosting website.  Almost all of these mods say not to redistribute, and the rules of LCPDFR, 5 mods, etc all say the uploaded mods must be yours

 

Aside from that, I frown upon all in one packages because you have brand new players installing mods they don't even know the name of.  If they need support of any kind, they come here and expect us to fix everything for them when in reality, they could've fixed the issue themselves had they taken the time to look at the mod page of the mod they installed, and new what it was they installed.    Part of modding is experience and learning how to install things and learning the name of the mods you're installing and what they do.  If you're not willing to take the time necessary to learn how to mod your game, you shouldn't mod it at all.

Edited April 6, 20197 yr by Reddington

You won't get permission for this. 99% of the mod authors don't want their mods in a big pack due to the issues it will bring. 

14 hours ago, Reddington said:

 

While I understand wanting to help the community, there's a reason that there are no "all in one" mod packages on here, 5mods, or any other legitimate GTA mod hosting website.  Almost all of these mods say not to redistribute, and the rules of LCPDFR, 5 mods, etc all say the uploaded mods must be yours

 

Aside from that, I frown upon all in one packages because you have brand new players installing mods they don't even know the name of.  If they need support of any kind, they come here and expect us to fix everything for them when in reality, they could've fixed the issue themselves had they taken the time to look at the mod page of the mod they installed, and new what it was they installed.    Part of modding is experience and learning how to install things and learning the name of the mods you're installing and what they do.  If you're not willing to take the time necessary to learn how to mod your game, you shouldn't mod it at all.

 

10 hours ago, FKDZ said:

You won't get permission for this. 99% of the mod authors don't want their mods in a big pack due to the issues it will bring. 

 

As these two have outlined, this would be against our file upload policy. 

I apologize, I failed to realize the implications of this.

I tried to modify the keys n things to avoid conflicts, and was going to write up a extensive, but reddington really hit the nail on the head.
Then drove it home with the last paragraph.
However, It saddens me some may not be able to enjoy the absolute pleasure 0.4 brings to the table - although I have to admit, modding 5 is way easier then the IV days, in some aspects.

I apologize again LSPDFR team.



 

13 hours ago, Joegerberjoe said:

I apologize, I failed to realize the implications of this.

I tried to modify the keys n things to avoid conflicts, and was going to write up a extensive, but reddington really hit the nail on the head.
Then drove it home with the last paragraph.
However, It saddens me some may not be able to enjoy the absolute pleasure 0.4 brings to the table - although I have to admit, modding 5 is way easier then the IV days, in some aspects.

I apologize again LSPDFR team.



 

 

hi @Joegerberjoe,

 

you did nothing wrong. you had a good intention to help others in the LSPDFR community.

it's just the site policy that prevents someone to create a bundle plugins which might lead to some issues.

 

i think you can still continue your work by posting in this forum about step-by-step on how you prepare your bundle plugin and make LSPDFR works.

that would be awesome and definitely useful for newbie players.

 

Edited April 10, 20197 yr by Pazzi

6 hours ago, Pazzi said:

 

hi @Joegerberjoe,

 

it's just the site policy that prevents someone to create a bundle plugins which might lead to some issues.

 

 

 

It's not just the site policy, it's mod developer policy.  Almost all of the mod authors explicitly state "do not redistribute".  Refer back to my post above which lists all the issues as a result of doing something like this, and why it is universally frowned upon.

21 hours ago, Joegerberjoe said:

I apologize, I failed to realize the implications of this.

I tried to modify the keys n things to avoid conflicts, and was going to write up a extensive, but reddington really hit the nail on the head.
Then drove it home with the last paragraph.
However, It saddens me some may not be able to enjoy the absolute pleasure 0.4 brings to the table - although I have to admit, modding 5 is way easier then the IV days, in some aspects.

I apologize again LSPDFR team.



 

*New Member Opinion Imminent* 😉

 

Could you not just do a write-up for the .ini files without posting the actual mods? One of the biggest things I've seen people comment about is getting things working together.

I'm sure many of us use some of these mods already so having an AIO would be pointless even if it was allowed. Sharing your knowledge of how you got everything to work together may benefit new and old users alike. I use a controller and spent a good week setting everything up to work on it. I'd do the write-up myself, but when you consider I'm using more than 40 mods, it would take a while! ELS, STP, Traffic Policer, Interaction+, ALPR etc - it's not easy to map all that, lol! Thank god for Xpadder.

Good plan. Ill definitely see if i can make an extensive write up instead!

Do not redistribute  - I always seen this as, scratching out someone else's name, putting a line a code in then putting it off as my own, or redistributing it on another website, claiming as my own. It was my full intent to track the ...3? authors and include them into the documentation.


I'm glad users seen past my ignorance on this, as yes - it was entirely in good faith.
Attempting to make a better experience for players out of an already incredible modification to this game.

(Again guys, this is glorious, I was unrealistically excited the first few hour I tested it out, and saw the entire new platform, the chases. My jaw dropped, had to get it wired back into place). 

I was actually hoping some of this mod set, maybe could be implemented with future (if any) roll outs of 0.4 updates. or (if created) 0.5 could have these actions the plugin achieves, to the main LSPDFR installation, much like stop the ped, tfc stop, ect. ect. has been added.

It really drives the whole experience home.

However, I'm constantly making tweaks and adjustments to various .ini files to make the experience either more realistic - or a certain action /script has crashed the LSPDFR mod, though not the game.

Realizing my computer is under powered for this, I found the right plugin sequence - and the time spent to minimize crashes was minimal compared to other projects of this scope. With the Hopes some of these mods listed would possibly implemented based off my research - with more experienced Developers, beta testers - it could be like the API alone - it just works - no crashes.

Especially the court system. I have to say, this system is what made me specifically look for Albo's mods primarily. The system at first had bugs, probably due to my system, but man do I love seeing the ticket outcomes, arrests - ect. If theres a system I would love to see implemented out of all the modifications - its that. 

When I was installing the set of mods, it was my goal to get Albo's mods working first (cause they are so reliable 90% of the time) and then add other mods which turned out to be as reliable - as they had been designed for 0.4.

40 plugins is going to be excessive for my PC I would think - based off the experience I have with the set posted above.
EUP really puts a load on the whole thing, further, seems to crash the mod completely at times. Using EUP 7.5, I feel updating EUP will probably fix this.

This" all-in-one" package was going to be intended for low end CPU users - with little to no internet access (like myself), where they can bring the file home from a place of internet access, and install the package on their tower at home - Or assist a friend who is interested with the installation and use of the mod all together.

With that said, High end users with no internet access could utilize it as well - installing the file set as a base platform, then installing the users desired mods or other-wise later, with out going "oh no, I forgot to get XYZ" - as happened to me 3 times. .

So in short, this would be a guide for low-access- high experience , users will just have to go to the download spots individually, to obtain the files which isn't too big of a deal.

This path of support, also leaves room for the individual user - to configure key/controller bindings, callour frequencies, and other variables, to their personal liking.

Thanks for the intelligent, respectful input all.



 

Unfortunately, there's egos involved in everything, and that makes this sort of thing very hard - not just in GTA5 or LSPDFR community. 

 

Documentation is incredibly important and everyone should be writing mods and changes with the intent to pass the knowledge along. This is seriously one of the hardest games to mod and one thing that would make things easier would be if everyone began using comments in XML files, ESPECIALLY gameconfig and several meta files - explaining what everything actually DOES in the game. 

 

On 4/12/2019 at 5:16 PM, Starsickle said:

Unfortunately, there's egos involved in everything, and that makes this sort of thing very hard - not just in GTA5 or LSPDFR community. 

 

Documentation is incredibly important and everyone should be writing mods and changes with the intent to pass the knowledge along. This is seriously one of the hardest games to mod and one thing that would make things easier would be if everyone began using comments in XML files, ESPECIALLY gameconfig and several meta files - explaining what everything actually DOES in the game. 

Still trying to figure out customs sirens, without crashing the game, causing a -verify to run, then a 100MB to download when modifying resident.

Agreed, easy in other areas, stupid hard in others.

Quick question.

 

Where would one post such a write-up?

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20 minutes ago, 13696662 said:

 

Quick question.

 

Where would one post such a write-up?

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Modding Discussion & Information.

ok well, looks like we can close this topic then, I have posted the write up in the suggested forum.

Thanks team.