Sam

I agree, the police cars are looking better by the day it seems. That does look like an LED lightbar, whereas the first trailer showed them with an MX700 style one, so they definitely seem to be improving on things. Also the grille lights and better body shape are good signs, not to mention the picture of the pursuit with the blue light flare which looks much better than anything we've ever had before. Looks promising.

Be warned that the POLP and POLC have a bug where shooting windows can cause crashes. No idea what causes it, but LtCaine, myself and a few others have tried to get around it to no avail.

Invisible peds and vehicles are really useful, they can solve a few problems. I would say the same about my coding skills as well though, I'm not nearly in the same league as LMS or Jay. I think the difference though is that I can come up with all sorts of creative ways of doing stuff and making it look vaguely realistic. Abraxas and I are probably in the same boat on that one.

I really like some of the stuff you've added to the latest release, especially the progress you're making with the graphical interfaces. The roadblocks are looking good as well, we had some code for them in LCPDFR (well, we still do, it just isn't usable) but it was a pain getting them to spawn correctly and even if you did get it right, they were more or less useless and it seemed to cause more problems than it was worth - looks like you've got them working much better than we ever did anyway.

It's always been LCPDFR. I don't really know where the colon came from actually, lots of people just started putting it like that. I guess adding the colon makes more sense, but I prefer it without. As for finding out about LCPDFR, I think most people found it through GTAForums where everything was initially, then GPM (especially in August-December 2011 when they started on the path to their current train-wreck state), and now the thousands of LCPDFR videos on YouTube. I feel left out because I don't get to say where I found out about it :(

It's still in C++

To answer an earlier question, yes it does now have support for added vehicles, as well as boats! Nicolai and myself have been involved with this for a little while now, I've not had the chance to test it yet although NB has been for quite some time and from what he's told me it is just simply amazing in terms of the attention to detail and especially the new siren stuff. I also don't think I can blame ELS for crashes any more - it's very stable! Also, everyone is in for a real treat this spring as Caine, LMS and myself have been working on another script as well. It is at the moment similar to what Grady is doing with his corona mod, although my goal here is to simulate a working rotator lightbar with proper patterns and visibility stuff, e.g. If the light is shrinking to the left, you can't see it from the right of the car. So yeah, it's a pretty exciting time for all of us right now. I was really happy when Caine resurfaced if you like a few months back. It has been awesome working with him again and by the looks of things everyone is just as excited as I am!

Yeah, I saw it that way as well, although I just wanted a change considering the change the site was going through. Me too.

I never really imagined any of this would actually happen. Creating something as big as this was never planned or intended, I just wanted to play as a cop in GTA, and with the help of my really weak programming knowledge and the .NET scripthook began working on it. It was really bad, it was buggy, it was horribly coded, it only did a few things, but it was still somewhat revolutionary. Just being able to call for a backup car, despite how terribly coded that feature was, was a complete game-changer in itself. Sure, you could get the police uniform, use police-like weapons, drive cruisers and do vigilante side missions, but to take it one step further and actually give the player the ability to call backup was, in my opinion, the defining feature of this mod at the time, and one of the most significant developments as far as police car/ped/script modding goes. SA-MP had undoubtedly put police car modding in GTA on the map in a big way as you could go on-line, join a roleplay or cops and robbers server, and be whatever sort of cop you wanted to be. You had the super-realistic on some of the bigger roleplay servers and the plain crazy on CrazyBob's and it was this sort of thing that really got people modding their police cars, and spawned things like GPM, with BxBugs leading the way. GTA IV didn't have this though, the most you could do was the Cops and Crooks multiplayer mode, which sucked. There were a few vigilante missions and chases and that was it. I really doubt that without something special to get the ball rolling, police car modding would have been nearly as big as it is today, and that, I think, is where LCPDFR came in. It, for the first time ever, let you play as a cop, however you wanted to play, in single player. Obviously, it became quite clear that the mod was taking off and around that time, I set up the first version of the LCPDFR website, hosted on, believe it or not, my uncle's shared hosting account at xgweb.co.uk/cops (maybe someone has a picture of it?!) At that point in time though, the website was simply that: a website. It was pretty crappy, using some horrid HTML template I found and just contained a bunch of static pages which sucked. Even still, things kept on growing, and then sometime in late 2009, Jay and I met in school and became pretty good friends, I showed him it, and he set up the next version of the site which used Drupal and had user accounts and a shoutbox, etc. with the GTA IV skyline background that some of you might remember. It was fine, but still pretty boring I suppose, so at some point in 2010, we moved to Invision Power Board, and introduced a forum for the first time. For the first year or so, the forum wasn't really the most active place in the world and the most used part of it was easily the downloads section to download LCPDFR (there wasn't really anything else to download, lol). Everything changed, however, shortly after the summer of 2011. GPM had, until that point, been the place to go for everything police/fire/EMS modding related. It had some of the best modders around, like Lt.Caine and Bxbugs, some amazing texture artists like FOwner and gfxle and a bunch of guys from GTA SA like Boo, Matthias and 05Bowtie. At the time, I was also on GPM, with Caine and Bugs as the deputy directors of the site, with Caine and myself playing a large part in the actual day-to-day management of the site. It was, as you all will probably remember, the golden era of GPM and of our modding community in general, with all of the top authors in one place, with the largest member base. Anyway, one week I went to Paris to see some of my family who had moved there, and when I was checking up on things at GPM, I noticed AlecDurbin had been up to no good, provoking and abusing members like normal. I was pretty annoyed with him (and the French summer heatwave didn't help matters either), so I issued him a pretty stern warning, and he basically came back at me, in public, saying I would have to ban him if I wanted him to stop. He got his wish. A few hours later, I see his ban was no longer in the database, so I simply re-applied it, and then another few hours later its gone again. I couldn't really be bothered checking it out, so I just banned him again, and then bam, I get banned myself - it seemed as though daedaelus and Mike Garber (as they call themselves), along with a few others, hadn't taken too kindly to me enforcing the rules against Alec, and were all pretty pissed at me. I told them to piss off, then I got accused of stealing Lt.Caine's ERP SA-MP script (obviously I did no such thing), and banned. At first, it was hard to tell what direction things were going in. I was in Paris and had to wait a few days before actually looking into the whole situation that was going on. It seemed I wasn't the only one that was fed up with the politics over at GPM though and slowly but surely, more and more people started to leave, such as Lt.Caine, their public relations director and some of their other staff. Jay and I decided that perhaps it was time to offer an alternative to GPM, so we did just that, opening up our downloads section to everybody and promoting it. This was the start of LCPDFR.com as you know it today, and the rest, as they say. is history. Our site grew massively, to the point where we completely and undeniably overtook GPM as the largest site of its kind and grew into what you see before you. Regardless of the weird journey this site has had, it has been an amazing ride, and I'm just so happy that everybody seems to like it as much as we all do. I've done my very best to make us unique, friendly and different. The staff team are putting in enormous amounts of efforts (NicolaiB has sent more than 50 personal messages this week alone as part of his work) and we're all just hopeful that this astonishing growth will continue. 100,000 members anyone?

I'm pretty sure that if you edit the corona texture to blue, you will get blue and purple lights as it will still add red to the ones that are meant to be red. As far as I know, you can't do much with the default lights in terms of editing them, other than what was done here:

I'm considering this.

Community Team & Staffing Update - 05 March 2013 As many of you will have noticed, we have three new faces on the LCPDFR Community Team, with cp702, c13 and Original Light joining us as junior moderators. We've been looking at how to improve our staffing arrangements for the past couple of weeks now, and hope that these new additions will be able to better enable us to provide a better experience for everyone by increasing the overall efficiency, visibility and activity of the Community Team. On the same note, I'd like to say thanks to Flambe and Synapt, two longstanding members of the team, who as of today are no longer with us due to a lack of activity. Unfortunately we've been unable to reach Synapt, although we hope to welcome Flambe back onto the team when he gets some time during breaks from his studies. Our new staff members will be working initially under the guidance supervision of NicolaiB, who has recently undertaken the Community Team Supervisor, taking over from Olanov who resigned it a few months ago. I will also be personally overseeing this. I hope that everyone will join with me in welcoming our new staff members to the team, Sam.

Vegas, Seattle and Chicago are all good choices. I was always disappointed by the recreation of Vegas in SA and think they need to 're-do' it like they did with LC in GTA IV, I think it would offer some interesting dynamics with the casino, tourist and mob culture, and the desert area around it would of course come into play. I can imagine them spending almost all of their time on recreating the strip, which would probably make for some really amazing visuals and immersion.

What was the name of the one that was supposedly deleted though?

What account?

I'm gonna ban you (for incomplete accusations, of course - pretty sure you missed a few)!

I'm sure that a lot of people would want to know why the topic was hidden and why he was banned, given the popularity of what he was claiming to have made, which is why he was used as an example. We want people to know that we're not going to put up with that stuff, and sometimes its easier to get that point across by actually showing an example of it. For the record I never said that he was lying or deceiving anyone, but that he was evading a previous ban and violating our account policy. Sure, I could make a generic announcement about our account policy, but only a small number of people would actually read it, or care about it, or even believe it. It would be like a news agency covering some economic policy change in China on 9/11 - it simply doesn't matter. At least this way we get our point across, our members find out what happened to RMC, and we show that we actually care about the community and are always working to make it better. On that note, we're not declaring open season on him or going to let people go down the abuse road, although I don't really think what's been said so far is abusive - it's just people expressing their disappointment and how they feel about him based on what has come to light. As far as being business like goes, I don't like being like that as it just isn't me. I try to do my best to be quite open and welcoming and approachable about things and I know that a lot of people appreciate that. I do my best to reply to the PMs I get, I don't ignore things like your post and I just generally try to make this place special and unique, and maybe things like this are why it is. For me, the business approach just feels like 'We don't give a damn about your opinion/feeling/thoughts, but we'll post this generic and boring message to go with them".

Go ahead.

That screenshot is legitimate actually, they genuinely are scripted in lights. Example: Not default lights, but scripted (by me - spoiler alert!)

Probably, I think its easy enough to tell that the screenshot was just an ELS car with the extras enabled using a Trainer - as far as Caine, LMS and myself are aware, it's just not possible to toggle the extras without repairing the car. Obviously he had actually done something with the light coronas, and I know that he was asking for help in the ScriptHook DotNet IRC channel so there might be some other substance to the code, just not the extras stuff. I'm not aware of anyone ripping Kevin's models?

Meh, eventually we'll catch on. We can't stop people from using proxies but we can catch them in the act of spewing bullshit. And if you suspect or know it's him, why not tell us?

Unfortunately there's been a considerable increase in the amount of stupidity on the forums recently, and we have a few examples and reminders that need to be shared. Firstly, multiple accounts aren't allowed on LCPDFR.com, we like it when everyone has one account, that way we know who you are, everybody else knows who you are and it makes it so much easier on everybody. Please don't create new accounts if you don't like your name or anything like that. You can change your name under your profile, and you can change everything else like e-mail address, avatar and signature too. If you have a legitimate reason for needing a new account, you can simply contact us and we'll be happy to assist you with it. Similarly, if you do have multiple accounts just now, please contact us as well and we'll merge them for you, keeping whatever profile/name you want. We will be hunting down people who violate our single account policy as it actually causes a lot of problems, much more than you might think. If you are actively using more than one account, the chances are that we will find out and you will be penalised for it, so it's not worth it - message us and we'll sort it out instead. To shine light on the problems that multiple accounts create, the recent Emergency Safety Systems topic by RMC is a brilliant example: As you can see it gets to the point where the topic needs to be locked and hidden because people started to question whether or not it was actually real and very quickly it reaches a point where it needs to be locked. This relates to our account policy, as the user RMC might be better known by the name of one of his other accounts, ANTI, and now by his current account name as Influenza (which is now permanently banned for multiple violations of our account policy, as well as trying to obstruct our staff). In fact, ANTI had previously claimed to have created a fire department simulation mod for GTA IV, which was eventually found to be deception as well. The second thing to highlight is that we just don't put up with abusive messages being sent as PMs. When you get a new message on the site, you don't expect it to be a repetitive succession of profanity directed towards you, and we don't expect that from anyone either, quite the opposite actually. If you send messages which are plainly abusive in nature, the member you are messaging will simply pass it on to us (it takes one click of the report button), and you'll most likely get banned for it. We try to be relaxed and approachable when it comes to community moderation, and from the general response we get it feels like we're doing a really good job at that. Still, that does not mean we will put up with any of this childish garbage (and that's exactly what it is) and we'll simply ban people that disregard our community guidelines like this. We accept that as this site grows and diversifies, the type of people who use it changes, the amount of them increases and there are more disagreements over things because not everyone is here as a fan of one mod (like they used to be in 2010). While we accept that, and welcome it, we're not going to let it affect the thousands of dedicated members here, and we will do what it takes to enforce that. Sam.

Seems like a pretty dumb move by the cops. Ordering the media to clear out, then giving the order to torch the cabin ("go ahead with the burn like we talked about") doesn't seem like a very good way to reassure the public that you've moved on and all of that stuff like Charlie Beck and the others have been claiming. They all so desperately want the public to have confidence in the police, but I'm not sure how they can when they are breaking the law themselves with arson and murder. It's annoying that people support him (I don't really think you can support him if he kills people himself) but I think its easier to see why now, given that the cops are making themselves quite hard to support as well. I don't really think anybody is upset that he's gone after the people he killed, but then again it looks like the police have just done an execution job themselves which is just the wrong way to end this, considering that the higher ups in the LAPD said they wanted it to end without anyone else dying - looks like they lied if an order was given to execute him.

CPU is the main one, a faster processor will run through all the cars quicker and do the operations on them quicker, resulting in faster and smoother effects.