The Loot

Would absolutely love to see something like this.

Wow, that is a nice idea and a throwback to San Andreas. Boy, it would be nice if someone was planning on making something like that.

It's possible. You'd just have to find an appropriate car mod, rename it and install it over the existing vehicle, and then make a new carvariations entry for that modelname with the correct sirensetting value for the car mod.

LSPDFR has all it's backup spawning settings in the backup.xml file in the LSPDFR folder. But as ineseri said, that only changes things that LSPDFR does itself, and not things the game does by default. To do that: update.rpf/common/data/ai/vehiclemodelsets.meta and update.rpf/x64/levels/gta5/popgroups.ymt (this one is still encrypted on the PC, so you'll have to track down a mod like Back on the Beat or bigger ones like Realism Dispatch Enhanced for an unlocked file to use). Look through those files, find police, police2, or police3 and make sure the others all have entries as well in each case (same with the two Sheriff vehicles). If you want copcars to spawn more in traffic, you'll need another file: update.rpf/common/data/levels/gta5/popcycle.dat. In this one, you'd have to take the police groups defined in popgroups, and add new vehicle sets to each and every time frame line in each and every zone entry. That will be a lot of work, so really I suggest tracking down Back on the Beat if you waren't up for the task of adding RDE to your game.

Well, if it uses the same measurements as the game's default wanted spawning, 350 should work just fine. Does it use the same scale?

Well, I'm pretty sure the Park Ranger and Sheriff Granger setting works for the FIB Granger (haven't actually taken a real close look), so you can try the Police/Sheriff Cruiser setting for an unmarked cruiser, and I suppose the Police Buffalo setting for the FIB Buffalo. No guarantees, though.

As I said, you have to create a new entry in a DLC pack that has the meta file; the original vehicle entries are in an encrypted ymt file. I assume you still used the fbi2 slot for the Granger? I'm not entirely sure why it would work differently. Perhaps the color setup for that slot only has a primary color and doesn't apply an overlay color, or it could be something with the Sheriff2 model. Or it could be that the Buffalo S model you used has issues that might need to be fixed. Really don't know.

You'll have to make a new carvariations.meta entry for it in one of the DLC packs that includes the file, so it spawns in colors that work with the new model and textures.

Oh, that is looking sweet. Proper police business for LSPDFR! You mentioned getting the vehicle owner down to assess damage, make sure to add asking them if they actually know the suspect. Maybe the whole thing's a misunderstanding.

Right, but I want it to load only after another plugin is, i.e LSPDFR, like those plugins can be made to do. Things like Search Vehicle, Search Ped, Passive Radar are made as regular RPH plugins, and thus would load even without LSPDFR being loaded. I was just wondering if there was a way to force them to rely on loading that without having to specifically make them LSPDFR plugins.

Obviously, if they are made specifically as an LSPDFR plugin, it works, but is there any way to take a normal RAGE plugin and make it do that without having to make it a mod plugin?

It uses FBI2, I believe, along with the Park Ranger. You'll either have to replace that and affect all those vehicles, or add a new entry named Sheriff2.

Nice work, makes Code 2 backup much better.