southaussiemate

I just had a few ideas pop into my head while patrolling regarding traffic stops. I'll list them below. I understand these could be hard, or damn near impossible to make but I'm just throwing some friendly suggestions out there. -Passenger seat computer access After stopping a vehicle and grabbing the drivers details we could walk to the passenger side of our patrol car, check the licence and get out on the same side so we don't get run over on the freeway. I don't mind if the player still slides over to the drivers seat...just have him slide back to the passenger seat and exit in safety. -Ask a driver to move to a safer location Before talking to the driver, place a waypoint on the map (eg. next exit ramp) then when we walk up to the window we can tell them to move to that location and pull over again as normal. This would be a lot safer if we needed to arrest the driver or make them walk due to an expired licence or damaged vehicle. -Increased fines/citations I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but here in Australia $100 wouldn't even cover a "failure to indicate". A basic speeding fine is around $200 going off of personal experience. How about options for $50, $125 and $200? maybe even a 4th option for $300. It's not a big deal but it is more realistic. -Slower traffic Have vehicles reduce their speed to a safe limit starting roughly 50 to 100 meters behind your car and speed up again once they pass the vehicle you have stopped but only affecting the traffic on your side of the road. Oncoming traffic should not be affected . Once again, This adds to safety and realism. The construction zones on the Plumbers Skyway have a decent speed limit you might be able to copy -Call for assistance Call for a backup unit to assist with a potentially dangerous stop such as a stolen vehicle or owner warrant. After the backup unit arrives the cop behaves like your partner would. If the suspect opens fire on you the other cop can drop him. If the suspect makes a run for it the other cop returns to his vehicle and gives chase and if the traffic stop ends without incident he returns to his vehicle and continues patrolling. Also...Any cop that joins my pursuits treats me as though i am totally invisible! They make no effort what so ever to go around me on the road. Instead, they will attempt to drive right through me as though i don't exist. I'm not talking about a pile up on corners or any of that typical stuff. I mean on a straight road like Union Drive or the Algonquin/Dukes Expressway. Traveling in a straight line at roughly the same speed they will just slowly shove you off the road to get past. Could someone PLEASE fix or reduce that. The pile ups i can live with. Thanks for reading, I hope these ideas could be useful.

My game was working perfectly 2 days ago. I was messing around with some very low end ENB mods to see if my system could handle any when nearly every file from my "common" and "pc" folders dissapeared. I didn't even touch those damn folders. all i did was remove the ENB files from the main directory and place my old timecycle and visual settings files back where they are supposed to go. NOTHING ELSE. Anyway, since then i have reinstalled those files from a backup and also reinstalled every mod i had before the incident. Everything works properly again now but i have no engine sound at all. I hear the basic road noise like the tires and stuff and i hear that high pitch turbo sound from certain cars but nothing else. every vehicle is the same and i cannot figure it out for the life of me! Just to clarify.... -All files from "pc" and "common" totally replaced/reinstalled. -Exactly the same models, sounds and scripts as before. -Same custom handling lines, visual settings, time cycle and so on. -Every other sound is still there. Does anyone have any idea why i don't have engine noises? I've spent 2 days trying to figure it out.... EDIT: Turns out that the only file that wasn't replaced was the STREAMED_VEHICLES.rpf in the audio folder. I've replaced it now and everything works fine.

Awesome. looking foward to it!

I was watching an episode of "Cops" last night and some of it featured the Rialto police. The design cought my eye. Type "Rialto police cars" in google and there is a ton of useful pics there. It's a basic design, mostly black with white front doors and a white roof, "POLICE" written across the front doors with a blue line behind that stretching on to the rear doors. I know absolutely nothing about American departments so i have no idea how many cars they have but they appear to use CVPI's and the new ford police vehicles as a minimum.

I just checked out the downloads area and came across a Crown Vic with a MX7000 ELS "drot" enabled lightbar (awesome car) based on the LSPD and LSSD cars from GTA V. This awesome car gave me an idea for a possible pack. Think about how Rockstar designed the GTA IV and GTA V police cars and how they resemble their real life counterparts and the small things like "obey & survive" instead of "serve & protect". With that in mind, why not be creative and make some vehicles for some other GTA cities and their surrounds. Here's a few ideas for models and what they could be based on. -Las Venturas metro PD (Las Vegas Metro) -North Las Venturas PD (North Las Vegas PD) -Bone County Sheriff/highway patrol (Nevada HWP) -San Fierro PD -Flint County sheriff (Alameda county) forgive me if i'm wrong. -San Andreas highway patrol (California HWP) -Vice City PD -State highway patrol (Florida HWP) -(insert random county sheriff here) I would like to see these on the DSF Crown Vic but I'll be more than happy with the GTA V vehicles to keep it authentic. I could make up some textures for you if you need help. If you've seen my Australian packs you should know that im good for quality!

if you done it right you should have all ELS features Enabled on that vehicle and yes, this should work on every vehicle. Keep in mind though that unless the vehicle being replace was a police car to begin with, civilians will not move for the sirens and i don't think you can pull people over or use the police computer.

If you have ELSv8 the "_SLOTCONTROL" file should be in your ELS folder. With ELSv7 i think the file is in your GTA IV directory. With both versions just add the following lines under the rest of them... [ POLICEW ] Status = on File = default_config Pay attention to the position of spaces and capital letters and such or it may not work

I'm not sure what you mean there. The only style i know of is the highway patrol look alike with the diagonal checkers and orange stripes. I've already released a pack with those and i'm not sure if i will work on an update any time soon. If the demand for an update is high then i might have a go.

No problem, you might be happy to know that since i posted this i have released a WA police highway patrol skin pack containing 3 textures for the FG Falcon and 5 textures for the Commodore. They can be found on gta-mod-center.com (all of my packs will be released there from now on)

Yeah Snit has mentioned a few times that he has a Sprinter like that in the works but it has the fancy spoiler/wing on the back. In all honesty though i'm not even sure he is still working on it. There hasn't been so much as a whisper about it for a long time.

These models would be a great idea now that we have so many LVMPD uniforms released.

In additions to Reibu's post, If you choose to edit the Visualsettings.dat file you only need to change one number. Change the line "car.default.emmisive.on 10" to a higher number. If you are using an un-edited timecycle.dat the value of that line should be 10 by default (or close to 10). just change it to 15 or 20 to start with and test it in game then repeat the process until you're happy with it. Or you could skip the hard work and install an ENB or time cycle mod that is already optimised for els like this. Edit: ENB mods are the reason that so many people's game looks so nice but you need a powerful computer to use them. If you're computer can't handle an ENB then download a timecycle mod instead. a timecycle mod improves the look of the game but doesn't affect performance. There is many different versions of each so i suggest you use youtube or google to find one you like and do a little research on what they actually do to your game. Good luck...

Hell YES! Australia needs some love from R*. Sydney and it's surrounds would be great. What with Kings Cross and all..... I don't watch the news much any more but I'm pretty sure the bikies/motorcycle gangs play a huge part in the crime rates in that end of the country. The story could be similar to that of GTA IV:TLAD but focus more on the dispute between clubs. And take things like our very strict gun laws into concideration. A game like this, with the detail of the "next gen" GTA V and just by being in Australia could make the company a massive fortune. Imagine speeding down the highway in the outback and having a kangaroo jump out in front of you at the last second....you cant get more realistic than that haha

There is also a mod that is literally called "els enhancer" or something. it's what i use and it not only makes the lights brighter but it also greatly reduces that cross effect on the els lights. And it makes the rest of the game look amazing. I'm pretty sure i got it from gta4-mods.com Edit: Never mind....The post before me has a link to it. I highly reccomend it though.

I would like to see Vice City with the new capabilities of the ps4 and such but unless it was set in the 80's or early 90's it just wouldn't work for me unless it had a kick ass story to it. Ever since GTA IV came out I was wishing they would do Las Venturas again. Now with the release of GTA V on next gen and PC I want it even more. Imagine cruising down the strip in PS4 style graphics at night....

Military police..........

I assume you have the standard GTA IV with Niko. police3, police4 and policeb are all vehicles that are found only in GTA IV: EFLC. These vehicles can be added to the standard game though. If you downloaded the LCPD charger that I think you have (Bxbugs123's ELSv8 model) there should be instructions and the required files/settings that came with that download. You can always google "add police3 to GTAIV" or something...there is plenty of tutorials out there.

Just a heads up for those who don't already know, you can already tackle people to the ground.....kinda. As you are walking or running press jump then circle and you will dive to the ground. If you play on xbox just press each attack button and see what happens