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Unfortunately, I might have to release it with only four seats, in one version, and a version with the outside people holding on. What I did should have worked, and it did, I managed to get a total of eight NPCs in the back of the car by spawning them. But once I first got out, I could not properly get back in and none of the NPCs would even try to get in. I really want at least four in the back so I will continue to try to figure out why it won't work properly, but at the same time I will continue to finalize it so that I can release it even if I haven't found the solution yet. In other news, Sgt. Kanyo let me use his handling line from a GTA IV bearcat and it works great in GTA V. I also added a trailer hitch because in the future, after I release the vehicle, I plan on making some sort of bomb disposal trailer, hazardous waste, or some other kind of specialty trailer. I'm pretty intrigued about all of the possibilities with trailers in V. I think I will try to make the car a little less shiny/reflective and then it'll probably be ready for initial testing. Feel free to post with any suggestions, ideas, questions, or comments.

So.. I'll let the picture do most of the talking about my progress This was the first test with four people in the back. It kind of worked, but also the result was that when I tried to get in, I was teleported in and a few seconds later teleported out, so it's definitely not fully working yet.

The actual vehicle file will still replace the police riot, but hopefully a tweak to the police riot's vehicle.meta will fix the seat issue because the seats are coded in to be a specific way. And I haven't tested it yet but I assume vehicle_layout would be the seating layout. It will have multiple, I just have to see how GTA V does those :)

So, I removed the ability for anyone to hold on to the sides of the vehicle. However, those positions were set up as seats, so by moving them inside, when more than two are in the back, the others are in the holding on to side of vehicle animation and it looks very strange indeed. So I will have to do some more testing with the vehicles.meta and I hope by maybe changing the vehicle layout to an Insurgent or some other vehicle it will fix it. I also added 'extra lights' which are the flood lights on the top which now act the same as the spotlight on the vanilla police3. Although it seems to be too bright even when off so I have to do some tweaking. I also added double tires for the rear tires. Screenshots in spoiler below:

Probably because that seems to be the stereotype when you google Bearcats But even if this isn't strictly for a nice photo, when they hang onto the sides in real life, it's under much different circumstances than what happens in-game.

Yeah, I will do my best to find a work around so that more can fit in the back because I really don't like them hanging off the sides either. They fall off if you try to go between cars and I think it does look a little silly driving around (especially long distances) with them on there. However, if a lot of people like that feature, then I can probably make another version that allows them to be on the sides.

Pretty big update, got the vehicle in-game finally. There are less bugs than I expected, but there are also some I never would've expected. Many screenshots are below and in the spoiler. Tell me what you think. What does everyone think about the general size of it? I was trying to make it slightly smaller than the vanilla Riot but not too small because it is still a fairly large vehicle.

What does everyone think about the rails? Should there be more of them, like on the sides or hood area, or no because they're kind of useless?

Ah okay, I get the pony reference now. So the past few days have been pretty slow because I just got back to school and started a new semester, but it should pick up and it's getting pretty close now. I've got temporary lights all finished and I think the vehicle textures/shaders are now GTA V ready. I just have to do some more tweaks and then hopefully it will be in-game. At which point, I'll probably be looking for someone (or a few someones) that wants to alpha test it, so that I can spend more time working on the model and less time finding the bugs. New picture in the spoiler below, and I'll update the first post as well.

I'm still very confused lol. Is the bearcat going to have pony decals on it? xD

Pony decals?

Very nice! I've been wanting to make a -sort of- show using the Rockstar editor but I've been so busy

Thanks! and most likely, then people who know more about the weird lighting can add some good lightbars and such. Just curious, what would a LASD variant have?

Most likely on initial release, although I've scaled it down so that it does not go across the entire top. I haven't done much with GTA V emergency lighting so that might take a bit for me to figure out, and I wouldn't want to make anyone wait while I mess with the lights.

Work is still being done. The changes aren't instantly noticeable but I've spent tons of time working the inside and small details. The interior and doors are now finished and I'm finishing up the exterior and putting those finishing touches. It's now mapped and the template is in the spoiler below so that anyone can make textures for it and have them ready when it's released. (I also added a picture of it mapped in the first post) Next up are the headlights, taillights, and indicators. Feel free to leave questions, suggestions, or comments.

Converting one of the sports bikes into a police bike is on my to do list! But it's getting to be a quite interesting and long list haha What bike would you suggest?

I think it is because you have put all of the if statements inside each other. Because when it runs through the while loop the second time, your check equals ESwitchCheck.first and not ESwitchCheck.init. So it doesn't meet the 'criteria' and never reads the second if statement. I'd suggest using an else-if statement if possible. while (true) { if (Game.IsKeyDown(System.Windows.Forms.Keys.Y)) { if (check == ESwitchCheck.init) { Game.DisplaySubtitle("Oh my poor booboo!", 6500); check = ESwitchCheck.first; GameFiber.Wait(500); } else if (check == ESwitchCheck.first) { Game.DisplaySubtitle("They must be so scared!", 6500); check = ESwitchCheck.finish; GameFiber.Wait(500); } else if (check == ESwitchCheck.finish) { Game.DisplaySubtitle("Please officer, you must find them!", 6500); GameFiber.Wait(500); } else { } } } I'm not sure if the last else is needed so I put it there just in case. And I added the very first if statement but you can get rid of that and check for key press in the other if's and else if's if you prefer.

Ha yes that's the one. The guy didn't want to work on it anymore and released it to be edited a while back. I was working on converting it to IV a while ago but stopped, however converting it to V wouldn't be too hard if no one minded it having the Stanier interior or something like that. Would probably be more work to upgrade the interior than to just but V's in there. Edit: Actually, the existing interior is the Stanier interior from SA, so the one from V works perfectly as a replacement.

Hmm, well I have a '95 Crown Vic model but it would probably take a bit of work to get it to GTA V standards.

For the wheel, check your wheel dummies and make sure they are in the correct place on the L0, L1, etc..

From what I've heard, EVL was taken down for an unknown reason. (Unknown to me atleast) As for ELS, not sure when it's planned on being released but there have been test videos uploaded 4-5 months ago so I could only imagine that it's fairly close to being finished.

Is a '96 Impala SS too old?

Thanks! And I'll be testing out if I can get six guys in the back instead of having some of them hang on to the sides.

Hummer H1 is on hold for now. Go to this topic to follow my progress with the Bearcat variation and other police vehicles such as the Carbon E7 http://www.lcpdfr.com/forums/topic/58234-wip-cosmos-cars-lenco-bearcat-carbon-e7/

I had a poll in an old topic about what the community would like released and the results were Law Enforcement vehicles, more specifically a Bearcat. After a long wait, it is finally ready for release! But don't worry, it's not the end. I will still continue to add unique features, bug fix, and create other versions. Lenco Variation (RELEASED) Work in Progress Versions in spoiler *Since so many people have followed this thread, I have chose to take out the other cars, and devote this thread to the Bearcat, so that everyone that is following this thread does not get notifications about other cars they probably don't want to see.