Dylan02

someone finally said it. thin blue line is so overdramatic and oversimplifies things to the point of meaninglessness.

glad i could help! :)

So you have this great shoulder patch, you spent hours perfecting it so it looks just so. You wanna give it to a ped, but there's a problem: its too smooth! it'll look like it was cheaply screenprinted on the uniform, and that's just not right. You wanna give it a clothy appearance, like a patch that they sew onto the uniform. So first, you're gonna navigate to Effects>Noise>Add Noise. Adjust the color saturation to 0, and the intensity to anywhere between 5 and 25, depending on your personal preference. what you get should look something like this: So you finally have the desired slightly rough, cloth look. But you're not done. You wanna make it look embroidered- real patches aren't just flat. They have bumps in the details and lettering, which are embroidered onto the base patch. So you're gonna select your patch (otherwise the background is gonna get the effect too) and go into Effects>Stylize>Relief and adjust the angle to 90 degrees. the result should look similar to this: And voila! you're done! It has the bumpy embroidered effect AND the cloth look! It's realistic! You can finally save your work and put the patch on a ped.

This has always been the hardest aspect of texture making for me, is making those damn door badges. I use paint.net and it's alright for more basic stuff, but door badges (i.e. the CHP badge) is a pain. Any tips?

That's a good point I never thought of, you can be sure you haven't just seen the same cop multiple times if the cars are different.

i.e. why do they use both explorers and tahoes? wouldn't it be easier to just have a standardized fleet to simplify things? I've always wondered why they use so many different cars just to patrol.

yep, they work no problem.

There seems to be an issue in my game where the GTA V uses the stock police cars instead of the RDE ones. Strangely enough, the rest of RDE works fine, and I checked the dlclist to make sure RDE was in there. This problem only popped up when I started replacing the s_m_y_cop ped in RDE's componentpeds.rpf. Any ideas? I've already reinstalled RDE and I'm having the same problem still. EDIT: another weird thing is that I have RDE's emergency pack installed and that works fine. The issue only applies to the police and sheriff vehicles. I think it has something to do with the added cars. EDIT 2: The issue was with rdevehicles.rpf, it was corrupted. I'm replacing it now. will report back. EDIT 3: It worked, the corrupted rpf was the issue.

other cops doing bad shit doesn't excuse sheriff joe being an egotistic racist excuse for a sheriff. That's like saying that because someone took a shit in the urinal, it's okay to piss all over every toilet seat.