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Has this been reported to the OpenIV guys as an issue? If not, someone should probably do that.

I thought content mods was editing stuff like sounds, cars, weapons, etc. (basically, what SparkIV does), while gameplay mods were like editing .dat files and script mods.

I've seen it used for open source projects.

He's talking about blocking off a road to close it so crews can work. This is pretty common. I think you were thinking of putting heavy stuff across a road to stop a chase; that is different.

... You know, GTA didn't invent car models. You can make them from scratch, and can load non-.wft files into modeling software (THIS IS WHAT PEOPLE TYPICALLY DO). Also, OpenIV has openFormats for .wft (I think), but no modding software supports it. Instead, you *have* to use ZModeler for import/export to GTA. There is literally no alternative available to the modding community (I'm pretty sure that, say, Rockstar can export from Blender/3ds max/whatever they use). 3ds max is commonly used, and you can make models in it! You can then export to ZModeler, and take it from there to GTA! OpenIV is not at all necessary!

I *think* there's an IRC channel that helps if you're writing C# scripts (I use C#). Visual Studio Express (the free editions): http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/express

It's the first one.

Cars pull over? EDIT: Also, does this feel like an interrogation to you, or is it just me?

Sorry to rain on your parade (if you discovered this by yourself, it's impressive), but GPM already has a set of instructions to install policeb in GTA IV without replacing. If, on the other hand, you have it spawning in traffic, that's damn impressive.

I use GIMP for serious edits, and paint.net for minor ones. I often use paint.net for emerglights editing, as it handles transparencies properly.

So people may not buy the game. You appear not to understand the idea of "outrage". Hint: No one would try to legally stop the game, but Rockstar would rather sell more copies than less.

The crashes probably mean your system can't handle a high-poly ELS car pack.

We're dealing with perceptions. Also, you really think they won't complain, or that people won't be stirred up?

...PETA would raise an uproar in the US, and Rockstar isn't about to write off sales here (this is by far the biggest market for GTA, and they really can't afford to ignore it). False. You actually have next to no say into what goes into GTA. Rockstar makes it in a way that will lead to lots of sales and money. Unless you're willing to undertake something on the scale of GTA all by yourself, it is not at all true that you can "do what you want".

How would this work with current ELS-enabled vehicles? Would you have a "legacy" mode, or would we use both, or what?

I think he meant instead of just having light configuration happen in the ini.

WTD is the textures, WFT is essentially meaningless (I think, OpenIV shows it as a single triangle, and that's it), WDD is the actual model.

Hopefully, it would be extremely easy to change colors for the person installing the car.

m_y_strooper.(wdd|wtd|wft), in componentpeds.img

...Yeah, cop cars have hundreds of pounds of extra equipment, and are designed to be tough (not for raw speed; that's where helicopters are better and safer). From what I've heard, they are NOT super-fast; high-speed chases can be handled other ways.

Cages don't make sense on a detective car.

Inventor is CAD/CAM. It is not even remotely appropriate for games. I know that a couple months ago, someone was saying "Look at this great graphics card" for an NVidia Quadro, which is a very expensive graphics card designed for industry, and they were told that it is actually bad for games. Stuff like Inventor is what it is for. Fun fact: did you know that you can design a part in Inventor, send it to a special program, and then have a mill or lathe automatically make the part for you out of metal? (You can also have a 3D printer print it, but that is less robust) It's called CNC, and my robotics team just had a few parts made this way. It's just awesome (the person who designed them actually made them his profile pick on FB)

This is designed for player ped. It may be the one you used. However, it is not a component ped model.