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You have a curious definition of "avoiding drama". If you're offended by a post, report it, but don't engage. That said, issue solved, this thread has nowhere it could go but downhill, thread locked. Nothing to see here! This topic has been closed by LCPDFR.com staff. If you feel that this topic has been closed in error, please report this post.

GTA IV open to mods? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. Heh. GTA IV is not even remotely designed to be moddable. Rockstar initially had it less obfuscated, but has tightened obfuscation (e.g. by hashing native function names). They have zero interest in people messing around with game code. Zilch. Reason #1: DRM (specifically, the tasks performed by scripters and by crackers are not all that different). Reason #2: Protecting their IP (they don't want third-party modders learning how they do things). Keep dreaming that Rockstar likes modders and wants to make their lives happy. I can assure you that they don't. On the topic of two programs: Not likely to happen under any circumstances. Why spend time and effort developing anti-reversing stuff just to not use it on the single-player game? If they have two separate executables, you're making the project substantially more complex, separating two things that really belong in the same program, all to enhance people's experience doing something you certainly don't particularly want them to do.

I'm not a dev either, but I'd think they'd at least consider it - if a publisher asks them to make a game, it's no longer a volunteer effort on their part, but is instead a paying job with proper resources. People are more willing to do work if you pay them. Then it would go into whether game development is what they want as a career, or whether it can be leveraged into a career they want, or whether it would be wasted time career-wise.

I believe ELS has to have a list of cars for which it will search for configurations - it doesn't support dynamically adding configurations. As such, unless Caine were to rewrite possibly substantial portions of ELS (I'm not familiar with the internal workings of it; I can, in fact, think of ways it could be coded that would make adding new cars impossible on the fly, and would instead *require* them to be added by Caine in source code, and while that isn't the best way to do it, revising that would be very time-consuming), added cars have to have certain names. The original plan was to have them as police5-police9 or so; Caine changed them to emerg1-emerg7 when I pointed out that some people add extra fire trucks and ambulances, not necessarily cop cars. Since the names have to be built in to the script, making them generic is a plus.

Bad assumption - litigation is very, very time-consuming. Also, apparently, the old news was that she *planned* to sue; the new news is that she filed a lawsuit. It'll probably end up with Lohan dropping the suit, or with a settlement - going to trial is extremely expensive for all involved, and is typically a last resort.

Level systems are intentionally not in LCPDFR; they smack of arcadeness, which doesn't fit in so well with LCPDFR's style. Now, GTA V has a different style than GTA IV; it might work better in V. I still wouldn't bet on it, though - LCPDFR tends towards realism, and "levels" are completely disconnected from real police work. With real cops, there are some cases where tools are only issued to certain units, but there aren't lots of fine divisions - some equipment (generally things which are little-used) is only issued to supervisors, and some equipment only to special units or officers who have undergone specific training. For instance, every single police officer can call for backup, and can in fact call for massive responses (all they need to do is say "Officer in Trouble", and basically every single cop within a reasonably large radius will respond as fast as they possibly can). Things that a patrol officer can't directly use, they can still normally call for - a patrol officer might not be issued a taser, but they can request someone who is. Rookie officers in real life *never* patrol alone - they are assigned to a field training officer (who is a fairly experienced cop) to give them real-world training, and so that someone can monitor them, see how they're doing, make judgment calls that depend on experience, and generally ease the transition from "here's how you should theoretically work" in the academy to "here's how you actually do your job" on the street. Police officers do not normally get to upgrade their cars, as they do not own them - again, specialized units might have modified vehicles (e.g. SWAT teams get armored rescue vehicles, highway patrol in the NYPD get the tall lightsticks for visibility, anti-crime units, detectives, and senior officers get unmarkeds, etc.), but that's only the changes needed for the assignment they have. There are some things that really are only open to supervisors. For instance, a supervisor might need to approve a pursuit; no non-supervisor can do this. But the way that works is that any officer can request it, and the supervisor makes the decision whether to grant it or not (e.g. air support, as a limited resource, can't necessarily be provided for all officers who might theoretically want it; in that case, a supervisor can decide who needs it most). Supervisors are also expected to apply the same standard to their requests for resources as they do for other officers - if a sergeant would shut down a patrolman's pursuit, they're expected to also terminate the pursuit if they're the officer chasing the suspect. There is no piece of equipment that a police department has that a rookie officer cannot request to be deployed - this would work well if there were a really good AI to play the role of a supervisor evaluating requests (so that below a certain level you can only request, above it you can order the unit deployed), but we don't have that in LCPDFR. The reason it works like this in real life is that rookie officers and 25-year veterans encounter exactly the same sorts of situations; it makes no sense to make it so that the rookies can't handle them right, while the veterans can. You can avoid this by changing suspect behavior based on level, but that makes it even less realistic - real criminals don't act tougher with veteran cops; if anything, they are more likely to come along quietly, because they're less likely to think they can take the cop. Many of these are issues with your specific rank system. But the same sorts of realism issue applies to almost all ranking/rep systems. In real life, there are very few formal difference between what different cops can do.

As 1.0c was released a month ago, this thread is no longer really "news"; the most recent posts have been support requests, which go in the section dedicated to them, not here. As such, I'm closing it. Support requests go in the forum dedicated to them, general LCPDFR discussion goes in LCPDFR Discussion, other topics go in their appropriate forums. If you think this thread should stay open, report this post. Nothing to see here! This topic has been closed by LCPDFR.com staff. If you feel that this topic has been closed in error, please report this post.

It *was* in the wrong section (LCPDFR Support Requests is only for issues with the mod itself; other IV issues go in IV Support Requests), but I've moved it for you.

Aww yeah, one car rave!

PNGs are the wrong format for ingame screenshots anyway. They really only work when you have very geometric images (hence why lineart textures are PNGs). Photographic images are already not precise, and JPGs work really well on gradient-heavy images (they're designed to keep the image as visually similar as possible, despite losing information). Moreover, compressing a losslessly-compressed file will still not normally work. There are cases where it might (notably, zip files don't remove inter-file redundancies, so compressing a zip can potentially reduce size significantly), but PNGs also remove all redundancy they can without losing information. If a file has been compressed as a solid block (as opposed to zips, which compress each file in the folder separately), adding lossless compression will not matter - lossy compression is the only way to significantly reduce file size, and you can't use lossy compression for a file archive format (human vision is fuzzy; file attributes are not).

JPGs are already compressed. You cannot effectively perform lossless compression on a compressed file, especially one compressed lossily -- compression only works on files with high redundancy, but compressing to a JPG removes that redundancy.

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But I care. Question, CriminalKillaz: Would you walk up to a stranger on the subway and tell them all your deepest secrets? The details of your relationships? I can guarantee you they won't care, so will that make it OK for you to do it? No? Why should someone know just because they have a badge and gun? Why does the state get to decide whether I have anything to hide? Why is wanting something to stay private somehow only something that takes place if it's illegal? You've said you're fine telling random strangers everything about yourself that doesn't implicate you in crimes; care to share some of that with us?

Yeah, Alexander Blade is legit. If he's posting this sort of thing, it's going to be reliable. Also, the kind of information that seems to be being gathered right now tends to be the same between console and PC (it's not specific offsets, it's the general structure of how V works internally).

To be fair: Software can have to deal with decades in the future. IIRC, banks actually ran into a bit of trouble around 2008 or so, because 30-year mortgages went past 2038.

Yeah, but... going pro se tends not to work so well. BTW, public defenders are only for criminal defendants (and maybe only for those accused of felonies) - they are never appointed for civil suits, because there's no right to an attorney for civil suits.

Courts can revoke your right to file pro se. They do this when, for instance, people make a habit of frivolous lawsuits. They can also revoke your right to appear pro se in any given trial, if you're disruptive in the courtroom - basically, disrupting court process means you waive your right to represent yourself, and a member of the bar has to sign off on all your actions.

In the following sentence, I cover the trivial interpretation I assumed was implied. There are times you can in fact be fined for wasting court time - you can even be jailed for doing it, if you ignore an order to stop. It's just that filing lawsuits based on legitimate grounds is not a waste of court time.

No. He cannot recover from you for violating a third party's copyright. @OfficerBurningBowl You will likely NOT get a fine, because altering SA without R*'s permission does not in fact preclude you from enforcing your rights. It's not even clear the EULA is enforceable; different courts have found different things. If the model is scratch-made, you could argue it's not a derivative work, so Rockstar has no claim against you. Furthermore, the courts don't and can't fine you for this. You have copyright interest in any creative work you make. You might not be able to legally distribute the work (e.g. models using Ford's IP without Ford's permission are violating IP law, and Ford can sue you), but you can stop anyone *else* from distributing your work. There is no basis for a fine there; you aren't even remotely wasting the court's time, because you're enforcing your rights through legal action. You just might open yourself up to legal action from Ford (and they may well begin legal action against you). "Wasting court time" generally means "you're asking for things that have no basis in reality, and you repeatedly say things and file motions that have no legal bearing on the case, and/or you keep making claims that you've been told are meritless". This would not be considered a waste of time. Lastly, this only applies if you file suit. DMCA notices are not lawsuits. They don't go through the courts. They're designed to stop you from having to go to the courts; if the person files a counter-notice, *then* you have to either drop the matter or file suit (which is expensive, don't get me wrong). You aren't even using court time with DMCA notices. By the way: You can *file* suit for looking at you funny. For given values of those terms, you might actually win (if your suit is "I'm being ogled by my boss", you might well win a sexual harassment suit). But if you say "I don't like the look on his face", you can still file. You're just going to have to pay the other guy's legal fees, and may find yourself unable to file *any* lawsuit without a lawyer signing off.

You can sue anyone for anything, but if a court deems it frivolous, you can be subject to sanctions, ranging from having to pay the other side's legal fees, to being barred from filing lawsuits in that court without an attorney's approval (and the attorney is also subject to sanctions if they approve a frivolous lawsuit), to having a license to practice law revoked (for attorneys), all the way to being held in contempt of court (if you continue making frivolous claims after being ordered to stop). Litigation is also fairly expensive on both sides. You pretty much can never sue someone for suing you, period (such a claim would likely be dismissed before trial). Did you personally make or substantially modify the content in that pack? What I would do then would be to file a DMCA takedown notice with Dropbox. You actually *can* have copyright on game mods; even if they're unauthorized derivatives of the game (in which case you have no right to distribute them), you still have copyright on your changes to them and can stop *other* people from distributing them. Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, at a bare minimum talk to a lawyer before you bring anything into a courtroom.

ELS works on added vehicle slots emerg1-emerg7. It doesn't work on other added vehicle slots (besides police3, police4, policeb, and maybe a few other cars that are in TBOGT, and thus aren't exactly "added" vehicles in GTA IV).

For future reference, this section is only for LCPDFR issues; other GTA issues (such as problems with ELS) go in the general GTA IV Support Requests subfolder. Since you've solved this issue, I'll just close the topic rather than moving. Nothing to see here! This topic has been closed by LCPDFR.com staff. If you feel that this topic has been closed in error, please report this post.

Hello there -- welcome to LCPDFR.com and thanks for trying out LCPDFR. You failed to read the instructions before posting in this forum. So we'll remind you of them. Please do the following: Make sure you aren't using a crack - We don't support cracks Update GTA IV to 1.0.7.0 (the latest version of the game, or 1.1.2.0 for EFLC) - This sometimes fixes a wide variety of issues Make sure that you run the game as an administrator. Make sure that your GTA IV root folder (and every subdirectory) is not set to "read-only" Ensure that ScriptHook.dll, ScriptHookDotNet.asi and Dsound.dll OR Xlive.dll are in the GTA IV ROOT folder Ensure that there is a folder titled 'LCPDFR' in the ROOT GTA IV folder. Check that all the above files exist, if they do not, reinstall LCPDFR with the MANUAL installation. Ensure that you are using up to date versions of every LCPDFR dependency and LCPDFR itself. Install these: .Net Framework 4.5, Microsoft Visual C++ Redist 2012 If your problem has been solved after following these basic instructions, hit 'Mark Solved' next to this post. If not, please now reply to this thread, and make sure that you do the following: Give a clear, detailed description of the problem. Explain any circumstances surrounding the problem. State what solutions you have tried. Post ALL relevant logs (LCPDFR.log, Scripthook.log, ScriptHookDotNet.log, AdvancedHook.log). Include as much information as possible. Post your system specifications. Post what other mods you are using. This includes car and script mods. Please note that failure to follow these instructions may cause this thread to be closed.

Were you using additional liveries (beyond 4)? That sounds kind of like a glitch that happened during the development of more-than-4-liveries, but I had thought that was fixed.

Are you using more than 4 liveries on the car? If not, 1.0c is *not* causing this. If so, it still likely isn't; unless the livery changes when you move the camera around (and reliably changes when you do so), it isn't 1.0c.