PNWParksFan

As always, there's no point speculating over release dates. Especially with vehicle models, as other people are helping with those and I don't know their exact schedules. There's a lot of work left to do with the model, and also with the script to support it.

You gravely underestimate the amount of time it takes to scratch model something. Maybe you will get lucky and someone will decide to pay $75 out-of-pocket to buy a model and then spend hours converting it. But it's unlikely.

Yes.

Have you purchased or are you planning to purchase the model?

Acepilot2k7 will be playing coastal callouts beta, and I will be providing live commentary over audio!

Development continues! A massive update just went out to beta testers, with more features and fixes than I can reasonably describe in one quick forum post. Here's a little preview of what's new: I fixed spawning of boats with the unlimited boundaries mod, now you can call for backup or spawn a callout anywhere on the unlimited massive oceans I got the add-on cargo boats working, and wrote a new, more challenging rescue mission involving a sinking ship Updated the copilot AI, now it flies at top speed when flying to destinations more than 500m away, and there's a menu option to slow it down if you want Added a menu toggle for the helicopter spotlight - still working on this, I've figured out how to make it aim at something, so I'll eventually have it track whatever ped/vehicle you might be following, but as of right now I'm having some issues with it still Fixed a ton of bugs and added a bunch of new features What I'm working on next: A function to deploy a marker - e.g. if you find the boat and need to come back to it later, or you find a ped to rescue but your helicopter is full, etc. This will let you drop a flare on the spot, and will leave a marker on your minimap Adding more detail to the new callout Making boat pursuit AI take advantage of the unlocked map boundaries, so fleeing boats have a chance of fleeing into the open seas New plane-related features Here are a few screenshots from the recent development: Also, I will be doing a live stream with @acepilot2k7 tonight at 6 PM Pacific/9 PM Eastern, taking a look at the new features. I will be joining the stream live over voice chat, and will have a drawing at the end of the stream for free beta access for one livestream viewer. Of course, you can also get beta access by joining the Parks Benefactor program at any time!

I am excited to announce that PNWParksFan Modding and Coastal Callouts have been acquired by a private defense contractor, for use as a virtual reality military training simulator. As a part of this multi-million dollar acquisition agreement and related non-disclosure agreement, I will be required to remove all of my modifications from public access at midnight tonight. Government entities will be able to license the Coastal Emergency Simulator for $1000 per employee per year for training purposes, but the system will not be available to private individuals. For more information please see this press release from the Federal Operational Organization Liaison.

Better EMS 3.0 is now available! I am happy to announce that Better EMS 3.0 is now available to all! This update includes a ton of internal changes and bug fixes, which should result in a much more stable experience. In particular, I finally fixed the annoying bug where sometimes peds either wouldn't get treated, or would show up twice on the incident report. I've also fixed a bunch of other bugs, added customization of survival probabilities, implemented compatibility with the upcoming Police Smart Radio by Albo1125, and added a ton of new API features to support the plugin dev community. If you'd like to support the development of my mods and get access to beta releases of future updates to Better EMS as well as my other plugins, please check out the Parks Benefactor program! Special thanks to the Parks Benefactors who supported this release, with particular acknowledgement to these donors who made particularly generous contributions during the development of this update: Kilyin, anters, Sergeant Anderson, winglesschip, Dsonke1, and PolGuin255.

I am working on adding features to support customization for non-US players, including the ability to configure some of the text displayed in the callouts, as well as vehicles and which ones should be used for what. I'm not sure yet how exactly I'm going to handle distribution of non-US vehicles. I've recently started discussing with some modelers and texture creators about creating some of the common SAR and maritime law enforcement helis/boats from other countries, but I don't know yet how exactly I'll distribute those mods. But long story short, yes, I am working on making coastal callouts compatible for non-US players.

So, today I discovered the "no boundary limits" mod on gta5-mods.com, which gives you access to pretty much all of the ocean areas as far out as you can imagine. For those who haven't tried this themselves before, without this mod your vehicle won't let you go more than about 1km off shore usually, and if you try to swim out you'll get eaten by a shark. Well, this obviously opens up a lot of new possibilities for Coastal Callouts! I spent several hours this evening trying to improve some of the code that makes NPC-driven boats drive. The good news is, it works fine in the far-off-shore areas. The bad news is, I'm still having issues getting NPCs to drive properly when they're near shore... as you may have noticed in some of the youtube videos, occasionally boats will just sit there and not do anything until you get close enough. I've been able to get them to work a bit further from the player, but still not all the time. I'm planning to continue conducting more research on this matter, but in the meantime, enjoy a couple screenshots from my testing today: