PeterU

Vastly improved version of this, which now uses a combination of the TraceExtent method above and the native ENTITY::HAS_ENTITY_CLEAR_LOS_TO_ENTITY_IN_FRONT to do this in a much more realistic and efficient way. I no longer make the mistake, as @alexguirre points out, of making the radius of the TraceExtent cylinder too big (which not only gave potentially inaccurate results from a logical point of view, but hurt performance a lot). This will always check to see if the passed ped can see the local player character, and then optionally also will run a TraceExtent to determine peds and vehicles that are possibly in the suspect's range, and if we are interested in them (they are a cop), then we run the native to actually determine if there is a clear line of sight. It supports sending different flags at runtime based on what you are interested in evaluating, though I haven't tested that in the real world yet, and some of them are not yet implemented, as so far I only want to use 'All'! Thanks to @alexguirre, @Stealth22 and @Albo1125 for their help with this. http://pastebin.com/VWmmTcBR

Oops... I guess I need to be up-to-date in order to get the updates to the updater...

@Darkmyre I just experienced what I think might be this crash for myself. As SearchWarrant checked for updates and received a 401 from LCPDFR.com, it appears to crash with an ArgumentNullException. It looks like a null was passed to System.Version.Parse:

Could there be something to do with System.Version.Parse(String input) that SearchWarrant is doing before the sleep that is crashing (and perhaps in particular on German-language system)? I'm reading it as that the crash is happening in Rage.GameFiber.Main(), not another fiber that might be doing the sleeping. @Maurice97 Does this crash occur immediately after going on duty, or is there a delay?

In that RPH log, the PeterUCallout update thread was terminated (the ThreadAbortException) by the fact that the whole of LSPDFR was about to crash. Because my update check code creates a new GameFiber and sleeps it for a random delay before checking for updates, I don't think this is my update check code crashing if the crash occurs immediately. It looks like the SearchWarrant update check (@Darkmyre ) might be responsible for the initial exception:

In response to the new feature here at LCPDFR.com, where file authors can upload beta versions for selected users to test, I'd like to invite users to request access to debugging versions of PeterUCallouts. Testing across lots of different installations and ensuring that new features don't cause conflicts with the variety of elements in different people's LSPDFR installs is challenging without help. If there are any willing participants, here's what I would expect from you: you have a good understanding of where your log files are, how to find the relevant entries and are able to report issues concisely and precisely you have a good understanding of how to edit .ini files you are willing to "stress test" particular features/particular scenarios I'm working on by playing them a number of times over (I get very bored of my own callouts after testing them enough times to be happy they work OK!) you are willing to keep these pre-release versions and their features to yourself, so as not to spoil any surprises Adding a little more about surprises: I like to add into my callouts scenarios and possibilities that are quite rare and quite different from the common ones -- so that even if you think you've played that callout a million times before, there is always that potential to be blind-sided! If you're a member of the Debugging Division, you'll get to see and test these lower probability scenarios, perhaps many times, but I'll want you not to shout loudly about them and spoil them for others! (Yes, you do have to spoil them for yourselves, but hopefully by making them surprising, exciting and stable, we make other players of the game very happy!) I'd like a smallish group, preferably with a nice diversity across things like: computer specifications number of other plugins installed number of custom vehicle models installed etc. languages and regional settings playing styles Those who are interested can message me with some details regarding the bullet points above. Thank you in advance for anyone who wishes to help.

Here is my code for CanPedSeePolice which implements a World.TraceExtent to determine if the passed Ped can see a police officer, the local player, or a police vehicle. This does still contain references to some of my own private methods (CommonUtils.DumpLog is my custom logging wrapper), so some things will need changing, but hopefully this helps others! Provided "as is", without guarantees!