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It's not only 11-14 year olds who want easier-to-drive cars. Not a lot of people play games for complete realism and GTA is one of those games that people want to be fun - not realistic. They don't want to have to worry about getting a new car every single time they crash and they want to actually be able to drive the cars easily.
 
Am I disappointed in the reduced vehicle damage? Yes. But the handling? I actually like it this way better. It's a lot easier to control for doing normal GTA things.

It has been some time since I updated this topic the last time. Here're the new mods:
2003 Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor - Liberty City Police Department (ELS)

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2008 Ford Crown Victoria - Unmarked Las Vegas Metro PD (ELS)

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2008 Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor - Dallas Police Department

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I actually don't like the look of the car so much that I have to create it. The model isn't that specific anyways, there're a lot similar vehicles released.
 
I'm currently working on an LAPD Pack. It's going to be as realistic as possible. More information and pictures as well as a list of all planned cars can be found here.

I always find topics like politics that is something that will constantly be stirring controversy. For the most part many of us (me included) are pretty much the least qualified to be political analysts of sorts. Of course we can have our opinions and all but I believe it only hurts this country when people don't know who and what they're voting for and situations that actually affect the people.

I don't mean to go on a rant or to even get into politics but just provide some perspective

When we have naive children or young teens and possibly adults on this forum (who's intellectual capacity may be the level of a child)(possibly myself included-I could be viewed as a hypocrite to some) make extreme and exaggerated generalizations of topics they somehow deemed themselves experts on; then I believe people should do a little more research before making such fallacies. I invite you to go live in another country aside from the United States or the other countries with democracies. These "Western" countries so to speak have the most accessible type of freedoms so I invite you to live in a country where it's restrictive and even repressive like North Korea, etc.

You have to feel very fortunate to live in a country like America or even Britain and Canada and the dozens of other democratic countries where we can sue the police or question their procedures and where we have courts and where they do their best to make everything fair and equal and where we can say whatever we want to and not fear major repercussions. After all it could be much worse, you could be living in a dystopian and authoritarian state much like the author George Orwell described in "1984". Ignorance shouldn't dictate opinions and reasoning.

Really, dude? If you have political opinions, that's fine, but keep that trash talk off of here.

After watching the debates it is clear that Obama must gain this position once more. Romney's taxation plans make little sense, don't add up mathematically, and he doesn't go into specifics about them even when specifically asked to. He danced around and dodged all of the questions during the 2nd debate, interrupted both the moderator and Obama [and got subsequently stirred up when they did the same to him], and just gives off the out-of-touch rich white businessman vibe. The United States does not need the same tax-breaks for big business and a similar economic plan that got us into this mess in the first place.


One of Obama's best rebuttals from the 2nd debate;

Hey, great videos! I always like listening to your commentary, as it will give me a laugh and keep me engaged, if not anything else. You have quite a following over on YouTube, though! I have been wondering for a while now; do you use any ENB, or do you just use an edited timecycle? Your lighting always looks very balanced, and I've been having troubles with the night with what I'm using (maybe its just my bad monitor). It must take a really long time to upload the videos; its like watching LCPDFR movies. I'll be looking forward to more content.

If you still remember me, I'm SupperCrunch on YouTube. Welcome to the forums, although you've had LCPDFR for a while! :biggrin:

Should be no problem.


I'm probably going to use a MX7000.


And something for the LAPD fans who don't like ELS:

Latest mods uploaded on LCPDFR:








 
More mods can be found on LCPDFR, GTA Universe, GTA4-Mods and gtainside.

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We want the numbers to appear as though they're higher than the background. This particular style of plate has "CA EXEMPT" painted on, but it isn't stamped into the plate like the numbers are:

1044243 by Carbon Arc, on Flickr

For realism's sake, we don't want the "CA EXEMPT" to appear any higher than the background, so we'll just fill it in:


We're now ready to create our normal map, and actually, we're almost finished. Select Filters - Map - Normalmap:


And this window will appear:


There's a lot of options here, but you don't need to mess around with much. Two things you will need to adjust are:

a: Filter type. There's 4sample, Sobel 3x3, Sobel 5x5, Prewitt 3x3, etc. These will all have different effects on the intensity of the normal map. You can play around with them, and it'll show you how it'll look in the preview. I find Sobel 3x3 works best for my uses.

b: Notice that I have "Invert X" and "Invert Y" checked. This is because the filter creates a normal map based on lightness and darkness. Normally, it will make dark areas low, and light areas high. Since this is the opposite of our licence plate, we need to invert them with the checkboxes. An alternative would be to make a plate texture with a dark background and light letters, but this is simpler.

Press OK, save your work, and that's it!

Lesson 6a: Optimizing a Simple Logo: Colour Correction

Sometimes, a Google image search will provide us with a perfect replica of a logo such as a door crest. Often, we aren't so lucky, and we'll cover those instances in Lesson 7. For now, let's do some minor editing on otherwise good logos.

If you click & view the largest size of this photo, you can see the rear side window decal is for Nevada Crime Stoppers:

IMG_9156 "Nevada Highway Patrol" by saxxon57, on Flickr

Google image search only comes up with some red or black logos, not yellow:


We're going to turn the above solid image into a transparent yellow one.

In the Layers dialog, mouse over the layer and right-click. Select "Add Alpha Channel". This allows us to add transparency. With the "Select By Colour" tool, click the white area, then right-clic, select "Edit", and select "Cut". There might be some stray white pixels around the edges, but that's fine for now:


If we just went ahead and bucket-filled everything, it would either leave rough edges, or not fill in everything, or both. Instead, we'll use the "Colourize" function.

The next step is only needed since there's more than one colour, in this case black and red. From the colours menu, select "Brightess-Contrast" and slide the contrast all the way to the left. This will make everyting the same shade of grey. Otherwise, in the next step, the portions that are currently red will always look lighter than the black ones.

Now, to make it yellow, from the "Colors" menu again, select "Colorize". By using the "Colour Picker" tool on the priginal photo, I know the yellow color should be around Hue: 33 and Saturation: 51. Adjust lightness as needed:


To match the photo, we can delete the "OF NEVADA" bit, and resize the numbers, but I think you get the idea.

Lesson 6b: Optimizing a Simple Logo: Adding realistic detail

It's easy to find a great quality logo for a force as large as the RCMP, such as this one from Wikipedia:


Heck, it's even a transparent .svg file available in sizes from 200px to 2000px, and if you weren't as picky as me, you could scale it to fit and just use it as-is. But, I think what seperates a good skin from a great one are the details. On this close-up of an RCMP car door, we can see the decal has a white background that is a little larger than the logo:

RCMP Door Logo by mile105, on Flickr

His channel name is Uploading14, I believe. I actually was going to write a comment on your old thread about your videos. I think they are interesting, and I look forward for more. I agree in that it's better to post regular content, and you also do not want to oversaturate your channel with too many videos at once. If you want your channel to grow, engage with your audience, and keep them engaged. Remember, your first 100-500 subscribers are usually the hardest to get. Also, vary your content up. Don't just post patrol videos- have multiple series. I'm still expanding my variety of videos myself.

Sharing your LCPDFR content around anywhere but here will usually not be affective, especially since police roleplay is in such a small niche of GTA videos. When I initially started making videos, I made the mistake in my want for more views to link on another GTA Forum to my channel, and I swear that every referral I got from there (not many) resulted in a dislike.

My most important advice is to make your content your content. Whether it be clever ideas, neat editing, custom mods, or your unique commentary, make sure that there is something in your videos that identifies with you. Always keep this in mind.

His channel name is Uploading14, I believe. I actually was going to write a comment on your old thread about your videos. I think they are interesting, and I look forward for more. I agree in that it's better to post regular content, and you also do not want to oversaturate your channel with too many videos at once. If you want your channel to grow, engage with your audience, and keep them engaged. Remember, your first 100-500 subscribers are usually the hardest to get. Also, vary your content up. Don't just post patrol videos- have multiple series. I'm still expanding my variety of videos myself.

Sharing your LCPDFR content around anywhere but here will usually not be affective, especially since police roleplay is in such a small niche of GTA videos. When I initially started making videos, I made the mistake in my want for more views to link on another GTA Forum to my channel, and I swear that every referral I got from there (not many) resulted in a dislike.

My most important advice is to make your content your content. Whether it be clever ideas, neat editing, custom mods, or your unique commentary, make sure that there is something in your videos that identifies with you. Always keep this in mind.

His channel name is Uploading14, I believe. I actually was going to write a comment on your old thread about your videos. I think they are interesting, and I look forward for more. I agree in that it's better to post regular content, and you also do not want to oversaturate your channel with too many videos at once. If you want your channel to grow, engage with your audience, and keep them engaged. Remember, your first 100-500 subscribers are usually the hardest to get. Also, vary your content up. Don't just post patrol videos- have multiple series. I'm still expanding my variety of videos myself.

Sharing your LCPDFR content around anywhere but here will usually not be affective, especially since police roleplay is in such a small niche of GTA videos. When I initially started making videos, I made the mistake in my want for more views to link on another GTA Forum to my channel, and I swear that every referral I got from there (not many) resulted in a dislike.

My most important advice is to make your content your content. Whether it be clever ideas, neat editing, custom mods, or your unique commentary, make sure that there is something in your videos that identifies with you. Always keep this in mind.

Hey could you check out me series I've just started my name on you tube gtaivpv episode 2 should be up tomorrow moring comment I need help on how to make it better I posted a thread on the forums under media if I think I'm correct please go and check this out

Well, to be honest with everyone, this community is more like a family, most treat everyone with a certain respect, that is why i come here and browse through the forum's when i am not working, i personally don't hang out with anyone, just my dog and the woman :D, mainly because the people i have hung out with have proved to be either mooches (alway's asking for stuff) , druggies (not my thing anymore) people that drink everyday of the week (don't drink either) scrapper's (did that WAY too much through school, so, don't do that either), the result of how i am today, could be the end result of bullying..

I believe he doesn't use any ENB graphics mod, if I'm correct. He does use HD road textures, which definitely do make the game look a lot better. He can clarify my assumptions for me, though.

It's clearly been made with an animating program, although if V looked like that I'd probably need a clean up on aisle 3

As far as the budget builds go, parts change too frequently to make that happen, so if someone requests it, a couple of people can take a crack at it upon asking. Videos can be found on YouTube. As an example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DPQW0e9ufM

It's greyish-white because it's made from reflective vinyl:

DSC_0043 by C-GCLL, on Flickr

We're going to add the greyish-white surround to the RCMP logo from Wikipedia, in just few simple steps.

I've opened the 500px version of it in GIMP. We can see the canvas is no larger than the edges of the logo:


We need a bigger canvas to put our white surround onto, so from the "Image" menu, select "Canvas size", and change the width from 500 to 550 pixels or so. Move the logo to the centre of the canvas, and you'll see the layer is still 500px wide, as shown by the yellow dotted lines:


From the "Layer" menu, select "Layer to image size". We're going to make a copy of the layer to make our white with. Mouse over the background layer in the Layers dialog, right-click, and select "Duplicate Layer". The top layer we'll leave unchanged. Working on the bottom layer now, mouse over the bottom layer in the layers dialog, righ-click, and select "Alpha To Selection". This will put dotted lines around the border of the logo. From the "Select" menu, select "Grow". In this case, I chose to grow by 6 pixels. How much you need to grow may take some trial and error. You can see the selection's dotted lines are bigger than the logo now:


Finally, with a suitable greyish-white as your foreground colour, just bucket fill the selection:


Holding shift while you bucket fill will fill the entire selection, leaving no gaps between the white and the logo. That's why I chose to leave the original logo in an upper layer. Merge, and you're done!

Round, oval, square or rectangular decals are even simpler. Just make your lower layer with the "Rectangle Select" or "Ellipse Select" tool. For instance, my Los Angeles Sheriff and Police Departments skins both have simulated clear backing to the "Emergency 9-1-1" decals on the fenders, such as here in the lower left of the photo:

LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT (LAPD) by Navymailman, on Flickr

Here, I'd just make a rectangle, a little lighter than the black paint, and place my white "Emergency 9-1-1" lettering above the rectangle. Here's the final result (click for full size):


Lesson 7: Creating a Complex Logo From a Car Photo

As I stated before, sometimes finding a suitable logo isn' so easy. Search for "Michigan State Patrol logo", and you'll find many like this:


On its own, it looks good, but it's not quite the same as what is actually on the cars:

Michigan State Police cars -- Door Seal on 1992 Ford Mustang 5.0 by Corvair Owner, on Flickr

Using the photo above, I'm going to show you how to create a perfect logo nearly from scratch, and end up with something like this:


If you'd like to work on the same image yourself, you can download the original size here A big thanks to Corvair Owner on Flickr for the photo.

Door's that way.

Also you're a troll, you can't spell and your computer sucks. Mine runs everything fine because I'm an adult who can invest some money into my hobby and I know how to double click an .exe file without blue screening.

What, the Corvette, or the CVPI? The Corvette is found here: I wouldn't know where the CVPI came from, though.

I heard they aren't really fast, the i7's should be way better.

I'd (actually I even will later this year) buy the i7-970 (6x3,20GHz) but costs more than the 2700k (I don't know what's your currency but here the prices for the 2700k is 320€ and the 970 380€).

I got this error when installing LCPDFR to EFLC

Installation component 'LCPDFRModels' error'd!
at System.String.Insert(Int32 startIndex, String value)
at G17MediaSetupEngine.Installation_Components.tazershit.beginComponent()
at G17MediaSetupEngine.UI.Interface.wizardControl1_SelectedPageChanged(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at G17MediaSetupEngine.UI.Interface.wizardControl1_SelectedPageChanged(Object sender, EventArgs e)

What should I do? Thanks!

The Devon and Cornwall Constabulary unveiled their new high speed anti crime unit today, criminal all over the county are now more scared than ever of plod when they roll around in their tricked out rides: