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I suggest Rhinoceros V5 instead of 3DS Max for modeling: they're both "pro" applications but Rhino is more "user friendly" and, in my personal opinion, even more powerful.

Thank you very much for the answer, Ekalb! Unfortunately I can't look at police's motorbike, because I'm not using EFLC dlc but main GTA IV. So I'm using a blank policeb slot, not replacing anything. I've attached an image with the interface I'm working on. Sirens 3 & 4 are the selected ones, placed on the back of the car. They're 2D objects stolen from the FIB vanilla model and moved to the desired position - same for sirens 5 & 6 (front of the car), which in the FIB model were named 1 & 2. Now, that's interesting: attaching sirenX_L0 to the chassis_L0 will "block" their default rotary status... (with "rotary" I mean: in policeb slot, sirens 1 & 2, as isolated objects, rotate on themselves' pivot when in.game activated) The question is: what do you mean by "attaching"? Sorry, maybe it is a stupid question, but I'm not used to work with this kind of 3D models (as I usually design with 3D nurbs models with Rhino, meshes are just for exporting & rendering purposes). What I understand is something like a "boolean" between 2 objects. Ora maybe something more simple like just moving layers between the "hierarchy tree"? That was a stupid question, sorry. I've found the "attach" command and used to link siren 2D model to the chassis_L0. It seems to work just as a boolean operation, great. Is it necessary to attach also L1 & L2 sub.levels/objects to the chassis? How will the in.game render understand where & what is a light if everything becomes part of the chassis? (I'm asking because I've seen that L0 are high poly objects for near in.game rendering, while L1 & L2 are low poly objects for distant rendering)

These are the results of many tests for the policeb lights' slots: siren 1 & 2 - rotary (red & blue) siren 3 & 4 - not alternated leds (red & blue) siren 5 & 6 - alternated leds (red & blue) siren 7 & 8 - no light If anyone is interested in this simple Undercover Sultan vanilla model, just ask =)

As far as I know (ingame tested & used) you can order your partner to arrest a ped pressing G while aiming at the suspect. You can also set a ped as wanted pressing CTRL + E while aiming at the suspect: this should make your partner chase him.

First of all thanks to the whole LCPD:FR community for making it possible to me to learn how to model a car in a few hours of research and work. I managed to use the Sultan vanilla car as policeb slot, for having a "real" undercover cop car. Of course there is no emergency light assigned so, modeling with zmodeler, I stole siren 1, 2, 3 & 4 from an FIB vanilla model. It works, but only sirens 3 & 4 works as LED (or halogen, I don't know): unfortunately sirens 1 & 2 flash as "rotary" lights. I've studied other different cop models (such as vanilla ones or the Ekalb's enhanched ones) to understand how lights work, but with no luck. What I suppose is that every police slot (police 1, 2, etc) has a different light assignment... Is it true? In that case, is there a list of lights for every slot? Thanks in advance! p.s. Unfortunately I've only found topics and tutorials about ELS lights modeling, which I'm not interested in: I prefer to preserve the game as vanilla as possible.

It works! Thanks for that guide's link Ineseri! Siren is working, no emergency lights with an Oracle For future readers (I got here by searching): with LCPD:FR 1.0 computer works adding the right AdditionalCopCarModels value in lcpdfr.ini, depending on the car you can use the >Strobes Mod made by Kit for having normal lights to strobe as emergency one

Thanks! I'm trying to use an Oracle as policeb: is it possible? (GTA IV, not EFLC)

It should surely help... Anyway, you'd better search for users reviews and check if it has overheating issues: SLI configurations can be difficult to cool in a desktop pc too It's not recommended to overclock a laptop... That very model will burn with stock settings too

Seems very great to me, and it's really cheap too! (750M SLI? it will be hot as hell) By the way, I have no idea on Lenovo's manufacturing quality

There's too much AMD stuff, it will not even power on

Thanks, that was interesting =) Anyway it's an overall performance increase not perceptible to the end-user. Does the cost fit the benefit?

Talking about programs, as far as I've seen, the only noticeable speed benefit is for the first start loading times. But I'm pretty sure that there is no pratical benefit for the program running itself, as it has already been loaded in RAM. It's an expensive way to make Photoshop start in 2 seconds than in 10/20 and work as always, whatever the storage is.

And that's how a real Libety City police officer works

You can still use the >vdh Police Station - Broker mod made by Abraxas, which replaces the lawyer office with a police station. There's also a new configurable setting in the lcpdfr.ini that works exclusively for that mod: UsingPoliceStationMod=True

Thank you

It could be very interesting, I was thinking to start designing something myself. I don't know nothing about script side, but I don't think it will be that difficult in this case: it seems to me that only simple tasks are requested. What scares me is the urban planning side: designing bus lines, routes and stops for a medium/big city is not that simple

You can also set yourself as off duty by pressing F7 while ingame.

In GTA IV (don't know about EFLC) the only working public transportation service is the underground: buses will not even spawn &/or drive around the city. But if you need a free ride there's this: http://www.gta4-mods.com/script/ride-along-mod-f2068 To see buses drive around the city, use this: '?do=embed' frameborder='0' data-embedContent>> Of course (using those two scripts togheter) buses will not follow pre.defined paths.

SSD... I'm quite sure that the game is not worth it. People are going crazy with useless SSD fastness: nowadays SSD it's pretty overpriced, about $1 per GB. I strongly suggest to save those $100 for a better CPU. If you need a fast HDD (as I do for work purposes) there's a cheap and efficient way: RAID configurations. Right now I'm using two HDD in a risky but very fast RAID 0. SSD has no sense: even though applications start embarassing fast (is it really that necessary? can't wait 30 secs for a pro app to start?), you have no room for them. Furthermore, if you're working in Photoshop (to make an example) with heavy dimension files, you need the program to have a fast (very) big dedicated temp folder (which you'll be forced to have in the slow HDDs). Nonsense. I don't want to start a fight about GPUs... BUT =) For a commercial reason, Nvidia could be a better choice: simply, for one reason or another, is more supported than ATI (CUDA, Physx, etc...). And generally speaking, don't know why, but ATIs are more troublesome than they should be.

It depends on what device better answers your needs: If you're searching for a gaming pc, or more in general a powerful and long-living station, a desktop pc is recommended. If you're a casual gamer and you don't need a powerful pc for specific needs, (I assume that) laptop's mobility and comfort is what you're searching for. Keep in mind that, in most of the cases, at the same price a desktop pc is better than a laptop (generally talking) And as said before: you can use WiFi connectivity in a desktop pc too.

What do you mean for "direct connection"? Ethernet, maybe? If this is the case (you have no chance for a wired LAN) you can use a Wireless card: there are a lot of high permormance WiFi cards in commerce.

Do you mean something like this? http://www.gta4-mods.com/script/busmod-beta-v1011-f6328