willrs

With the fib siren now being available for use with els I'm trying to see if I can adjust some siren in my game to sound right in the fib slot. Right now I'm in audacity trying to compare the speed and pitch from the "authentic chp siren" that has both a normal siren and one that is adjusted for the fib slot. I'm wondering if there's someone that already knows exact values that a siren has to be changed by for it to sound right in the fib slot.

Think there's any possibility of creating a sirens.awc and having just siren tones in it (probably more than are allotted for vanilla sirens) rather than putting them in the vehicles.awc? Doing so might also get around the change in pitch that you get with the FIB siren

I could think of two possibilities. One is that if I spotlight is given a certain name, etc in zmodeler that a script would be able to recognize it and manipulate it (idk anything about scripting though). The second is some "native" way that would somehow play off of things in the default game like the water cannon on the firetruck being able to move around.

You are right, when you resize something with multiple lods you'll have to resize it for each lod

This is something I don't think has been suggested- With the new option for adding departments, would it be possible for you to add support for more siren slots that the ai would be able to utilize? And a way that they could be used by els vehicles.

http://www.gta-mod-center.com/forum/index.php?/files/file/821-devv-whelen-liberty-pack/

I don't think environmental lighting is actually controlled by the dummy position, the dummy determines where the corona is when you are a certain distance from the vehicle. To set environmental lighting, you should edit the coordinates at the top of the vcf for each of the extras. I do this based off the location of the dummy as shown in the properties in zmodeler. And make sure you adjust which axis and whether a value is positive or negative based on the different axis in zmodeler vs openiv; coordinates in the vcf should be according to the openiv axis orientation

I figured out the problem with the emissive, I needed to change the "adapt" section in the material browser. But I still have the problem of environmental lights only facing backwards

This is a problem I've worked around before but never really figured out the "proper" fix. Unfortunately I didn't get the screenshot at a moment when the other lights are on, but what is happening is the lights in the center of the windshield are dim while the other lights are the brightness they should be (so this is not related to visual settings, it is an issue when I'm making it in z modeler). If it matters: I have the lights in the center of the windshield set as extras 5-6 and the lights in the fog light area/ grille are 1-4, and the dummys are centered with each light using the "copy local axis" tool. Additionally, at night the environmental lighting faces only backwards. I'm thinking it has something to do with the rotation of the axes or the dummies. Hopefully someone knows an easy fix so I can stop pulling my hair out.

I think you just have to delete the dummy associated with the corona location

I'm looking to expand my Richland County pack and I believe the slicktop fpiu uses a whelen flatlighter. Does anyone know of one that's available or willing to make one? I kinda think one used to be available a long time ago, but was removed by the author.