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Hello everyone,

I hope you're having a fantastic springtime and looking forward to the summer!
 
It's been a long time since we've posted a website roundup update, but there's a few changes we're really excited to let you know about. Some of these changes you may have already seen, some will definitely be new.
 
File Tagging System Rollout
We've started Phase 1 of our file tagging system rollout. This update went live today and additionally we've spent some time tagging the first few pages of Vehicle Models to introduce you to it.
 

A look at some files with new tags, different tag types are distinctively coloured.
 
One of the reasons we have not used the built-in tagging system that comes with the software we are using is because it lacks a lot of features a community our size needs. The new home-grown solution combines the tagging solution that comes with our software natively, but extends it with many features:
The ability for our moderation staff to manage tags Tag "categories" with distinctive features, for example; Vehicle Brands, Vehicle Year, System Tags Ability for us to easily see tag use Ability for members to easily navigate tags Ability for authors to find the tags they want to apply easily, and with tag categories, ensure they're picking the correct tags. System and gated tags. For example, the tags fivem and lml will be automatically applied to files and cannot be applied manually. Certain tags can also be gated as author-only, or site-staff only for future expansion. We have started the system today with some vehicle-specific tags (Vehicle Brand, Vehicle Year and Vehicle Country). More tags and tag categories will come as we move into the other phases of this new tagging system.
If you've got any feedback on what tags and tag categories we could further add, feel free to leave feedback on this post.

Here's a small list of what we're working on for future updates:
Community and reputation based tagging (users can tag old files to help tag files which are never going to be updated) A new part of the site where you can see all tags on a certain page, and sort by their uses. Automatic tagging based on image analysis and OCR. A page where anyone can recommend tags (and perhaps tag categories) which can be voted on. Making it easier to tag files, by not allowing arbitary input into the tag box.
 
Using the new downloads tag page to find tags that have files you're interested in.
 
 




Authors, you can get started today tagging your files, just hit the 'Add Tag' button next to your file title.
Tagging is always optional, but helps users find your file in the sea of uploads.
  thorium_9XtQr4UChBbmgLFCyZI0AGJu1.mp4  
A short video showing how to tag files.

AI alt-text and Image Precheck
We now automatically generate an alt-text for all images uploaded. You can see these on image attachments on the forum, as well as file screenshots. These will help discovery both via LCPDFR.com site search (these tags are now inserted into our search index) and Google as well as aid to make the site a bit more accessible.
Along with this, images are now checked via our Image Precheck system for compliance with our Community Guidelines. Images which may not be in compliance with our Community Guidelines may be held for approval or rejected. We hope this keeps the community safer.
 
Speed & Performance
We fixed two major causes of latency for logged in users over the past few weeks. Both of these were caused by bad database queries.
We've shaved off around ~4s worst case of viewing the LCPDFR.com homepage, and around ~1.5s worst case of latency per file listing.
Thank you to the ULSS Discord Server for bringing this to my attention (specifically @SuperPyroManiac).
 
Other Fixes & Changes
Introduced WebAuthn 2FA support. While this is going to be used mostly internally for securing administrative accounts, this option is also available to all users. Show a warning when using colors in the website editor, reminding users of the different themes. LSPDFR Sync no longer shows deactivated members' characters. Fixed an issue with recording and displaying file checksums on the post-download page. Fixed file embeds from rendering an entire page on error. Fixed an issue IPS refuses to fix, correctly lazyloaded content between paginations. Added a game filter to user download special pages. Fixed an issue with file comments/reviews being removed from the search index. Guest views now correctly increment content view counts. ...And numerous other backend changes that would be too expansive to list.  
Cyan.

Thanks to some community efforts and continued interest in keeping LCPDFR alive, we are happy to announce that LCPDFR, the mod which started it all, is now on GitHub. If you ever wanted to see how things worked back in the IV days (or just trash-talk the work of a few 14-year-old kids writing code), you have come to the right place.
 
Please find the repo below: https://github.com/LMSDev/lcpdfr_public

Please find attached the latest SDK for RPH (for game build 2699). It contains a new assembly attribute feature for developers to help reduce game folder clutter:
 
AssemblyProbingPaths - If specified, RPH will consider assemblies in these folders (relative to game folder) during initial plugin load, i.e., when your entrypoint is being loaded. This does not affect anything loaded thereafter, so you have to hook up your own resolver if you have any lazy loaded dependencies. This is to ensure that your solver always gets called first.  
Usage (in your global attribute):
 
AssemblyProbingPaths = "myPlugin;myPlugin\\moreDeps"
 
RPH_SDK_1_95.zip

LCPD First Response (LCPDFR) - GTA4
Version 1.1 - Legacy Edition: ONLINE SERVICES  
As part of ongoing discussions around the future of LCPDFR, we've decided to revive LCPDFR Online Services and have started the process of bringing these services up to date for the latest iteration of the website.
 
At the moment, you can track the same statistics as you previously were able to all those years ago with the initial online services enabled releases of LCPDFR. These include, but are not limited to:
Arrests made Tickets issued Times backup / NOOSE units / helicopter units and much more.
Old statistics have also been imported into the new implementation and are available.
 
Leaderboards and live activity may arrive in a future website update, depending on usage and time constraints.
 
 
 
Viewing your own, or someone else's LCPDFR statistics
You can view a user's statistics by loading their LCPDFR.com profile page.
For your own profile, the easiest way to get there is to click your user name at the top right of the site, then clicking Profile.
Then to see their LCPDFR statistics, hit the 'LCPDFR Online Services' tab. Only users with LCPDFR Online Services collected data will show a 'LCPDFR Online Services' tab.
 


By default, your LCPDFR statistics are shared publicly on your profile page. If you'd like to make them private, you can do so by selecting 'Edit Profile' on your profile page, scrolling down to the 'LCPDFR Online Services (GTA4) Legacy Settings' section and ensuring your 'Hide your Crime Statistics' box is ticked.
 
Linking your LCPDFR installation to LCPDFR Online Services
To link your installation to LCPDFR Online Services and start viewing your data on LCPDFR.com, you need to follow these simple steps:
 
Obtain your API key
LCPDFR Online Services uses a unique key to link your installation to your LCPDFR.com account.
The process for obtaining this has changed. For security reasons, you can no longer use the built-in Diagnostics Tool to link your installation.
Instead, visit lcpd.fr/legacypair whilst logged in to the LCPDFR.com website. You'll see your API key on this page, it looks like this:
 

In this case, your API key would be: 123e4567-e89b-42d3-a456-556642440000. Make sure the key is 'activated', if it's not, you can regenerate your key using the 'Regenerate' button.
  Modify your LCPDFR.ini file to include the API key
You then need to copy the key from the previous step into your LCPDFR.ini file.
Open your LCPDFR.ini file, this can be found in your LCPDFR folder which is a subfolder inside your GTA IV fodler. For steam users, you can commonly find this in  "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Grand Theft Auto IV\GTAIV\LCPDFR".
Inside your LCPDFR.ini file, you'll find the [Networking] section.

Add the your key from the above step at the end of the APIKey=, so it looks like this:
Play LCPDFR like normal!
Whilst your play LCPDFR, what you do is tracked by LCPDFR and sent to LCPDFR Online Services. You can then find your statistics on your profile page. Please note that it may take up to 30 minutes to see your statistics on your profile page.

Thanks for your patience! I think we are at a point where I am happy to consider open sourcing LCPDFR. There are a few caveats, however, mostly due to licensing and how the project is associated with us:
The source code would be hosted on our GitHub repo with a GPL-license, with no third-party binary distribution (I am thinking either only binaries on the official repo or on the website here, still need to figure it out) More than happy to give you full permission on GitHub to manage the project as I do not intend to be involved If you plan to create any communities surrounding the development (reddit, discord etc.), please check with me first as I would like to have administrator there since our name is being used These rules are preliminary, and we can of course revisit and see how things go, but that is how I feel about it currently. Let me know what you think.

LSPDFR 0.4.9 introduces very minor API additions.
 
Functions
SetPursuitvestigativeMode GetIlluminatedClothingStyle SetPedArrestIgnoreGroup  
Documentation
LSPD First Response.XML
 
Check the bottom of this thread for new functions introduced in build 8151 (April 27, 2022).

Hello, thanks for letting me know.

I need to test several locations for interiors.
If you are accepting the callout far away, GTA5 isn't able to load the interiors of the buildings.

So, I'll remove some interiors for the next update. 

My last website update has been a while, so I thought it was worth adding a few notes on some new features that are live now, and some which have been soft-launched in the past month or so you may have missed.
We've also just made live a few tweaks to the site search that we've been working on and I thought it was worth sharing with you all.
 
Excluding comments and reviews from search results
The default behavior for our site search is to include both comments and reviews as part of the search. This isn't too useful when searching for files and reviews because, for example, if you search 'British', you'll end up with results where somebody would ask for a British-version of the pack in the comments.
So starting from today, we no longer include comments and reviews when you search for files. This functionality has been deployed to all of the site search, so you can optionally use it for other content too, for example gallery images. You can also choose to revert to the old behavior for file searches by changing the exclusion options.
You can see an example of this in action and how it can be useful with a British-themed search here.
 
Wildcard searches
Our site search now properly supports wildcard searching. This functionality is not too useful for most content, but is useful for example in searching for phrases which are not separated by spaces.
You can see an example of this in action and how it can be useful in searching our Native Database here.
 
Featured and Trending pages
We now default to only showing one game in our featured and trending list -- mixing GTA V, GTA IV and Resources content didn't make much sense here! The game will be GTA V by default, but you can configure this by changing your default game on the main downloads page. You can also use the filters on the page itself to check out other categories.
 
Misc Downloads Changes
When uploading a file, you can sometimes lose track of the tab and end up closing it by accident. You'll now get a confirmation when closing the tab or window to make sure you don't waste time uploading content to LCPDFR.com. We have acknowledged some speed issues when uploading and hope to have a fix ready later soon. File comments are now sortable by the newest comment. Depending on user feedback, we may make this the default behavior in the future. The file field (used in 'Optimized for') no longer performs terribly and now actually works. Fix some validation issues with LML install.xml contributions. Fix some issues with the table on downloads category pages. Fix an issue where file types didn't show in 'Inside the File'.  
And later this year..
My focus recently has been to improve a lot of less user-visible features on the website that need a bit more love. For example, I've been putting a particular focus into our moderation tools and our search. Our moderation tools have not scaled to the current size of the community so this is a priority for us to streamline. I'm especially interested on improving our file approval process with a friendlier file approval flow that will be easier for users to see what's going on and easier for our moderators to work with. Hopefully we'll roll this out next month.
We are also working on re-working our file security scan and file upload process to prepare for an eventual move for files to an Amazon S3 compliant storage service.
Concerning further work on the site search, the improvement plan is for file search results to look and feel similar to how exploring files in their categories works now, including the ability to filter based on author-provided data just like the category view.
We're also hoping to feed our trending data and downloads data into the search to help provide more relevant suggestions.
 
I hope everyone is safe and well and that this year hopefully is a lot better than the last.
Cyan
 

UnitedCallouts is not a RPH plugin. You need to drag and drop all UnitedCallouts files into GTA5/plugins/LSPDFR
(If you don't have a LSPDFR folder, create one)

If you're taking suggestions, I'd like to recommend the following if possible:
- Suspicious vehicle following money truck/prison transport/officer
- Unattended campfire: By the time fire responds, it would have spread. Get there quick to put out the campfire and search for any person who may have lit it.
- Active shooter: Locations include Life Invader, Mission Row PD, Rehab Centre, University, Outside Pacific Standard, Del Perro, Paleto
- Reports of a vehicle dumping a body: Find the caller, call coroner for body, interview witnesses/witness and search for the vehicle.
- MVA involving tanker truck.
- Farm accident: A farmer has been injured due to an unknown cause. Possible causes include farm equipment, bike accident, shoot-out (drug related). If a shoot-out, upon arriving there will either be a full-scale battle or requiring a search based on witness description.
 
I hope you could incorporate some of them, but I couldn't even comprehend how difficult creating callouts is.

Since early this year, we've been working on a project to drastically overhaul and improve our website and community by upgrading it to the latest version of the community software that we use, as well as building an all new look and feel and developing enhanced functionality and features.  Despite serving us well over the years, our website had become a little dated and disorganized, and bringing about profound changes is something we've wanted to do for a while.
 
Today, we're pleased to welcome you to the new LCPDFR.com, the culmination of our work on this project, which not only features a ton of improvements, enhancements and changes across the board in Invision Community 4.5, but also introduces a brand new, custom-built by us theme.
 
Our new theme, LSPDFR Retina and its sister theme, LSPDFR Dark (Beta), are fresh, content-centric looks fit for a modern website in 2020.  We've worked hard to prioritize content across the board with a far greater emphasis on images and our members.  Aside from this, our new theme features a far brighter user interface with better contrast and more saturation than before which blends in to a simpler overall style. 
 
Please note that the darker variation of our theme is still in beta, is currently only available to registered members, and there are some elements and colors which are yet to be fully configured.
 
Additionally, there are a number of other changes to the way in which the community works.  @Cyan describes these in full in our LSPDFR on IPS 4.5 Changelog, but here's a summary of the most important changes:
 
Ignore Lists & Blocking
A new opt-in system designed to give creators additional control over their content.  Our enhanced blocking system prevents ignored users from being able to comment on and review both gallery images and files.  This feature can be enabled in your Account Settings.
 
Submission Ratings
Files uploaded by members are now automatically screened according to the member's standing within the community, with certain submissions now eligible for automatic approvals.  You can view your own rating in your Creator Settings.
 
Disable Comments
It's now possible for creators to disable comments when they first upload a new file.  Please do note that files with comments turned off may not be featured as prominently throughout the community.
 
LSPDFR Character Cover Photos
You can now add a cover photo to the profile pages of your LSPDFR Characters, check out an example by @LMS here: https://www.lcpdfr.com/lspdfrsync/character/140-kim-orange/
 
We think that our new website is a giant leap forward for us, and very much hope that you'll enjoy the new LCPDFR.com as much as we have making and designing it for you.
 
Of course, we're very open to feedback regarding both the new features on the website and our new design, and welcome you to share your thoughts or comments with us below.
 
Thanks for reading, and welcome to the new LCPDFR.com!
Sam.

You need to update LSPDFR to 0.4.8, to get the callouts with the new functions to work.

Send me the log.
 

Thank you for reporting it. 
I already fixed that issue with the "Traffic Stop Backup" and "Hostages" callout. 
 
I'll update UC very soon with some minor bug fixes.

Hi everyone,
 
I've changed the 'Uses LSPDFR API' version field on file uploads to a bit more clear 'Minimum LSPDFR Version' field.
The idea now is that you select the minimum version of LSPDFR that your plugin works with.
 
For example, if you're using API functions introduced in 0.4.8, you would select 0.4.8, as your plugin would not work on older versions.
 
If you include a backwards compatible version, for example, a version that works with the initial 0.4 release, as well as a version that includes 0.4.8, you can now select multiple options. If you do include multiple versions targeting multiple versions of the LSPDFR API, please make it clear from the file name which version someone should download.
 
If you are unsure what to pick, just pick whichever version of LSPDFR you are testing with. I've updated a few files which target 0.4.8 but in which we didn't have that option there in time (apologies!).
 
As for filtering, we're working on a big improvement to this and making it clear on file pages exactly which versions each file is compatible with. More on that soon.
 
Kind regards and stay safe,
Cyan

Hello Albo,
I still can not believe what you did for the community!
Your plugins have brought LSPDFR to life and many people who have found interest in programming have been inspired by you, including me!
Thank you for your time investing in plugins.
You stay and are a legend in the LSPDFR series.
 
Sincerely, sEbi3

Hello, sry for the late response.
Make sure, that you have "Open All Interiors" installed. 

RAGENativeUI 1.7 has been released.
Changelog and Download

There are different locations in OpenIV for textures.
 
You can find a lot of textures in: update/update.rpf/x64/textures/script_txds
The one in the example is in: x64b/data/cdimages/scaleform_generic

If you want to use textures in the notifications, you can use:

Example:
Game.DisplayNotification("web_lossantospolicedept", "web_lossantospolicedept", "Blaine County Callouts", + System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Version.ToString() + " has loaded successfully", "thank you for downloading!"); Instead of "web_lossantospolicedept", you can use other textures located in OpenIV,

You need to set those callouts from "false" to "true" in the UC.ini

"Content team? But where is all the content?" you ask.
 
Well here it is:
 
It has been a while, but today we are (again) introducing the first episode of the LSPDFR Official Mod Showcase. The Mod Showcase is an opportunity for members of the Content Team to showcase the latest and most popular mods on a regular basis. It also gives us a chance to highlight some mods that we believe deserve more attention. Within our first showcase we take a look at five different vehicle modifications inside and out and give them a little test.
 
What is it?
The Mod Showcase is exactly what it says, a showcase of mods on a regular basis. Within the showcase, we will take a journey through a few selected mods. For vehicles we will look at their lighting patterns, skins and textures . We may take them for a spin to test their handling and how they work at different speeds. For scripts, we may test out a new callout, whilst also showcasing a vehicle, and potentially even throw in a siren pack too!
This Mod Showcase is a reboot of an exciting idea that we want the community to get behind. We would like everyone’s feedback, so we can shape and mould it into the best it can be. Additionally, in the future we hope to create further content for everyone to enjoy and participate in.
 
Who is it?
This series will be created and presented by @Shockie and @Gan Ceann, taking turns to present the video. We have both been part of this community since early 2012, and have a huge passion for the site and the community. Our routes start way back with LCPDFR and Fort Carson Roleplay (if you know, you know), and we have kept in touch with the community ever since. Coincidentally, we also both have a passion for content creation and enjoy working together to make fun projects for everyone to enjoy. This project has already taught us a lot about video creation, and we look to expand on that, as well as our commentary and showcasing ability. It is our first video, so we would really appreciate any constructive feedback.
 
Why?
We are starting this series to show off what the community is creating and sharing. There are a lot of high-quality mods and we would like to act as a new channel to not only support the creators but also provide the community with an overview of what is out there. We also hope that with your feedback, we can look to explore future ideas and features.
 
Where can I see it? (Links at the bottom of the page)
The series will be uploaded to the official G17 YouTube channel (yes, there is one), and will also be viewable in a portal on the website, where there will be easy access to the mods presented in the video. The Mod Showcase page will have direct links to the mods shown within the video, and also the times they are showcased. Like the look of a mod? Click on the link, and it can be downloaded in seconds. Want to check out a specific mod? Look at the timestamp and you will be seeing our showcase in seconds. Mods that have been highlighted in one of our showcases will also have a link back to the video on their respective page.
 
All in all, we hope you enjoy the showcase and give us feedback so we can make this project the best it can be!
 
Links:
 
LSPDFR Official Mod Showcase Episode 1
 
Mod Showcase page:
https://www.lcpdfr.com/resources/showcase/
 
G17 Media on YouTube

UnitedCallouts will automatically loaded by LSPDFR.
So, yes, it is working for you. 🙂

Only one way to find out 🙂