Roundy

I remember. But I find it amusing how much offense a logical statement by Strike gets from Americans. He is right and I agree with him 100%. I don't care what anybody says, but I won't just conform and feel sorry for what everyone else states I should. I'll decide that for myself. FYI, I'm in a pissy mood today, so I won't really give 2 shits on an icicle about what anybody thinks about me.

It's been 12 years, yet the people I speak to in NY state and city on a regular basis have let it go, one's an EMT/FF in Rochester, he's accepted it happened and sees today as another work day, hanging a flag in the firehouse to remember but to keep working above all. Same for my friend living in the Bronx, her outlook on today is just treat it as yet another day and get on with life. NYC has healed and moved on, it's time for the rest of the US to stop hanging onto it and let it go. 9/11 is not a reason for the US to rip the Constitution to shreds or have drones in the streets and martial law in the cities.
 
Anyone remember that Ben Franklin quote about liberty and giving it up? It fits the post 9/11 world pretty well.
 
I absolutely, point blank hate 9/11 being used as a reason to drum up patriotism or used as a reason for a (completely bullshit) war, see OIF 2003 and the shitstorm that's entailed from it. Okay, you were attacked, you fought back, but quit holding onto it for a reason to pick a fight with people. One day the US will invade a nation and get defeated (likely by a Chinese-backed nation) and they'll run and hide.
 
9/11 happened. I'm not stating it didn't, It was an attack, but Spain got attacked, the UK got attacked in 2005 as well, it isn't just a US issue, it's a deeper religious issue that won't ever go away. In some ways the US is similar to the Muslim states it's at 'war' with. Iran has joined mosque and state, the US has some politicians who want church and state as one. As for your point on the military k-9, both the military and FR have their share of people who think they are gods and above reproach, it's not just one or the other, and to call it a 'war' is flat out ridiculous, so are you saying that the police and EMT and FF are at war with America? That's hard to grasp really.
 
Now, Americans were killed in 1941, that caused America to enter into WWII, Americans were killed in bombings and attacks pre-2001, Khobar Towers, WTC 1993, Vietnam, Nicaragua, Panama and so forth. Where's the memorials to those fallen Americans? Khobar got brushed over, Pearl Harbor's remembered as a history-twisting Hollywood butchering of history, the 1993 WTC bombing isn't a huge deal to people.
 
Oh and FR deaths aren't glossed over if you actually take the time to look them up and read something more than a local paper ya know. There was a lot of coverage of the 19 killed in Arizona, there's coverage of the Boxcar scandal that led to FR deaths due to insufficient aircraft (the exchanged C-130s were found to be later involved in drug smuggling in Mexico)
 
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Read up on who funded AQ and their motives. Scary stuff.
 
Also, you want to compare WWII to 9/11?
 
No. You want to compare six years of bloody global struggle to one day? There were more Americans killed in the European and Pacific theaters than in 9//11, there were more Americans killed in the US than on 9/11, over six and a bit years. So, one day does not compare to 1939-1945, or 900AD-2013AD in terms of holy wars.
 
The so-called war on terror's been going on for roughly ten years in its current form and 9/11 has been in some quarters classed as an act of war. I partly agree as the Islamic jihad's been going on for thousands of years, right back to the 9th or 10th century with the Ottoman Empire and their conquests of Europe.

No offense but it's been 12 and you people should think in the future, move on. I know the attack was a hard blow for the american people, but you won't get anything looking back and carrying the pain the rest of your lives. In addition, there are tragedies everyday that also take innocent people, officers and firefighters. Are these just ignored heroes?

First of all it's not a "Add on" it's a mod.
 
Second, We're sorry that it can't be a 100000% perfect script, We'd like to see you try and make it better, Gta 4 is unstable in some ways and it's not easy to code a mod perfect. For one you probably installed it wrong, or just don't understand anything about it.
 
Sorry that you're a newbie who knows jack shit about modding and the hard work that this modding community has put into it.
 
Go play some other, Shittier mod like Pursuit mod but don't come in here and start crying about how buggy it is or that you can't understand it.
 
Wrong section too.....I don't think there is even a section for this.

Who are you to say whether or not I'll be able to help him out?

This script is terrible, go back to policing scripts.
 
EDIT: Hooray neg reps! I've been testing this with Brave. I'm a Sgt. in his clan at LC-Police.com and I'm only just messing with him.
 
They see me trollin'...

Guys...
 
 

God damnit.
a british Soldier gets killed on british Turf. In the streets of London
Not in Afgahnistan or some other shithole. Right in the damn streets of London.
This is something i really was shocked about.
 
If you can't be save in your own Citys anymore...things are gone way to far.
Yesterday i was in Pure Rage Mode hearing that. Sure i don't live in the UK but this proves it can happen anywhere - to anyone. Could be your Brother, my Sister. This is just.....arrg thinking about it again fills me with pure rage again.
 

Considering it's a worldwide organization that these people belong to, one that has shown numerous times that it can pose a threat to the entire civilized world, I think it needs to be know. Fear and hatred is only bad if it is based on falsehoods and superstition, like the beliefs of these monsters. If someone is a possible lethal threat to you and everyone around you, a little fear and hatred is absolutely justified, and it's naive to think otherwise.

What a way to flame someone. [Community Guidelines]
 
The file he linked is just that truck, but with a different skin.
Considering he is right, you should seriously rethink who you call "dumbo". Especially after you called the Royal Canadian Fire Department "RCMP"

You can slow down the lights by changing:
FlashDelay_Sp =
FlashDelay_Mp =
 
 
To 1,2,3 if you want to slow down the patterns, this also works with ELS V6, don't think about ELS V6 when looking at V7, it's completely different in so many ways.
 
 
Yes, vehicles pull over if you use the siren.
 
No, it will not be possible to fix the "door bug" or the invincibility, it's just not possible with ELS. People who are interested in a lighting mod that doesn't have these bugs should look at ELS.net instead.
 
Release date is not set, Caine works on it when he has time and we're still testing for bugs and he's still adding new features to it, it will be done as soon as Caine is ready to release it.

I'm hopeful it will be before the end of the month.  I have a few university things to take care of first (one of them being 3000 words about HTML5, yay!) but after that I should get back onto it.  I ran into a few problems which slowed down progress meaning I've got to rewrite a lot of the code under a new design as my old one was a little bit flawed - it allowed you to define custom patterns and export/share them, although the patterns were generic and not vehicle specific.  This cased a problem where if cars had different light set ups, the patterns would need to be different as well.  Essentially, if you have the cruiser using some sort of LED lightbar and nothing else and you have the patrol using another type of LED lightbar yet you want them to have the same sort of pattern, you would have to make two different patterns, one like "WigWag Police Patrol" and the other "WigWag Police Cruiser".  This is fine until you have lots of different vehicles and patterns, as it starts to become a big mess and you would have to cycle through all of them to get the one you wanted if you were changing it ingame.  If the patterns are defined in the vehicle's folder, however, they become specific to that vehicle, meaning that only that car will be able to use that pattern, making things a lot easier to work with.  Obviously with a lot of code to refactor, this is taking a while and its pretty boring stuff just changing the way that the program takes in and stores data.
 
For obvious reasons, I don't really want to go too far into how the custom patterns work, although they are really really powerful.

Well... Reading the comments above and after watching the trailer.. It seems to be pretty horrible

Zmodeler 3 doesn't have an export option for the files types GTA IV uses. You'll want to get zmodeler 2

So, I was thinking that after a day of April fools jokes and such that perhaps a few people would appreciate some real news regarding our community, LCPDFR and our plans for the future.  I used to do something like this at the beginning of the year however we were a little sidetracked and honestly didn't have much news that we were ready to share - something which has changed considerably.
 
The first thing that I want to say is that right now, as I speak, we're actually in the middle of a huge surge in popularity, traffic and activity and although the numbers are still a little rough, I can quite confidently say that the past few days have been our most active ever.  Yesterday alone we saw over 400 registrations - a phenomenal number for one day.  Today, we've had 414 so far.  Put simply, we're doing our biggest numbers ever and as the guy that sat for years and watched this project grow slowly, the past few days have been really exciting for me.
 
We have now surpassed GPM in total member count, which I'm pretty sure was the only thing that was left to surpass them on.  Indeed, just a year ago when we really started to expand and grow I don't really think anyone expected that we'd do so well in the long term.  Back at the time, we understood the surge of traffic, all the new content and our sudden boost in popularity, but we didn't really think that it would continue that way - we thought of it as something that would come and stay, or even go, but certainly not come and then keep coming and coming (don't read that the wrong way please!).  Back in late summer 2011, all I could hope for was that we could be a viable and progressive alternative, and now I feel pretty silly for setting my expectations so low.
 
On the subject of all this development and activity, 2013 is shaping up to be quite a big year for us.  Aside from the blockbuster release of GTA V later on in September, there's a lot more going on closer to home with the recently announced ELS v7 coming out, for the first time ever on LCPDFR.com, in a little bit and also with LCPDFR and another project I've been working on for the past couple of months in close collaboration with Lt.Caine and LMS.  Basically, as a lot of you will know, I've always wanted to make a lighting system that's a decent alternative to ELS.  Years ago I put out a small and unfinished script called Illumination which used GTA IV's native method to draw light coronas in the game world, making a decent LED lightbar and an absolutely horrible traffic advisor.  This didn't really go anywhere because of how bad it was, the complications of the whole thing and the popularity of ELS at the time.  A while back I decided to revisit it, and didn't really get much closer although I did come up with some ways of making things look a whole lot better but nonetheless it was scrapped and forgotten about.  The real breakthrough came early this year, however, when Lt.Caine sent me a message after something like 2 years of being away.  After a few days, we had a basic plan put together, which brings me to the first announcement I have for everyone:
 
Emergency Lighting System (ELS) Dot Net
 

 
ELS Dot Net is a special version of ELS, running on the .Net Framework and being developed primarily by myself.  It is a corona based system, like a few of the ones that have been shown of recently, although it has several key differences:
Fully customisable and distributable patterns and vehicle configurations The ELS interface everybody knows and loves Several different light types, such as LEDs and halogen bulbs Realistic rotator lightbar emulation (with rotating beacons and environmental lighting) Built-in visibility checks for coronas shining through solid objects and such AdvancedHook integration for flashing headlights and taillights (agan, these are customisable) I hope to get some video of some of the cool features of ELS.Net released in the next week.
 
 
The next thing I want to address is LCPDFR, and where we're headed with it.  For the past few months, LMS has been really hard at work with the mod, doing his best to write a whole host of new systems for it which I'll talk about a little later on this year - most likely in a couple of months.  All of our development energy and focus as far as LCPDFR is concerned has, however, been directed towards these improvements which I suppose you could describe better as a complete rewrite, because that, to be quite frank, is what they are.  We wanted to go further with the mod in the sense that instead of adding new callouts or pursuit features, we wanted to make the very core of it much more powerful and easy to build on.  After many months, we're finally almost there with almost all of the features of the ever elusive 0.95 RC3 ported over and re-worked for the new engine.  I thought that instead of waffling about the things LMS has been doing, it would be better to briefly list some examples of the new functionality present:
PedIntelligence class - it handles AI for peds, meaning that now instead of people not giving a damn that you're pursuing a highly armed suspect right in front of them, they'll actually notice and care about it! Pursuits - We have some really powerful stuff for all sorts of chases, both in cars and on foot.  Instead of using ranges and distance checks, officers can now lose sight of the suspects, and if they do, will spread out and search a perimeter like in real life (helicopters are really useful now). Drastically improved Police AI - Suspect with a gun?  Cops will start shouting at him to drop it. Misc. Improvements - New tasks for things like pulling over (they do it a lot better now), ability to get the side of the street that a vehicle is on (useful for traffic stops) and full support for controllers. All in all, we're trying our best to make the next version of LCPDFR (which is most likely going to be 1.0) as powerful as we can given our limited resources not to mention all of our other commitments.  I'm sorry that it has taken this long for us to provide some concrete information about the state of the project - we've just been incredibly busy with all sorts of other things and only a few weeks ago were we anywhere near certain of what direction we were headed in with it.  That being said, the one thing I can say with confidence is that you will see a release of LCPDFR this year, unless of course LMS gest run over by a bus or something and my screen spontaneously combusts sending highly charged lethal glass shards through my body, but that won't happen hopefully!
 
To conclude, I'm feeling really optimistic about the next 8 months.  I think we've got a lot of exciting things on the way and from what we can tell, we're obviously doing something right on the community side of things given our recent statistics.  I think we've all proven that LCPDFR, both the mod and this awesome website, has been nothing short of a total game-changer.
 
On behalf of the entire team here, I'd like to thank everyone for their continued support, even after 3 and a half long years.  We've really made something special here, and it's not going to stop anytime soon.
 
Sam.

You could just put a white texture on it.

No you still won't have access to the full island when the mod is on. You only get access to the full island upon completing the game.

1. Yes the stram version works fine
2. No you can use the mod after the very first mission