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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

The code is now publicly available: https://github.com/LMSDev/lcpdfr_public 🙂

Would definitely love to see LCPDFR return. GTA IV is one of my favourite games in the series and I have so many good memories of playing LCPDFR between 2011-2015 and it's great the game actually runs decently on modern hardware now.

As a first step in preparing the open sourcing, we have revived the online services. You can read more about it here: https://www.lcpdfr.com/forums/topic/123098-lcpdfr-online-services-returns-track-your-stats/

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.

That is not a problem, I was just curious about the nature of the project. And yes, we will most likely host it on my GitHub account. We should have some more news to share in the next few days 🙂

I just want to say, I wish everyone involved in this good luck, godspeed and I will pray that everything works out. Now all I have to do is buy GTA IV again.

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.

I'm gonna jump on this and say I recently got back into IV and would love to see the revival of this mod. I fully support going forward to bringing LCPDFR to Open-Source

I've just made an account to write in support of the code going open-source.
 
The OP is currently one of the most capable programmers in the IV community too, please give him a shot!

As Andre said you don't have to clean it up. An open source version of LCPDFR would be an amazing thing for the community considering how important this mod is to GTA IV and how much new updates could really improve it.
 
If you make it open source you don't have to find time to do it yourself you could pass it on to the community and another group of people.

Hello it's me again with my predictable question: Are there any news on the source code of LCPDFR? 🙂
I think this would also not only be good to create a Community version of LCPDFR, but also to help the small remaining modding Community of GTA IV how things are done in LCPDFR like implementing a plugins system and stuff like that!
 
If there are any updates, please let me know 🙂
Thanks!

I can say, I'd be more than down to play some LCPDFR updates.