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Some people in the LSPDFR community have started putting mods, tutorials, and “how-to” content behind paywalls, and I don’t agree with it. LSPDFR was built as a free modding community where people shared ideas, files, and knowledge to help others enjoy the game. Charging money for basic support, access to mods, or tutorials takes away from the open-community spirit that made LSPDFR popular in the first place. I was very active years ago and decided to give LSPDFR another shot, and I see a lot hasn't changed, and if anything, the greed is becoming more rampant. I understand creators spend time making content and deserve recognition, but hiding essential mods or information behind subscriptions can divide the community. New players may feel excluded if they cannot afford paid access. I think modding communities work best when creators share knowledge freely and collaborate instead of locking content away. Donations and optional support are fine, but turning a free community into a paywalled environment changes what LSPDFR originally stood for. Just my opinion, and I am talking about the modders who now have Patreon and other forms of payment systems. I have even seen how-to videos on YouTube on certain mods, where, to access the video, you have to pay. What are your thoughts? Am I blowing it out of proportion, or do you agree?

Sounds like a fancy way of describing a senior moderator for GTA Online.

Sounds like a fancy way of describing a senior moderator for GTA Online.

Hello everyone,

I just want to say thank you for sticking with us through the biggest site update we’ve ever rolled out. Last year’s launch didn’t go as smoothly as we’d hoped and we know there have been some issues along the way, so we really appreciate your patience and feedback. It’s helped us get to a much stronger place moving forward.
Now that things have stabilised a bit, today we’re launching a bunch of new features and changes that we think you’re going to love.
Discovery: Tag Filters
The whole point of our tag system has always been discovery. You’ve been able to click into tags and explore everything connected to them, but proper filtering on category pages was missing.

That’s now changed.
You can now explore and filter by tags directly on category pages, with the system built to expand much further over time.
To start, we’ve added brand, country, and year filters to vehicle pages, along with a “Made with AI” filter on script pages.

You can now filter by Brand, Country and Year on Vehicle pages.

A small change on the surface, but a big step toward making discovery faster, cleaner, and far more useful across the platform.
Discovery: Site Wide Tag Exclusions
To give you even more control over what you see on LCPDFR.com, we’re introducing account-level, site-wide tag exclusions.
Any files matching the tags you choose to exclude will be hidden across the site — including the downloads portal, download feeds, trending and featured sections, and search results.

The tag filtering controls, now available in Account Settings. In this example, files tagged as outdated are being hidden.


The downloads category page, showing 1 active account tag filter and 34 files hidden as a result of excluding the outdated tag.

Whether you want to hide AI-generated work, certain vehicle types, specific countries, or even particular vehicle years, we hope this system helps you fully customize how you browse content on LCPDFR.com.

Note: We're aware of an issue of going to Account Settings, then navigating to Downloads Filters will not load the tag box correctly and we're working to fix it. Refreshing the page if the tag box doesn't load will workaround this for now.

Site Experience: Thanking Creators
As a thank you to our creators and contributors, we’ll be removing external advertisements for community members who are actively engaging with the community.

The exact criteria may evolve over time, as our community contributes in many different ways. Whether you're helping new members with questions, uploading mods, or simply being an active part of the site, we want to recognize and reward those contributions.

For creators who share their mods with the LCPDFR.com community, ads will be removed once you reach 1,000 verified unique downloads.

For all other members, ads will be removed once you achieve the Sergeant rank (1,000 community points). Our rank system awards points for a variety of community activity, including forum posts, gallery uploads, comments and reviews (+1), giving or receiving reputation (+1), gaining followers (+2), and more.

This change is going live today, though it may take some time after reaching the requirements for the benefit to be applied to your account. Logging in and out if you meet the criteria may help this apply sooner. We also plan to add a way for members to track their progress toward these thresholds in the future.

This is one small way we can give back to the creators and community members who help make the site what it is.

Developer: API
Our old API has started to show its age and wasn’t really built with the growth of the website in mind.

Historically, we’ve had to handle security on LCPDFR.com in some fairly unique ways. While we want to discourage automated traffic, serving an API directly from our main website domain meant we also had to keep certain protections less aggressive than we would’ve liked.

The API has been moved onto its own dedicated infrastructure, allowing us to properly monitor usage, apply separate security procedures, and relax some of the harsher caching behaviour that existed previously.

We’ve also adopted the more standard approach of enforcing API keys across the new API. This allows us to better track usage, apply limits where necessary, and manage access more effectively. API keys are issued in line with our new API Guidelines, which outline acceptable usage and restrictions around commercial use.

There are currently two key types available:
Version Check Keys — designed for embedding into your own plugins, primarily for update and version checking.
Full API Keys — provide broader access to the API, including mass file listings, extended file metadata (such as tags), .NET assembly data, and more.
Full API keys require approval. We may contact you with questions about your intended usage. Both full and limited API keys require an active LCPDFR.com account that has been active for at least one week.

You can request API keys in your Account Settings.

You can see usage limits, documentation and regenerate your key from Account Settings.


With the new downloads listing API, you can list up to 10,000 files at once. Full documentation available in Account Settings with an issued key.

Overall, this new API infrastructure gives us a far more scalable and maintainable foundation moving forward. Separating the API from the main website allows us to improve security, reliability, and performance without impacting the experience of regular community members on LCPDFR.com.

We’ll be deprecating the old API in stages.
Effective today, the old version check API endpoint (checkForUpdates) will no longer be available for newly submitted files. All remaining endpoints, apart from checkForUpdates, will be turned off on 1 June.
We understand that deprecating checkForUpdates may cause issues for some plugins. We plan to phase this out later this year in stages and with planned brownouts and will share more details in the API forum closer to the time.
We’re not stopping there, either.

While these updates are a big step forward for discovery, customization, and the overall site experience, we already know where we want to focus next, on search.

The truth is, we’ve largely outgrown the search system our current software provides. It was never really built for our mod heavy platform with this much content, this many tags, and the kind of discovery features we now want to support properly.

Because of that, search is probably going to involve a lot more custom work from us moving forward. Better relevance, smarter filtering with the new options announced above, and a generally cleaner experience are all things we want to improve over time.

As always, we do appreciate your feedback. We try to guide LCPDFR.com based on what the community wants, alongside the areas where we feel we can improve and do better ourselves.

We’re looking forward to seeing everyone use these new features, and we’re excited to keep improving the platform alongside the community that makes it what it is.

Cyan.

There was no update to GTA yesterday. GTA Online has new events starting every Thursday that do not cause the game itself to be updated. Gemini does not know what it's talking about since 3788 came out like two months ago. I would guess it's assuming GTA V and RPH follow the same build number etiquette and is falsely guessing your version of RPH was built prior to your version of GTA.

Crashing on load is usually related to a bad mods folder. Try renaming mods to _mods.

We probably would not promote paid mods or have any sort of partnership program.

Not only does it go against our principals, it opens us up to legal trouble as most paid mods are making money off of the intellectual property of other parties (primary concern being Rockstar themselves, but even companies like Ford or Axon could be more likely to pursue legal action once money is involved).

We probably would not promote paid mods or have any sort of partnership program.

Not only does it go against our principals, it opens us up to legal trouble as most paid mods are making money off of the intellectual property of other parties (primary concern being Rockstar themselves, but even companies like Ford or Axon could be more likely to pursue legal action once money is involved).

Seems like we had a similar start around the same time. NB was the one that introduced me to LCPDFR through his YouTube channel, which led to me joining the old FCRP SAMP server, which somehow led to me joining the staff team there (and abusing the admin car), fast forward a few years and I end up the Community Manager here....

Anyways, always nice to see someone who's been around since the early days! Glad you were able to follow your dreams in the real world, too.

Seems like we had a similar start around the same time. NB was the one that introduced me to LCPDFR through his YouTube channel, which led to me joining the old FCRP SAMP server, which somehow led to me joining the staff team there (and abusing the admin car), fast forward a few years and I end up the Community Manager here....

Anyways, always nice to see someone who's been around since the early days! Glad you were able to follow your dreams in the real world, too.

Hello Everybody!
My name is Chris and as the title says this intro is about fifteen years late. I started playing LCPDFR wayy back when I was a mere sophomore in high school. Growing up with NBVideogamevids, BxBugs, and the classic RCMP clans as my late night video streams. Starting in 2011 I began creating gaming communities. Starting on TeamSpeak then eventually heading over to Discord. It all started in Liberty City where 13 year old me was running an incredible gaming community, what was known as Role Play Code 3. RPC3 transformed into Priority Role Play, where several hours of laughs took place for nearly five consecutive years.

Eventually we made the jump to FiveM and dabbled with that before the majority of my longtime friends grew into adulthood. I was no exception. In 2021, ten years after I discovered LCPDFR, I graduated the police academy. Since then I've been an officer in a small city in Georgia. I've recently been promoted and enjoy proactive policing.

Last year I traveled to London, to surprise my best friend. My best friend that I met playing LCPDFR back in 2011. He's now an Inspector for the London Met, enjoying his adulthood just as much as me. He is one of the dozens of friends I speak to regularly that have followed the same path. I've met up with some of these guys at Police Week in DC and often use them for insight.

This community has been a part of my life for over a decade, creating friendships that are genuinely closer than family. It will continue to be something I check in on every so often to appreciate where I came from. Hopefully someone will come across this post and find the same inspiration I did. I'll never forget the days of making my game as "realistic" as I could just to portray a real street cop; and now I am one. It's an incredible ride and worth the wait for those 13 year old versions of myself eagerly waiting.

The plugin timeout threshold has nothing to do with letting the game engine prepare on load. RPH will terminate plugins that cause the game to freeze for longer than the timeout threshold. The only reason increasing it is recommended is because, due to how complex LSPDFR is, slower systems will fail to fully load LSPDFR in the default 10,000ms. LSPDFR is likely the only RPH plugin in existence that requires this to be changed, or at least one of very very few.

Hi, I'm back. After deleting the SirenSettings_Limit_Adjuster file, the police sirens are working without any issues again. As for the Rage Plugin Hook crashing while on duty when pressing Esc, it has been fixed by adding the missing CalloutInterfaceAPI file to the GTA 5 game folder. Everything seems to be working for now. I will confirm if everything is definitely okay by the weekend at the latest. See you for now! 🫡

Try removing SirenSettings_Limit_Adjuster and let us know if your lights work. Other users have reported it is broken with the latest update.

For the pause menu crash, please upload RagePluginHook.log from the main directory.

The plugin timeout threshold has nothing to do with letting the game engine prepare on load. RPH will terminate plugins that cause the game to freeze for longer than the timeout threshold. The only reason increasing it is recommended is because, due to how complex LSPDFR is, slower systems will fail to fully load LSPDFR in the default 10,000ms. LSPDFR is likely the only RPH plugin in existence that requires this to be changed, or at least one of very very few.

The plugin timeout threshold has nothing to do with letting the game engine prepare on load. RPH will terminate plugins that cause the game to freeze for longer than the timeout threshold. The only reason increasing it is recommended is because, due to how complex LSPDFR is, slower systems will fail to fully load LSPDFR in the default 10,000ms. LSPDFR is likely the only RPH plugin in existence that requires this to be changed, or at least one of very very few.

The plugin timeout threshold has nothing to do with letting the game engine prepare on load. RPH will terminate plugins that cause the game to freeze for longer than the timeout threshold. The only reason increasing it is recommended is because, due to how complex LSPDFR is, slower systems will fail to fully load LSPDFR in the default 10,000ms. LSPDFR is likely the only RPH plugin in existence that requires this to be changed, or at least one of very very few.

I've already mentioned this issue internally and hopefully it will be fixed in a future maintenance release.

Ah, I will relay this on, but I'll tell them not to rush it this time 🙂

Yes - the disclosure is mandatory. If a moderator has reason to believe AI was used and not disclosed or disclosed improperly, they will kindly ask for the disclosure to be added or corrected.

@JhnDoe I think you've missed the point here. If you look in our downloads section, there has been a large influx of mods written entirely by AI. I think the first or second mod to use this disclosure said "AI made this for me in one hour." The idea with this system is simply to be transparent about AI use in development, not to prohibit or punish it.

AI can be an excellent tool when used correctly. We don't want anyone to think that if they used AI in creating their mod that they are not welcome here - we welcome all sorts of mods. Everyone has to start somewhere and if your first mod was made by AI, so what? Take what you've learned from that and apply it to make greater things. Maybe you've been making mods for years and AI lets you do things you've never had time or been able to do before. We just want our users to know what role, if any, AI played in what they are downloading. It's really no different than putting everyone who contributed in the credits.

I can't tell if it's worse that this feature was forgotten about (and therefore not ported to the new downloads page) or that it took someone multiple months to notice

It should be back in an update later today.

These types of sound issues are usually related to your sound settings in Windows. Make sure your default device is set correctly and any related drivers are up to date.

Smart App Control is an extremely restrictive security feature that basically blocks any program that Microsoft themselves has not verified or their "app intelligence services" determines is unsafe.

There's nothing we can do on our end. In fact, releasing an update to LSPDFR only makes matters worse as Microsoft has no telemetry data on the new version to determine if it is safe or not. Hopefully as more people install the latest version of LSPDFR, their intelligence service will realize it is not a threat.

There are two fairly large banners explaining this on the download page. Ultimately what you decide to do is up to you, but if you are holding out for it to be "fixed" you'll be waiting a while. This is not something that can be fixed on our end.

You haven't installed the Enhanced version of LSPDFR.

LSPD First Response: [INFO] Compiled on 14 Dec 2023 18:19:48 UTC