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Read today that Ford will no longer be producing Crown Victorias. The last one was made this august. The Crown "Vic" is the staple vehicle for many police departments across the United States. This will leave Ford without a V8 sedan for sale in the US, for the first time since 1932.

I'm not sure if this will affect the Ford Interceptor, which clearly uses the Crown Vic model, (and is the, i believe technical name for the police versions of these cars), but if so how will this affect the fleets of US police depts? How will this, in turn, affect the future of modding in this game?The Crown Vic has been such an iconic police vehicle, i can not begin to imagine a US police force without one. What vehicle will fill it's place? Its been the standard policy of using american made cars, will this remain the same, or will depts. look across borders to find a new staple?

Thoughts?

Article link: http://autos.yahoo.com/news/r-i-p--to-14-cars-and-trucks-for-2012.html

That's too bad, they looked like interesting models. So you completely wiped everything? Did you have any backups stored elsewhere or is everything gone?

If it;'s still on my computer, i can''t find it.

i'm wondering where i can find standalone light bars and other on vehicle objects (ie. puch bars). I know that they come typically in the model. but i know that they can also be added as a stand alone object attached to the vehicle.

I don't know if you have permission to share it, but if you do, can I get copies of your protoype, models and unit folders and I can see if I can make them work in game, without replacing the vehicles you based them off?

I wish i had seen this sooner. I recently did a cleanup of my computer. I had uninstalled EM4. and deleted these files.

Go read the reskinning topic in the LA Mod->Alterations forum.

went and read the thread as you recommended it simply says "convert the file back to .dds" it does not give instruction on how to do this.

You cannot

.dds is the image file

.v3o is the model file

In the process of reskinning i have to change the extension to v3o, so i can unpack it. Then you're supposed to "undo" to get it back to v3o. I've done it before, but for some reason i was only able to undo 1 of the files. so i've more upacked files that need to be put back to .dds.

How do i convert a v3o to dds? Does the converter do this? I've tried renaming it, but it simpley changes it to "example.dds" with a file extension of "v3o."

Hi, I had a look at the tutorials and zmodeler.

But, I have no expierence in this sort of stuff and I know I will not be able to change all the lightbars into nice thin led bright lightbars with the directional lights for traffic on them.

This maybe alot to ask but I would love if someone could make these lightbars and then upload them for us all to download as im sure many other people would want these lightbars.

Regards.

The issue is the lightbars are already fused with the models in zmoddler, so in order to replace the lightbars you'd have to get zmoddler. even if someone uploaded LED's you wouldn't be able to put them on.

No you dont. I never have bothered to put files in C:\ to unlock them.

Odds are it was because i'm not the administrator on my computer, and "run as administrator" wasn't working. Nevertheless, putting it into C:/ worked, regardless of whether it should have.

I would if i knew how to make it show up in game on its own. At this point, b.c of my limited knowledge, you would have to change the model of the EMS car, then do your own lights/lightbars. If you know of another way let me know and i'd be glad to release.

I had tried that, and it wasn't working, after reading through the comments i found i needed to put the file in my c:/ then unpack it.

One of the things that i love about the LA mod is the FBI Tahoe, but in my area many other emergency vehicles are Tahoes as well. So i decided to do some reskinning. I'm not sure if LA has police Tahoes, but i imagine this is what they'd look like. I also did a skin for an EMS Captian's Tahoe. The total list,in order, is and unmarked LAPD Tahoe, LAPD slicktop Tahoe, LAPD tahoe w/ lightbar, and LA EMS captian's car.

I had originally planned on creating whole new vehicles by copying MikeyPI's models and adding it as i would a brand new vehicle, but never could get it to work, and my help requests were never responded to. Luckily, i had downloaded some of the wonderful mods on this site, so i had some extra vehicles that i could replace. So these vehicles replace the original LAPD Patrol car, LAPD slicktop, LAPD SUV, and original LAPD ems car, respectively.

Like i said, i didn't do anything but the reskinning and adding of lightbars and lights. The credit for the vehicles go to MikeyPI, and the lightbar on the LAPD Tahoe goes to CultziBolzi.

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Hey,

For the past three days i've been wrestling with a project of mine, i've taken the FBI Tahoe from the LA MOD and copied it and tuned it into a slicktop. So that i have an fbi and a slicktop. Everythings done EXCEPT getting it to show up in game. I'll get it on the menu in campaign, but the game crashes when i try to deploy it. It won't show up in freeplay at all. I'm sure it's a simple issue, but i can't figure it out. Any thoughts?

There have been others who have been doing similar things, but i want to do something a little different. I want to take some civilian cars, (Tahoe, Audi, F350) and mod them into emergency vehicles. I was going to reskin them but the DDS converter wouldn't work. So here's my questions:

How do i make a vehicle like the black chevy tahoe into 4 separate entities, the secret service, the FBI, the civilian, and the Unmarked LAPD (the one i want to make)?

How do i add a light bar? Is it possible with the "children" tab in the editor?

I can edit lights and traits, and i can always compare with other vehicles, but is there anything else i should know?

I think that shane green's mod had this feature, it was one of the reasons i downloaded his mod, the chain of command. You could try asking him. I know he had a command that allowed his "captains" to call the chief.

I did the same kind of thing on mine. I simply added the "call firetruck" and the "call als ambulance" to my police officer's commands. I would like this much better.

I love this idea. If/when it is completed, and if/when it is approved, i'll be sure to download.

I just can't wait until this is compatable with 2.0.

I thought it was, i was running it on v2.2, with no problems.

There are a lot of things that i like about this mod, the apparent chain of command (each engine has a captain, captain can call the next person on the chain to respond, he, in turn, can call the next.) However there are some things that i didn't like: new sirens, new police vehicles as opposed to just using multiples of the original, (meaning just having one, them copying them in game. That way, if you have edited the vehicle, the ones in game will be like it.)I wish there was a way to keep the command, and the new parking spaces, but remove the other parts that are not wanted.

no, it's not in editor. Check my third post in this topic

Not sure if anyone else is having this problem. but there is no link in the 3rd post for me.

I don't know if anyone has reported this, but the LAPD station has issuses when you call a PD SD or CHP vehicle. If you send the vehicle to a location, then call it. THe vehicle will just sit there at the station and not do anything. This is on 2.0, no idea about 1.0.

I had the same issue, but with the original map, the lights would go on, and then the cars would stay in the station. I would just restart the game and hope that it didn't happen again.