Grim_Wizard

1 hour ago, Johhnnyy said:

Thx, I was able to get it to work. Would the Welfordshire mod still work? Particularly, its E4MOD file.

I don't see why not. I haven't downloaded it but the database is stable, anything on the site should install correctly. The only program that can read e4mod files is Emergency 4 editor and modinstaller, so if it's an e4mod file its purpose is to be loaded by the mod installer. 

8 hours ago, Johhnnyy said:

So I need the E4MOD file, not the one that's a file folder?

Yes. The mod installer doesn't install .zip .rar .7z etc. It installs .e4mod files. 

I downloaded and verified that the file from the server is not corrupted and that it installs correctly. 

1.) Delete the associated folder in your mods folder. It should be London_Mod_v1.3 if it's not there skip this step

2.) Redownload the mod

3.) Extract the file you downloaded, in windows right click and select extract all

4.) Open modinstaller, if you are using the steam version select this in the launch options. 

5.) Select install package

6.) Navigate to your downloads, open the London_Mod_v1.3 mod and select the file that ends in .e4mod and select okay

7.) Once it successfully installs load the game

8.) Load mods as you would normally. If I recall correctly to get the custom map you have to select non deluxe freeplay. 

On 4/20/2025 at 8:56 PM, Xplorer4x4 said:

At this point, EMP might as well officially be dead. For years we were teased this or that mod or update was coming. At this point, about the last thing I can find is em-c Miami Mod advertised new models around Christmas. Almost 5 month later, still no release. Not to mention the year or two of advertised new models or whatever that have yet to be released like every other mod that seemed to be one last breath of fresh air. The modding community seems officially dead at this point. 

Yeah, growing up sucks. I have mods that are scripted and worked on, I just don't have time. I mean I've been playing this series for over 20 years now, the core fanbase of the game has been alienated, forums in general are dead all around the internet. Just life man. 

20 hours ago, CanadianFrog said:

At the risk of getting too off topic - I'm so happy someone else remembers Emergency on the DS. Everyone I speak to swears it doesn't exist, even though I know I'm not crazy cuz I still got the cartridge! Honestly it was a super good game - original missions in it's own right and not really a full port. 

Most of the missions were actually taken from Emergency 2, or at least scaled down from that game. Still Emergency DS and the older Emergency Android/iPad game were actually really good! The older mobile game was an extension of the Emergency DS game. 

Wrap it up folks, this one is a loss. 

It's been about two weeks and I wish there was a lot I could show you, but unfortunately work on the mod has been slow due to my work schedule. It's looking like January will be jam packed with work days as well unfortunately. That being said we have made some progress! It's just not screenshot worthy progress. 

Currently the town of Schlafenberg has a fully staffed fire station! At the start of the game you are given several firefighting vehicles and firefighters to compliment them! There are also two ambulances that spawn at the hospital, as well as an emergency doctor's vehicle! The police force also has two patrol cars, a patrol van, and an armed response unit that spawns on the map. The engineer's depot currently has an engineer that spawns. Fire units can also return to the fire station, and soon all units will be able to return to their perspective stations!

A few map details have been added, including a road to the beachfront. It still needs a proper street to be attached to it. Some of the sidewalks still need to be aligned properly and a few houses need walkways and driveways. There are also some pathing issues to work out. I have also focused on creating custom audio for a lot of the town in an attempt to make the town feel more "alive". This includes the gas station, the fire station, the church, and the fast food shop. 

I am hopeful that before the new year I will be able to upload an updated alpha version of the mod.

Enjoy the holidays ahead all!

49 minutes ago, annabellica said:

Sure, my discord is linked on my profile here

I believe it sent, I had to reverse look up your user and tag from a bot. If you don't see it it's Panzerschlag #8425 

I was also interested if your program would decompile EFTs from the 20xx series, however it looks like it causes an overflow when trying to parse the EFTs of 20xx. I am aware of some ways to circumvent a lot of the protection from mods that 20xx had, and NewFoundKing and myself were able to able to insert and load models about 8-10 years ago, but it was very difficult, convoluted, and required a copy of the game's engine. 

8 hours ago, annabellica said:

 

Magic 

Chris07 and myself both have a vested/piqued interest in the implications of your project and what it could mean for the future of Emergency 4 and its modability. Would you be interested in talking about it over discord?

I fixed the issue. This mission folder had a spelling mistake in it

11 hours ago, annabellica said:

EM3 as well as EM4 maps work completely fine. Not sure what you mean with mixed results 

Disregard, I was testing on EM3 files I pulled off of an old external HDD that were almost completely corrupted, causing the program to hang. Tested it out on a fresh install and everything was good. 

59 minutes ago, C.F.D said:

A very welcoming asset to the community, thank you for this. Can you help clarify what this can be done for those who are new to the community, what exactly sort of .EFT texture/template can you open with this tool ? Are we talking about base game map textures, etc ? 

 

Now see if you can reverse-engineer the editor and introduce more tools, haha.

I played around with it, you can extract a targa out of the EFT file more or less. Mixed results with EM3. But EM4 maps seem to work okay. 

2 hours ago, Firequi said:

I believe it should be System::Log instead of LogFile

They both print to the log file, and my other scripts register the debug information to the logfile with System::LogFile

2 hours ago, annabellica said:

Much appreciated!
Yeah, wish I would've joined the community earlier. It took us about 5 days to crack the format - unbelievable it took 15 years in general.

There was always a lack of scripters in the community, fewer still people who could compile projects outside of the confines of the game itself. The only one I can remember is the EM4 script generator. Also the EFT format has remained uncracked for 16 years, as it was used in Emergency 3, if you had waited a month and 5 days it would have been 17  

Hey all, 

I'm working on a custom freeplay script to spawn vehicles. I have looked around and found that several mods use fp.freeplay.script to spawn vehicles and turn door occlusion off. When the game starts the script should execute two debug lines into the log file

bool OnLoad()
{
	start();
	System::SetEnv("e4_doocclusion", 0);
	Process::Kill();
	return true;
	System::LogFile("At least the script file loaded");
}

void start()
{
	GameObjectList spawnerList("SCSpawner");
	GameObject spawner = spawnerList.GetObject(0);
	Game::ExecuteCommand("SpawnVehicles", &spawner);
	System::LogFile("It's working dingus");
};

When executing SpawnVehicles an additional debug line is logged. SpawnVehicles works fine on its own, however I can tell that the script is not being executed as there is no debug line in the logfile. I have looked around, but I cannot figure out if I have to link the script file in the editor or do any additional work. I have also looked through the spec xmls to make sure that I'm not missing a file path and couldn't find anything. Any help?

I am highly impressed. This is something that has been missing for such a long time, and as someone who primarily deals with making maps from scratch would have saved so much time over the years. 

Absolutely. Add me on discord. My man you ain't write, you ain't call, you just up and disappeared so you gon have to catch up with me. 

Another week, another update. Sadly my vacation time is running out, so forthcoming updates will likely be slow. Instead of focusing on map texture updates, most of the progress this week has been on scripts and importing some assets from Emergency 3. Most of the map texturing done was some small things, such as improving road and sidewalk textures and changing the sand texture on the beaches. A few new car accidents have been added. I also spent a lot of time play testing the map, particularly with fire spread. I have realized that a lot of fires in the game, even smaller fires, grow out of control fairly quickly. While it offers great gameplay, it can be very difficult to reasonably control raging infernos with only a select few units, with gameplay being centered around a small town I feel that the player will need more options to control the raging fires. I have decided to give the bulldozer extra function and have been experimenting with adding in trees that can be destroyed with the bulldozer. 

One thing that I've felt has been missing from the base game is the ability to change firefighters to various other uniforms, such as breathing apparatus or the diving suit. Firefighters can now change into breathing apparatus from any firefighting vehicle. Firefighters with breathing apparatus can change into ABC protection at the equipment truck (RW/GPT) or the decon truck. (DEKONP). Firefighters can also change into a diving suit at the equipment truck. 

And rounding out the custom scripts is a go to hospital script! Ambulances can now go to the hospital. Currently there is no "return to station" script, so it is very limited. I have also started work on a spawn script, as well as a flashing lights script. Also some scripts that I made for a different mod are in. Doctors no longer spawn with emergency cases, they must get one from the EDV/NEF. Doctors also no longer can be staffed on ambulances, they must be summoned on the EDV/NEF. To balance this change paramedics can now assess patients and treat them better, so not every casualty requires a doctor. 

You will also notice that some new stations have been added. Currently these are place holders. Some brand new custom stations will be coming soon. However, if you are interested in checking them out, the new stations can be found here and here. 

Currently I am working on a startup script to spawn vehicles. This is the city engineer's office. It will have a parking spot for an engineer's vehicle as well as a bulldozer, and possibly a crane. A tow truck will be available on the map, however it will be at the auto garage on the map, not the engineer's office. Additional tow trucks will eventually spawn outside the map. Eventually you will be able to spawn additional engineers and TEC/THW persons at this building. I have debated on expanding the roles and duties of technical services and may add in additional persons, though this will likely be very far down the road. 

This is the town's hospital. It has been adapted from a building from Emergency 3. In fact most mods back in the day used this model as a stand in hospital, so it should look familiar to long time Emergency fans. The attached ambulance station will have two ambulances and a doctor's car. Eventually this service will have a color scheme similar to Die Johanniter, and will operate the area's only medical and rescue helicopter. The town of Schlafenberg will also see a single ambulance with a different color scheme from the hospital station. The liveries will come after I upscale the textures. This will likely be the most labor intensive part of the mod. 

Additionally the mountains and forest to the north will eventually be changed to support a more complex and satisfying gameplay component, with the inclusion of search and rescue teams for the deluxe missing persons events as well as individual trees, rather than filler forest objects for tactical control of fire and better unit movement. 

As you can see below the town has grown considerably since some of the first screenshots of the mod. The town will continue to grow and be detailed as the mod progresses. A single EMS station will soon be present in the town. Patrol routes will also be present in the near future, however they will be on foot through the town proper, rather than by vehicle! 

The neighborhood and farms to the north and the west now have a name. As part of an inside joke they will have the official name of Toasterhausen. There will soon be a small fire station with a single truck located by the neighborhood and car shop. Pictured below is the area's water pumping facility.

Also, I just wanna get a goth GF. (jk i already do and sarah if ur reading this ily)

With my work schedule being quite erratic I was wondering if there was anyone who might be interested in hopping aboard this project? I will need quite a bit of help with UV mapping all of the base game vehicles. The goal of the mod is to keep as much of the original game intact as possible. I don't think that the original game gets enough credit most days. I hope you all enjoy this small dev blog. I will try to make a new stable package of the mod and upload it within the week. 

21 hours ago, Xplorer4x4 said:

@Grim_Wizard great signature lol

I stay missin them days man, . I'm sure I could write a dissertation on the community over the years. Sorry it took a hot second, I *think* this is what you are looking for. This is 2.0.8 and was downloaded sometime in 2012. 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/r7z5i7qpcssklmh/Los.Angeles.Mod.v2.0.8-4x4.rar?dl=0

Here is YSB's separate patch

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4wtfg8e7s7w8o42/Los Angeles Mod v2.0 4x4 Patch 9 by YSB.rar?dl=0

13 hours ago, Xplorer4x4 said:

Excuse the bump guys.

I have a copy of 2.0.2 doesn't look like it has w00ds map but I will check my files from the last decade to see if it's on here.  Discord is Panzerchlag #8425 if you wanna get in touch there.

I fixed the issue. "metastrings" in the spec folder was copied from the base game, and as such it was referencing the base game lang folder, not the one in the mod. 

Your experience is going to be more CPU based than GPU based. I used to run the game fine at 1080p with a GT220. Just get a modern system, this game is not worth the headache of buying old hardware. 

On 7/6/2021 at 7:40 AM, mercurygrandmarquis1 said:

This is my NYPD streethawk, Fully restored by me. This was suspected to be at ground zero because during the breakdown process a white debris was found. When I showed my mother who was a 9/11 survivor she confirmed that it looked exactly the the debris found in her office located across the street from the WTC. This particular bar also had a date code of early 1997.

 

buy a gaming pc

That's what I thought too? I checked the constructor as well and everything is correct. 

Hello,

I have several custom scripts I've made for my mod. Currently when I load the game they will display the name of the command script as it is in the code. For example the script that changes a firefighter to a firefighter with respiratory protection shows up in game as "SBAS_ChangeAS". I have added some strings to lang/en/commands.xml but they do not show up in game. Do I need to define these as a constant in the script during declarations?