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The red lights should be on the drivers side and the blue on the passenger side.

Sorry there has been a lack of updates. My main modeler has up and disappeared. Hopefully I will knwo more on his situation later today. :-/ I have decided that I will show off a few pics of a few units to be included to pass the time. First up is Rescue 7: The truck is a 1992 Ford F-350 with a Warner Grass Rig body. It has a 250 gallon tank and can dispense 250 gallons per minute. 250gpm/250gal http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/5046/rescue7ds8067390.jpg As I said this truck is a dual purpose brush truck and rescue truck. It also pulls the departments john boat for water rescues. Next up is... Dive Rescue 6: http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/8606/diverescue6.jpg This unit is still in service but theres a similar Dive Rescue in service to that is a slightly modified box style ambo. Which one will make it in the Mod? Wait and see. These vehicles are used for dive rescue(who would have guessed? ) and water rescue as well. They can pull the boats at the stations or the Sea Doo Jet Skis. The units were chosen to allow divers to gear up while on the way to the scene. Last one for now: Rescue 8 - 2004 Dodge Durango 4x4 http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/5192/rescue8ds9251598.jpg Here we go with the multipurpose vehicles again. This is the Battalion Chief's vehicle for starters. It doubles as a quick first responder medical aid unit. Guess what, yep, there a third purpose. Its also set up to pull the departments water rescue boat. Enjoy the pics for now.

Nah I wasnt looking for excitement, looking for realism in hopes of releasing the Lifeguard mod for EM3 ported to EM4. Trust me its not much better here, although I think the PD might be experimenting as one of the cruisers that patrols around here seems to be using a slightly different sounding siren then the other cruisers. They just picked up a few new vics about a month or two ago, perhaps its one of them. All the engines here use Fed Q(aside from some of the volunteer township departments which use a few various sirens, Ambos use a Touchmaster, and I cant recall what pd,sd,and state use at the moment. Actually have no clue what the state boys use as its rare to see them code 3 in the city.

I noticed a few vmo files in the la mod and the games data folder. What are these files?

Indeed, couldnt tell from just seeing the back end.

Hey Mike, just a quick easy question for you this time. What sirens, if any do the LACoFD Lifeguards use?

I have a problem with creating new people. When I add the idle animation as there default animation, and try to place them, the plop down in the editor, fall a short distance to the ground and there deformed. There legs are bent different ways and such. I think is a physics problem, but the game assigned the person physics for me and there pretty much dead on. Any ideas where i went wrong?

I have this mostly ready to be released. Just need to add lights to the truck, but to answer your question: It depends on the model. Some of the EM3 models werent done right, some where. Like the LA Mod EM 3 LAFD Hummer cant easily be converted to EM4 because it was pieced together using children pieces. However, in the case of this mod, you delete the prototypes as I dont believe the e3p files can be converted to e4p. Then copy and paste the rest of the files to there proper location. For example v3o and dds go to models folder. Then create new prototypes and link them up to the v3o files. Then edit the protypes to include commands, lights and so forth. Long story short the process isnt any different then EM4. You just need new prototype files. Any chance you have the boat from above.

Well, I would think it would be illegal for you to officially release that. Its not my call but I would consider making sure its ok to release it before putting the effort in to the installer script.

Well if your handy with steel then perhaps you could get one of the 03-07 push bar and modify it to suit your needs.

What year is it? I need a cab for a 1992 F-350 but the cabs is pretty much identical between the F-250 and F-350 every year so this might work..

Drop me a pm and I should be able to help you guys.

Thanks, just wondered as the only lifeguards here are employed by the public pools.

I have my AMR 2 ready to go. All I need to do is make dispatch pics, and well I suck horribly at this. Any one good with dispatch pics and feel up to doing a few?

Nice read Mike. I know photography is your thing but any chance of some videos of the new light patterns? Are all lifeguards under LACoFD or just those on beach patrol? Hope you dont mind me being curios.

Theres already a perfect method. Use the files from 911:FR. This should work 100% on EM4, and about 95% on EM4 Deluxe.

Thanks for pointing that out. If I get time I might release both is Hoopahs ok with it. Also thanks for the great pictures. This will help if I get some one to do some lighting.

If you guys like drop me a PM and I should be able to help, hopefully speed things along.

Hows the 56 hr schedule work as far as days on and off?

If you add in the posibility of helicopter damage, it sounds a little more realistic. I saw a few episodes where the heli was damaged. It oculd fly but it wasnt much help in recon like it usually is. I think they had to get close enough to the ships(one the heli was damaged) to dispatch the heli to do recon since the smaller Japanese ships easily out ran there huge ship.The heli was usable though but its range was severely limited and flying it in general was a risk. None the less its an awesome show.

We have them here to, but they only get used downtown which is a pretty small area compared to the rest of the city. Search is your best friend. I know its been covered atleast once this week if not more. Its not hard(searching or the answer.) Sorry Bama, back to NY..

I know I was just saying if you get them for the same price like that, why not go for more performance. Similar experience with me. I bought a 9800 GTX+ from TigerDirect and at the time the new version was just coming in stock. They sent me the new card instead of the old card. Its an EVGA 9800 GTX+ and it has served me well but I think I am gona get a better card here soon for the extra boost and leeway in the future.

Nice dispatch pearl. Any chance you could clear it up a bit? The voice is kind of toned out, or did you mean for that?

Thanks mike, so which schedule do the crews you work with follow?

I have a 9800GTX+ pretty solid card. 9800 GTX+ http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814130339 GTS 250 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814130468 There the same price, I would go with the GTS in this case. Same price and looks to have a bit more bang for the same price.