Ghost Graphic Designs

I Saw Some White Squares When I Play This.

So Is There A Coronas Fix I Can Download? 

I think it's included with the newest download package (V2). Just place the Coronas folder in your B.V. Lisbonenses/Textures and Emergency 4/Data/Textures folders. Let me know if you need me to upload them for you.

I couldn't find the answer while looking, sorry if it's been asked. My ambulance staff has no command to get the stretcher. Do I need to add the command in the editor, or is there something I'm not seeing? (I have selected two t

attendants, no command appears for me.)

That's weird... Have you tried to reinstall the modification or even re-download it?

Just Thought Of This: How Can U Call A Tow Truck In This RSB Mod?

Delete the TEC folder from your Units/Vehicles folder, located inside the B.V.Lisbonenses folder. Sorry about that, I forgot to change it.

I don't think there is a proper answer to that, different people like different stuff really!

 

One of my all time favourites is Welfordshire Mod, also Montana Mod. RSB Simulator is a great mod too.

On topic: Other than LA Mod and ERS Berlin, I highly recommend the NYC Modification, Emergency-City, Netherlands Modification and Amsterdam-Amstelland Modification. Please note that this is based on my taste and preferences (I like vehicles with working animations, low quality models with not much light-coronas, a stable and fun gameplay).

Facebook page is down?

Yep. Currently fixing some issues and redesigning some elements.

Took this mesmerizing shot at about 11AM, from my house. 

An Iberia A340-600 from Madrid bound to Lima caught at FL320.

Paris Fire Brigade and others in France have been using those since I can remember (not sure if they started operating them in 80s, 70s, etc.?). They're called First Aid - Premier Secours - vehicles and they consist of a truck with a crew cab (5 men with paramedic training). The rear part is half ambulance (with stretcher) and half fire engine. This combo has some disadvantages though, such as smaller room for equipment, smaller water tank and little room to work inside the "ambulance", but the French company Camiva has been perfecting the vehicle since then and they've been widely used across big French cities, due to the small width that helps them moving in smaller streets and quick intervention in fires and/or medical emergencies. It's the perfect european rescue truck.

The right side makes it look like a large ambulance... 

While the left side makes the vehicle look like a fire engine!

It's literally cut in half.

Love this one Quite sharp too

Thanks! There's room for improvements and experiences, I'll go there more often before and after classes (starting in late September), so maybe I should try some night long exposures, sunrise and sunset shots.

In my opinion the pattern seems too slow compared to NFS' original FTPI, maybe speeding it up a little bit would solve it. Other than that it looks perfect. Maybe you should try to take some daytime pictures of the vehicles, too.

Went to my future aviation school to take care of some paperwork... curiously, it is placed near Lisbon's Airport (LPPT) RWY21. Got some awesome pictures!

Portugália CS-TRU taxiing to holding point for RWY21. Cheers to the awesome First Officer that greeted me with a thumbs up!

TAP Portugal A319 CS-TTP blasting out of RWY21 to Brussels.

Another TAP Portugal A319, this time CS-TTS deploying ground spoilers and reverse thrust after a short hop from Paris (Orly).

Ryanair Boeing 737-800 EI-ENE heading to holding point RWY21, before departing to Porto (LPPR).

A more detailed shot...

I'll return a lot to this place, it's really the perfect example of being up close and personal with the departing or arriving aircraft (depends on either they're using RWY21 or RWY03), you can even smell the jet fuel (my favourite part)!

Cheers Ghost, much appreciated!

No problem!

Both white!

Sauce -> 4m24

Yay, planes! Really like the windshield LED textures, nice work on this one.

Maybe NYC's Rescue 1 model... It has an animation with the boat on top, dunno if that's what you need.

Got lucky enough to catch one of these very rare new vehicles responding Code 3 near my house.

Hi.

I'm currently finishing up Version 3 of the Portuguese Modification (over 2000 FB fans), so I have a lot of things to focus on (I work alone) and I was looking for a lighter to help me out in about 15-30 units that I don't have the time to work on properly. Only 5 of those units are more complex in terms of lightbars and patterns (Whelen), but the rest should not take more than half an hour per-vehicle.

I'm looking for someone that is:

• experienced with polygons and radiations;
• skilled enough with patterns (simple stuff, like wig-wags);
• willing to do a full set of lights (headlights, blinkers, etc.);
• able to recreate real-life patterns (not 100%, but close enough).

I have experience with lights and I could do them with no problems, the only thing is that I'm trying to release it as soon as possible and I have to concentrate on other parts of the modification, so that I can focus on my private life after the release.

Contact me via-PM or reply in case you're interested.

I'm still around here, Hoppah! I just stopped posting because I've been kind of busy with life and my active mods are... well, stopped. I have nothing against this community or any of you guys; I may have my own community but that doesn't stop me from coming here and hang out with people. 

Cheers!

Sorry for being off-topic.

In Lisbon we have one professional fire department (RSB) separated in 5 divisions, each one with 1 HQ (main station) and 1 Station (smaller), 7 Volunteer Fire Departments and National EMS.

RSB Lisboa

• 5 companies - 4 regular and 1 special operations.
• Each Company HQ has atleast 5 vehicles ( light pumper with the company leader, urban pumper, tanker, ladder, intervention SUV (minor calls) and some others, mostly logistical support.
• Each Company Station has 1 urban pumper (can have more vehicles, if the space allows it) and some EMS (INEM) ambulances that use the station as an operational base.
• Every Company has a backup VFD, based on the area. For example a Company in Downtown has 2 VFDs as backup (Ajuda and BV Lisboa), because they're in the same operational area.
• Fire chiefs and higher ranking officials are dispatched after a 3rd alarm, they respond in their private vehicles (unmarked) or in marked vehicles (ACC).
• Equipment provided by the City Hall and free to all firefighters.
• All urban pumpers have AEDs and atleast 1 certified paramedic.

Volunteer FD's

• Each one based on a district (Cabo Ruivo, Beato, Ajuda, etc.).
• Not financed by the City Hall, all equipments come from donations and other activities (like providing rescue services in a football match, for example).
• Training, uniforms and protective gear are bought by the firefighter's own money.
• Respond only when CODU (EMS Dispatch) or SALOC (RSB dispatch) need assistance, i.e. INEM has no ambulances available so they send the closest VFD ambulance to that call.
• Some ambulances are crewed by paramedics (certified by INEM) but most of them are crewed by EMTs with AED training (part of the basic firefighter training).
• Minor EMS calls make up 70% of the total EMS responses of most VFDs.
• Sometimes, Nurses and Doctors volunteer to help out with large-scale EMS operations (like providing rescue services in football matches).

EMS (INEM)

• National EMS service.
• Certified paramedics operate the ambulances.
• Ambulances are based on small operational bases around the city. There's a wide range of types, from small garages to fire stations.
• There's one logistical base (Avenida de Roma) with more ambulances (normally 3 or 4), special vehicles (logistical support, mobile hospitals, psychologists and fly-cars) that respond citywide.
• Fly-cars are based on Hospitals, staffed by certified doctors and nurses from the Hospital's ER.
• Intensive Care Ambulances are based on INEM's HQ (that's also the EMS dispatch base), are crewed by 1 Paramedic and 1 Nurse and respond citywide.
• Children Emergency Ambulances are based on some Hospitals and Maternity Hospitals too, crewed by 1 Paramedic, 1 Doctor and 1 Nurse.

Portuguese Red Cross

• Totally Volunteer, INEM certified EMTs and Paramedics.
• Play an important role in mass-casualty incidents.
• Has ambulances that respond to medical emergencies in case INEM and VFDs aren't available.
• Are losing popularity, mostly due to the poor conditions of the equipments and vehicles.

Police

• Several police stations, nothing special.
• Public Safety Police (PSP) operates in urban environments and large cities.
• National Republican Guard (GNR) provides support in some operations, but they mostly operate in rural areas.
• There are regular patrol, traffic, criminal investigation, rapid intervention, intervention corps and special operations divisions.
• Criminal Investigation responds to regular calls, but are very important in the most dangerous parts of the city.
• Rapid Intervention teams patrol in Sprinter vans and can do everything from safety perimeters, minor "tactical" support to regular officers, riot control and redirecting traffic/civillians.
• Intervention Corps are a multitask (Riot/SWAT) force. Despite not having a direct action in high-risk situations (hostage situations and dangerous warrants), they can do pretty much the same as GOE (anti-terrorist team) and play an important role in the dangerous parts of the city.
• The Special Operations division (Special Police Unit / Unidade Especial de Polícia) is based in the outskirts of Lisbon (Quinta da Bela Vista) and have everything from anti-terrorist units, K9 intervention teams, bodyguards, bomb disposal squads and riot teams (Intervention Corps).
• GNR also has special divisions. Rescue teams (GIPS) that operate in USAR, Firefighting, High-Angle rescue, law enforcement and HAZMAT environments. Intervention teams (K9 and Riot Control). Special Operations teams (COE) that also have a joint anti-carjacking task-force with PSP. Highway Patrol (Brigada de Trânsito) that enforce laws on the portuguese highways.
• Bigger municipilatities (Lisboa, Oeiras, Porto, Aveiro, Matosinhos, etc.) have a Municipal Police force, manned by PSP officers and financed by the respective City Halls. They're armed and operate with PSP in most of the situations. They're also important in traffic enforcement operations.
• You also have Maritime Police (operated by the Portuguese Navy) and armed forces police (Navy, Air Force and Army).

Outside Lisbon, Fire Departments are 99% volunteer, which, in my opinion, is very bad because it sometimes puts people in danger, like, for example, having EMTs responding in a ALS ambulance instead of paramedics in places where rescue services have a +20 minutes response time. Our (national) system's a mess and I'm surprised that there aren't deaths due to its failures... yet.

My context was for the english speaking community. I am aware of the German forums. As a whole, their mods arent exactly just reskins because most of them take the time to change out parts, add new things, and create new models. Over here, its the minority who are able to do that.

 

I am not totally against reskin mods, but I do notice that it is the authors of those kinds of mods causing the most trouble on this site. Its just a trend I've noticed over the 5 years I've been lurking on this site and the one year I've actually been a member here.

 

Problem here is, that many people here start a mod without the experience needed to start one, nor without knowing the rules.

 

The line I am trying to draw is that there is an increasing trend of the majority not respecting the credits of models and other content. The people who tend to violate this are the reskin mods. So its only natural I feel this way towards them.

 

There isn't a conspiracy that there is a credit sissue. Many violations over time have occured on this site. Modders such as myself have simply did what we did as an act of self preservation so that our things do not get ripped apart upon release. And yes, some people here believe that the mods should come out of the sky..

 

At the end of the day, modding works fine for the German community because their members are so much more mature and know the rules. Its not possible to compare EmP and the Germans because they are by far so much more disciplined and know the rights/wrongs of Em4 modding.

 

Many experienced modders here have tried teaching other members in private but with little success due to the mindset of "instant gratification". Most decided not to continue being taught because they realized that reskin mods are faster and easier than actually learning various skills like scripting and modelling especially.

 

The difference also, is that in the German forums, the beginners and experienced modders know each other's role on this site. Over here, we have people sassing each other over tiny things and overstepping each other's bounds.

 

The reason nobody over there is crying about it is because their members credit their content creators. They also make sure to provide adequate documentation. Over there, how many new models are you seeing coming out? Quite a lot, but note how most of the civil car models such as those by TimmyX only get exported over here.

 

It is not possible to compare here and the German forums, simply because its a different world there.

Totally agree with you. Guess we've gotta change some mindsets around here. Count me in.

@Ghost, your concept of how you're seeing things is not as harsh, but has the same idea in mind, that the people complaining and those pursuing it on their behalf are the ones who need to change their ways, that somehow they are being too extreme in addressing these issues when in reality shouldnt it be those who are "new" or mis-informed that should be more willing to admit the wrongs they've committed since after all, if you do nothing wrong, there is no reason to have to involve you in such things?

True. I just got involved because want this tense atmosphere to go away. But yes, I totally agree with your post and understand your point of view. Let's hope this gets solved as swiftly as possible, I'll try to do my part.

People dont give a **** about mods. New models or not, they will applaud it anyway

 

And running to Emergency Europe won't save you. As stated by NFK, he and Stan can complain to the webhost of Emergency Europe to have any offending content taken down. If anything, that site will go down along with Em4 modding as a whole.

First of all, Emergency 4 modding wont die, because there are more communities in the world other than Emergency-Planet. 

Seriously? People don't care about mods? People will always applaud a modification, because nobody is a EM4 modding god (or thinks that he/she is) and everyone starts from the bottom. In my 6-7 years of modding in Emergency 3 and Emergency 4, I learned to envolve, to combine my skills and most of all, to respect and support the work of others, no matter whether they were good or bad, because what people need is encouragement and that's how modding envolves. Nobody can start a full scale modification without the knowledge that a modder with 5+ years of experience in modding has, with a long history of failures (yes, because they also make part of the work in a modification) or knowing all the rules, because I didn't when I started and experience taught me how to proceed.

Besides, who cares about wether mods are reskins or not, anyways? The German (and European) modding community, is basically 90% reskins with models that are free to use (wow, just look at that...). And still, people like the modifications and support them. Why? Because that's precisely how a modding community works. A project can start as a reskin mod, but end as a full scale modification with new models, scripts, lights because people are encouraged to push to their limits and try their best in doing something different. I also was the only modder working in a Portugal Modification for about 2 or 3 years and lots of people were (and currently are) using my stuff, totally natural. I felt that my work had a purpose, I didn't pushed people down when they tried to do something different, I explained that things need to be credited and supported them through their works in their own modifications, because that's what experienced modders are supposed to do. To teach people.

Also, are they going to complain and exterminate the German and other communities, too? Because those are totally different than what you see here, they share materials and most of their modifications are reskins and use the same stuff over and over again, still, the community and experienced members support the authors and encourage them to envolve, by offering help, models, skins and knowledge or do you think that their database came from the sky by parachute? Besides, you don't see any conflicts there, because nobody in there has conspiracy theories that people are taking their stuff and saying they did it. If there's any issue with credits, a simple friendly PM or post will solve the issue.  Take CCC for example, a modder joined all the models in the EM4 world, reskined them and made the biggest civillian vehicle pack in Emergecy 4, nowadays, people are using the models featured in that modification as a base for their own modifcations and you don't see anyone crying about it or taking their modifications down. That's how modding works for them.

i have problems.

 

I have downloaded en installed the mod. After that i downloaded the hotfix and in stalled it in de mod file map.

 

When i start the mod and start a game i see missing files en gets a CTD after about 40 sec

 

How can i fix this?

Delete the mod folder and reinstall it. That should do it.

You can run, but you can't hide!

Lisbon's PSP (Rapid Intervention Team and Criminal Investigation division) working together with Municipal Police to catch two suspects in Zone B of the most dangerous neighbourhood in town...

This will actually be a feature in the modification. Zone B will be a part of the freeplay map where you'll find lots of criminal activity and... Let's call them "unfriendly people" that don't like your emergency crews.   

Thank you very much for the positive feedback!

Here's a light preview of the new fly-car that'll be in the Hospital. This vehicle was modified by Vilkurid (Portuguese company that's specialized in Whelen equipment). It'll have a Whelen HHS200 siren.

One word. Wow!

Thanks!

Amazing! Maybe you could provide us with a PSP station picture and some units? Can't wait for release!!

Haven't started workin on the Police station yet but I'll post some new unit pictures soon.

Will the station that was in the center of the map have any changes or will it remain in the center?

The Lisbonenses station will be replaced by a INEM base. I'll bring more info on that later.

I can not believe the amount of units you got there, this is mucho impressive!!

Yeah! Don't forget the rest of it: about 160 vehicles with different types of personnel available.