Engine81

Well the models will be available to be used in any other mods if people want to.

 

Finished cleaning up the other models. Tomorrow I can finally begin modeling some other vehicles. What would be a good vehicle for the LAPD Bomb Squad? That Ford F-350 with the kitchen cabinet or something else? 

 

Great work man! Looking forward to this vehicle pack! BTW if you're going for realism, the lights in the back window of the unmarked cars are blue and yellow not blue in red.

Fixed it. Thanks

What does the engine's texture look like? Is there any red color adjacent to the yellow of the hose?

Yes 

It may be the nearest color to the yellow part of the texture. Check any adjacent colors, it may well be the same red you are seeing ingame.

The same problem is showing up in blender..

Nope. Low poly, high poly, doesnt matter. Em4 does not discriminate when it comes to textures. Its a result of the game's piss-poor optimzation method that resizes textures to be lower-res as you zoom out.

 

They could have built a proper LOD system but nope, they didnt.

But why red?

Something to do with how Em4 does textures. It "blurs" them as you zoom out further and there isnt any way to fix it. It may look correct in Zmod/Blender but Em4's rendering system likes screwing things up.

Any idea if amount of polys may have an effect on this?

Here are some pics of the new Pierce Tillers the LAFD has ordered. They are expected to enter service in March 2016. 

More pics: https://www.flickr.com/photos/lafd/albums/72157660766907970

So I put my model in the game and when I look at it the hose that is supposed to be yellow is red. The problem occurs only when I'm zoomed out, but when I zoom in the hose is yellow but with a red outline. Anyone know what might be causing this?

http://postimg.org/image/3ssmw3y2j/

The California Office of Emergency Services has provided the LAFD with 5 of these type 3 brush engines. All 5 are exactly alike and will not be re-painted or heavily modified due to them still technically being property of the state.

Tbh, I do have to admit that I find it kind of sad that people take constructive criticism so harshly here.  It would be one thing if people ran about saying "It looks horrible!" and things of the like (that would be straight up bullying and horribly inappropriate), but when they're trying to help it's really a shame that people don't really want that anymore.  It's sad, but it's really the truth that people don't care for anyone trying to help to improve anything (not unless they're going to do it for them), most people around today just want the "yes men" who'll take things as they are and say "looks good".

Amen!

Like I said previously, the cut off point for my mod is 2014-2015 vehicles. The Explorer, Taurus and Charger stay as is. I will not bend over backwards to have to update my mod for every single new vehicle that comes along, otherwise I will never be finished.

 

The Explorer in question may be a test rig, you can't be too sure either about the specifics of that unit based on pictures alone.

 

Actually, you're right. I don't know anything. In fact, I had intentions of doing a public release for this within the next year or two, but now that I realize that I have no knowledge of what I'm modding, I think I'll just keep this thing private forever. /sFor

For what it's worth, LAPD is using the new Ford Interceptor Utility and the Sedan. 

And as for keeping it private, go ahead and do that. Wouldn't be the first time you let the community down. For the rest of you that would like updated LAFD and LAPD units, check out what me and the NYCERU team are working on. (I've updated the topic so ignore the previous comments!)

Looks cool but serves no purpose to the game unfortunately. The HAZMAT also already has floodlight animations and it is a complete pain in the ass having 4 different animations for the flooodlight and the awning.

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I've reworked the model because of the part thats cutout from the rear of the HAZMAT.

Anyone have top view pics of the HAZMAT? I need info on whats in the roof part of the rear portion.

It is empty just the compartments.

I will most likely be doing it as I have stopped the em4 version in anticipation of em5.

Sooo my goal here is a lot of realism this time. One tweak I may or may not have mentioned is that the scene lights automaticlly come on now when 2 medics go to get a stretcher! Also because LAFD has quite the variety of models in service now for Ambos, we will feature 3bdifferent ambos in station 1. This does break realism but because of the hard work put in to these models and the facts only 1 ambo at fs1 might not be enough for games sake, I am breaking realism!

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Actually only 3 different types of Ambos.

Update, more pics:

LADWP

More or less, but what particular department from LA is this representing?

Its either a LAFD Field Mechanic or a LA County Paramedic Squad

So I was riding out at FS81 in Van Nuys on E81. E81 and RA81 got dispatched to an Auto vs Pedestrian call around 8:45 p.m. Additionally E7 and R7 were added due to reports of multiple patients. E81 was first o/s and we saw a woman ,who had gone under the car, lying in the middle of the street. E81 and RA81 personnel immediately began working on the woman. As she was being worked on, a young girl came to me and began pulling my turnout coat and yelling to me "the baby! the baby!". I immediately followed her and came across the vehicle and a stroller which had been pinned to the front. The baby was being pulled out of the stroller by witnesses and was handed to me. I immediately began to check if the baby was responsive and it was not. RA7 then pulled up next to me and I handed the toddler over to them. I later found out that the baby was fine. We then found a 2nd daughter which had a head injury. RA881 transported her to the hospital also. All 3 family members survived and made a recovery. 

Link to the story in the local news: http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Girl-in-Stroller-Mother-Hurt-Panorama-City-Hit-And-Run-216896351.html

Will there be any new police vehicles?

Nope, maybe a few edits to some vehicles but nothing new.

I am a Cadet for the LAFD. We get to ride out to any emergency and we even get to work at a structure fire if we get one. We throw ladders, lay supply lines, and make entry using forcible entry tools. Any of you guys get to do this kind of stuff?

You can. You can edit the Materials.xml file in your specs folder.

Server is down for maintenance. We are on this backup server for now ts3.backup.briglair.com:9111

I've been following this mod since the submod version where you had the winter version of an edited la map, I have to say you've made really good progress. Still there's a few bad issues that need to be solved:

1. Whenever the division chief calls for backup, they all spawn at the same time which is a pretty big pain in the butt.

2. In the campaign, you can only do up to missions 6-8 (I think).

3. In the mission "bomb attack during summit meeting, the terrorists are stuck and you can't arrest them, which means the mission never ends.

4. Whenever I equip my ESU marksmen with carbine and un-equip them, it causes a CTD.

5. My Aux police officers dissapear when I equip them with traffic vests.

It's probably all been mentioned before, but I'm too lazy to go through all the pages. Anyways, it's still a fab job on the mod.

Cheers

The mod is mostly meant to be played in Freeplay or Multiplayer... Not Campaign! And no one will be recieving BETA anymore (As said by Raf) You will have to wait until release this summer. If you want to play some MP or need tech support our TS is the place to go. To join MERU go to www.manhattan-mod.org and click Join MERU!

any further toward the v3 final release to meru members? the one I got still won't work with my pc and no it is not intel graphics is actually a AMD 64 bit HD graphics card!

Edit:- Also every single other mod on the face of this planet I have been able to find released on this em forum and the german and french etc etc has worked, is only the v3 manhattan mod that CTD's constantly, would love some ideas as really want to be able to join in MP on meru again please please help me rejoin your community of meru gamers! I miss playing MP so much is unbelievable and well really do feel lately like you have destroyed the game for many of your fans!

Come on our TS at 98.216.204.161:9111 and we'll help you get started back up with the clan! Im on everyday around 7 PST..

It will be based off of LA mod so it will have the original blackhawk in it. Do you guys want a different one?