The Loot

The LA mod made the female officer an alternative to the male officer in the unit file, meaning you had a random chance of getting either when you added an officer to a vehicle. It's easy enough with a script to define what ones are spawned, but to change the aforementioned setup, you'd have to make both officers a unique unit, which wouldn't be to difficult if you know how to add new units to the game already..

And to think they think YouTube Gaming and Content ID can coexist.

Make a vehicle accident out of it.

Just like vehicles, yes. Animations will make it look kind of weird when the light doesn't move with the person, of course.

As I mentioned, LAFireStationStart is only dealing with the tiller Cab, not the trailer. The command mentioned there that spawns the trailer, DummyTillerCheck, is in the LATiller script file, and that's where you'll have to go to disable the trailer lights at start.

The "DummyTillerCheck" command in the LATiller script file is what spawns the trailer, so you need to make sure to use "EnableBlueLights(false)" there, too. As for the siren issues, I'm not sure what it is since everything looks fine.

Ah right, that'd be just the Tiller Cabin, but actually you'd have to do it under the "DummyTillerCheck" command which is what creates the trailer. That should do it. As for the siren, might as well post your siren script file and the exact prototype(s) that's having issues.

1: "vehicle->EnableBlueLights(false);" 2: Make sure that prototype is actually defined in the LASiren script under the correct section,

Los Angeles Port Police.

Integrated graphics are fine for grandma's computer, but gaming of most sorts pretty much requires a dedicated card.

It sucks that a few ruin it for the many, but it also sucks that some let a few ruin it for the many: no one comes out the winner in these situations.

Was I disappointed and a little cranky when I thought I wasn't going to see these vehicles in-game? Sure. Disappointment is no excuse for attacking itchboy, though, and his reasons are his own and good. Knowing that there's a bigger plan for these than just a vehicle replacement pack for the aging LA mod, however, is pretty good news. Maybe leading off with that announcement might have saved some strife, but if he's intent on playing it close to the vest, that's understandable. I'm quite interested to see what's coming down the road for this project.

Well, looks nice. Sounds like I'm done tinkering with EM4, unless something else comes along and keeps me interested enough. If I had the talent and patience to do things on my own it might have been different, but it is how it is. Good luck on your project.

Unless someone directly says they made it, they aren't doing that. Spacing on author credits, especially for just a simple image, ain't the same. If this had been directed solely at mods that are available for download, it'd be different. As it is, posting nothing more than one image without credits is punishable.

Frankly, this seems like something that will end up discouraging people when you go all out on harsh enforcement. I might not do much, but I already feel less inclined.

Simply changing the filepath in the constants should be most of what you have to do. For startup staffing, changing the child numbers of the DummyCallCrew command in LAFireStationStart is how you change staffing (these are controlled under the DummyCallCrew in LAFireStation), same with the script in the LABattalionChief file and the Alarm command in LAFireStation. The issue you will run into with the change and the call script in LABattalionChief is that it's a different vehicletype. Find the line that includes VT_AMBULANCE_RTW, and change it to VT_FIREFIGHTERS_RW (check the firefighters spelling under the engine call script because I think it might have a typo in the game code), which is what your SUV should be classed as.

Create a new child object with the same model as the super.

They look like that because they used alpha layers and alpha reflections in-game to imitate reflective clothing. It all depends on what program you open the files with, so it seems. I haven't found one yet that seems to work correctly with files like that, so I end up converting to bmp with x2y and then to png. At that point the whole texture shows at once, but I lose the alpha properties.

Another possibility is that the unit.xml file contains an error big enough to cause a crash. Start with a copy of the unit file of a working vehicle and modify it with what you have for the new vehicle and replace that one, then see if that works.

Cannon superstructures are only for vehicles that are Firefighters TLF or LPF type. Hose connections are only allowed on Firefighters GTF vehicles. You can't have both on one vehicle without using scripts.

Well, I use this for playing and stopping a 3D sound for my Automatic Fire Alarm script, playing then stopping the sound. int x;x = Audio::PlaySample3D(Sound3D, obj->GetPosition(), true);obj->SetUserData(x);int ref = Target->GetUserData();Audio::StopSample(ref);The SetUserData might conflict with the functioning of whatever script you're adding it to.

Doesn't have to be true. I've completely removed the normal vehicle menu in my LA mod, and exclusively use varied call scripts for vehicles on and off map. One aspect is that most personnel can only call certain vehicles, and only those that already exist on the map. Supervisors, whether it be a Battalion Chief, EMS Captain, Police Detective or Sergeant, or Federal Agent, are the only ones who can call in additional vehicles if needed. Other than that, many scripts can be worked up in order to give even more unique functions to those type of people and to add more depth to gameplay.

Vehicletype must also be FirefightersTLF or LPF, otherwise the game will crash.

There were some definite problems there from your copy paste, so it's no wonder it was causing a hard crash. I went and just changed it to an "else" statement for the last few sections with sirens 5 and 6. The old code is still there but commented out if you wish to do it the other way, but this way saves you from having to define all those police vehicles, and makes it so you don't have to add any new vehicles to the script in the future (as long as you want them to use those sirens). LASIREN.txt

Yep, Caprice with a Valor is what LAWA gets.