itchboy

Your GPU might require a driver update.

However, the issue with the buttons is likely related to path 1.3.

You need patch 1.3 for all mods to work.

If you bought the game online, it is likely already patched. If it says 1.3 on the lower side of the main menu, don't apply the patch because it might break your installation.

On 8/18/2021 at 4:59 PM, Jennifer93 said:

a bug I believe is if you laod up a save off the game it adds the Squad groth facter in even if you have removed it in the Spec files so it then makes you start to pay  huge amounts for personal if you have to buy them off map

I haven't been able to replicate this bug. It also didn't happen to the others I've asked to try.

For now I will look into this on the side, when time allows.

Some stuff I've made for fun, not really LA or anything serious.

On 8/13/2021 at 3:46 PM, 11john11x said:

LASD used a weird red beacon with integrated steady burn and rear flasher, it even appears in a COPS episode.
The cars themselves are pretty interesting too:

I might have found the answer on those beacons.

Some brands offered these 4 way static rotators.

The beacon that LASD uses is likely of this configuration. There could be more brands that offered these besides what is on Youtube, and I am by no means saying LASD 100% used these brands. It is worth further investigation.

To achieve the CA steady burn, the front facing light was likely bypassed from the flasher cycle and directly hard wired to the 12 volt main power. 

2 hours ago, Sangmi said:

Always love stumbling in here once a century to glance at things people are working on.

Great content as always, Itchboy.

Hope all is well with you. It's been a while.

Thank you for the support, I really appreciate it.

1 hour ago, ApollonDriver said:

Awesome, loved the unmarked ones! Civ vehicles also look pretty good. But I am a bit unsure about the color of the caprice, is it really common among the unmarked vehicles of that era? Also do you plan on adding plain clothed officers to accompany these unmarked vehicles?

I went with blue becuase it felt like a neutral enough color.

I've seen white, red, and brown unmarked LA police units. I think any color goes when it comes to unmarked police.

I already have plainclothes detectives for the LAPD units, however for LASD, I want those unmarked cars to go for SEB/SWAT in order to differentiate them from LAPD.

I've decided to go with 2 unmarked sheriff cruisers, somewhat similar to what is there in 11john's photos. I won't add more until we can have full confirmation on what they would have used.

I was not able to find the specific brand or model for the weird steady burn beacon. As a result, I've decided to have a bit of compromise. The unmarked Malibu will have a steady red spotlight but with a Federal Signal Firebam on the roof for 360 degree coverage.

The lighting on the Caprice is a mix of various 2000's sheriff unmarked units I've foud.

On the topic of civs, I have started making edits of the existing models and turning them into new variants with new designs, for different cars:

Here is where I am at now with the traffic set. Wheels will be added to these later.

We're still missing a lot of cars that I want to do. As a result, we have to make a decision:

The easiest plan (and to release this pack out the soonest) is to these put into the game as is. These cars will appear just fine, but there will be vanilla assets occupying the slots of cars that I have not created yet.

Are people okay with having some vanilla mixed into the pack for now, or should I fill out the remaining slots with color variants of these cars just to make everything look consistent, even if they are repetetive?

Say hello to the base versions of another 2 LAFD chief cars. I am still missing one variant, and I still need to texture up the Mercury, but this will be four new chief/captain vehicles. There will be other vehicles coming the FD/EMS besides these.

A new addition to LASD has been made

Model by me, base vehicle textures by Ibarra and myself.

New chief/EMS captain car coming to the submod

Here's another 2 additions to the civilian car set. When I hit the magic #25, I'll finally begin putting these ingame. These are #22 and #23.

The photo of the BMW will be replaced with a fully finished picture once the UV maps and mirrors are installed.

9 hours ago, turtle7896 said:

Cool! Is there any date for release yet, or is it still TBD? @itchboy

Asking for release dates is against site rules. Please take note of this in the future.

46 minutes ago, Oliverbullen95 said:

I cant seam to take away dead bodies with the coroner or anyone else does anyone have a fix for this?

Download and apply the patches and bugfixes.rar file, should fix most broken things with the submod.

For a while, I have been fielding replacements for the MCU.

This one is my most likely candidate.

Anybody up for some Queen?

I don't usually show WIP's but I am quite proud of how quickly I put this together.

10 hours ago, FDNY/911 said:

Beautiful models I just love these cars from the 80s and 90s

Have you ever thought about using Patron or Paypal donations? i would really like to support your work.

I appreciate the support.

Unfortunately I am in a gray area for monetization. The submod and all it's assets are in the Em4 format of .e4p, .script and so on. As a result, they are considered "game assets" and based on my understanding of the EULA, I can't monetize that.

I also can't monetize the models themselves because they contain work of other people like Phantom, EmC-Unit, Ibarra and Hoppah.

Most likely I will only setup Patreon or Paypal once I start developing my own separate game with 100% self made assets.

6 hours ago, Squad 65 said:

There is a few scenes in Adam 12 at LAX. It looked to have the tin cans with LAPD during the late 60s to early 70s. 
Found this too 

Hope this other one helps in general 

I think you found a BHPD car, and one that isn't on the internet no less. Nice find. No plans on BHPD but maybe it's something you might be interested in?

5 hours ago, maxxmike1234 said:

I did some research and found this website: https://www.lawa.org/groups-and-divisions/airport-police/about-us/apd-history 

Apparently they were staffed by mostly just unarmed security, armed "Security Bureau" peace officers, and a regular sub-division of LAPD patrols pre-1984 (as seen in a few Adam-12 episodes like Squad 65 said) . So it's possible they didn't have any cars at all and just patrolled the interior of the airport while LAPD patrolled the roads, however I'm not sure given the blurry photo above.

I believe your source and what you have to say about it. For now I will keep my expectations low and just put one more car in, just like Port Police/Warden because of a lack of references.

For the time being I'll also put more work into FD and EMS (besides the civilian cars) because I feel like there's still a few things that are missing from them.

Previously, I have been aware of airport operations cars for guiding planes and what. It appears to be the same as the black and white but with completely different lighting, livery and setup, This appears to be a Ford Maverick. Based on 11john's info, Security Bureau used the same car as Airport Ops.

Now the mystery deepens: What was used between 1979-1985?

1 minute ago, 11john11x said:

LAXPD apparently wasn't a thing until 1984, they were named "Airport Security Bureau" before that.
This is the only pre 1986 law enforcement looking vehicle operating on LAX I could find, from a blurry pic taken in 1978, seems to be equipped with a Twinsonic:

At least I found 2 more pics of late 80s Airport Police vehicles today, second one is from Van Nuys:
 

Can't quite tell with that tiny picture, but I do appreciate the pictures of the Caprices. Thank you for sending them.

Ill look into that agency, maybe I'll be able to find some but I appreciate what you can find too.

My thoughts on the cars: Some have the ramabar but others seem to not. There's also a variation of LP6000 lightbar there too.

1 hour ago, 11john11x said:

amazing work 
I believe this vehicle also appears in one of the LAPD Life on the Beat episodes:
(good side shot at 3:40)

check this one out too, some footage of other SWAT vehicles, including a heavily modified white pickup and a few vans:

About those pics of 80s slicktop vehicles from earlier: those are really puzzling me, I only heard that they started using them after the 1992 riots to improve public relations, replacing the unmarked vehicles previously used for gang enforcement and other duties.

Thank you. I do know about these videos but the quality isn't enough for me to fully figure out the vehicle. I am looking into getting money together to buying the DVD collection of this series but it's not that big of a deal; I know quality pictures of these vehicles will eventually surface. I at least have most of the vehicles here such as the SWAT vans and this big Ford truck. I don't have any plans yet for that long Chevy pickup because the roof equipment (similar to Lenco Bearcat MARS) doesn't really work in this game. The effort of having to research that mechanism wouldnt' be worth it for the game.

I have no idea about the slicktops; my only guess is that they were testing a handful of units out before cancelling the policy, then re-activating it by the mid 1990s.

Do you have any information on LAX airport police units before 1986? I know about the green supervisor car, but I am looking into what airport PD had from 1979-1985

4 hours ago, miles451 said:

I've been watching the progress on this mod for a few months but haven't tried to comment on it yet, this is easily one of my favorite mods for EM4 at the moment loving the work that's been put into the mod so far.

Posting now because I found some photos of the 2 crown tillers and was hoping they could be useful in some way.

The site is crownisking.org but the page is only accessible from wayback machine, photos are under the departments tab and LA city fire department theres 2 different pages for both 63 and 20 it includes some information for the history of both rigs 

Thank you for this lead on information. The site isn't a complete archive but the information helps out a lot.

Very lucky for me. It has lots of rear photos of the Heavy Utility. I might just be making one after all.