Beiträge von dview

That looks great!!

Zitat von Katzer

I'm not a fan of Audi cars, but they look very good...!

But won't the better looks affect the performance?

I expect not so much, the lod1 is much on a same level as the ones in the 90's pack approx. 20k tris, the additional lod will have about double but only is visible to ... 20 or 30m (not sure where I'll set it exactly). For AI traffic I'll probably won't use that additional lod, so performance should be ok still.

Biggest impact of the better looks should be reflected in the in-game Audi pricing

Started on a few cars for a next car pack. These have a higher mesh detail so will get a slightly different structure with an additional LOD.

To begin it I started with 3 Audi's, an A4, A6 and a TT.

Casa in the random asset selection I have some control over that.

The master random asset selection in the cars of the 90's asset uses the current second of your local time to select a model, the colour is a second randomization. So this gives me 60 'triggers', having fewer models I leverage that mechanism to indeed let the Golf appear more and the Lexus less. This is not setup you can just change, but build into the construction file.

First the time stamp is defined:

local bko_time_sec = os.date("%S")

This can then be used as a dependency (like a parameter) like;

and (bko_time_sec == "03" or bko_time_sec == "22" or bko_time_sec == "51" or bko_time_sec == "54" )

For AI traffic it works different, it can be achieved with creating more models (mdl files) for e.g. a Golf versus a Lexus. Clearest example is the Swedish road traffic which has 4 models of the Volvo, therewith spawning these quite a bit more.

It's a "Coming Soon!" now, perhaps with MaikC a Coming now

PS I did decide to include a crew option for the assets, hope you like it and leave some screenshots in the forum please

Besides some files for the dispatch vehicles the update on the Cars of the 90's will include 3 additional vehicles.

The Benz is part of the Dispatch pack where it has a pop-up emergency light, the Lexus comes in Limo version with a small animation and the Volvo uses cheaper rims as I also did in the Sweden road traffic mod.

hmm now doubting if I should not add a crew feature for the asset... I thought to leave it out...

Hi All,

I've updated a few of my Cars of the 90's mods. Generally you'll have no need to update and they are just consistency updates to align Steam and tpf.net with my own. The corrections made are mainly small like a material that was set to double sided unnecessary on the 4runner. On the road traffic taxis I found a few materials got missing in my steam versions, with only minor impact, just one vehicle spawning less at most, so corrected all that & all should be fine now. Of course; The steam versions are also updated.

More important is the update bound to come for the 90's base pack, because that will contain a few objects required for the Dispatch pack. It will be Germany only, not sure if and when other countries will follow, NL is on my list of course. Anyway expecting the final test runs to start for that now. Then the catalogue and description and it is ready for uploading

Zitat von SM1

Sieht das besser aus!?

neh, stick to the new/just washed I would say.

A general dirt texture in most cases doesn't really work nice, and creating proper dirt and age textures really takes a lot of effort. Hence I also stay away from that still.

The Polizei Golf is now also available on steam. It is a different mod that can be combined with the one available here, therewith you have some control over the Polizei presence on your map.

The steam version has two male Polizei men, a different license plate and is just a tiny fraction faster

Zitat von DH-106

At first glance, this reminds me of either a VVIP (read Head of State) convoy, or il Padrone on an outing.

Thanks for the idea, repainted a vanila Lincoln town car. So that is; Mafia will be included , otherwise all that police will just be bored as well.

Well for Germany a different convoy will be included; featuring 2 marked Polizei cars, an unmarked E-class, a limo style LS400 for the VVIP and a 4runner for support staff.

That does remind me I still have the LS400 with door&driver animations which I didn't use for any final mod yet. That will fit nice in a VVIP convoy

Zitat von Katzer

This mod would certainly not be unsuitable for Germany, as it could also be used for the transport of otherwise endangered persons (politicians, etc.

I can't say this is common in the Netherlands, only the real bad guys with high risk are transported like this. They drive also way faster then any other normal police car will do, these convoys travel at about 180km/h and won't stop for anything. Unfortunately that is not possible in game.

For a VIP transport I will provide a more suitable crew. Now there is just one passenger sitting in the back with a cop on each side

testing with a creative use of LODs and how that works for a convoy. The image shows a convoy (= 1 mdl file) of 4 cars. Each car has my original 3 lod levels, but overlay that with the character lod's and it doubles, hence for this convoy I'm using 24 LOD levels I wonder what the limit for those is, but so far no issues at all.

Question is this also how high profile criminals or witnesses were transported to e.g. court or a safe house in Germany or is this more typical Dutch?

It can be modded, see for example the escort vehicle behind the heavy load in hugedragonyk 's mod;

[uep2]_21a_<Scania_8x4_Heavy_transport_series>.

At the moment I am working on something similar for a police convoy of a high profile criminal.

However there are some limitations e.g. all vehicles will line-up with the station when the first vehicle arrives. Very long convoys therefore won't look very good.

The E-class has come nicely together for the German Dispatch vehicles. Also adding a Land Cruiser here, which is not entirely fictive; http://www.polizeiautos.de/show_one.php?id=9726

Ha, I just noted I had set the Land Cruiser to appear random at second 114, but a minute only has 60 so the chances of anything coming from Mars were bigger . Therefore just updated it to v1.14.

Zitat von Scrappy16061981

Evtl ne Idee für nen Jeep

https://www.google.com/search?…2.75#imgrc=EZAJuibpfqpBaM

Oei, really an Opel jeep? . Probably not, no offense, but simply because it's not a model I have at hand .

Again a Coming Soon!

This time a mod for Swedish road traffic, the first to include the Toyota Land Cruiser. It is limited to 'just' 12 vehicles, 4 of which are Volvo's. To keep them divers some Volvo's have the simple rims from the VW Golf CL.

Updated the Cars of the 90's to now include some Toyota Land Cruisers