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Goog and CFD, WOW! You guys are doing phenomenal work on these projects, I always look forward to everything you guys put together, and generally it's worth the wait. I'm going to play with the lights that you guys gave us now, and then see what you update tomorrow. Thanks for hard work guys, it definetly makes the gameplay more enjoyable. Between your update and Hoppah's base work, LA Mod is definetly the way to go these days.

I personally like the turnout pants and helmet. I know in toronto, most of the firefighters walk into medical's wearing their pants and carrying gear. Occasionally they'll also have their jackets on and unless it's a specific scene call, they won't be wearing helmets. As for the ladder responding to medical calls, if it's the nearest available unit to the call, they'll go. It is more common to see rescues and pumpers, but you'll occassionally get the ladder or the squads (even hazmat has been known to go and play). Just my two cents

Thanks for the help Goog, that's what I figured, just nice to hear that I'm on the right track from those who seem to know what they're doing.

Things are looking simply amazing. Goog, do you have any tricks for making sure all the parts of the vehicle skins meet correctly. For example with sides of the trucks compared to the back doors, are there any tricks for making sure that anything painted on the side that wraps around the back lines up properly?

That unit isn't one of the ones that's been released yet, to the best of my knowledge

It's supposed to look old. It's one of their "retro" fleet "proud of our past, committed to our future". They have full interior LED lighting, in addition to the roof light. Normally they are fairly new cruisers, just painted to look old.

Sounds like you've been busy with this. I look forward to seeing the new fire vehicles and the NYSP vehicles, always seemed to be one of my favorite american state police forces.

It's interesting that the new Demer's for BCAS have the fender lights facing out to the sides. The new units I've seen operated by services in Ontario, such as York or Peel Region EMS, have the fender lights on a 45 degree angle, so that they shine both to the side and to the front.

The two biggest ambulance manufacturers in Canada are Crestline and Demer's. Based on the pictures I've seen, the older BCAS units are Crestlines, and the newer ones are manufactured by Demers. This seems to be a trend that I'm seeing in Ontario, more and more services who used Crestline are moving towards Demers. One of the easiest ways to tell the difference, seems to be how the box looks. The boxes on Crestlines tend to have rounded corners and edges and the Demers seem to be more of a box, regardless of what model or service uses them.

I think I have it working now, will let you know if that changes though. I really seem to be challenged these days though, because I can't seem to get the banner to work as my signature. So I support you guys, and when I get it to work, it will be up there.

Looks great, just a question about the actual models. When I downloaded it, it only had the model files, and didn't seem to have the doors for the trucks, how do you get them, or did I do something wrong?

It does depend on whether or not LAPD buys them, if you want to keep it realistic. However it is my understanding that it is going into production, because Ford has canned the entire Crown Vic lineup, including the mercury grand marquis. At the EAA airshow back in august, Ford had a booth there, with a working version of the interceptor and the interceptor utility

The link you provided for the e-series requires a password

Realistically Vets most detectives, when in plane clothes, drive unmarked cruisers. They're not out doing regular policing, so they don't want the public to see them everywhere they go. Also if they're on stakeout somewhere, you wouldn't want people to notice your cruiser sitting there. I say just work on the detective and worry about cruisers later. Cyberdog, I do have a suggestion about the detective, for further down the road, when you're happy with the way the skins are. You know how all of the regular cops can be switched for officers with traffic vests, what about giving the detective a raid jacket? The blue nylon ones that say Police across the back, and down the arms and such. It's just a thought, but I'm more interested in seeing your completed normal detective first, rather than worrying about extras.

Alright, sounds good Goog. Thanks

Ok, I wasn't sure if you'd released the fix or not. Cheers

Sounds good Goog, ya sometimes things just go screwy randomly. Can you just let us know when you post the ATF cruiser? Thanks

Lol, we will welcome Squamishfire with open arms. Don't even joke about the Leafs, we just pretend they don't exist these days, it's easier than suffering the embarassment of having such a terrible team. And just as a bit of interstesting trivia, we have been losing Stanley cups, longer than the Canuks have been an NHL team. On topic, you guys have got to stop making new trucks, this is just getting nuts with the work you're doing. Everyday I log on and there is another amazing new truck, new lights, new skins everything. I am really impressed with everything you guys have made so far and truly look forward to playing with them when they're released. This is encouraging me to go out and make some skins of my own, maybe swap some rotating light bars for nice new shiny LED ones, who knows. Cheers Goog and CFB, here's to all your hard work.

Retried Goog, got the same again, so I donno what the problem is.

Hey, I don't know if this is only with my download, but I seem to have downloaded a copy of the Unmarked RCMP unit, instead of the ATF cruiser. It's a black cruiser, but the lights don't match up with the model

Wow Goog, you're just churning these units out. I can't wait to see them in game and play with them.

Sweet, sounds good. Thanks for accepting suggestions Goog

I'm ok with doing the Surrey ones, I didn't know that they had a unit, I was basing it off of some of the ones that I knew about. Hope it works out the way that you want it to.

Here's a few pics. Nelson SAR North Shore (North Vancouver) https://picasaweb.google.com/108733660527625290207/20110515?authkey=Gv1sRgCJKThfm5-uPv6wE&feat=email#5606996283887458130 https://picasaweb.google.com/108733660527625290207/20110515?authkey=Gv1sRgCJKThfm5-uPv6wE&feat=email#5606996339434546802 https://picasaweb.google.com/108733660527625290207/20110515?authkey=Gv1sRgCJKThfm5-uPv6wE&feat=email#5606996412147150354 http://www.northshorerescue.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/truck.png I personally like the looks of NS6

Will see what I can find and send off