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The only thing that I dislike about Kent Mod is the micro-management needed to dispatch units. Having to manually gear up the firefighters and send them to the vehicles is something that I hate. On all other aspects, the mod is realistic and fun. Hope this one has the same effect, specially with realistic personnel textures - I hate plain personnel textures with a simple color "pasted" on it, makes it look like an 8-bit game all over again...

Still, the original one has more variety of slightly more realistic vehicles and personnel...

That's really well made. Keep it up!

I think it's included with the newest download package (V2). Just place the Coronas folder in your B.V. Lisbonenses/Textures and Emergency 4/Data/Textures folders. Let me know if you need me to upload them for you.

That's weird... Have you tried to reinstall the modification or even re-download it?

Delete the TEC folder from your Units/Vehicles folder, located inside the B.V.Lisbonenses folder. Sorry about that, I forgot to change it.

On topic: Other than LA Mod and ERS Berlin, I highly recommend the NYC Modification, Emergency-City, Netherlands Modification and Amsterdam-Amstelland Modification. Please note that this is based on my taste and preferences (I like vehicles with working animations, low quality models with not much light-coronas, a stable and fun gameplay).

Yep. Currently fixing some issues and redesigning some elements.

Took this mesmerizing shot at about 11AM, from my house. An Iberia A340-600 from Madrid bound to Lima caught at FL320.

Paris Fire Brigade and others in France have been using those since I can remember (not sure if they started operating them in 80s, 70s, etc.?). They're called First Aid - Premier Secours - vehicles and they consist of a truck with a crew cab (5 men with paramedic training). The rear part is half ambulance (with stretcher) and half fire engine. This combo has some disadvantages though, such as smaller room for equipment, smaller water tank and little room to work inside the "ambulance", but the French company Camiva has been perfecting the vehicle since then and they've been widely used across big French cities, due to the small width that helps them moving in smaller streets and quick intervention in fires and/or medical emergencies. It's the perfect european rescue truck. The right side makes it look like a large ambulance... While the left side makes the vehicle look like a fire engine! It's literally cut in half.

Thanks! There's room for improvements and experiences, I'll go there more often before and after classes (starting in late September), so maybe I should try some night long exposures, sunrise and sunset shots.

In my opinion the pattern seems too slow compared to NFS' original FTPI, maybe speeding it up a little bit would solve it. Other than that it looks perfect. Maybe you should try to take some daytime pictures of the vehicles, too.

Went to my future aviation school to take care of some paperwork... curiously, it is placed near Lisbon's Airport (LPPT) RWY21. Got some awesome pictures! Portugália CS-TRU taxiing to holding point for RWY21. Cheers to the awesome First Officer that greeted me with a thumbs up! TAP Portugal A319 CS-TTP blasting out of RWY21 to Brussels. Another TAP Portugal A319, this time CS-TTS deploying ground spoilers and reverse thrust after a short hop from Paris (Orly). Ryanair Boeing 737-800 EI-ENE heading to holding point RWY21, before departing to Porto (LPPR). A more detailed shot... I'll return a lot to this place, it's really the perfect example of being up close and personal with the departing or arriving aircraft (depends on either they're using RWY21 or RWY03), you can even smell the jet fuel (my favourite part)!

No problem!

Both white! Sauce -> 4m24

Yay, planes! Really like the windshield LED textures, nice work on this one.

Maybe NYC's Rescue 1 model... It has an animation with the boat on top, dunno if that's what you need.

Got lucky enough to catch one of these very rare new vehicles responding Code 3 near my house.

Hi. I'm currently finishing up Version 3 of the Portuguese Modification (over 2000 FB fans), so I have a lot of things to focus on (I work alone) and I was looking for a lighter to help me out in about 15-30 units that I don't have the time to work on properly. Only 5 of those units are more complex in terms of lightbars and patterns (Whelen), but the rest should not take more than half an hour per-vehicle. I'm looking for someone that is: experienced with polygons and radiations;skilled enough with patterns (simple stuff, like wig-wags);willing to do a full set of lights (headlights, blinkers, etc.);able to recreate real-life patterns (not 100%, but close enough).I have experience with lights and I could do them with no problems, the only thing is that I'm trying to release it as soon as possible and I have to concentrate on other parts of the modification, so that I can focus on my private life after the release. Contact me via-PM or reply in case you're interested.

I'm still around here, Hoppah! I just stopped posting because I've been kind of busy with life and my active mods are... well, stopped. I have nothing against this community or any of you guys; I may have my own community but that doesn't stop me from coming here and hang out with people. Cheers! Sorry for being off-topic.

In Lisbon we have one professional fire department (RSB) separated in 5 divisions, each one with 1 HQ (main station) and 1 Station (smaller), 7 Volunteer Fire Departments and National EMS. RSB Lisboa 5 companies - 4 regular and 1 special operations.Each Company HQ has atleast 5 vehicles ( light pumper with the company leader, urban pumper, tanker, ladder, intervention SUV (minor calls) and some others, mostly logistical support.Each Company Station has 1 urban pumper (can have more vehicles, if the space allows it) and some EMS (INEM) ambulances that use the station as an operational base.Every Company has a backup VFD, based on the area. For example a Company in Downtown has 2 VFDs as backup (Ajuda and BV Lisboa), because they're in the same operational area.Fire chiefs and higher ranking officials are dispatched after a 3rd alarm, they respond in their private vehicles (unmarked) or in marked vehicles (ACC).Equipment provided by the City Hall and free to all firefighters.All urban pumpers have AEDs and atleast 1 certified paramedic.Volunteer FD's Each one based on a district (Cabo Ruivo, Beato, Ajuda, etc.).Not financed by the City Hall, all equipments come from donations and other activities (like providing rescue services in a football match, for example).Training, uniforms and protective gear are bought by the firefighter's own money.Respond only when CODU (EMS Dispatch) or SALOC (RSB dispatch) need assistance, i.e. INEM has no ambulances available so they send the closest VFD ambulance to that call.Some ambulances are crewed by paramedics (certified by INEM) but most of them are crewed by EMTs with AED training (part of the basic firefighter training).Minor EMS calls make up 70% of the total EMS responses of most VFDs.Sometimes, Nurses and Doctors volunteer to help out with large-scale EMS operations (like providing rescue services in football matches).EMS (INEM) National EMS service.Certified paramedics operate the ambulances.Ambulances are based on small operational bases around the city. There's a wide range of types, from small garages to fire stations.There's one logistical base (Avenida de Roma) with more ambulances (normally 3 or 4), special vehicles (logistical support, mobile hospitals, psychologists and fly-cars) that respond citywide.Fly-cars are based on Hospitals, staffed by certified doctors and nurses from the Hospital's ER.Intensive Care Ambulances are based on INEM's HQ (that's also the EMS dispatch base), are crewed by 1 Paramedic and 1 Nurse and respond citywide.Children Emergency Ambulances are based on some Hospitals and Maternity Hospitals too, crewed by 1 Paramedic, 1 Doctor and 1 Nurse.Portuguese Red Cross Totally Volunteer, INEM certified EMTs and Paramedics.Play an important role in mass-casualty incidents.Has ambulances that respond to medical emergencies in case INEM and VFDs aren't available.Are losing popularity, mostly due to the poor conditions of the equipments and vehicles.Police Several police stations, nothing special.Public Safety Police (PSP) operates in urban environments and large cities.National Republican Guard (GNR) provides support in some operations, but they mostly operate in rural areas.There are regular patrol, traffic, criminal investigation, rapid intervention, intervention corps and special operations divisions.Criminal Investigation responds to regular calls, but are very important in the most dangerous parts of the city.Rapid Intervention teams patrol in Sprinter vans and can do everything from safety perimeters, minor "tactical" support to regular officers, riot control and redirecting traffic/civillians.Intervention Corps are a multitask (Riot/SWAT) force. Despite not having a direct action in high-risk situations (hostage situations and dangerous warrants), they can do pretty much the same as GOE (anti-terrorist team) and play an important role in the dangerous parts of the city.The Special Operations division (Special Police Unit / Unidade Especial de Polícia) is based in the outskirts of Lisbon (Quinta da Bela Vista) and have everything from anti-terrorist units, K9 intervention teams, bodyguards, bomb disposal squads and riot teams (Intervention Corps).GNR also has special divisions. Rescue teams (GIPS) that operate in USAR, Firefighting, High-Angle rescue, law enforcement and HAZMAT environments. Intervention teams (K9 and Riot Control). Special Operations teams (COE) that also have a joint anti-carjacking task-force with PSP. Highway Patrol (Brigada de Trânsito) that enforce laws on the portuguese highways.Bigger municipilatities (Lisboa, Oeiras, Porto, Aveiro, Matosinhos, etc.) have a Municipal Police force, manned by PSP officers and financed by the respective City Halls. They're armed and operate with PSP in most of the situations. They're also important in traffic enforcement operations.You also have Maritime Police (operated by the Portuguese Navy) and armed forces police (Navy, Air Force and Army).Outside Lisbon, Fire Departments are 99% volunteer, which, in my opinion, is very bad because it sometimes puts people in danger, like, for example, having EMTs responding in a ALS ambulance instead of paramedics in places where rescue services have a +20 minutes response time. Our (national) system's a mess and I'm surprised that there aren't deaths due to its failures... yet.

Totally agree with you. Guess we've gotta change some mindsets around here. Count me in. True. I just got involved because want this tense atmosphere to go away. But yes, I totally agree with your post and understand your point of view. Let's hope this gets solved as swiftly as possible, I'll try to do my part.

First of all, Emergency 4 modding wont die, because there are more communities in the world other than Emergency-Planet. Seriously? People don't care about mods? People will always applaud a modification, because nobody is a EM4 modding god (or thinks that he/she is) and everyone starts from the bottom. In my 6-7 years of modding in Emergency 3 and Emergency 4, I learned to envolve, to combine my skills and most of all, to respect and support the work of others, no matter whether they were good or bad, because what people need is encouragement and that's how modding envolves. Nobody can start a full scale modification without the knowledge that a modder with 5+ years of experience in modding has, with a long history of failures (yes, because they also make part of the work in a modification) or knowing all the rules, because I didn't when I started and experience taught me how to proceed. Besides, who cares about wether mods are reskins or not, anyways? The German (and European) modding community, is basically 90% reskins with models that are free to use (wow, just look at that...). And still, people like the modifications and support them. Why? Because that's precisely how a modding community works. A project can start as a reskin mod, but end as a full scale modification with new models, scripts, lights because people are encouraged to push to their limits and try their best in doing something different. I also was the only modder working in a Portugal Modification for about 2 or 3 years and lots of people were (and currently are) using my stuff, totally natural. I felt that my work had a purpose, I didn't pushed people down when they tried to do something different, I explained that things need to be credited and supported them through their works in their own modifications, because that's what experienced modders are supposed to do. To teach people. Also, are they going to complain and exterminate the German and other communities, too? Because those are totally different than what you see here, they share materials and most of their modifications are reskins and use the same stuff over and over again, still, the community and experienced members support the authors and encourage them to envolve, by offering help, models, skins and knowledge or do you think that their database came from the sky by parachute? Besides, you don't see any conflicts there, because nobody in there has conspiracy theories that people are taking their stuff and saying they did it. If there's any issue with credits, a simple friendly PM or post will solve the issue. Take CCC for example, a modder joined all the models in the EM4 world, reskined them and made the biggest civillian vehicle pack in Emergecy 4, nowadays, people are using the models featured in that modification as a base for their own modifcations and you don't see anyone crying about it or taking their modifications down. That's how modding works for them.