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Are there two motorcycle models and one officer model?

I think I screwed up the motorcycle cop now. I cant seem to figure out how the rider, standing officer are associated with the motorcycle model.... I was hoping to only swap the model files from another mod with the ones with LA Mod which is a strategy that has worked all along. The motorcycle seems to be different.

Oh, I'm not that skilled in Zmodeler. I'll try placing him on the bike.

I have a motorycle borrowed from another mod and used it in the LA Mod. I basically renamed the model the same name as the LA Mod police motorcyle overwriting the file. (I like the BMW RT1200 police motorcycle over the older style Harley bike.). Anyway, I got the lights added and it moves like it's supposed to. The only problem is that it's riderless for some reason. I have the other file of the "riding officer" but not sure which file in LA Mod to overwrite to replace it with this one. Anyone have any suggestions? - Kareem

got it. cool.

So don't bother with the portraits.xml file?

Now that made more sense. because I couldn't understand why the order was not reflecting the way I arranged them in the portait.xml file... Thanks for that!

I made some chamges to the vehicles for my own personal mod, and I want to edit the arrangement of vehicles in the vehicles panel. I just want to organiZe the vehicles by putting all the crown vics together, slicktops together, chp together, etc... I may want to delete a few units I do not use. What files do I need to edit in order to do this? Portraits.xml?

I was attempting to remove it to see if the truck would work but when I did that by removing it in the Editor, the game crashed. Any suggestions for removing the bucket or is there an aerial ladder without a bucket I can use in its place?

In game, that suggestion works fine but in the Editor it does not. (still would like to know what made it stop working...)

It seems to zoom in/out fine but when I try to pan the camera around or tilt it back/forward, nothing happens. I tried this in the game and the Editor and nothing but zooming in/out. It almost makes it impossible to edit vehicles and lighting. This just started. I switched to another mouse and still the same the problem. I even reinstalled the game without any Mods and the game and editor still have the problem. Anyone have any ideas? Windows 7 64bit

When I'm adding doors and trunks to a car in the Zmodeler application, do I need to be concerned about the axis or that little symbol that shows a green red and gray lines with the x,y,z? I've never really paid that much attention to it.

Really wish somebody could create a newer model like the BMW R1200. Would be so cool.I know it's a lot more difficult given how it works with the secondary model of the rider but it still doesn't hurt to wish.

Reading the dds file is not the problem. I have the photoshop plugin. The problem is that when I have modified the skin, it doesn't display properly on the model. For example, when I change police decals and the wording on the motorycle, it shows up very small or squashed. The way it displays is the problem. It's like the proportions are not accurate or something.

How are you doing this? I'm unable to import the motorcycle into Zmodeler. How are you doing this in Paint? I've reskinned nearly all of my fleet for my area but the motorcycle skin is strange. I know how to unlock and reskin and all of that but can't get the motorcycle to show in ZDmodeler. I have to keep launching Editor and checking it in there.

I have tried to import the motorcycle into Zmodeler (not to modify the physics) but to check reskinning. Otherwise I have to keep loading the Editor in order to see how the skin looks. Seems almost impossible to reskin this motorcycle. Is there another one thats easier?

Finally, got it.

I've always exchanged model files but kept the file names. If I do that with let's say, a firefighter, wouldn't my technique change it for all the firefighters? In other words, I would lose all of the firefighters wouldn't I?

I created a news reporter truck (see thumbnail) to be used in my current mod. I did not create a brand new model from scratch because it's waaaay to complicated for me to learn those skills. So, I just grabbed one of the existing econoline vans from the city traffic models, did a reskin, and exchanged it for the USCG Coast Guard boat since I don't use it. The reskin and model look fine! I've edited the speed of the news truck and it comes when called from off the map. The only problem, is that since the news truck was originally the coast guard boat, it only allows me to add a diver or a firefighter from the personell menu. I would like to be able to add a different person like a civilian (as the reporter). It's easy to add new personell to this vehicle but only if the new personell is considered 'user personnel' like the firefighters, police, medics, etc. I tried using the actual filename of the civilians like 'civilwoman05_blue' in the unit.xml file but it doesn't work - the new civilians do not show up in the personell menu. I think that the problem may be with the 'user ID'. All of the user files have 'user ids' but the civilian files do not. Any suggestions? Kareem

Okay, I'm almost there but it seems that the only problem is that after I've made the civilian a personnel, I still need to know the 'unit id' of the new civilian because it's what's referenced in the units.xml file. It's a little different process than just swapping the units around because I've selected units that I don't intend on using. With civilians, I cant exchange the divers because I need these personnel. So I'm stuck here.

I guess I didn't see the units as personnel - never thought of that. I've already made the changes we'll see what happens.I'm trying it out today.

Yeah but I believe that I need to know the unit id and not the actual filename. For civilians, I don't believe that this is listed anywhere since civilians are not considered "user personnel".

Hmmm...that did not seem to work. I'll check the settings in the Editor.

I edited the Trait for One Driver and used the civilwoman. I'll test and report back. Also, how do I add traffic cones in the equipment? I dont see traffic cones in the Equipment Options in the Editor.

Oh, sorry. When I'm playing the game and I want to call the news crew from the menu, there is a section where there are two personnel that I can add to the vehicle. How do I add the civilwoman here?