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[MrMitch]

Sounds Awesome!

[nick the greek]

@b2bomber and his team

This looks awesome!! Can't wait to see it finished and also see some other updates!!

[MikeyPI]

A.Ipmroved towing, not just a sound and then the car's up on the flatbed. Tilt the flatbed and pull the car up with a wire then tilt down the flatbed.
B.The last thing I can come up with right now is that I don't think everything that gets towed should be covered with a blanket. Almost the only time you do that is when it has been a deathaccident and the police doesnt want any newspaper to get a picture of the car before they have cantacted the victims relatives.

A. We tried this with the LA mod, people complained that the animation was not synchronized... Probrably related to MP Latency and slower computers than we had. Thus it was removed from the towtruck.
B.In short this is impractical, the tow truck would have to change models to be loaded with every single solitary potentially towed vehicle, the game has over 30 traffic cars PLUS whatever emergency vehicles are in the mod, PLUS damaged vehicles involved in accidents... That would make the mod massively larger due to the duplicate models that have to be added to the mod. The tarp is used to cover up the fact that the tow truck doesnt actually "carry" a car, it is just a 2nd model w/ the object loaded onto it.

[Dyson]

A. We tried this with the LA mod, people complained that the animation was not synchronized... Probrably related to MP Latency and slower computers than we had. Thus it was removed from the towtruck.
B.In short this is impractical, the tow truck would have to change models to be loaded with every single solitary potentially towed vehicle, the game has over 30 traffic cars PLUS whatever emergency vehicles are in the mod, PLUS damaged vehicles involved in accidents... That would make the mod massively larger due to the duplicate models that have to be added to the mod. The tarp is used to cover up the fact that the tow truck doesnt actually "carry" a car, it is just a 2nd model w/ the object loaded onto it.

Could you not say put the cover on the car before loading?

[MikeyPI]

Once again, the car it's self that is towed, regardless of how it's towed is "removed" from the map, the towtruck switches models to one that has a load on it, this load is the same regardless of what you pick up. When you unload the cargo it puts the car back on the map, and swaps back to the unloaded towtruck model. There is unfortunately nothing you can do about that other than a highly complicated script that would consist of swapping the towtruck with a different model for EVERYTHING that it is allowed to tow, so figure 50+ different towtruck models all identical except for the cargo tossed on the back of it. It is rather impractical to do that unfortunately because you'd have to have a new model for everything you might tow with it. The game originally never intended this, which is why you have the covered cargo, it keeps the mod size smaller, and puts less load on the game engine it's self.

[krt2008]

Would it be possible to do a wheel lift truck, and simply assign a tow command like the tow trailer where only the tow truck however could pull it?

[MikeyPI]

Yes, it is possible.

[gizmo719]

i would like to see the tow behind

[krt2008]

yeah that is what i was getting at, it would be cool to have a choice of different tow trucks. just another added element of realism.

[b2bomber]

Uh so new tow trucks for different jobs, I will have talk to shadowuzuz about that. We have decided to break our project up into sub-projects so that development can be faster and so that we can get more part time Modders involved. Because currently where having a shortage of certain groups that we need. We have been increasing our team size in the last few days sorry I have not been able to announce all that (3-4 people) . But our plan now is to I guess have all the mod " executives" and project managers at the top making sure that the project works in uniform. So right now basically think of all those things listed on the front page as sub-mods of this mass mod. We also plan to pool our resources to allow for kind of a universal system. So say the physics team is gonna need a light designer for the subway system. Rather then going out and recruiting a new member which takes a lot of work they can just go and access a light designer from the light bar branch of the project. So thats kind of an update for you right now, we do plan to have a newsletter as long as things go well after we get the whole team organized completely so that we can output this project to its full.

[krt2008]

haha, you sound so thrilled about that. I do have a fairly high proficiency in AutoCAD which, if i remember right, can be imported into sketch up. I could try and come up with some models for you if you want/need me to, but it may not happen extremely fast as im very busy with classes this semester.

[b2bomber]

haha, you sound so thrilled about that. I do have a fairly high proficiency in AutoCAD which, if i remember right, can be imported into sketch up. I could try and come up with some models for you if you want/need me to, but it may not happen extremely fast as im very busy with classes this semester.

we can totally use you on our team, uh Trust me Its gonna take a lot of work, and really you do'nt even need to import in sketch-up all we would need is .3ds, thats what I pump it out into in the end. But my issue with sketch up is the high polygon output when you draw anything with a circle or arc in it so in a sense cad is way better! LOL where still getting set up but I will keep you updated on all that. So you would be interested? (where trying to make this mod capable of using both part time and full time Modders if thats what you would call it.)

[krt2008]

Like i said as long as you guys dont mind that it may take me a little while to get things accomplished Im willing to help.

[b2bomber]

no issue at all. We welcome anyone that wants to help.

[gizmo719]

B2 you need a group to come up with tools, equipment, and possible different things that could play out. Also you said you welcome anyone to help, need an extra beta

[b2bomber]

we defiantly could use testers for things. as for ideas you guys are all ready putting out what you want to see right now.

[shadowzuziz]

we dont need testers yet since we havent made the mod for you to test yet

[TacticalRooster22]

I like the idea for new tools and such. Plus the new functions sound really cool and I'm hoping to see sort of like a new GUI.

[gizmo719]

well put me down as a tester......lol as soon as your ready