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[FireFighterEmt4Life]

Would it be at all possible to make a working rotoray for trucks in LA. Mod...... it would have to be a moving part....and im not sure if you can have that while a unit is in motion.....


For those of you who dont know what a rotoray is.....watch one of my videos i posted below, its the spinning light on the front of the truck...

[Forensics]

I'm sure it would be possible to make them but do LAFD use rotorays on their trucks?

[billyfromhill]

I've never seen them.

[FireFighterEmt4Life]

I've never seen them.

LA definitely dosent use them, but i have already re-skinned my trucks, i think it would be a cool option to have.

[martijntjuh]

i dont think it's possible to recreate rotorays, maybe with an animation but not the lights

[Xplorer4x4]

lag maybe with the moving parts and lights?

Hmm moving fire trucks,police cars,ambulances, etc with moving wheels, doors, lights, and even helicopters. No.

i dont think it's possible to recreate rotorays, maybe with an animation but not the lights

Hmm if the animation was added, then I suppose it could be done if you add about a million lights to a unit, but even then it probably would look like poo.

[swatlord]

I dunno, this seems like something the PRL guys might be able to answer

[FortErieFireEli]

Personally, I think if there was a way to make it a child of the vehicle, and add the lights to the child, and faind a way to get those lights ON, and make it spin, but, thats a lot to overcome

[martijntjuh]

Personally, I think if there was a way to make it a child of the vehicle, and add the lights to the child, and faind a way to get those lights ON, and make it spin, but, thats a lot to overcome

if i'm right you can attach lights to a child but if you put it on a vehicle the lights just wont work.

[FireFighterEmt4Life]

if i'm right you can attach lights to a child but if you put it on a vehicle the lights just wont work.

Wow....thats alot of work. I cant even seem to figure out Zmodeler. Great with lighting though...

[Stan]

Whats the goal of a rotoray?

[Forensics]

I don't see any point in that at all, if you want to see pretty lights go to a firework display.
I can't see how they would make the fire truck more visible, it has enough lights already.
If anything they are just distracting.

[FireFighterEmt4Life]

I don't see any point in that at all, if you want to see pretty lights go to a firework display.
I can't see how they would make the fire truck more visible, it has enough lights already.
If anything they are just distracting.

no need to dis-them. Many fire departments find them very effective, i love them but thats just my opinion. And your right, it is distracting, thats the point, maybe that one more person who finds it annoying, is the one person who usually pays no attention to responding units..... the more "annoying" it is, the more attention it gets....

[Forensics]

Bah, it's just my opinion.

[Xplorer4x4]

no need to dis-them. Many fire departments find them very effective, i love them but thats just my opinion. And your right, it is distracting, thats the point, maybe that one more person who finds it annoying, is the one person who usually pays no attention to responding units..... the more "annoying" it is, the more attention it gets....

Then again that distraction could just cause the driver to wreck. And its kind of funny you mentioning "dis-them." Were allowed to have opinions we know.

[FireFighterEmt4Life]

Then again that distraction could just cause the driver to wreck. And its kind of funny you mentioning "dis-them." Were allowed to have opinions we know.

Never said you werent......i lights and sirens are a distraction to people driving.....than they shouldnt be driving in the first place. Imagine what would happen if that same person were really driving by fire works, sometimes its necessary.

Bah, it's just my opinion.

And its a very good one Could go both ways!

[Commander Rasseru]

I'll be laughing if it becomes popular. Emergency units are not Christmas trees.

[swatlord]

I'll be laughing if it becomes popular. Emergency units are not Christmas trees.

Right, but every time some dumbass slams into the rear end of a cruiser/engine/ambulance on the side of the road, they have to put MORE lights on the vehicle