Best posts made by 11john11

@krissboo Well, I think that nearly 70% of the car mods on this site are unoptimized for the game, if one would replace cars only with high quality optimized models there would be no problems, mostly.
For example, many of the flashy super cars that people usually download aren't optimized at all (you won't see from the looks of the car or anything if it's optimized so not many people care) and are only good for addons since they would cause too much issues if they would spawn in traffc.
big car replacement packs are also full of unoptimized models.

Very important information.
More people should know about LODs, maybe that could improve the horrible quality of many mods from here a bit...

@zh465 Go into visualsettings.dat located in mods\update\update.rpf\common\data and look for this

car.indicator.day.emissive.on (random number)
car.indicator.night.emissive.on (random number)

Change the numbers that are written behind them to something higher, I set them to this you should use this too, makes the indicator lights bright but not too bright

car.indicator.day.emissive.on 300.00
car.indicator.night.emissive.on 400.00

Works the same for every other vehicle lights (taillights, reversing lights, etc)

@krissboo I doubt that replace cars in general cause crashes, it's the low quality car mods that cause crashes when many of them get spawned in traffic (which happens when you add them as a replacement)

I'm currently working on some new lore friendly retro service vehicles loosely based on real ones

I think it would be awesome if we had a mod that adds the LS Riots from GTA SA, just better.
With:

• Burning houses,
• Random people fighting with melee weapons (rarely there are maybe some gang members who are armed)
• Random burning or overturned cars on the streets, fire trucks coming to extinguish the burning cars
• People looting stores (they enter it running and leave the store with some stuff in their hands)
• Some store owners protecting their stores from being looted with sniper rifles or simply handguns or other weapons
• Motorists (including the player) getting pulled out of their cars and beaten
• Emergency services responding in the city, police attack unarmed looters or people fighting with nightsticks instead of guns, they will also try to arrest them

http://www.lcpdfr.com/forums/topic/72262-mad-max-xbgt-falcon-mfp-build/#comment-476274

@inbetweendays_ I may have found someone on lcpdfr.com who could maybe convert the police version

I have something that might interest some of you, I was working on some 70s plates for vehicles last year, might finish and release them this week, seen in the picture is a realistic 70s california exempt plate that was used on governement vehicles.
Don't worry about the quality, the plates seen in the screenshot are outdated, I already improved the textures
https://img.lcpdfr.com/uploads/monthly_2016_10/large.580ece4fe0a08_GTA52016-10-2505-15-38.png.08e42b5802254ad19aaaacd1aa34725d.png
original:
http://www.plateshack.com/76/CA/caexemptmovieprop.jpg

I think those are my favourite mods
CARS:
https://de.gta5-mods.com/vehicles/1978-plymouth-fury-los-angeles-police-department
https://de.gta5-mods.com/vehicles/1965-pontiac-tempest-le-mans-gto
https://de.gta5-mods.com/vehicles/1968-dodge-dart-hemi-super-stock
https://de.gta5-mods.com/vehicles/1989-chevrolet-caprice-9c1-los-angeles-police-department
https://de.gta5-mods.com/vehicles/1999-ford-crown-victoria-p71-los-angeles-police
http://www.gtainside.com/en/gta5/cars/95763-1989-chevrolet-caprice-taxi/download/
OTHER:
https://www.gta5-mods.com/weapons/m37-ithaca-muzzleflash-soundeffect
https://de.gta5-mods.com/player/los-angeles-police-patrol-officers
https://de.gta5-mods.com/maps/real-freeway-signs
https://www.gta5-mods.com/weapons/ripplers-realism
https://www.gta5-mods.com/misc/world-of-variety
https://www.gta5-mods.com/vehicles/realistic-driving-v