Tahoe series (Evo 4x4 based)

[FranknFurter]

They started in 2007 with the common b/w/r scheme as Max told me but I had a closer look at this pic (I had to decrease gamma value for that to proper notice it) and I don't if it is only me seeing a blue middle rotator there? This photo was obviously taken before 2007 when they started retrofitting/using lightbars with also blue lights

Some time ago I had read something about the reason why red and blue is used on lightbars .. blue light is much better and further visible in darkness/twilight or winter conditions while red light is better noticed in daylight, something in that kind ..

Next pic (taken later as you can tell by the Chargers in background ..) shows such a retrofitted Streethawk but the blue rotator was then placed on left side like most American agencies have that ...

Think it had to do with them also introducing then Whelen lightbars a.o. and since the standard model is blue/white/red they simply adopted this most commonly used scheme then ...

But all this was at least as confusing for me as it seemingly is for you ..

Some more detail work on the Peel (which means this will also have to be transferred to the other versions ), some normals adjusting and texture rework on the bumpers (giving it 'neutral' colours instead of the strange brown colouring) and also the headlights/positioning or marker light textures on the front hopefully look a bit better now ...

[Paul Spain]

Actually Frank most U.S. police have the red light on the left..Not blue, Maybe a handful of agnecies do it that way but most it's red/blue (as it is in the state I live in too) As for that pic, Those are Impalas NOT Chargers in the background, The main car shown is a 2000-2005 Impala, The cars parked all around are 2006 and up Impalas. I don't like the 2000-2005 Impala but the 2006 and up  .

[FranknFurter]

Of course, red on left side -seen from behind- but I usually do the lighting sequence in frontal view so blue is on the left for me .. and yes, Impalas of course but they have Chargers now, too ... probably had that other pic in mind
Would be better speaking of 'driver' or 'passenger side' -LOL

Nice rear view of a classic '96 Caprice, Streethawk equipped and still with the old lighting scheme ...

For those who wouldn't want to wait for the other versions to be finished and I uploaded the whole Tahoe package here's the Peel Tahoe pre-released (w/o sounds except Ocareng.bnk), just import the missing ones from default Camaro into car.viv as usual ..

[FranknFurter]

Work continues .. Park Ranger Tahoe updated with the new hubs, different driver and the reworked bumpers/headlight/marker light textures ... uh yes, and a brown interior

And just if you were wondering .. yeah, the Racer Tahoe will yet get a better (3D) steering wheel ...

[WiLL]

Pretty nice Setup on the park Ranger pursuit truck...
I need try HS, again...    it looks better my HS, than before.

What ever Frank... you not Normal anyways,.
So I won't ever comment to you no more.
Is best..:

[FranknFurter]

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to 'Law and Order, New York' ...

Although if an FBI version wasn't quite appropriate I gave the undercover Tahoe a new driver and cop, too .. should look like a typical 'detective' wearing brown trousers, a white shirt (even with armpit perspiration stains ), a tie and his Police badge placed at his belt and a shoulder holster gun -although I didn't map the holster belts, well ...

Is it detective 'Stabler' ...? I now I'm watching too many crime TV shows ...

'.. behind suspect, following unobtrusively ...'

Note to myself ... should I place the unevitable Donut box and a Coffee-to-go-cup on the dashboard still? Low-fat, no sugar plz.

.. a Park Ranger interestedly studying a local ape family's social behavior when rudely interrupted by a racer's monkey business

[Paul Spain]

Illinois State Police once had rotators custom made on the Code3 MX7000 and Excaliber that was twin red/blue, I don't know how they did it but it could never be replicated to HighStakes unfortunatly as each rotator was both red/blue not one or the other, They stopped doing this when the LED lightbars came out though. I think they way they did it was they had colored parts that snapped onto the rotator shared like () and each ( was a red and a blue part. Then it all rotated. This would have been very easy with the old TwinSonics too as all you'd have to do would be put one red and one blue bulb in but back then red only was the law .

[FranknFurter]

.. not only a problem there Paul, a simple Vector for example normally has half red, half blue coloured lenses (front/rear facing) depending on what type but this is almost unsolvable to apply an accurate lighting on that (frontal/rear different colours) ...

What I always tried to solve, too is the problem of siren dummy visibility from wrong direction like those rear facing flashers also being visible from front or vice-versa frontal flashers (like mirror flashers) also being visible from behind

I noticed that some internal dashlight beacons I made are no longer visible from rear side or behind when transparency of the windows are done by alpha channel method (or think of the half-shielded single red beacon on the rear shelf on the Michigan Mustang, same here but vice-versa) so I tried to use this effect also on lightbars adding a half-transparent disc or whatever to it but this never worked ...

Btw seen your new 2101 uploaded to Police H.Q., looks great

Pity that Chris already uploaded the Impala, would've liked to also update it with the new detective driver and cop

Speaking of updates .. gave the Racer Tahoe now a better Steering wheel from Nils' S-10 Blazer and a column, too .. not too highpoly so is also suitable for the other versions ...

Btw ... if you should see this (2nd pic) on the undercover Tahoe from behind, no, it's not a mistake ... I made some less tinted squares for the rear flashers still on the back window for better visibility since I have read about this (hoping it is true though .. )

All versions are reworked and updated now so after the usual writing stuff I will send the package to Remko ..

[Edit:] Add.: Well, looking at the Park Ranger Tahoe again I tried same like on the undercover Tahoe with rear facing yellow traffic flashers (present but inactive so far ..), traded in the frontal orange positioning/marker lights for that .. what do you think of it?

.. and yes, it is Nils' BMW M5 v.2 combined Racer/Pursuit version being ticketed here ...

.. you know what? 'ESP problem' is now fixed, too ...

Traffic version is now also updated .. poor guy has to wear up mommie's ugly self-knitted pullover on his way to regular family gathering ..

but not quite as ugly as Colin Firth's 'christmas gift' pullover from 'Bridget Jones' movie though ...