Civilian Objects And Vehicles

[tomcat_driver]

Thanks for sharing. Is there any Civilian buildings pack?

[EL_LEJI]

I love it, thanks for your work and sharing

[Abburo]

The vehicles are absolutely great. The lights for police, ambulance and firetruck are from another world !

Thank you !!

[Arrow11]

Given the quality of these mods I really don't want to complain though noting a few things I came across

1. if we drive the lead vehicle in the group the other ai vehicles in the group don't follow the leader. However if we set the lead vehicle to ai, the other vehicles follow suit.

2. Autopilot is not working, if we press c the vehicles dont drive themselves to waypoints.Not sure if it is a known behavior. 

I tried above with the civilian suv.. not tried with other vehicles.

 

I'm getting really obsessed with the civilian Ural. Such a beauty! Pretty sure the next few days n dcs, I'll be on the road driving rather than in the air flying.

 

 

 

Edited January 19, 2023 by Arrow11

[Eight Ball]

On 1/19/2023 at 6:38 PM, Arrow11 said:

1. if we drive the lead vehicle in the group the other ai vehicles in the group don't follow the leader. However if we set the lead vehicle to ai, the other vehicles follow suit.

2. Autopilot is not working, if we press c the vehicles dont drive themselves to waypoints.Not sure if it is a known behavior. 

I tested these scenarios and those are just CA quirks, not specific to my vehicles.

1. Use the radio menu to briefly change the formation (I think the default is column so pick any other formation). This should get them moving, you can then switch back to the column formation.

do note that they leave a relatively large interval between vehicles. You might also have to repeatedly asked them to "follow leader".

2. Another CA quirk.

If the vehicle was given waypoints in the mission editor and you take direct control of it, it will wipe the waypoints. Autopilot wont work.

If you occupy a tactical commander slot, give waypoints to vehicle and then take direct control of it, the waypoint will still show on the F10 map but the autopilot wont work.

What you need to do is first take control of the vehicle and then give it waypoints. Now you can toggle the autopilot on and off

On 1/18/2023 at 5:08 PM, Elphaba said:

Any chance of having women (clothed) as some drivers? 

Also, any chance of a CIVILIAN PERSON PACK? Where you have men and women and even children that walk/run and have 'panicked' states / Changes of clothes / colours of clothes?

No plans for women drivers.

I know someone is working on a civilian "infantry" unit. I have forwarded your request. No ETA tho

Edited January 24, 2023 by Eight Ball

[Arrow11]

32 minutes ago, Eight Ball said:

What you need to do is first take control of the vehicle and then give it waypoints. Now you can toggle the autopilot on and off

This is a good idea. I'll try that! I didn't know this issue applied to all CA vehicle groups. Thanks for the suggestion!

[HC_Official]

Very much a big thank you for taking the time and effort to create this stuff and to freeliy hand it out to others

Edited January 21, 2023 by HC_Official

[crazyeddie]

Liveries Textures passed to Mod Owner to include as he sees fit. 

 

[crazyeddie]

I forget to mention, I could not do any skins for the EU Log Truck, there edm crashes ModelViewer every time you try to extract a working description.lua for the textures. 

[Eight Ball]

Awesome liveries @crazyeddie, thank you!

I will incorporate them in the next update. In the meantime, here is the link for those interested: CrazyEddie's Liveries for CAP Vehicles (drop in Saved Games\DCS\Liveries)

The issue with MV and the EU log truck is odd but its UV is the same as the EU box truck.

[DishDoggie]

Forgive me but the last picture of 2 trucks in regard to the color is not a good match for any OD Green Military or Dark Olive Drab. It has to much Yellow in it and looks kind of Metallic to me but Still nice work and thank you for creating the skins. Good Job 

[crazyeddie]

Ah, but not all Military vehicles are American ! - But to be honest I was just playing with it and used a standard colour swatch which often gets adjusted by the Normal and RoughMap files, its just eye candy at the end of the day. 

[Havoc86]

Eight Ball, Crazyeddie, thanks for your outstanding work with these vehicles! CVPI is a masterpiece (screenshot below:) ) Will you please add a traffic police vehicle with lightbar for the Eastern side as a counterbalance? The easiest way is to take the existing VAZ-2105 model and retexture it (and add a lightbar like used in CVPI Aero model). It really served in Russian traffic police not long ago. Current vehicles in service are mostly Ford Focus II, Skoda Octavia (A7) and newer versions of Lada (VAZ) of course like Lada Priora or Lada Vesta. I can help with photos of vehicles, lightbars and traffic policeman suit if needed.  

[Eight Ball]

5 hours ago, Havoc86 said:

Eight Ball, Crazyeddie, thanks for your outstanding work with these vehicles! CVPI is a masterpiece (screenshot below:) ) Will you please add a traffic police vehicle with lightbar for the Eastern side as a counterbalance? The easiest way is to take the existing VAZ-2105 model and retexture it (and add a lightbar like used in CVPI Aero model). It really served in Russian traffic police not long ago. Current vehicles in service are mostly Ford Focus II, Skoda Octavia (A7) and newer versions of Lada (VAZ) of course like Lada Priora or Lada Vesta. I can help with photos of vehicles, lightbars and traffic policeman suit if needed.  

Thanks!

Yes, russian & european police cars are on the to-do list. I also have an european firetruck and a couple of more modern ambulances for the US and EU. Aswell as a few more surprises

Edited January 29, 2023 by Eight Ball

[Havoc86]

18 minutes ago, Eight Ball said:

Thanks!

Yes, russian & european police cars are on the to-do list. I also have an european firetruck and a couple of more modern ambulances for the US and EU. Aswell as a few more surprises

 

 

That's great! I'll bring some photos ASAP.

[Morpheus]

11 hours ago, Eight Ball said:

Thanks!

Yes, russian & european police cars are on the to-do list. I also have an european firetruck and a couple of more modern ambulances for the US and EU. Aswell as a few more surprises

 

Personne ne l'arrête (nobody stop him) 

[RWC]

Hi friends,

I really don't mean any offence with this, but I can't cry out loud enough about the fact that everyone is just designing vehicles and ships, which is absolutely great though, but that we need civilians and personnel. 

All you designers are doing such incredible great work, and we love it so much !

That being said and with the announcement from ED that somewhere along 2023 we would get this update along the line, that THAT should be tried to design. I am sure that some are too disturbed by the frozen and non-movable people standing outside these great designed vehicles, when everything else around it seems to move. Being only able to have armed soldiers (M4/M249) to move around, and seeing the SC personnel move about , but not being able to use them, beside as static. But how long do we have to wait ?

Now, isn't it possible, to implement and use the moving capabilities of the M4/M249 into some of the Supercarrier's personnel for example, and combine these two shapes into a single movable, selectable shape other then a armed soldier ?

The ingredients are there, same as the basic designs/models used as for the ships and vehicles throughout all of the new designed models.

If i wanted to move a personnel group from point A to point B, what would it be ? It would be only one of these two designs !

Who dares to take the challenge designers ???

In hope and with much respect to all designers out there ....

Kind regards, 

RWC

Edited February 1, 2023 by RWC
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[Wikkus]

3 hours ago, RWC said:

Hi friends,

I really don't mean any offence with this, but I can't cry out loud enough about the fact that everyone is just designing vehicles and ships, which is absolutely great though, but that we need civilians and personnel. 

[snip]

I second this, we have some utterly superb models from the likes of Eightball, but we're still super-limited on the humans, especially infantry and civvies. Really needing an animated (non-Spetznas) RPG squad, for example.

R.

On 1/29/2023 at 11:33 PM, Eight Ball said:

Thanks!

Yes, russian & european police cars are on the to-do list. I also have an european firetruck and a couple of more modern ambulances for the US and EU. Aswell as a few more surprises

[snip]

Man, you are the best! Do you have a "buy me a coffee" or similar account, because I wouldn't mind slinging a few quid your way for all the fun I have with your assets

Rik.

[Havoc86]

On 1/30/2023 at 1:33 AM, Eight Ball said:

Thanks!

Yes, russian & european police cars are on the to-do list. I also have an european firetruck and a couple of more modern ambulances for the US and EU. Aswell as a few more surprises

 

 

OK, here is some information.

I would suggest taking Skoda Octavia (3rd gen., typ 5E or A7) (Škoda Octavia - Wikipedia) as a basic car for Police forces because it's very widespread and used by the Police of Russia, Georgia (DCS Caucasus map), Israel and Turkey (DCS Syria map). Maybe it will suit other maps too. It can be added as a civil car too, of course.

Russian traffic police cars are quite standard now, very little or no creativity is allowed. So the colour scheme below is the same for Skoda Octavia, Ford Focus, VAZ-2105 or any other traffic police car in Russia. 

I found a nice video about the Russian traffic police crew on Skoda Octavia A7 working with speed radar in 2020 in Anapa (it's the resort city in the Krasnodar Region of Russia, which is the main part of the DCS Caucasus map; Anapa is also on that map). It's in Russian, but generally words are not too important, our goal is the car:) Here it is - 

 

This video gives us close views on the car from three angles - front and from the two sides. For the back angle I'll provide a photo of a similar car (once again, all cars are standard).

1) Front view - see below Skoda_front.jpg. Several things are to be noted here. Licence plates of the Russian Police are blue. 23 in the licence plate is the code of the Krasnodar Region of Russia. Three letters on the hood mean "R[oad] P[atrol] S[ervice]" - traffic police of Russia. These 3 cyrillic letters are doubled on the trunk. It must be noted that this car is of a facelifted 2017-2019 version with "separated" headlights and with white LED daytime running lights. Most of the police Octavias serving today are of this updated version. Headlights are usually halogen (yellow), not xenon (but special elite units on Octavias have xenon headlights). Lightbar is absolutely typical (low, small) and works several ways depending on the situation (note that in Russia traffic police lightbars only have blue and red colours, there are no other colours like white (USA) etc.):

a) low intesivity 

 b) middle intensivity

c) high intensivity 1, blue and red lights are on at the same time

d) high intensivity 2, one light after another

 

2) Side views - see below Skoda_side_1.jpg and Skoda_side_2.jpg. We see a long blue stripe on an overall white car. On the front door - seven white cyrillic letters mean "Police" and there is also an emblem of the Police Department of the region. This one - Krasnodar Region Office of Internal Affairs (GUVD), emblem - vector image (vector-images.com) Same is on the other side. On the back door there is a telephone number of the so-called "trust line" in cases of corruption, conflicts etc. and the specific unit's name (Anapa Police Unit/Station). Once again - same on the other side. Wheel trims are also standard for Octavia - see here SKODA Octavia 2020-Present 16" Wheel Trims Tekton | 5E0071456C (skodapartsdirect.co.uk). Also to be mentioned is the solar tinted glass. In Russia tinted glass (up to 95%) is allowed only on back side windows and on rear windshield (not on the front ones!). The Police usually follow these rules too as we can see in this case. It is not unusual for the Police in Russia to have tinted glass, most of the police cars have it.

3) Back view - see below Skoda_back.jpg. I took a photo of another Octavia from Krasnodar for the back view. Rear windshield is tinted. There is a duplicated traffic police lettering on the trunk. And the blue license plate. Lettering on the rear windshield is optional. Some cars have different slogans there (usually about giving way to pedestrians), but most have nothing. The important thing to note here is the small spoiler on the trunk. It means that this is probably a 179 hp 1.8 TSI Octavia turbo, the most powerful version besides the RS. Only this top version had spoilers on the trunk right from the factory. And most police Octavias in Russia have this spoiler. 

Otherwise police Octavias look similar to civilian ones. Here ( New Skoda Octavia 2017 facelift review - pictures | Auto Express ) are a lot of detailed photos of the 2017 facelifted version, including exterior, interior, daylight running lights, tail lamps (also LED) etc.

The mentioned general colour scheme and police writings are the SAME for all police cars in Russia (except unit's names, telephone numbers and regional emblems, of course). Some cars may be silver, not white.

Other main cars in service (see photos below):

1) Ford Focus II/III (was the main police car before Octavia A7);

2) Hyundai Solaris;

3) VW Passat;

4) Lada Priora;

5) Lada Vesta.

VAZ-2105/2107 was used earlier, now it is out of service.

Edited February 2, 2023 by Havoc86

[Eight Ball]

@Havoc86

Thank you but I'm afraid I only have a vaz-2105 3d model. I'll see if I can find another suitable 3d model, no promises tho.

 

@RWC

Unfortunately that's not possible in DCS. As far as I know the only way to add an animation to a 3d model is to do it in a 3D software (3DS, Blender).

 

On 2/1/2023 at 9:43 AM, Wikkus said:

Man, you are the best! Do you have a "buy me a coffee" or similar account, because I wouldn't mind slinging a few quid your way for all the fun I have with your assets

Thank you. Yes, I'm looking into it but I'm not sure what's the best platform to do it.

Edited February 2, 2023 by Eight Ball

[TEMPEST.114]

1 hour ago, Eight Ball said:

@Havoc86

Thank you but I'm afraid I only have a vaz-2105 3d model. I'll see if I can find another suitable 3d model, no promises tho.

 

@RWC

Unfortunately that's not possible in DCS. As far as I know the only way to add an animation to a 3d model is to do it in a 3D software (3DS, Blender).

 

Thank you. Yes, I'm looking into it but I'm not sure what's the best platform to do it.

 

Ko-Fi is good and doesn't charge you fees.

Edited February 2, 2023 by Elphaba

[Havoc86]

1 hour ago, Eight Ball said:

@Havoc86

Thank you but I'm afraid I only have a vaz-2105 3d model. I'll see if I can find another suitable 3d model, no promises tho

 

OK. The last photo is just about this model.

Edited February 2, 2023 by Havoc86

[Eight Ball]

52 minutes ago, Elphaba said:

Ko-Fi is good and doesn't charge you fees.

I'll look into it, thank you

@Havoc86 I also have an UAZ-452 which I thought might be suitable for a police/ambulance vehicle

 

 

Edited February 2, 2023 by Eight Ball

[Havoc86]

4 hours ago, Eight Ball said:

I'll look into it, thank you

@Havoc86 I also have an UAZ-452 which I thought might be suitable for a police/ambulance vehicle

 

 

 

Well yes, it's currently used in patrol police (not traffic) and as an ambulance (usually in rural areas). Then next I'll provide photos for it in service. And the current uniform of traffic and patrol policeman.

[Presidium]

Oh man! I've been fooling around with those vehicles!!! and they're incredible!! The lightbars are amazing!
THANKS AGAIN buddy!!!!
PD: If I make a "High Speed chase  Cops TV Show for DCS" you are the one to blame