Introduction
The idea for the server came about when me and a friend found out we both play LSPDFR and thought it might be a cool idea if we could play it together. Originally I was not going to introduce it to the public but I realised that a few other people might be interested in it too. It is still very early on in development but I am sharing the progress with you guys to gauge if people are interested in the idea and to get any feedback for improvement or features you might like to see implemented.This isnt PVP cops and robbers
Most police servers are player-vs-player in nature and require a player to play the "bad guy". While I do like these types of servers, this isn't what I am going for with my server. The idea is to be a police sim, like LSPDFR, where AIs take the role of the criminals allowing for more of a police coop type of experience.Progress update 01
So, I have been working on it for a few weeks so far. The longest part of development was changing all my code over to C# when I realised you could code resources with that language. Things are still very early on so I will be showing features I have currently implemented as well as giving you guys an idea for things I want to have completed in the near future.Menus
One of the first things I made was a basic menu system so people were not having to do everything with chat commands. It makes things much more user-friendly. Upon joining the server (or dying) you are met with a menu to select any of the police stations you would like to spawn at. Spawn Menu GIFAfter that you are shown an outfit menu which lets you customise the look of your police officer as well as what department you are a part of. (Planned to add more customisation, akin to EUP. This is a long-term plan though)
There is also a vehicle menu to allow you to easily spawn any police vehicle as well as repair, clean and toggle the engine.
PLD and Radar
A fully functional player location display and radar, heavily inspired by the pre-existing mods for LSPDFR and made from the ground up to be implemented with future systems for the server.
Livemap
I have made progress on a web-based livemap that updates with the position of every player in the server. Initially, all callouts and dispatch will be handled by the server. However, I want to make a system so that if someone wants to they can take the place of dispatch. The livemap will be heavily integrated in with this so I wanted to get it finished early to have a basis for it. Please note, the player dispatch feature is a long-term goal and I want to get the basics of the server out of the way first before I handle extras like that.
Arrest Systems
I have spent a lot of time looking into the AI behaviours and pedtasks within GTAV and have made a system to handle pulling over a vehicle, asking a driver to enter/exit the vehicle and letting the target go. For my next area to focus development on, I want to add an arrest system and vehicle towing for driving peds with an arrest system for walking peds after I have finished that. While I anticipate challenges with coding this, with my current knowledge of the in-built pedestrian systems I should be able to get this done fairly soon and post an update.Planned features for the next update post
- Ped arrest for driving peds, with a towtruck to remove their vehicle
- Ped arrest for walking peds
- Ability to drop off arrested peds yourself or call for transport (much later, I would like to add the option for the transport request to show up to other players before trying to get an AI driver)
- Spawn points for Sandy Shores and Paleto Bay