Tools

ELS to Non-ELS

Convert ELS vehicles to native GTA sirens. 30 credits per conversion.

Why?

ELS needs its own script that toggles extras all the time. Native sirens run inside the engine: less load, in sync for every player, working on any server.

Files

.yft, optionally _hi.yft and .ytd. Upload the VCF (.xml) too and the colors – and for MISS-ELS files the flash pattern – are taken over.

Lights

Extras and misc parts with glowing geometry are detected. Pick a color and flash group (A/B) for each light. The preview plays the pattern live on the model, in night mode like on the street.

What happens technically?

Every light gets a siren bone (siren1 … siren20) at its position. The glow surface is bound to that bone and scaled down; the siren scales it back up when it flashes. A ready carcols.meta with colors, patterns, corona and real light for up to four sirens is included.

Installation

  1. Copy the files from stream into the vehicle resource.
  2. Register data/carcols.meta as CARCOLS_FILE (before VEHICLE_VARIATION_FILE).
  3. Set <sirenSettings value="ID" /> in carvariations.meta.
  4. Copy class VC_EMERGENCY and the flags into vehicles.meta and remove the ELS script for this vehicle.