Taillights flashing

[radomyoung]

Afternoon

having this issue regardless what i change in the metas.

So when i press q i have the 360 lights turn on but also have the brake lights flash on the rear of every vehicle . I want to turn these off so when im braking your able to see this . Also if i toggle k or L these again interact with the brake lights flashing . But if you oress E the standard GTa sirens come on .

Your help is appreciated

[matsn0w]

Hey there, thank you for your question! I've moved it to the Discussions section.

The flashing taillights are a default GTA behaviour that has annoyed me too. We managed to get rid of it in our server by changing the carvariations.meta entry for each emergency vehicle:

<lightSettings value="1" />
<sirenSettings value="9" />

Complete example:

<Item>
    <modelName>police</modelName>

    <colors>
        <Item>
            <indices content="char_array">
                132
                132
                132  
                132
            </indices>

            <liveries>
                <Item value="true" />
                <Item value="false" />
                <Item value="false" />
                <Item value="false" />
                <Item value="false" />
                <Item value="false" />
                <Item value="false" />
                <Item value="false" />
            </liveries>
        </Item>

        <Item>
            <indices content="char_array">
                132
                132
                132  
                132
            </indices>

            <liveries>
                <Item value="false" />
                <Item value="true" />
                <Item value="false" />
                <Item value="false" />
                <Item value="false" />
                <Item value="false" />
                <Item value="false" />
                <Item value="false" />
            </liveries>
        </Item>

        <Item>
            <indices content="char_array">
                132
                132
                132  
                132
            </indices>

            <liveries>
                <Item value="false" />
                <Item value="false" />
                <Item value="false" />
                <Item value="false" />
                <Item value="true" />
                <Item value="false" />
                <Item value="false" />
                <Item value="false" />
            </liveries>
        </Item>

        <Item>
            <indices content="char_array">
                132
                132
                132  
                132
            </indices>

            <liveries>
                <Item value="false" />
                <Item value="false" />
                <Item value="true" />
                <Item value="false" />
                <Item value="false" />
                <Item value="false" />
                <Item value="false" />
                <Item value="false" />
            </liveries>
        </Item>

        <Item>
            <indices content="char_array">
                132
                132
                132  
                132
            </indices>

            <liveries>
                <Item value="false" />
                <Item value="false" />
                <Item value="false" />
                <Item value="true" />
                <Item value="false" />
                <Item value="false" />
                <Item value="false" />
                <Item value="false" />
            </liveries>
        </Item>
    </colors>

    <kits>
        <Item>157_massacaro2_modkit</Item>
    </kits>

    <windowsWithExposedEdges />

    <plateProbabilities>
        <Probabilities />
    </plateProbabilities>

    <lightSettings value="1" />
    <sirenSettings value="9" />
</Item>

You can stream this file by specifiying it in your fxmanifest.lua:

files {
    'vehicles.meta',
    'carvariations.meta', --> load the file
    'handling.meta',
    'carcols.meta',
}

data_file 'HANDLING_FILE' 'handling.meta'
data_file 'VEHICLE_METADATA_FILE' 'vehicles.meta'
data_file 'CARCOLS_FILE' 'carcols.meta'
data_file 'VEHICLE_VARIATION_FILE' 'carvariations.meta' --> mark the file as VEHICLE_VARIATION_FILE

[Boomkipje]

I managed to get rid of the flashing brake lights, but another issue bothers me a lot. When cycling the blue lights on and of, I don't want to hear the "blip" of standard gta sirens. But when the sirensettings are on 0, npc's don't react to the blue lights. Any suggestions on this?