Elric888

Updated for minor fix. Pack three adds 14 Baja style VW Beetles to your city traffic. Each comes in two versions, clean, and dirty ('I been muddin'). They all feature custom off-road driving lights, custom UI, and menu icons, and are all My Sim enabled. As custom built Baja Bugs, they are faster than the standard VW, and are just as fast off-road, as they are on roads. The off-road driving lights are not intended for use on streets: they tend to blind other drivers though you may choose to do so (they also work in the daytime, and look great in the early dawn hours) The models used for these are modified versions of the original Maxis VW model (mods made by me in reader). I also made the off-road lights. These models sit higher than the stock VW, have a clipped rear end with exposed engine, and of course larger tires with cut-back fenders. Special thanks to Thingfishs for getting me motivated to make these, and for all the feedback during the creation of these, and to Ripplejet for getting me on the right path to get the lights working. As with all my creations, feel free to modd these into props, re-skin or whatever..just be sure to give me (Elric888) credit if you upload anything based on these. Updated to improve steep hill-climbing ability there is a slight glitch with the horn getting stuck, which seems to be unfixable at the moment (this is due to the Maxis class_ID, not my doing)..just keep hitting it if it gets stuck..or don't use the horn Enjoy!

This pack adds 9 new civic vehicles to your traffic. Contents & Credits: Animal Control Truck (model by Gwail [NYPD ESS Police Truck], based on a model by Swamper77, further modified by me) DNR (Department of Natural Resources) Patrol car (original model and lights by nerdly_dood) Red Cross Emergency Communications (Maxis Newsvan Model) Red Cross H2 Hummer ( original model by Mikeseith ) Police Bomb Squad Van ( original model by Simfanatik [Armored Truck]) Police Dive Team Van (original model by Simfanatik [Armored Truck]) Park Ranger Truck (model by Swamper77, modified by Simfanatik [4x4 Blazer Rural Police]) Bookmobile (maxis Bus model) Hazmat Unit (original model by Ripptide, made into automata by Swamper77 [Am. Fire Units, Rescue Unit 1]) The Hazmat fire units (Hazardous materials) are intended to complement Swamper77's American fire units, and come in red, yellow and orange versions (all of them can be installed at the same time). The DNR patrol car (Department of Natural Resources), and the Park Ranger come as both an additional patrol car, and as a replacement patrol car, so you can use them with a plugin manager for your state parks, and rural cities in different combinations. The Park Ranger uses an HD texture, so you will have to have your graphics settings set to hardware mode in order for it to show up properly. Enjoy!

This pack adds 12 new instance vehicles to your city traffic. Most of them are truly 'Civic vehicles', the others just seemed more appropriate for this pack rather than another. These are all packed separately, so you may pick the ones you want to keep. The K-9 unit is an additional patrol car, you can do missions in it, and it will appear randomly as a dispatch unit. The other police vehicles will randomly appear when a police station is plopped, (and in traffic), but are otherwise just eyecandy, as are the other vehicles in this pack. The power utility truck looks OK, considering it's a re-skin of a firetruck, but for now I suppose it's better than nothing, you decide if you want to have it installed or not., when someone makes a bucket truck, I'll remove mine from my plugin folder..till then this looks good enough. The K-9 unit uses a HD texture, so you will need to have your graphics settings set to hardware mode in order for it to show up properly. Contents & Credits: Student Driver Sedan (original Maxis taxi model) Generic County Services Van (Maxis model) Environmental Protection Agency Van (Maxis model) Habitat for Humanity Van (Maxis model) Coroner's Van (Maxis model) American red Cross Bloodmobile (Maxis City Bus model) Prisoner Transport Bus (Original Maxis model, modified by Gwail [school Bus-1997 AmTran]) Water Utility Authority truck (original model by Swamper77, heavily modified by Gwail [NYPD ESS Police Truck]) Power Utility Authority ladder truck (original model by Gwail [FDNY Ladder 10 truck]) Police K-9 Unit (original model by Swamper77, modified by Simfanatik [Cherokee Rural Sheriff]) S.W.A.T. Van (original model by Simfanatik [Armored Truck]) Police Crime Scene Unit (original model by Simfanatik [Armored Truck]) Thanks to Simfanatik, and Gwail for allowing me to use their models, and to Swamper77 for the original models used for two of those. Be sure to check out the originals, which are all very good (that's why I chose them), Thanks guys! As with everything I have produced so far, feel free to use my contributions in any way you want, just remember some of this content is someone else's work, be sure to obtain permission, and/or give credit where appropriate if you want to modd these and upload. (I would love to see someone add flashing lights to the police units...) Enjoy!!

Pack two is here! This pack adds 20 new Classic VW Beetles to your cities, all are My Sim enabled, with custom icons. Several of the custom paint jobs will appear in the medium wealth tab of the catalog..so be sure to check there. There are 8 two-tones, 10 miscellaneous custom paint schemes, Herbie (of course!), and the Mexico City taxi cab in two versions (one adds it, one replaces the default taxi). Be sure to read the readme for installation instructions. These are all packed seperately, so you can pick which ones you want to appear in your cities. Most of them feature custom five-spoke Porsche style rims, typical of custom Beetles, some match the paint schemes, the red Empi VW also has different Porsche style rims. These are all based on real-life examples, except the purple rag-top, which is the paint scheme for my own VW (not painted yet). As always, feel free to modd these into props or whatever...just give credit to me if you upload. Enjoy!!!

Updated, now split into individual cars, so you may pick which ones to install! Updated to fix alpha maps. Please download again, and replace original. This pack adds 26 new instances of classic VW beetles (Type 1) to your city traffic. They are all My Sim enabled, and each has a custom icon, so you'll know which is which in the catalog. There are early model split-window versions in red, yellow, blue, white, and black,later model oval window versions in orange, green and bronze (tan) as well as the prior colors. All come in both hard top, and ragtop versions. I'm a VW nut, so I tried to make these close to the real life versions (including stock paint colors), however I intentionally left the chrome off, because it looked horrible, and there are no license plates because they look better without..some other minor discrepencies exist, but only other VW fans will really notice. These are all based on the maxis original..which I personally never liked as it looked TOO beat up. If you want to modd these into props, or whatever, and release them, feel free to do so, just be sure to give me (Elric888) credit for the skins. If you want to re-color them also feel free, but you might want to contact me first, as I have a .PSD set up to make it really easy, and I'll share. If there is enough interest I can upload it here. Despite the fact that many people have mentioned they prefer to pick and choose which vehicles to install, these are all in one pack, that's just the way I prefer to do these, but upcoming packs will be in individual files. Look for more with custom paintjobs in the next few days (before anyone asks..yes the Herbie Beetle is already skinned, and will be included). If you have requests for custom paint styles ask away.. Special thanks to Simfanatik for showing me how to add alpha maps to the Maxis .fsh files (and for pointing this flaw out). Enjoy!