Tow Truck Driver Job (Fine System & Realistic Towing)

UPDATE

1. Fixed a network exploit when placing a vehicle fine.
2. Added an important distance check when opening the fine menu with right clicking on the tow attach weapon.

UPDATE

1. Added config option CH_TowTruck.Config.UseBlacklist.
2. Added config table CH_TowTruck.Config.BlacklistedVehicles.
3. Use this table to add vehicle models that you do not wish to be tow-able.
4. The tow truck driver will be notified that they cannot tow the vehicle when trying.
5. Added config CH_TowTruck.Config.SplitTowFines.
6. If this is enabled it will split the fine between all towers (like it currently does).
7. If it's set to false then the tower of the vehicle will receive the full fine amount.
8. If the original tower is not available it will split it between all available towers.
9. Replaced some old coding habits with newer more optimized code.

Most of this is suggestions I have received in tickets and private messages. I always appreciate feedback and try to implement as many ideas as possible.

This is not a necessary update, but I think it brings some new cool features. Please remember to update/replace the config file completely and redo your config afterwards (save the old and change the things you want). This is the best way to do it to avoid issues when overwriting.

UPDATE

1. Optimized HUDDrawTargetID with localization of colors/texts and better looping.
2. Improved some networking in the script.

This update is recommended. It addresses some unoptimized code from many years back that should have been fixed before.

UPDATE

1. New custom model for tow attachment weapon.
2. Custom animations to hook vehicles to each other.
3. Completely rewrote config files to be in unique tables.
4. There are no longer any restarts required when changing position of the NPC. It automatically respawns after 5 seconds.
5. Made the tower equipment spawnable to admins in the Q menu.
6. Improved placement of the rope attached to the hook of the target car.
7. Adjusted maximum fine to be more realistic.
8. Added support for my DarkRP Mayor System.
9. Added config CH_TowTruck.Config.UsingMayorSystem to enable it.
10. Added config CH_TowTruck.Config.PercentageToMayor to set how many percentage of a tow fine should be put in the mayors safe/vault.

Note that since the entire configuration has been rewritten, the addon requires a complete reinstall.

UPDATE

1. Adjustments to the colors in the tow menus.
2. Fixed some scaling on larger screens.

The only file that has been changed is darkrptowtruckdriver/lua/autorun/client/tow_client.lua

1. Fixed a small bug when submitting a tow warning/fine

1. Replaced all remaining usermessages with net library

1. New design.
2. Longer delay to attach vehicles to towtruck. Configure with TOWTRUCK_AttachVehicleDelay.
3. Fixed error trying to fine a tow truck with no owner. It now displays a proper notification.
4. Added more hints to the tow attach weapon if you are not looking at a tow truck.
5. Added hint when entering a tow truck on how to use the hook from inside the truck.
6. Added configuration for max fine. Configure with TOWTRUCK_MaxFine.

Thanks to Im Not Meow Meow for the new banner as well.

This update just changes the way the tow truck driver job is added to be more compatible with some addons on gmodstore. If you have problems with my tow truck driver job and other addons, this update MIGHT solve the problem for you.

1. Fixed a problem where an error would occur if you tried to tow a vehicle, when there was nothing behind the tow truck.
2. Fixed a few spelling mistakes

1. Fixed a problem where an error would occur if you tried to use the tow attach weapon without any vehicle behind the tow truck.

This update adds nothing. The only thing that has changed is that the folder name is now lowercased and therefor supported for Linux. This makes it easier for new buyers, as they will not have to rename the folder if they are on a Linux server host.

If you already have the addon, just keep using it and do not worry about this update. It's just to help new buyers with an easier installation.