HUD And Blips

LSPDFR Enhanced introduces a completely customized HUD designed to enhance and simplify your gameplay experience. To view the HUD, simply hold the F5 key. By default, the HUD is only visible while holding the key, but you can adjust this in the settings.

What does the new HUD offer?

• On the left: in-game date, day of the week, and time.
• On the top right: your current account balance.
• Below the account balance: your hunger and fatigue levels, represented with colors: green, light yellow, dark yellow, orange, and red. Red indicates that your character is very hungry or tired.
• At the bottom right: your current rank and a progress bar showing how close you are to a promotion.

LSPDFR Enhanced also adds a wide array of map blips for you to explore, categorized as follows:

• Light Blue (20): shops where you can buy items or grab a snack.
• Orange (43): cafes for a quick coffee.
• Yellow (45) and Red (70): fast-food joints and restaurants to satisfy your hunger.
• Orange Gas Stations (24): places to refuel your vehicle.

These locations are spread across the map, from Los Santos Airport to Paleto Bay!

Shift Schedules

When starting a new career, you’ll receive information about the time and location of the police station where your shift begins. To start your shift, head to the designated station and press T before your shift starts. If you’re unsure where the station is located, look for the light blue suitcase icon on the map. Being late or missing a shift will result in experience point deductions (details below).

You can also start your shift early – the game will automatically skip ahead to the appropriate time.

Once your shift begins, gameplay remains similar to the standard LSPDFR experience: accept callouts, chase suspects, and conduct traffic stops. However, LSPDFR Enhanced introduces key changes:

• Patrol Districts: You’ll be assigned specific districts to patrol at the start of your shift. Leaving your assigned area will display a warning icon (!) in the top-left corner. However, during pursuits or callouts, you can travel anywhere.
• Authorized Vehicles: You are limited to specific police vehicles. If you enter an unauthorized vehicle, you’ll see a warning and won’t be able to drive it. Visit any police garage and press T to view all authorized vehicles.
• Break Time: During your shift, you can take a 30-minute break. During this time, you won’t receive callouts and can freely move around the map. To do this, just press the Left Control and "U" key at any time.

Each shift lasts 12 hours – from 12:00 PM to 12:00 AM or 12:00 AM to 12:00 PM. When your shift ends, return to the station where you started and press T again.

An additional feature is the overtime system. Up to three times per month, you can extend your shift to 14 hours by pressing T and left CTRL simultaneously at the start. Overtime comes with increased earnings.

Experience Points And Ranks

During your shift, earn experience points by handling callouts, arresting suspects, and conducting traffic stops. These points are added to your account after the shift ends. Each rank has a specific experience point range (e.g., 0–500). Advancing to a higher rank grants you increased pay, access to new police stations (and patrol areas), and unlocks new emergency vehicles.

Hunger And Sleep

To keep your character alive, you need to manage their hunger and fatigue levels.

Hunger:

When your character is hungry, the screen starts shaking. Over time, they lose the ability to run, walk as if injured, and eventually die. The first hunger effects appear after approximately 35 in-game hours without food, with death occurring after 70 hours.

To satisfy hunger, you have several options:

• Store: The cheapest option, but only restores 70% hunger.
• Fast Food: More expensive but restores 85% hunger.
• Restaurant: The most expensive option, fully restoring 100% hunger.

Meal prices depend on your hunger level – the hungrier you are, the more you’ll pay.

Alternatively, you can cook at home. Buying ingredients and preparing a meal in your apartment is cheaper than dining out and also restores 100% hunger. Here's how:

1. Visit a store, approach the fridge/freezer, press "E", and select the items you want to buy.
2. Go to your apartment, approach the fridge, and press "E" to store the items.
3. Approach the stove, press "E", and choose the dish you want to cook.

Fatigue:

When your character is tired, the screen shows various effects. Over time, the character begins to fall randomly and eventually dies. Fatigue effects start appearing after 27 in-game hours, with death occurring after 54 hours without sleep.

To combat fatigue, you can:

• Sleep in your apartment bed: Approach the bed, press "E", and select how many hours you want to sleep. The longer the sleep, the more fatigue is reduced. Sleep is free and restores up to 100% energy.
• Drink coffee: Available in cafes, this option restores up to 75% fatigue but comes at a cost.

Fuel

From now on, your vehicle will consume fuel as you drive. When the fuel level gets critically low, your vehicle will start to skid and stall until it eventually comes to a complete stop.

How to Refuel?

You can refuel at any fuel pump on the map. There’s no need to limit yourself to marked gas stations – unmarked fuel pumps can also be used.

To refuel:

1. Drive your vehicle to the pump.
2. Exit the vehicle, approach the pump, and press T.
3. Move to the rear left side of the vehicle and press T again to start refueling.
4. To stop refueling, press T once more, then return to the pump and press T again.

Refueling costs money, but it’s free for police vehicles if you’re on duty. You need to refuel only cars and motorcycles.

Time Scaling

Time in GTA V moves quickly – 12 in-game hours translate to just 24 minutes in real life. This is a relatively short duration for a single shift, especially since some callouts can last longer than 24 minutes.

With the new time scaling system, you can now adjust in the settings how many real-life milliseconds correspond to one in-game second. This allows you to extend gameplay time and tailor the pace to your preferences.

Death

When your character dies, there is a set percentage chance (default: 50%) that they will be saved by medics. If successful, you’ll receive a few days off before starting your next shift.

However, if the medics fail to save you, all your progress will be reset, and you’ll have to start your career from scratch.

Rent

Every day at midnight, a rental fee will be deducted from your account for your apartment. The cost varies depending on the location where you live.

For example:

• Renting an apartment in Grapeseed costs only $30 per day.
• However, living in Vinewood Hills will set you back $380 per day.

The choice is yours – luxury or affordability?

Online Stuff

While on shift, you will be connected to other players currently using LSPDFR Enhanced.

Whenever you:

• start or end a shift,
• accept or complete a callout,
• initiate a traffic stop,

this information will be automatically shared with all other players currently on shift. Similarly, you will receive notifications about the actions of other players.

Settings.ini file

The “Settings.ini” file is where you can configure various aspects of the plugin to suit your preferences. You can disable or modify different systems to match your gameplay style.

Each setting is individually described within the file, so there’s no need to go into detail here. After making any changes, remember to reload the entire LSPDFR.

You can find the file at the following path: “Your GTA V folder/plugins/LSPDFR/LSPDFR Enhanced”

ranks.xml file

To configure the “ranks.xml” file for the rank system in LSPDFR Enhanced, follow the structure below. This system allows you to assign specific ranks to your character based on points earned, determine assigned stations and patrol zones, and set salaries and vehicles for each rank.

File Structure:

Ranks: The root element containing all rank configurations. Each rank is enclosed in <Rank> tags.

Rank: Each rank includes a set of attributes defining its name, required points, assigned stations, zones, salary, and vehicles.

Inside each <Rank> tag:

• <Name>: The name of the rank (e.g., Officer I, Sergeant I).
• <PointsMin> and <PointsMax>: The minimum and maximum points needed to achieve or maintain this rank. For example: <PointsMin>0</PointsMin> and <PointsMax>500</PointsMax> mean that to be an Officer I, the player needs between 0 and 500 points.
• <Stations>: Defines the police stations where this rank can work. Each station is enclosed within a <Station> tag.
• <StationName>: The name of the assigned station (e.g., La Mesa Police Station).
• <Zones>: Defines the patrol zones for each station. You can list several zones inside <Zone> tags (e.g., LMESA, EBURO).
• <Salary>: The salary paid to the player per in-game day at this rank (e.g., 385 for Officer I).
• <Vehicles>: Defines the police vehicles available for this rank. Each vehicle is listed in a <Vehicle> tag with two attributes:
• model: The vehicle model name (e.g., “police” or “police3”).
• Vehicle: The display name for the vehicle (e.g., “Police Cruiser”).

Customizing Ranks:

• To Add New Ranks: Copy the structure of an existing <Rank> block, change the <Name>, and adjust points, stations, zones, salary, and vehicles accordingly.
• To Add/Modify Patrol Zones: Inside each <Station>, list multiple zones in <Zone> tags. These correspond to in-game areas the player can patrol while at that rank.
• To Adjust Salary: Modify the <Salary> value to change the daily in-game pay for that rank.
• To Add New Vehicles: Add more <Vehicle> tags with different models and names to provide the rank access to a wider variety of vehicles.

Final Notes:

This configuration allows you to control the player's career progression, assigned stations, patrol zones, and available vehicles for each rank. After making changes to the ranks.xml file, ensure you reload the entire LSPDFR plugin for the updates to take effect.

data.xml file

The “data.xml” file contains the saved data and statistics of your characters. Editing this file is not recommended, and if you choose to do so, it is at your own risk.