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Remember the news helicopters that spawned along with the police helicopters in GTA San Andreas? With this version, you can get access to the live camera feed from the news chopper.
Installation:
Copy NewsHeli.dll and NewsHeli.ini to your /scripts directory
Requirements:
ScriptHookV
ScriptHookVDotNet 3
.NET Runtime 4.8
recommended: a helicopter with a news station livery, like this one, shown in the screenshot
Usage:
The news heli will spawn automatically when you have 3 or more stars wanted level.
Supports keyboard & gamepad. See readme for usage.
Planned features:
- ability to apply filters to camera feed
- gracefully transition from gameplay cam to camera feed
- community suggestions!
Source code - GitHub
Changelog (full changelog in readme):
1.5.2:
- added option to change wanted level needed for news heli to spawn
1.5.1
- Weazel News overlay will now show "Signal Lost" if heli is destroyed
1.5.0
- implemented Weazel News overlay
- modified some default settings (FOV and zoom factor)
1.4.0
Heli now flies in from far away
1.3
- implemented respawn delay; default 30 seconds
1.2.1
- updated error checking
- reverted pilot to reporter only (no more Beverly)
1.2.0
- implemented gamepad controls. See usage section for details
- decreased pilot retasking rate to once per 5 seconds to prevent erratic flying
Installation:
Copy NewsHeli.dll and NewsHeli.ini to your /scripts directory
Requirements:
ScriptHookV
ScriptHookVDotNet 3
.NET Runtime 4.8
recommended: a helicopter with a news station livery, like this one, shown in the screenshot
Usage:
The news heli will spawn automatically when you have 3 or more stars wanted level.
Supports keyboard & gamepad. See readme for usage.
Planned features:
- ability to apply filters to camera feed
- gracefully transition from gameplay cam to camera feed
- community suggestions!
Source code - GitHub
Changelog (full changelog in readme):
1.5.2:
- added option to change wanted level needed for news heli to spawn
1.5.1
- Weazel News overlay will now show "Signal Lost" if heli is destroyed
1.5.0
- implemented Weazel News overlay
- modified some default settings (FOV and zoom factor)
1.4.0
Heli now flies in from far away
1.3
- implemented respawn delay; default 30 seconds
1.2.1
- updated error checking
- reverted pilot to reporter only (no more Beverly)
1.2.0
- implemented gamepad controls. See usage section for details
- decreased pilot retasking rate to once per 5 seconds to prevent erratic flying
First Uploaded: April 29, 2020
Last Updated: July 24, 2020
Last Downloaded: 1 hour ago
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Remember the news helicopters that spawned along with the police helicopters in GTA San Andreas? With this version, you can get access to the live camera feed from the news chopper.
Installation:
Copy NewsHeli.dll and NewsHeli.ini to your /scripts directory
Requirements:
ScriptHookV
ScriptHookVDotNet 3
.NET Runtime 4.8
recommended: a helicopter with a news station livery, like this one, shown in the screenshot
Usage:
The news heli will spawn automatically when you have 3 or more stars wanted level.
Supports keyboard & gamepad. See readme for usage.
Planned features:
- ability to apply filters to camera feed
- gracefully transition from gameplay cam to camera feed
- community suggestions!
Source code - GitHub
Changelog (full changelog in readme):
1.5.2:
- added option to change wanted level needed for news heli to spawn
1.5.1
- Weazel News overlay will now show "Signal Lost" if heli is destroyed
1.5.0
- implemented Weazel News overlay
- modified some default settings (FOV and zoom factor)
1.4.0
Heli now flies in from far away
1.3
- implemented respawn delay; default 30 seconds
1.2.1
- updated error checking
- reverted pilot to reporter only (no more Beverly)
1.2.0
- implemented gamepad controls. See usage section for details
- decreased pilot retasking rate to once per 5 seconds to prevent erratic flying
Installation:
Copy NewsHeli.dll and NewsHeli.ini to your /scripts directory
Requirements:
ScriptHookV
ScriptHookVDotNet 3
.NET Runtime 4.8
recommended: a helicopter with a news station livery, like this one, shown in the screenshot
Usage:
The news heli will spawn automatically when you have 3 or more stars wanted level.
Supports keyboard & gamepad. See readme for usage.
Planned features:
- ability to apply filters to camera feed
- gracefully transition from gameplay cam to camera feed
- community suggestions!
Source code - GitHub
Changelog (full changelog in readme):
1.5.2:
- added option to change wanted level needed for news heli to spawn
1.5.1
- Weazel News overlay will now show "Signal Lost" if heli is destroyed
1.5.0
- implemented Weazel News overlay
- modified some default settings (FOV and zoom factor)
1.4.0
Heli now flies in from far away
1.3
- implemented respawn delay; default 30 seconds
1.2.1
- updated error checking
- reverted pilot to reporter only (no more Beverly)
1.2.0
- implemented gamepad controls. See usage section for details
- decreased pilot retasking rate to once per 5 seconds to prevent erratic flying
First Uploaded: April 29, 2020
Last Updated: July 24, 2020
Last Downloaded: 1 hour ago





I mean, they do it when the player shoots at them.* (Last comment was not published, strange) Cool mod.
Whenever I try and use this mod it gives me an error that says" Failed to spawn heli:newsmav" Any help?
Edit: Nevermind I somehow got it to work
@fmafq If you have figured out how did you make it to work, please let me know. I have the same problem.
@gorgonut I'm not entirely sure how I fixed it but when I added some add on vehicles it worked.
@fmafq Thanks mate!
@fmafq @iLike2Teabag After some testing I think I found out what caused the problem in my case: The fact that I have some added custom police units in my dispatch meta (LSPD bikes, gang unit, additional swat peds, undercover police). When I used the mod with the vanilla dispatch it worked fine. I liked a lot the Weasel interface and the under the tab news! :-)
Thank you for this mod. I am using it in conjunction with VAutodrive to create cinematic chase video and it's been working out very well. A feature request... make the wanted level required to trigger the news heli configurable in the INI. The default 3+ stars works great for general play, but for my cinematic purposes it'd be nice to trigger the heli at 1 or 2 stars so I can have fewer police jumbling up what I'm doing and still have the news heli involved.
@gtaDROO done. The option is added in 1.5.2
I was wondering, do you plan on improving the chopper following the player, they seem 50/50 about wanting to closely follow the player.
Love the mod, i'm using it with Vautodrive as well...just for fun really. I dont suppose you could make it so that if you are using cinematic camera it automatically switches to news heli cam if one is available?
I think a cool idea would be to add the Weazel news logo, and the word live
@roguegiant that's already a feature
@iLike2Teabag You're right, I wrote that before I downloaded it. I just went by the clip, and the screenshots. Awesome job
"Pope forgives molested children" lmaooo
@Steve24 thank you very much!
I love it.Brother can u please make vice city van maverick for news helicopter......
I want to make it work with 2.10.9 SHVDN please...
it always says its failing to spawn a helicopter
Amazing mod! The headlines go perfect with GTA's humor