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tELS vs oELS

Two approaches to emergency lighting. oELS controls the lights already built into ELS vehicles, configured in Lua and JSON files. tELS draws its own LEDs and patterns, built in an in-game editor. Every row is sourced from each product's public pages.

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Feature comparison

Price

tELS: $19.99 one-time

oELS: £25.00 (Tebex listing)

Status

tELS: Beta

oELS: Not listed

What it is

tELS: Emergency lighting and siren system. tELS draws its own LEDs and patterns on the vehicle.

oELS: Lighting and siren controller for ELS vehicles. Patterns switch the vehicle's extras on and off.

Existing vehicle packs

tELS: Not a drop-in. Each vehicle is set up once in the editor, imported from its carcols.meta, or ships its own tels.json.

oELS: Built for ELS vehicles, configured per vehicle in a JSON file. Extra-controlled non-ELS vehicles are also supported.

Where you configure it

tELS: In game with /telsedit. No files to edit, no restart.

oELS: config.lua plus a SPAWNCODE.json file per vehicle

Light patterns

tELS: Painted per LED on a grid, with per-pattern palettes, frame rates and fading cells. Up to 64 LEDs rendered per vehicle.

oELS: Written in config.lua as sequences of extras with a timing in milliseconds

Lighting stages

tELS: Stages driven by triggers, plus cruise, takedown and traffic advisor modes

oELS: Primary, secondary and warning lights. Non-ELS vehicles add on-scene lights.

Automation

tELS: 74 vehicle-state conditions combined with AND/OR, driving 18 action types

oELS: Not listed

Environmental lighting

tELS: Included, with distance-based quality steps and an optional Smart mode

oELS: Directional environmental lighting per extra, in up to eight directions, in blue, red, white, amber or green

Sirens

tELS: 8 tone slots per vehicle on main and aux channels, airhorn, rumbler. 12 custom tones plus 14 game sounds.

oELS: Any number of sirens per vehicle, plus a bullhorn

Server-side sirens

tELS: Optional per tone slot. Players choose game or server sound.

oELS: Loads server-sided siren soundpacks defined in config. oELS is not a siren pack itself.

Other vehicle lights

tELS: Any light can be placed and patterned in the editor

oELS: Steady burns and alley lights mapped to extras

Siren controller HUD

tELS: Two included layouts, HTML/CSS layout SDK, more from the marketplace

oELS: Optional on-screen UI

Feedback tones

tELS: Park chirp and horn gestures available as trigger actions and conditions

oELS: Optilink confirmation beeps, with an optional 999 Mode

Who can control the lights

tELS: The vehicle's driver, or a front passenger when the driver seat is empty. Both front seats can operate the lights, and ownership can be released or claimed.

oELS: Configurable per vehicle by seat (driver, passenger, rear seats)

Reusing a setup across vehicles

tELS: One vehicle can reference another's patterns, triggers and sirens. Vehicle packs can ship a tels.json. In-game community config library.

oELS: A _DEFAULT.json file is used for any ELS vehicle without its own file

Keybinds

tELS: Rebindable by each player

oELS: Rebindable by each player, with controller defaults

PA microphone

tELS: Included (needs pma-voice)

oELS: Not listed

Integration with other scripts

tELS: State bags, client exports and network events

oELS: Not listed

Try before buying

tELS: Live test server with the editor open

oELS: Not listed

"Not listed" means it is not in OMSolutions' public documentation or store listing as of the date below. oELS may support it through configuration or updates not yet documented. Prices are shown in each store's own currency.

When oELS may fit better

  • You already run ELS vehicle packs and want them working by mapping their extras, not rebuilding their lighting.
  • You prefer configuring vehicles in JSON files you can copy and version.
  • You want directional environmental lighting set per extra.
  • You want lights controllable from specific seats, like the passenger seat.

Common questions

Will my existing ELS vehicles work in tELS?
Not on their own. tELS doesn't read ELS or non-ELS pattern files. Each vehicle is set up once in the in-game editor, or you paste its carcols.meta into the importer, which converts its siren sets into editable tELS patterns.
Do I have to edit files to set up tELS?
No. LEDs, patterns, triggers and sirens are all built in game with /telsedit, and changes reach every connected player without a restart.
tELS is in beta. What does that mean?
It's under active development. Updates are included for as long as the product is offered, and purchases have a 7-day money-back guarantee.
Can I try it first?
Yes. Connect to the test server, get in a marked vehicle, and open /telsedit to use the editor yourself.

Sources

Last updated October 23, 2026.

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Based on each product's public documentation and store listings as of the date above. Features and prices may change. oELS is a product of OMSolutions, and its name belongs to its owner. TIMMYG Studios is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by OMSolutions.