The History of the LPD Avatars

This a very brief account of the official LPD avatars that have been uploaded to VRChat, with that said, these avatars are cataloged by era and creator. First era LPD avatars were created by Sarma with later era having been created by the community and the LPD Development Team.
====Sarma’s 1.0 (Sometime Early 2018)====
  In the beginning, the first LPD avatar was a “Re-texture of a Japanese Navy Uniform” -Sarma’s Airfield, later models would be the SWAT avatars, which would be the precursor of the later formed SLRT Branch; these avatar made their debut at Sarma’s Airfield, the stomping grounds for the LPD at the time. The SWAT avatars were some of the first public LPD avatars, with later public avatars being based off of US police, some wearing bright blue shirts and others with navy blue shirts. After these avatars were created a discord was created with them as well.
====Sarma’s 2.0 (Starts March 2018)====
  The primary appearance of the Sarma’s 2.0 avatars was the update to SWAT, with a greater toolset of weapons that was not seen with previous models. Another big update to the in the “Sarma’s 2.0” era was the 2.0 rework of the standard patrol models, with this, the LPD saw the first patrol rifle models, the debut of cars, reintroduction of the first LPD avatar, and improvements made across the board.
====Sarma’s 3.0 (Starts July of 2018)====
  Much like the previous update era, patrol models were given a better set of weapons, with; at the time, top of the line animation and particle systems, with Riot Control making its debut as seen in VRChat Stories EP:1, with a recurring event to go along with it.
====Sarma’s 4.0 (Starts March of 2019)====
  This is the last addition of the Sarma era of Avatars, as after this update Sarma ceased the creation, and upkeep of the LPD line of avatars in his Miko Collection, however Sarma continued to make Miko police avatars. With this update, SWAT was reworked into “SLRT” (June of 2019), the first FBT compatible LPD models were created (date unknown), introduction of LMT(date unknown), and with the LPD precinct number (60) being added to all of the official LPD models. The last supported Sarma LPD avatar ceased official usage by the LPD at early December of 2019, this was the state trooper patrol variant which sported a M9 Beretta and gray shirt.
====Reconstruction (Starts November 2019)====
  Although these avatars are no longer supported, these avatars represent the first avatars of the LPD, many were custom avatars. The custom avatars became the bedrock for the community, with custom avatars remaining as a staple to the LPD from that point onward and continue to be officially supported to this day, as currently there are guidelines for a custom avatar to be approved by the LPD.
====3rd Gen LPD 1.0 (Starts January 2020)====
  These were the first official, third generation LPD avatars of the new server, sporting the current colors of the LPD, a deep navy blue and the precinct number changing from 60 to 18. These avatars are no longer supported either and are no longer public however are brought back for anniversary events. During this era the SLRT also made its reintroduction (01/08/2020) with a total overhaul on the branch as a whole, as well a new range-master avatar a few days later(01/12/2020).
====3rd Gen LPD 2.0 (Starts February 2020)====
Although the first new avatars were serviceable, the LPD wanted to create better avatars more in line with style and themes of the LPD, with the LPD Development team at 12 members strong, created a brand new set of avatars in late February 2020. A few months later, the SLRT avatars also received an update (05/09/2020) with the addition of new weapons, tools, and equipment. In addition to these new avatars, Dress uniforms had also made their debut (06/18/2020), with a greater emphasis on optimization.
====3rd Gen LPD 3.0 (Starts November 2020)====
In November of 2020 the LPD updated the mainline avatars to VRC SDK 3.0, with patrol rifle versions of the standard patrol models being the first 3.0 avatars (10/30/2020) with the standard patrol jumping to 3.0 January Fourteenth 2021. Along with patrol rifles, the LPD had also seen a new set of avatars make its reintroduction in the form of vehicles (08/05/2020), with those avatars making the jump to 3.0 the following year.
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