Carbon fiber appreciation thread

[syntex123]

If you’re like me, you like/love carbon fiber. A whole car covered in carbon fiber, a carbon fiber hood..maybe a lip? Or any other parts and details. There’s no universal recipe to tasty carbon.

Now that we finally have a few different carbon "paints", it would be nice to see what creations you all come up with. Any livery with just a tiny piece of that carbon paint is welcome here.

I can start, I already shared this one in another thread but eh, why not. The mirrors and headlight is carbon on this one(and roll cage, obviously. Wish I could have that in liquid metallic, though).

The only sad thing is that the whole car has to be painted in carbon in order to work. Odd decision by PD, but I guess we can’t complain(too much).

With that said, start showing off that carbon!

P.S.: Livery replicas from NFS Carbon doesn’t belong here.

 

[Kita Kangaroo]

Really sucks we can't just paint parts in carbon, really limiting PD
Made this Revolution RX8 inspired livery:

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• Kita Kangaroo
• Mar 7, 2022

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• Kita Kangaroo
• Mar 7, 2022

 

[Kita Kangaroo]

Amuse Carbon R BNR34

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• Kita Kangaroo
• Mar 9, 2022

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• Mar 9, 2022

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• Kita Kangaroo
• Mar 9, 2022

 

[JoaoSilva]

Amuse Carbon R BNR34

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• Kita Kangaroo
• Mar 9, 2022

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• Kita Kangaroo
• Mar 9, 2022

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• Kita Kangaroo
• Mar 9, 2022

Is this livery downloadable?

 

[Kita Kangaroo]

Is this livery downloadable?

Is it is

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[syntex123]

Amuse Carbon R BNR34

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• Kita Kangaroo
• Mar 9, 2022

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• Mar 9, 2022

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• Kita Kangaroo
• Mar 9, 2022

It’s beyond me why and how this car came to Norway at one point. Remember ages ago seeing the ad on finn.no where it was sold.

Back on topic. Amazing work. I knew someone would make it before I got my R34.

 

[MisterWaffles]

Something I did once I got the R8 LMS Evo was make a very basic stealth model of it using the carbon paint chip. It’s something I wanted to do since I heard that was an option.

Also threw the Evo II body kit on it, which is neat because I think this is the only Gr.3 car in the game with aero parts available to purchase.

But yeah wow really doesn’t make you miss using those carbon decals in Sport at all, in GT7 cars with bare carbon paint chips, or close to it, look absolutely stunning. It’s really incredible stuff this texture.

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[RacingManiac]

I should take better pic, but I use the carbon base paint and did the decal work on top for the rest of the livery so you essentially get carbon stripes...

 

[MatskiMonk]

Not exactly the most complex livery... think I should have gone for the more coarse CF paint chip.

 

[p78]

I'm still waiting on my Carbon R to pop up in my list of liveries.

 

[MidnightRun85]

Love me a carbon-based livery. Made loads on Sport, using the K3 matte and a semi-transparent carbon weave decal set to gloss, to make a semi-gloss carbon finish. With carbon as a base layer in the editor this makes things SO MUCH EASIER! Can't wait to get stuck into some carbon liveries.

 

[Sian]

These carbon paints make our lives much easier!

Still waiting for a R34 for my Carbon R of course, but I've made a couple of things with these paints already.

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• Sian
• Mar 25, 2022

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• Sian
• Mar 25, 2022

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• Mar 26, 2022

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• Sian
• Mar 26, 2022

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• Sian
• Mar 26, 2022

Some others are still work in progress.
As everyone agree, it's a shame we can't paint only certain parts of the cars in order to put special paints on the other ones but it's a good start.

 

[TSTO]

Guys, check this out incase you didn’t know. It sucks that we can’t apply carbon individually to certain parts of the car and mix with other “Special Paint” but one workaround is using decals to cover parts of the car you don’t want in carbon. Say for example you only want the hood & spoiler in carbon you just place a circle over Body panel and stretch it out. Then use the angle adjustment and put both options to +10. It’ll cover the entire body. I know this isn't ideal as using decals for paint does not give the same uniqueness of the different special paint types, but it's better than nothing until maybe PD adjust this nonsense and allow us to paint parts in CF separately. One theory I had about why this is like this right now is possibly because maybe they tested it on PS4 and it was too intense for the PS4 to handle multiple cars with this texture at once? Who knows.

Now! I also messed around with the idea of having PAINTED CARBON! And it worked! I painted this F12berlinetta in Carbon Twill and then placed a maroon/brown decal over the body and lowered opacity to 50%. Painted carbon is cool 😎

 

[ikon_313]

 

[MidnightRun85]

Guys, check this out incase you didn’t know. It sucks that we can’t apply carbon individually to certain parts of the car and mix with other “Special Paint” but one workaround is using decals to cover parts of the car you don’t want in carbon. Say for example you only want the hood & spoiler in carbon you just place a circle over Body panel and stretch it out. Then use the angle adjustment and put both options to +10. It’ll cover the entire body. I know this isn't ideal as using decals for paint does not give the same uniqueness of the different special paint types, but it's better than nothing until maybe PD adjust this nonsense and allow us to paint parts in CF separately. One theory I had about why this is like this right now is possibly because maybe they tested it on PS4 and it was too intense for the PS4 to handle multiple cars with this texture at once? Who knows.

Now! I also messed around with the idea of having PAINTED CARBON! And it worked! I painted this F12berlinetta in Carbon Twill and then placed a maroon/brown decal over the body and lowered opacity to 50%. Painted carbon is cool 😎

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Can you manually adjust decal opacity now? I was under the impression you have to use a decal uploaded at a set opacity... ??

 

[TSTO]

Can you manually adjust decal opacity now? I was under the impression you have to use a decal uploaded at a set opacity... ??

Yes with GT7's livery editor they've added the ability to adjust opacity of individual decals manually. It's really a nice feature.

 

[ikon_313]

Yes with GT7's livery editor they've added the ability to adjust opacity of individual decals manually. It's really a nice feature.

finally. how did I miss this?

 

[MidnightRun85]

Yes with GT7's livery editor they've added the ability to adjust opacity of individual decals manually. It's really a nice feature.

This is amazing news!

 

[im2fst4u]

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Dang man, that looks good. I might have to take a little inspiration from you.

Plus now I know about opacity!!! That'll be sick

 

[syntex123]

finally. how did I miss this?

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You make me jealous I didn't get the F40 when I had the chance.

 

[Sian]

Say for example you only want the hood & spoiler in carbon you just place a circle over Body panel and stretch it out. Then use the angle adjustment and put both options to +10. It’ll cover the entire body

That's exactly what I did with my Focus RS already posted here.

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• Sian
• Mar 25, 2022

I also did quite the same for my Silvia Touring Car (little bit more complicated as there's not only the hood kept in carbon)

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• Apr 2, 2022

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• Apr 2, 2022

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• Apr 2, 2022

Now! I also messed around with the idea of having PAINTED CARBON! And it worked! I painted this F12berlinetta in Carbon Twill and then placed a maroon/brown decal over the body and lowered opacity to 50%. Painted carbon is cool 😎

And that's what I thought about too when I saw we could change the opacity!
My Stealth liveries would never be the same!

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• Sian
• Apr 2, 2022

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• Apr 2, 2022

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• Sian
• Apr 2, 2022

I tried in white but it made an ugly grey so I kept the stripes in carbon and turned back the decal opacity to 100% on this one.

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• Sian
• Apr 2, 2022

 

[MidnightRun85]

My Monochrome Renown RX-VISION GT3 livery brought over from GTSport and updated with the carbon base layer option.

Download here.

 

[TheGeologist]

I am so happy with how this came out

 

[TSTO]

I am so happy with how this came out
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Forged Carbon body?

 

[TheGeologist]

Forged Carbon body?

What do you mean forged? It’s one of the carbon paint chips with blue squares overlaid at reduced opacity to make carbon appear blue.

 

[TSTO]

What do you mean forged? It’s one of the carbon paint chips with blue squares overlaid at reduced opacity to make carbon appear blue.

I mean the version of carbon paint you chose, is it the Carbon Forged one?

 

[TheGeologist]

I mean the version of carbon paint you chose, is it the Carbon Forged one?

Ohhhh! Sorry, yes that’s correct

 

[syntex123]

Wonder if I should make myself a "wood fiber" car 🤔

 

[im2fst4u]

Wonder if I should make myself a "wood fiber" car 🤔

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You should do some "wood burning" on it. hot iron kinda stuff, or pyrography.
Maybe like a wood carving company, or someone who makes cutting boards or chairs.
It'd be cool to see the darkened branding of something on there. Probably just need a little gradient to give the look.

 

[syntex123]

You should do some "wood burning" on it. hot iron kinda stuff, or pyrography.
Maybe like a wood carving company, or someone who makes cutting boards or chairs.
It'd be cool to see the darkened branding of something on there. Probably just need a little gradient to give the look.

Gradient and emboss. Just what my program of choice dislikes to make work for GT love the idea though