Damn, I Suck House of Liveries.

TheDabbinDave · Nov 12, 2017

First, the only thing I’ve done with the Livery Editor is just paint my cars and change wheels. What I want to do is place the GT logo across the hood, front, and tops of the fenders. I don’t see a way of spreading a decal across multiple panels. Trying to align the decals has taken me a couple of hours! No I’m not joking.

What am I doing wrong?

Another idea I had was to use a livery I had in my RC car racing days. The front half of the car was blue, faded into white with a blended V at the top of the hood, going down the sides of the car angled back. My Dad painted it it when he got an air brush. I tried using the box shape with a fading V, it didn’t work out so hot either.

There has to be a more efficient way of painting multiple panels at once by spreading it out?

The blinking shadow is helpful, can it be made to stay on?

RealJaySee · Nov 13, 2017

For your problem with the GT logo : Try to use the projection method "allign with camera" for both panels. I think thats the problem. also, I would do the part on the body first, put it a little bit higher, so it's more centered.

For your RC car remake : Can you post a picture ?

graveltrap · Nov 13, 2017

The bonnet is a separate zone on a lot of cars, that is why the problem is happening, nothing can be done about it as the game will only apply a decal in the paintable area that is selected.

You can click one of the sticks to show you the working area (sorry I can’t remember which one).

DigitalBaka · Nov 13, 2017

Second the "align to camera" suggestion. Because the surface is curved the decal conforms to it in the default projection method and "bends" the shapes. You can see this easily by putting a stripe down the center, duplicate it and move it slightly to one side. On most cars you'll see the end toward the front of the car start to curve in or out. Align to camera just goes straight on (ex. from vertical for hood cam) and ignores the surface curvature.

TheDabbinDave · Nov 15, 2017

RealJaySee
For your problem with the GT logo : Try to use the projection method "allign with camera" for both panels. I think thats the problem. also, I would do the part on the body first, put it a little bit higher, so it's more centered.

For your RC car remake : Can you post a picture ?

Thanks gents.

The RC car was back in ‘88. I wish I still had it! Team Losi JRx2.

TheDabbinDave · Nov 18, 2017

This took almost 3 hours lol. It so easy to lose track of time! As you can see, there are a few errors that I don’t know how to fix without making a bigger mess. If you’re willing to fix it, please do, and record a video of it so I can actually learn what to do.

emetic · Nov 18, 2017

Matching gradients across multiple body areas is a pain! Sometimes you just have to plan your design to avoid it.

Remember you'v got 2 directions of skew using L1 and left stick, those help me a lot.

TheDabbinDave · Nov 18, 2017

I gave up on the GT logo on hood/bonnet on the Citroen. It’s mind numbing how two decals that should easily line up cannot.

Is it possible to do a two or three tone livery with Special Paints? Most of the color pallet isn’t what I want to use.

emetic · Nov 18, 2017

DaveTheStalker
Is it possible to do a two or three tone livery with Special Paints? Most of the color pallet isn’t what I want to use.

The short answer is no.

You can use the colour picker to get some more interesting tints though.
If you wanted to creatively work around that though, you can paint separate sections of the car (body, hood, spoilers) with different special paints.

BarryB · Nov 18, 2017

Put a blue layer down the middle of the hood covering the gradients and running width ways to the vents.
Put a single, square gradient over that to match what is there now (but with a straight end instead of a point).
Put two blue layers running diagonally across the hood to mask that gradient into a point.

That might get rid of the dark yellow overlap and still create the same effect.

On the side, just mask that gap with a thin yellow layer. Its solid there right? Not gradient? So should be simple.

TheDabbinDave · Nov 18, 2017

The blue is the base color, Blue Chrome.the side is a gradient, then a solid square enlarged to cover toward the rear. The rear is a small square to bridge the gap between left & right.

BarryB · Nov 19, 2017

DaveTheStalker
The blue is the base color, Blue Chrome.the side is a gradient, then a solid square enlarged to cover toward the rear. The rear is a small square to bridge the gap between left & right.

Side: Then move the square to slightly overlap the gradient and get rid of the gap.

Hood: Use an unadjusted vertical stripe in red as a guide. Delete the gradient on one side. Line the other one up with the red stripe so you know its centre line is exactly vertical. Copy the gradient layer to the opposite side (in its options). This will create a matching gradient the other side of the hood. They should now both be exactly vertical and match up without overlapping.