My big wish list of little things

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  • Ability to gift cars to friends
  • Ability to gift colors to friends
  • Ability to gift editable Liveries to friends, or make uploaded liveries editable
  • Ability to change other entries in the Custom Race setup screen such as grid position, grid spacing etc.
  • In Custom Races, add a wider range of AI skills than 3. Maybe 5 or even more. I like a close race, and fine tuning the AI is a nice way to do this as well as providing a yardstick for comparison
  • In Custom Races, add ability to change skill level of opponents from the menu at the end of a race, so the race can immediately be repeated with different AI skills without having to set it up from scratch.
  • Provide ability to mark chosen cars in garage as “favorites”, or even a star rating with up to 5 stars
  • Ability to select cars by category including POTENTIAL category that a car can be adjusted to without spending mileage points
  • Ability to apply “special colors” to decals, not just standard colors
  • Ability to save personal colors created with HSV codes
  • Ability to apply factory-standard paint colors and schemes
  • Ability to recolor interiors/seats to tone with external livery
  • Ability to choose background and foreground colors for racing numbers, including transparency for either
  • Ability to choose country flag in driver name
  • Ability to choose driver name in any color (including “special colors”) not just black or white
  • Ability to display location, rotation and size of shapes and groups of shapes quantitatively
  • Ability to edit downloaded liveries (albeit with owner permission)
  • Ability to inspect a livery in detail before downloading (full screen and ability to rotate it, thus viewing both sides and rear in detail)
  • Ability to more elegantly handle large numbers of “special colors”. A single horizontal scrolling list is clumsy. Special colors could be able to be sorted by hue, saturation, texture etc.
  • Ability to paint just one body part without over-writing the factory paint on the rest (such as just changing “Other” or “Rear Wing” and leaving the other areas stock)
  • Ability to remember the colors used from one session to another, not just during a session (so on loading a Livery, the colors used would come with it)
  • Ability to reproduce approximations of special colors via their HSV parameters if not their textures
  • Ability to replace a shape with another shape, scaling the new shape to fit the replaced shape (especially useful when building a text string)
  • Ability to retain original livery in an editable form
  • Ability to save edited shapes and groups of shapes locally
  • Copy/Paste (ability to transfer edited shapes, and groups of shapes, from one part of a car to another, and even from one car to another car)
  • Ability to group/ungroup shapes, and save groups of shapes in a local library
  • Identification of manufacturer colors in Mi Exchange as being "manufacturer colors" prior to purchase. It's possibly implied in the name, but not clearly
  • Ability to compare this week’s “special colors” in the Mileage Exchange with owned colors (it’s hard to see how close a color is to one already owned)
  • Ability to compare this week’s “wheels” in the Mileage Exchange with owned wheels (it’s hard to see how close a wheel style is to one already owned)
  • In Mileage Exchange, flag cars, wheels, colors which are already owned as “owned”
  • Ability to add AI cars to Lobby Races (I'm thinking of adding cars from participants' garages. This would be a way to use gifted duplicates as well!)
  • Ability to choose competing cars from my garage in Custom Races with limits on my choices
  • Ghosts would look better if they used the actual current livery of the car, not original livery
  • In events where a "clean" race has benefit, provide an alert flag to show when dirtiness occurs and retain a dimmed version of that for the rest of the race
  • It'd be nice to be able to change the transparency of ghosts. (I find them to be distractingly opaque and end up turning them off)
  • Provide an indicator to show when drafting is helping, whether from front or rear and the relative magnitude of the benefit in real time
  • Under “Discover”, ability to see which items have been downloaded and/or liked without opening up the items
  • When I choose a "ghost" to race against in Time Trial, I want to be able to see how far ahead or behind it I am, and whether I'm gaining or losing ground (just like my own ghost)
  • When I'm racing, I'd like to see how my speed at this point is comparing with my best lap speed at this location, such as it is in Time Trials. For bonus points, make the little red or green arrows vary in size and/or color intensity to indicate the degree of difference.
  • Ability to add descriptive information to replays (like in GT6)
  • Ability to add search terms to replays and other gallery items
  • Ability to apply my liveries to AI cars in a replay
  • Ability to change driver suit and helmet in a replay for better aesthetics
  • Ability to choose shutter speeds in replay camera slower than 1/60 second (make it the same as the Scapes camera)
  • Ability to create "playlists" of replays. Replays would be chosen from the playlist in random sequences, and played until interrupted.
  • Ability to filter (or search) replays based on cars used, type of race etc.
  • Ability to fine position car in replay backward as well as forward
  • Ability to have replays "loop" until interrupted (think of it as a home-grown "demo mode")
  • Ability to move the camera location when taking photos from the driver’s position
  • Ability to pan the cockpit camera over a wider angle range
  • Ability to slow down replays to ½, ¼ etc playback rates
  • Ability to choose a different time-of-day at the beginning of a replay (for photographic or video purposes)
  • Ability to view replays from cockpit in all cars, not just the player’s car
  • Addition of the names of cars in a replay into its description (up to a reasonable limit of course). Example, I'd like to know which car(s) my friend(s) use in a Lobby Race before playing the replay
  • Clearly communicate the amount of disk space remaining, what is consuming that allocation. Ability to sort on disk space consumed
  • Have replay camera remember the panning mode and other camera settings (like it can remember landscape/portrait setting)
  • If a replay is marked as a “favorite”, show that fact in the main replay window, so it doesn’t get accidentally deleted when trying to save space
  • Likewise for photos, liveries
  • Likewise for photos, liveries
  • Option to play a replay using a new livery design on my car (select any one of my current liveries, or replace the embedded livery with a new livery).
  • Provide ability to delete space-consuming items without losing the current replay
  • Provide ability to sort replays (and anything else that consumes disk space, whatever that may be) on disk space consumed
  • Provide ability to use local hard disk space more fully, and don’t refuse to save anything until at least 80% of the actual disk space is used
  • Provide warnings when disk space consumption reaches meaningful thresholds approaching the, say, 80% limit
  • When looping, replays could use varying random selections of trackside cameras for "freshness"
  • Ability to hide players' names. (The ones which hover in the air above players' cars)
  • Ensure that the racing suit and helmet used in Scapes photos is the currently selected suit/helmet livery. I’m finding the driver’s appearance sometimes clashes with my car’s livery
  • Ability to turn off menu beeps and still have demo sounds
  • During races, provide an option to display relative speed and time info like in Time Trials
  • Only perform online saves of files which need to be saved online
  • Ability to adjust the parameters of the "rubber-banding" of AI cars. For example, in a GT League event, the AI leader ran away to a 50 second lead only to lose by over 50 seconds at the end. I find this to be distracting from immersion.
  • Remember HUD selections from one day to the next. For example, I like to use "Radar", not track map
  • Ability to use Gr X cars in GT league events
 
I've thought of more than enough stuff myself and I can't think of many, but to add:

Ability to select special color as a decal color.
Ability to add special color to cars current paint color.
Ability to add wheels to any car.
 
Dangit. I thought I combed through enough of them to see it!

It's a long list. And there may be duplicates which I have failed to purge due to its length.

I'm just hoping that the right people read it!
 
Thats deffo more than a big list
More like a short novel sized list.
Far too much to read.
 
A lot of issues i dont mind. It mostly the livery creator i find annoying. Especially not being able to create decent colours (yellow and blue especially). Could increase spectrum to 256 instead of 99 and make it rgb.
 
256 instead of 99
The HSV/HSB ratio is 0-365. If you now convert your needed hue value to the percentage of 365° you‘ll get the correct color.
Example: HSV/HSB values for a color are 120°, 90% and 85%. You then divide 100 (GT has hue also in %) by 365 and multiply it with 120, set saturation and value/brigness (=33,90,85) and got the color you need 👍

EDIT: thinking about it one can also just divide the hue value by 3.65 to make it fit the 0-100 range
 
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The HSV/HSB ratio is 0-365. If you now convert your needed hue value to the percentage of 365° you‘ll get the correct color.
Example: HSV/HSB values for a color are 120°, 90% and 85%. You then divide 100 (GT has hue also in %) by 365 and multiply it with 120, set saturation and value/brigness and got the color you need 👍

Formulas and ratios are wasted on me, i like things simple. Just think pd need to simplify the colours as well.
 
It‘s really not that hard to divide the hue value from in interwebs by 3.65 to get the color into GT :rolleyes:
Its not, its just an inconvenience we dont need to do as it should be in game already.
 
I'd like to see them add a glow to the exhausts when racing at night, a nice ltitle detail that I would appreciate.

Another small thing I would like added is to be able to change the colours of brake calipers on cars in the livery editor.
 
A few little things I want;

1) Getting the car dirty in races and having to use the car wash, as in GT3.

2) Having the boot spoiler shop, like GT3. Some cars need an aftermarket spoiler. Especially when creating your own GR3 or GR2 project road cars. Looking at you McLaren F1.

3) Changing and adding window stickers, like decals.

4) Body kits for certain cars in the mileage shop. especially some of the Japanese older road cars. Supra etc.
 
That's a huge list and to be honest, a bit needy! I gave up reading after a dozen or so! I totally disagree with the idea of changing someone else's created livery. If you download someone else's hard work then be grateful for it. If you don't like it, then make your own - it's that simple.

The only thing I could agree with on that list (that i read) was the ability to use special colours on decals or even make decals metallic.
 
I would like to switch between cars in time trial mode without leaving the time trial, just like you can in lobbies. Side by side testing would be a lot easier this way.

In the livery editor it would be useful to have a text entry option. Type some text, pick a font, instant in game decal. Not the current picking words and numbers separately.
 
I totally disagree with the idea of changing someone else's created livery.

Here’s the use case. Two friends work collaboratively on livery for a car. One starts it, authorizes another to modify his/her work and they make edits, passing it back and forth, refining the result.
 
I would like to switch between cars in time trial mode without leaving the time trial, just like you can in lobbies. Side by side testing would be a lot easier this way.
You can do that, top left corner.
 
Here’s the use case. Two friends work collaboratively on livery for a car. One starts it, authorizes another to modify his/her work and they make edits, passing it back and forth, refining the result.

It would make it easier to modify a livery (change colours of shapes, sponsors). Its something i do to the existing liverys in gr3/4. Its such a pain to recreate them, the recolour them.
 
  • In Mileage Exchange, flag cars, wheels, colors which are already owned as “owned”

This already exists. If there is a small blue 'tick' in the corner, you already own it.

They don't flag the cars, admittedly, but presume this is for the purposes of liveries and other colours etc.
 
I would like to see the Performance point back in GTS (PP) , where the combination of power but also weight allow to match performances of the cars a better and more accurate way.
The Nxxx system is very bad and the balance of performance is totally aleatory for road cars at least.

Concerning tuning i would love to have back the GT6 ballast option to play with the balance of any cars.
Also one more tool to play with balance and grip, a choice of 2 or 3 larger width , independently front and rear , for the road cars tires . This would be very usefull for the 2 muscles we have now , Ford Mustang Mach 1 '71 and Dodge Challenger R/T '70.
 
* Option to eliminate trucks from Custom Races. It's absurd to have a Ford pickup and a Lambo in the same race IMHO
* Option to turn off "ghosting" in replays. It really screws up photography and makes the replay look screwy
* Option to turn off driver names in Lobby (and other) replays without having to resort to plugging in a USB keyboard
 
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