No Deep Black Paint after 1.11

[Griffith500]

I can guess, and say it's to keep the lighting engine happy? Or if it's not that, maybe it's to bring in some custom paints with that feature. No idea really though.

They do say to not put deep black onto custom liveries because it will look trash in game, same goes for very white-white. But that was very old PC race-sims.

That's because the colour got drawn as it was, with little lighting or shading finesse, and didn't fit the aesthetic that renderers had / needed back then.

Similarly to the glitch black in GT5 etc., which was basically a total absence of interaction with the renderer, painting the void / null / default material onto the car instead of actual paint. It was a cool effect, but not at all attainable in real life.

As for the picker in Sport, the lack of a real black had irritated me and I was not aware of this glitch! There's no reason the renderer could not handle a proper black, not least because plenty of cars in the game already come in black!

I wonder if it was because they didn't want "redundant" shades of colours in the grid, that all basically look like black if you pick the darkest of them (especially on non-full-gamut displays, like most SDR TVs), ditto in the picker, where the very bottom of the window doesn't really give a particularly dark shade of any colour.

 

[imported_rik19]

Yes the deep black was incredible, I only found out about it, about 2 days before the patch that removed it...here`s a pic i did the f40 is the deep black, the other ferrari is the black now..

 

[ShiftingGears]

The deep black bug shouldve remained as a feature. The dark grey makes for ordinary contrasting.

 

[Lebowski]

Wouldn't want it as a special colour, you wouldn't be able to use it on decals so it's rendered largely useless if you want to do complex liveries that require masking. Hopefully they will update the livery editors custom paint function and make 0 0 0 deep black.

 

[outofspace]

I've learned about this one day before the update & i'm lucky i went & aplied it in all my cars that have black on them!!

 

[Dudeman]

Hopefully they will update the livery editors custom paint function and make 0 0 0 deep black.

Deep black should be 0 0 0 where as the black in game should read something like 14 0 0. I might actually have those numbers backward but I think you all know what I am trying to say.

Man I miss that color.

 

[Giygas]

I uploaded 5 cars i did before the 1.11 patch went into effect under the #glitch search tag:

Subaru WRX Gr. B Rally Car
Porsche 911 RSR (https://www.gran-turismo.com/us/gts...tivities/livery/1011260/1/8080020756763771408)
Nissan GTR Gr. 4
Bugatti Vision GT Gr. 1
SRT Tomahawk X

They were all painted with decals instead of the color editor so in the case that we couldn't get them anymore, you would still be able to change them between half matte and matte.

If you try the glitch again, it will default to bright red. Same thing happens if you handle a deep black object and attempt to just click "OK" without changing anything. If you guys have any other ideas that I could try, feel free to post them here.

 

[Dudeman]

If you try the glitch again, it will default to bright red. Same thing happens if you handle a deep black object and attempt to just click "OK" without changing anything. If you guys have any other ideas that I could try, feel free to post them here.

I am pretty sure I have exhausted all options and believe the only fix is another update to bring deep black back.

 

[imported_rik19]

Ive got 2 ps4 machines and one isnt updated so just tried the black on that and its there, oh my, what a shame its very nice..shame I cant do an online save as i just tried, wont connect unless i update everything...

 

[J.D]

how this bug was possible ? didn't know about it

 

[Macboyilija]

Is more of an eastern egg than a bug I would say ?

 

[Tou2istTrophy]

You can still get deep black in the livery editor, but only for racing suit/helmet. For cars, it's been replaced by a white.

They didn't completely take it out of the game

 

[b0bhall]

I can't paint this black anymore

 

[Giygas]

I may have made a discovery after playing around in the paint editor, but I don't know if this is an intended feature or not.

When you choose a paint chip that you've purchased from the Mileage Exchange, the color picker holds the HSV values for that color before you confirm it as your choice.

If you choose the paint chip for K3 Half Matte, then go to the color picker in the color palette and click OK immediately, you will get a very slightly darker Black than what you're usually allowed to use. Its not the Black from before, but its the closest we can get to that as of now.

 

[Dudeman]

I may have made a discovery after playing around in the paint editor, but I don't know if this is an intended feature or not.

When you choose a paint chip that you've purchased from the Mileage Exchange, the color picker holds the HSV values for that color before you confirm it as your choice.

If you choose the paint chip for K3 Half Matte, then go to the color picker in the color palette and click OK immediately, you will get a very slightly darker Black than what you're usually allowed to use. Its not the Black from before, but its the closest we can get to that as of now.

Thank you Giygas for the info, I am going to try that later when I get home. I assume you can only use K3 Half Matte for this effect.

 

[Draggon]

If you choose the paint chip for K3 Half Matte, then go to the color picker in the color palette and click OK immediately, you will get a very slightly darker Black than what you're usually allowed to use. Its not the Black from before, but its the closest we can get to that as of now.

I don't have K3, so I tried it on all the colors I do have. There are really some great and unusual colors that way 👍

 

[nowcontrol]

I don't have K3 either yet, but tried that with some of the Fluorescent paints and it's close but on a few the H value may need moving 1 or 2 notches to get a better match and the S values could need moving up to 10 either way but most of them are then still a lot less vibrant than the special paints.

The best straight matches(without needing to change any values) are with the Matte and Half Matte paints.

 

[flamingchariot]

This may not matter to a lot of people, but I noticed I can no longer get a deep black paint from the livery editor after 1.11.
This drives me nuts as I use it a lot. I am not afraid of color, I just feel certain cars look amazing in a Deep gloss black paint.

If anyone knows a way to do this please share here so others can enjoy this again.

silver chrome (one of special chips) spray black over that like I did for Beemer M4 its so shiny it makes people crash ...I go for the stealth bomber black (matt/half matt) its more 'gangsta' ha ha surprised there is no shiny black though I clear out the mileage exchange of paint each update I have to have all the colours

 

[Macboyilija]

We can finally close this thread

 

[Giygas]

Its about time too!

 

[zztmktn]

It seems we have another problem. The darker range is available for painting but not for decals. So you can't match colors between body and decals if you pick a color in the darker range. It's confusing that the color picker shows different brightness value for the same color.

 

[zzz_pt]

It seems we have another problem. The darker range is available for painting but not for decals. So you can't match colors between body and decals if you pick a color in the darker range. It's confusing that the color picker shows different brightness value for the same color.

That's a fail.

 

[Tou2istTrophy]

We can finally close this thread

Is it back to how it was??

 

[Giygas]

Is it back to how it was??

No, they just included it as the darkest color option normally. No more glitching to get it.

 

[Macboyilija]

He meant that this thread can be re-opened again since it doesnt work for decals

 

[Macboyilija]

And finally fixed !

 

[Sander 001]

So now ‘powder’ is the darkest option for decals. It’s weird how some of my cars’ matte black were changed to powder and some weren’t.