Paint Your Wagon

Dazmaniac · Jan 14, 2011

Don't worry, no Lee Marvin impressions coming from me, lol.

However, whilst perusing the iRacing forums, I was digging around in the Car Painting discussion forum and came across a thread where a few guys were trying to offer up some assistance for people setting out painting cars they were unfamiliar with. It seems the Wire Frame and also a technique called Spotfinder come in handy.

Thread can be seen here - http://members.iracing.com/jforum/posts/list/1389617.page - for anyone, who like me, is still on the beginner slope when it comes to painting iRacing templates.

Will Marquez · Jan 14, 2011

Ah cool Daz! Great find thx

Will Marquez · Jan 19, 2011

Yeah what Daz posted above definitely helps makes it easier before starting a paint job. As you already kinda know how it will look like without have to go back in game every time to check it out. Was playing around with a DP skin and this is what I came up with. Only thing I gotta figure out is why this is the only car template that the color black seems to look like a dark navy blue in game.

Lee Ross · Jan 20, 2011

Might have a go myself but where can the V8 and Riley templates be found?

Will Marquez · Jan 20, 2011

Here ya go Lee. Not sure which one the DP and V8 are in when you scroll down on that page a bit.

http://members.iracing.com/jforum/posts/list/2219.page

edit... its template #3

Lee Ross · Jan 20, 2011

Cheers Will, i presume you need Adobe or something?

Will Marquez · Jan 20, 2011

Yep I use Photoshop. There is another program, GIMP that I've used before but for me its much easier using PS.

Joe Hubbard · Jan 20, 2011

Will, I would be willing to bet that the black is coming out looking blue to the settings for the car in the reflections part of the sim. It seems to me that each car has a different looking or more enhanced style to them. So if that car was made with a more "glossy" type paint/reflection to it that could be the problem you see. I would be willing to bet that it could be fixed dealing with the alpha layers in photoshop if they included them. I remember some other games that the alpha layers caused the blurs, reflections, and other parts to change. Maybe that can help you.