Painting/livery Editor

[PJTierney]

@RallyzX360

@ToranBlackwater

Just check the vinyls on racing cars from the car packs, they all were high resolution and you had no performance drop on the normal Xbox One when you were doing a race with those cars only.

Turn10 generated liveries are not made with the in game editor. I assume they are high-res bitmaps applied direct to the models, rather than the user generated vector models which presumably are converted to equivalent bitmaps and applied in game, which may explain the restrictions. Does anyone know in more detail?

Here’s an old post of mine. Bear in mind that this is just my assumption of how the system works:

@PJTierney

@Daffyboo

So the T10 liveries are in fact much better in terms of quality and crispiness?

This is what a “native” skin would look like.

In game development terms it is called a texture map, and it is wrapped around the 3D model in order to produce a livery.
As this is developed in-house it can be compressed and optimised in a lossless fashion, and is saved on the hard drive/disc of every copy of the game.
This cannot be changed without issuing a patch that affects all users.

For the user-created version of the livery editor, we are given a simplified version where a texture map has been split up into separate paintable areas that we can place shapes on top of.
While this version is potentially saved locally, the file size needs to be kept to a minimum as {a} it can be edited at any time and {b} will be uploaded and downloaded several times as it can be accessed from the Storefront and in races. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s saved on the Forza servers and our local copies are essentially editable backups. In that case the Forza servers need to be capable of storing up to a billion potential livery designs, as each of the 3 million + players that will play can theoretically upload 300+ designs.

TLDR:

• Native liveries are static images, saved as part of the game’s texture data, and can be saved at a higher quality.
• User-created liveries are dynamic and stored on the Forza servers, and need to be compressed for many different reasons.