Hello everybody,
I guess this is a common problem for all the liveries creators but I can’t find any advice googling around.
I spent a good couple of hours designing a group of vynils to put on the rear side of my car (Peugeot 205 Turbo 16) then I discovered that the editor match that part of the car back with the car top, causing a really notniceatall deformation.
How do you guys usually proceed when you face this kind of issues? there’s anything I can do to solve this? I’m afraid there’s no an easy solution to this, I guess I have to deform the sticker myself in order to make it look right (I hope to be wrong on this)
BTW here’s some pic to understand better what I mean (sorry for my english!)
This is the group of vinyl I create as replica of the 205’s logo to stick it in the car back
this is how the editor split the car parts causing the deformation
and this is the frustrating final result after put my vinyl group on the top part of the car, and it obviously look deformed
Thank you in advance for your help and advices!!!
I think the only way round it would be to separate the decal up into individual characters then place them individually
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mmm Yeah this is could be a smart way to proceed… thank you so much!
No worries, if you make a big grid decal and put it on the top and sides prior to painting, you can get an idea of how messed up the mesh of the car is and also see if sides and stuff line up
Good idea. I’ve always alignment issues when trying to get something that needs to wrap from side to top. I’ll give this a try next time that comes up.
if you make the background to the grid a big orange square that covers the entire side/top of a car and initially paint your car green youll also see if theres any unpaintable areas that the orange doesnt cover
Thank you for the precious tips!!
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Just file a ticket describing the mapping errors on this car. I’m sure they’ll be eager to fix it!
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I have a way for you to fix it, but you might not be able to understand my explanation…
Currently the shape is bent like a frowning mouth, so to eliminate the frowning mouth you make a smiling mouth from a curve. You keep testing the smiling mouth on the car until it looks like a straight line.
When the smiling curve looks like a straight line you position all of your letters along the smiling curve, and then they will be straight.
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