So, I know I’m late on the uptaking, but I only really started playing the Xbox One more recently. I was into painting big time in previous Forzas on the 360, and I have innummerable vinyl groups and designs that have piled up into Forza Horizon. Now I know there is no way to transfer all of these vinyls from the 360 to the One, but I would like to ask other painters how they went about repainting their old designs. More specifically, designs that were 300-800 layers. I would like to repainting my designs, but I don’t know where to start in order to replicate them.
i’ld say 1 logo at a time… or if you were more into fantasy designs start with a more cartoonish design before plunging back into photoreal…
I’ve only done one repaint of an old design… Scooby Doo … which wasn’t too many layers…
There’s no secret or trick or shortcut since they’re all going to have to be redone from scratch. Just get in there and start painting.
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I didn’t do any painting before I got H3, so I don’t have any old paints to recreate, but I did have to do a couple that I made the mistake of doing in H3 first, and had to remake in Motorsport 6 (so I do most of my stuff in M6 now, since it also has the benefit of not crashing lol).
The only shortcut I found is to make a list of the shape, size, position, etc. and copy that. But it doesn’t really save much time, especially when you’re talking about hundreds of layers.
I did exactly this bringing the red version of the Shoei design in my signature over from FM4 on the 360 to FH2 on the One. I created two tables in Excel and printed them as worksheets. The first table was for the HSV values on both the base paint and the layers. The second, as ST16 posted, was the shape, the name of the color from my first table and ALL of the geometric values. I then went through the 360 design layer by layer on each side, deleting the layers as they were recorded and used that info in FH2. A few layers had to be improvised because they weren’t included in the newer game (like the letter J in the Forza font). It was by no means a shortcut, nor did everything line up quite right when this process was done, but it was far closer than it would have been had I started over from square one.
Thank you, it was something like this that I was looking for. I wanted to know how to go about it, simply put. This may not be time saving, but I wasn’t necessarily looking for something time saving
I’m sure you could figure something similar out, but I’m tossing this as a reference in case anyone wants it.
Just as a quick afterthought… Be careful as you’re making/using your spreadsheet. I’m not sure the exact details right offhand, but I seem to recall the X & Y values being out of order going from one game to the other.