Just wanted to create this thread to where us painters can discuss things related to the paint booth, create a vinyl section among a few other things.
Hopefully with this we can gauge what changes people would like to see as well as possible features (sensible ones) that could be put into the game.
To be able to zoom in further to the car, sometimes struggling to see what you’re placing down onto the car which relates to #2)
Clearer lighting in the paint booth, or a independent environment like we’ve had in previous games where lighting is the same all around the car
Be able to change the level of lighting, morning, midday, afternoon, nighttime. All of these cast a very different effect when you take your car out of the paint booth so if this can be done while inside it’ll be much quicker and we’ll be able to adjust paints accordingly to try and match all environments.
Please feel free to take part and give feedback, if enough interest then I would like to be able to send this in the direction of a few people and possibly see a future change.
For a long time I’ve wished for the vinyl editor to work like a PC in terms of text and fonts. Instead of having the same 11 fonts to work with (of which only about 3 are really seriously usable for painters who create their own logos), I’d like to see a system with a text editor where we can download and install fonts like you would on a PC and use the pop up keyboard to actually add text.
For me that would kill it.
The reason good painters are few and far between is the amount of work that’s involved to do something so small!
Custom fonts are just 1 thing we do that hardly anyone notices. But if it makes a logo look perfect that’s why we do it.
If anyone can upload fonts, next will be images and essentially the paint community is dead!
Anyway. On to my list of wants…
Being able to paint on the glass!
This is an issue still kicking around from the 360 days. I love to create real life race cars and have them look as realistic as possible.
If I’m doing this on a BTCC car, I want to be able to put the name and numbers in the rear Windows.
99.9% of race cars have decals in the windscreen, whether it’s numbers or a sunstrip or both… They should be paintable which brings me on to another one…
Cars that have painted window banners but then you can’t paint them!
Why?
I’d like the ability to mix matte and gloss on one car.
I loved the paint additions we got in FM5 and how we can now choose matte or gloss but slightly more options to mix it up would be good.
Better lighting in the paint Booth.
As mentioned in the OP. The lighting in fm6 is awful. The homespace lighting is also really bad so you have to actually test drive a car to see what it’s going to look like!
Anyway, those are my 3 biggest. Hope turn10 take note before FM7
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Not happy but carry on regardless.
-Able to mirror/skew selected layers.
-Able to change opacity on more than one layer.
-Add paint effect on selected layers, like chrome on text.
-A way to organize your layer groups. Making folders to keep similar sponsors in one place.
Example tire brands in one folder and Super GT assets in another.
And something slightly on the side, being able to add windowbanners on your cars.
One thing i want to see change is the issue with seeing body Vinyl/Decal warping. It’s frustrating to see yourself placing a decal, which it then gets warped all weird in some parts of the body. So it ruins the detailed work you try to do. Also Vinyl/ Decal Body doubling. Also in plenty of cars, when you’re moving a piece around, you then see the decal start to appear somewhere else too. Which is annoying as well, since sometimes you had a different design in mind for that location. All these issues have been around since the Early Forzas, & it’s dissapointing to see that Turn 10 hasnt decided to fix these problems since then.
Now for other stuff i’d like to see added to the Vinyl/decal editor, is more paint options. Just like how special colors can be used to paint the car, i’d like to see it in decals as well. The chrome, carbon fiber, Matte, gold, etc.
It would add a whole new layer of possible editing.
I’ve noticed in both the paint booth & the vinyl creator that when highlighting layers and scrolling at the same time/skipping to highlight 100 layers. Sometimes it doesn’t even highlight at all and you have to go back and highlight everything.
Again I will update the list but to make it that little bit easier to organise listing things will help greatly
all very good points not much for me to add other then being able to paint rims and lip of rim different colors or being able to paint front and back rims 2 different colors.
id say have the ability to paint separate body panels, for example i only want to paint the quarter panels in one color, say carbon for example and matte for the rest of the body. I agree with the lighting too, maybe use a neutral tone for the paint shop, grey for example.
I think this has possibly been requested a million times before, but can we have window vinyls please? Pretty, pretty please! I’m doing a lot of rally type paints, and it would be fab to do the window vinyls to really finish them off. Thanks for reading.
the speed of moving the shapes around/resizing seems very slow
painting on the windows would be cool
painting on the rims… (even though you wouldn’t really see it while driving… stopping your car in an online lobby would be very different )
haven’t really had trouble with the lighting yet…
special paint on vinyl shapes/groups
a seperate app for pc to paint (with the controller) does sound good to me… only to create and save vinyl groups… (to download them into the game later)…
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