EXPERIMENTAL: Vehicle Livery Creator / Dynamic Decals

have you tried equipping it in the parts selector?
you probably have, but there are some real morons out there

 

Yes, I have - it doesn't show up there.

 

you have to add the livery, just like you would any other

also make sure you exported it, not just saved the file.

 

I have exported the skin. How do I add it?

EDIT: Turns out my issue was not re-enabling my mods.

 

hate to be the guy pestering the devs as soon as they show up, but is decal mirroring planned to any extent?
seems like a fairly easy thing to implement (i have absolutely no idea though)

 

For importing decals, white type of file do they need to be? png, jpeg, dds, or something else?

 

All of the decals are in .png format, and as far as we can tell (from earlier posts in this thread) they must have a square aspect ratio (eg: 512x512, 1024x1024, 2048x2048 and so on...).

 

I second the idea of having a folder that you can dump your images in and use them on decal editor. Would also be nice to not have to use cube/square decals but for a first implementation its amazing. Keep it up!

 

i dont know if it t-series only thing, but editing placed decal always destroys the whole skin completely (all decals moves to the first placed decal or dissapears completely, and there is no way to fix it after this, even with undo)
also scale hotkeys dont work while editing placed decal

 

i am using T82 T-Series config, but i checked it and it happens on all cars(at least on the ones i tried)
this error happens all the time when i am trying to editing any placed decal or delete it
no erros in console
also i dont know if it is a bug or just a WIP thing but if i want to make for example two-tone skin with square decal(for example) it wont really be placed properly (this is one decal)

 

Finally got to sit down and play with this today, this is great. The placement and scale/skew parameters can be kind of finnicky, but it's easy to trick it into doing what you want it to do
I also did some reading and started playing around with generating custom decals. Is there a maximum number of decals you can have in a category screen? Some of mine aren't showing up in the menu despite being the correct format, size, nomenclature, etc.

Looking forward to further updates, can't wait to make more race cars.

 

It would seem as though it sorted it's self out, I fired it back up and my missing Mugen Power decals were there in the menu, along with all the other ones... I'll take that as a win, lol.

A few suggestions I can think of:
-finer resolution on scale/rotation/skew. I frequently find myself going up to 3 decimal places getting things where I want them.
-Distortion in addition to the skew commands. I can't think of the word right now, but imagine taking the square shape decal and being able to pinch or expand the top or bottom to create a trapezoidal shape. would have come in handy on the Motul Covet.
-a way to adjust the size of the preview thumbnails. some of them are kind of hard to see.
-a color picker or a way to save color settings.
-to be able to adjust the XY position of a decal when you go back to the edit screen after placed. Would be nice to scoot them around with the keyboard one pixel at a time.

Some way-out-there ideas that may or may not be feasible...
-Window stickers would be cool
-TTF/OTF font support for generating letter/number decals on the fly.
-decals on wheels would be cool, probably would be buggy as all get out, but would be nice for changing colors or simulating brake dust.


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I noticed something else while recreating a friend's S13 from memory as a joke... the 200BX likes to do strange things when applying decals, lots of noise that randomly appears on the door handles, mirrors, around the headlights, etc. I suspect this has more to do with the car and how it's textured vs the skinning tool and how it works.

 

Wait, how does it work? I'm trying to make a retired sheriff Roamer, and I haven't yet had a decal show up.