How to make Custom Liveries & Car Skins for iRacing
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- čas přidán 2. 07. 2024
- Custom liveries and car skins for iRacing are a lot easier to make than a lot of people realise, so today I'll run you through the entire process form start to finish including Installing Trading Paints, Downloading a Car Template from iRacing, Editing a Skin in Photoshop, Uploading to Trading paints, Checking in iRacing Replay Mode and making any necessary edits.
Time Stamps:
Intro: 0:00
Installing Trading Paints: 0:27
Downloading a Car Template from iRacing and importing into Photoshop: 5:21
Layer Explanation: 6:22
Changing car colours: 10:08
Creating contoured lines: 10:39
Adding decals: 13:55
Saving and export back to Trading Paints: 20:00
Checking out your Creation in Replay Mode: 23:01
Making Edits: 25:25
Changing Wheel Colours: 26:09
Outro: 27:13
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Finally someone who respects the noobs and understands!!!! Thank you!!!!
We were all a noob once mate. I only warned how to do this a few months ago ;)
I just wanted to say thanks! I tried to watch dozens of guides but they just go on about all these tiny advanced details that don't matter to anyone trying to learn the basics and gloss over what matters which you did correctly. We needed to know how to do the basics like change car patters or base color and how to add and play with logos which I now know because of you.
Yay!! Thanks for this chap! Gonna be doing this soon! Appreciate the tutorial!
I was always scared away from making my own livery thinking it was a bit too hard. But after watching this I think I'll have a crack at it. Daniel Ricciardo tribute livery here I come
Go for it man! Keen to see the result :)
Photoshop is super simple for the drawing and texture aspect. Just learn some shortcuts and let your creativity handle the rest. You might need to be a little ocd too
When it comes to sim racing tech how to videos. You are definitely the #1 go-to
Many thanks for another great video that is an easy step by step process. I now have skins on my cars took longer to install photoshop than it did to get creative following your instruction. Many thanks Will, Keep up the amazing work with the channel.
Thanks for this! I really wish iracing would implement a system like GT Sports livery editor. That is probably one of the best livery editors out there imo and is very straight forward to use.
Thanks so much for the tutorial! Helped me a lot!
thanks from France for this amazing video. Great Job
thanks for doing this. just got into iRacing and wanted to try a custom livery!!
Thanks for this soft intro in PS and Painting WIll! Looking to learn this as I'd like to design my first Racing Team Liv. Maybe not the upcoming 10hr at Atlanta but hey all in due time ;)
Thank you so much for this! Had 0 issues with my painting.
Thanks Will, this video made it easier for me. My iRacing account is dormant at the moment due to my gear, but once I get that fixed I'll be sure to create several skins, might send you a few :-)
Yep the sponsor blocks are the locations that iRacing puts them on if you add them in their car editor.
You can put the tga file in the iRacing car paint file, load up a test session and press Ctrl R to refresh to see a paint as you're working on it.
great video man
Thank you so much mate, I really needed to learn this
No problem :) Keen to see what you create :)
@@boostedmedia yea, I can't wait to design my cars, but probably can't get iracing until next year sadly 😔
Thanks will helped so much👍
That was awesome, thans dude
Great video
Hi Will, The Sponsor Blocks in the photoshop file are referencing where the sponsors will be if you apply them in iRacing's paint tool as you mentioned. You should be able to apply sponsors for any car regardless of what series you plan on doing. I imagine the reason why they are greyed out for you is probably to do with the fact that you haven't selected one of the liveries first in the iracing paint shop. My recommendation would be to change the colours in the 3 squares to 3 different colours and then pick a livery on the top right-hand corner. Then the sponsor section should un-grey.
Edit: after looking through my cars, I don't have the same problem, even with unpainted cars. Maybe it is to do with the Ferrari itself and the other cars are ok? I've never had this problem.
Whoever clicks thumbs down on these videos is a “deek head mate”. Great video man!!
Thank you sir
Don't really care about this at all but love your channel and happy to support it. liked
Haha thanks Daniel!
Good Morning. First off i wanna start out by saying thank you on the great video. was very informative and helpful as i used this to do my first Livery tonight and made it very easy to understand how to do things and adjust things.
I had a question though regarding how to do the wheels in todays setup because i know this was 2.5 years ago when you posted, but when i go from iRacing webage to paint it brings up the game and i cant seem to find the wheels and other options you chose from the website. Thanks
Hi Will,
You don't have to load the sim each time.
Stay in sim. Hit Ctrl+R, wait, hit race, hit back to pit, see your new paint :)
You can utilize screen estate by having sim in windowed mode on left, PS on right, file explorer handy too. Checking corrections takes seconds
I’ve never been able to get control R to work with trading paints. Skin goes white and never reloads. Maybe it’s just me.
@@boostedmedia yeah, it goes white, that'd good. Then start Race, wait, come back to pits for replay and it will load.
Can't remember the sequence, but it's basically 3 steps to refresh paint. I can find u video where it's shown how it's done
Jump in the car car for a few seconds. Then jump back out. Skip to a point in the replay where your driver is in the car, then every time you hit ctrl R your paint will refresh. If your driver is not in the car, the car will go white.
Another tip, always RLE compress your TGA files. It's lossless, so the quality is the same but the file size is roughly 8x smaller then if you leave it uncompressed.
FYI if you dont have "Photoshop" look up "GIMP" software, it's opensource image editing software not as user friendly but just as powerful, free & gets the job done :)
you can add the skins to your iracing documents folder to preview in paint screen. way easier.
Great video. Is this version of photoshop called elements? It seems to be the only thing I can find and not just plain Photoshop.
Do u know if is still possible paint the front banner of the car?? Thanks! Nice video!
Thank you i just do it
HI WIll, adobe doesnt give me the option to save as TGA ( adobe 2020 ) - im thinking maybe i started off in the wrong format in photoshop? ( RGB/8 ). is there any way to fix this?
Hi first of all, thnkyou very much, this help me a lot!!! But i have a problem, the deffault car number is over my custom car number, how i can take out the deffault number and just leave the custom one?
I know it's completely irrelevant but dammnnnnnn that pc to your right is nice
Hi there. This was very informative. I am yet to get an account for the game but looking forward to racing against lots of AI's and plan on doing multiple paint jobs for the whole roster. I have a few questions though.
If I was to do an Indycar Series using the base Dallara that comes free with the game and create a paint scheme to use for myself. I can understand how to put that on trading paints. But if I wanted to create 20-30 schemes so that I can have a decent AI roster, how does Trading Paints and also the game recognise the file formats given the filenames are car_spec_userid.tga (when you upload)
Wait, you are color blind, right Will, or am I remembering that wrong? Those wheels are sort of lime green, not gold. Maybe get Jill to dial that in? ;)
was gonna say, those wheels look ugly as
Yep. Colourblind.
Excellent tutorial, one question. I have a couple of teams in iracing, how do I switch between which livery the game uses during test sessions?
With Trading Paints running it will always default to what’s been uploaded to their cloud.
You’d need to close trading paints and manually copy the paints you want to the relevant paint directory for the car. They will be overwritten again next time you load trading paints.
is there a way to paint using the wire mesh where you can fill the boxes between and then disable the mesh and have the regions filled or do you HAVE to lasso around the lines and then make a new layer? Would be great if you could paint with the mesh and then touch it up afterwards
You can select the area within the mesh then switch active layers and paint
Is there a way to remove the "MICHELIN" logo from the Ford GT 2017 tire sidewalls?
I dont really play iracing but thanks for the tutorial
It’s only copyright infringement if you’re making a profit from it. So Ferrari could come after you for using their logo in your guide. But the normal (non-content creator) racer can rep whatever they want.
That said you’re right, I don’t think anyone cares one but with what logo is on a sim car.
The only issue I remember was DevilDogGamer was a US Marine and he used the Globe and Anchor in a intro sequence. The USMC gave him a cease and desist m, so he had to change that intro. But that was him actually using their brand as his brand. Not something like just having Glock on his in game pistol or something.
Can you edit any car or do you have to buy the car that you want to edit?
How do I get different color rims if I’m using someone else’s paint?
how do you add the carbon fiber? cant figure it out..
I know all but where is the livery actually in IRacing to select from?
I do all and I uploaded it but on iRacing I have no idea which is the one that I need to chose from.
Can other people in game see the livery too or just yourself
Hi Will, can we do this in Gimp?
i dont have an iRacing car mods folder.. only the iRacing folder. what do i do?
my ps doesn't have the bucket tool anyone know why ?
How about starting a Boosted Media team?Let us have your paints?
Working on setting that up in the next few weeks :)
@@boostedmedia Awesome,i'm in.
haha,probably should have waited till end of video before commenting.
@@mikej9017 LOL
Can I add a texture and not just paint different colours?
Can you add photos to your livery
can i use ms paint
it is not copyright infringement if it isn't trademarked. Many many iconic images are public domain as they are out there so much that nobody owns them
Hey Will was wondering who designs your decals?
I do.
Ok, well I ask because I'm a bit a of a roadblock with trying to get decals to look a certain way. Its mainly a bit of a homage to my dad's old sportsman roadster. Do you or anyone you know in the community know how to do decals like the main one (radar luv) in this pic?
Better yet could I dm you the pic for better context
you neglected to mention you need to be a member of iracing..other wise nice vid
Just everyone seeing this from here on out, GIMP is a free photo manipulator that is a lot like Photoshop. It's quite as easy to use but it's not hard either.
the only problem i had was that i dont have photo shop so idk what to do
the way he says decals is like freckles
Use GIMP if you do not have access to photoshop
Photopea will do it as well
ehm , very nice but.... those wheels are acid lime green :D
Haha yep. So I’m told. I’m totally colourblind.
Yeah Gimp is free open source, great for doing iRacing paints.
My monitor must be going out. That goldish color looks greenish to me.
Lol. My colourblind eyes failing me again.
Will this be the same process using corel paintshop? As that's only 70£ one time purchase unlike photoshop?
Not familiar with Corel (haven't used it since the early 90s) but as long as it handles layers, can save as PNG or TGA and can open PSD files, it will be fine.
@@boostedmedia yeah it can do all that so I'll give it ago cheers
@Racing & Railways I thought gimp had limitations? I will give that ago first cheers
As others have mentioned, GIMP is free and seem to work well. Another one is Paint.Net. It's free, pretty easy to use and handles all the file types needed.
@@i2nupman cheers I'll give it ago.
Can you make one about Assetto?
I haven't spent much time with AC but sure once I've sussed it out.
@@boostedmedia Thanks! AC is fun, its racing for the poor... ;]
Lack of sponsor selection on the ferrari I thought was due to licensing agreement, it's the only brand you can't put sponsorship on
Makes sense.
Carbon is a texture already in ps ?
No, need to download a texture from google image search
Boosted Media okay thanks. Do you mention it in the video ? (At work exited to listen to it all 😎)
Ps congrats for the full time ! Keep interacting with us as you do ! Usually don’t donate but will give you a little something next time when i see you stream 🙂
brodeur212 thanks a lot mate. Yep did mention it.
@27:00 you mention the goldish color for the wheels. Well ingame the wheels looked green metallic and in the iracing panel on the color picker wheel it is more green than yellow. Gold would be yellow with a slight move to orange, which is in the opposite side of yellow. Do you really see your wheel color as gold/goldish? Don't want to be rude, just serious. Have you ever done a color blind test? Maybe you have a medical condition seeing colors different.
I’m totally colourblind. I basically see in greyscale.
@@boostedmedia my stepson is colorblind, too. He can't see red at all. Most of the world he sees in dirty yellow and brownish colors.
Thanks to this app I have been able to see what he is experiencing every day
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.SeewaldSolutions.ColorBlindnessSimulator
Will this cost $$$$
If you DIY, no.
its patched
Super simple I always suggest everyone get photoshop if they are serious about there creativity. Forget gimp. Support the companies that for our whole lives have supported our entertainment.