Our community has been around since 2007 and pride ourselves on offering the best and most friendly site for nr2003 sim racing content. Access decal layers when you upgrade to trading paints pro, you can place an additional transparencysupported decal layer over your paint, useful for leagues or special events. The custom car painting platform for the iracing community. Chipping paint techniques sequences hyperscale forums. At trading phrases we are all about going green and helping the environment, but new green paints may pose a problem for your decals.
Iracing nascar ai how to install trading paints paint collections. Applying decals on a flat painted surface plastic posted by cedarwoodron on monday, september 27, 2010 6. Trading paints is also an endless resource for iracers, allowing them to also find decals and custom layers to make their paint jobs better. We released an update to the trading paints downloader that adds. Custom liveries and car skins for iracing are a lot easier to make than a lot of people realise, so today ill run you through the entire process form start to finish including installing trading. There are two ways to get rid of them from inside the sim. Please make sure the inside of your image is completely filled with white. You cannot override certain features such as headlight decals. How i do mine is click on your magic wand tool selections invert then modify by 2 pixels. Since the decal layer supports transparency, it is useful for placing logos or parts on top of an existing paint without modifying the original paint file. The biggest changes include decal layers and custom number paints. Existing tgas in the paint folder should now be deleted when a driver is detected in the server.
Anybody familiar with trading paints and the decal layer. From there we are going to create the white part of your sticker. Download the template of the car you wish to do custom paint. Weve never done a blog about what surfaces our decals apply best on or what paints decals adhere to best. How to make a custom decal layernumber plates for trading. Drivers can design their own cars or race with premade paint schemes shared from other. Here is a link to the dropbox folder that contains 64 decal layers for the season of aquarius after you download the files, install them in iracing paint mx5 cup. Sign up for trading paints pro and add a decal layer. I tested the overall scheme by placing a light blue diamond decal on a piece of mirror, then gradually applying with drying time in between each of the three buildup layers.
With trading paints pro, you can upload a unique driver suit and helmet for the vehicle youre driving, instead of using the same suit and helmet for every vehicle. Question about late model paints and contingencies. Trading paint is dedicated to providing custom painting services and specializes in track bikes with single or multiple color designs. There are instructions included in the file on how to use it. Join thousands of racers from around the world using fully custom paint schemes in iracing with trading paints. We were kind of surprised, because this seems like a common question thats asked when a customer orders a decal.
Next we are going to merge all the layers that your pixels are on. For those who dont like to paint, look at the images to the right click on the image for a larger view that are. This is the easiest way to paint a vehicle and is universally accepted and used throughout the iracing software. Trading paints is an add on service to iracing that allows driver to download, store, and share their vehicle paint jobs within the sim. Trading paints is also an endless resource for iracers. A decal layer is a file placed over your custom paint. Because they allow for transparency, decal layers are particularly useful. This means if a driver deletes a paint, suit, helmet, or decal layer from trading paints, it should not appear in iracing, even if you had a file in the paint. Testing out complex decal for nose artlogo on uh1b. Position the layer you can drag and drop the layer click the anchor to position the layer remember to position one decal on the opposite side of the car as well right click on the layer. Png files can be placed directly onto your paint scheme, or if you have trading paints pro you can upload the. It will work fine for just you by dropping the decal layer into your paint folder, but in order to use it with trading paints you have to purchase a pro account which is kind of a bummer. In this brief tutorial, we show you how to get started in custom painting your cars.
Has anyone here used trading paints new pro features yet. All tp users will see any decals layers, but only pro users can upload them. Well be working on extending this functionality in future updates. Example now take your paint bucket and fill that layer with white. There are instructions on trading paints to help with this process. The mask layer applies all thins stamped on the car that arent decals on this car its thing such as brake light, wing parts, transmission, etc. A copy of photoshop and some basic knowledge of how to use the software is required. Trading paints adds custom car liveries to iracing.
If you are not a tp pro member, you can manually put the decal layer in your paint folder and you will see it yourself, but no one else will. With john travolta, shania twain, toby sebastian, rosabell laurenti sellers. June 5, 2018 web maintenance update june 5, 2018 trading paints update notes. A place for discussing painting and skinning models in various. Green paint causes problems for decals trading phrases. This post is meant to reassure drivers where they can paint in relationship to the mwt decal layer. What i did was align all the wire frames of each panel and place them in the proper location to paint. This means if a driver deletes a paint, suit, helmet, or decal layer from trading paints, it should not appear in iracing. But you may have to poke the top layer of paint to let water underneath to activate the hairspray. Before you dump your white color with your paint bucket, you will want to duplicate the layer. Within the super late model folder specifically, there are three. Because of this, i like to leave this layer on when i am working on the car so that i wont put a decal. More good news if youre a trading paints pro member. My main interest is their paint builder being right on the site.
A decal layer is a special type of tga file can be used to accompany a custom paint file. In iracings season 2 patch 1, any custom paint now overrides these decals by default. You cannot override certain features such as headlight decals or logos or license stripes. Im fine with simple preset liveries, as long as i can slap my own logos on without. Obrl paint scheme rules league painters trading paints. Veteran race car driver sam munroe and his son, a fellow driver from a small town. For those iracers out there looking for a more customization, iracing also supports custom paint. How to make a custom decal layernumber plates for trading paints iracing. This is pretty complex to make and only visible if other users choose to. The latest version of trading paints can be downloaded for pcs running windows 7810, 32bit. My very bad iracing trading paints and helmetsuit tutorial. Steps to create a custom paint for iracing in photoshop.
This is a heavily modified and cleaned up iracing dirt latemodel template. Other options would be mig heavy chipping fluid which is basically hairspray but a type that is known to. Trading paints offers both a basic service that is free for all iracers, and they also offer an pro version that expands on the abilities of trading paints. In order for anyone else online to see your custom decal layer you need a trading paints pro account. It will work fine for just you by dropping the decal layer into your paint folder, but in order to use it with trading paints. You can paint each car individually or apply the same paint color combination to all cars. Assign special nighttime paints when you upgrade to trading paints pro, you can designate custom paint schemes. Trading paints trading paints is a third party app that allows you to upload your custom paint and download custom paints of your competitors to display them in your races. If you want to see your custom paint without uploading to tradingpaints. Trading paints a must have for an iracer the simpit.
This file was created to help align the paint layers across the side of the iracing dirt sprint car. Question about late model paints and contingencies im trying to get my custom paint for the chevy monte carlo ss to display right, but i cant seem to get rid of the contingency decals. Keeping each layer exactly the correct size allows for good register and when the final layer is on it appears as if a line drawing has been filled in with color. Within the super late model folder specifically, there are three additional folders. Drivers can design their own cars or race with premade paint schemes shared from other painters. This lets you replace the small sponsor decals, and the drivers face among other things. The decals on the blank model are the decals that the game stamps onto the car at the start of any session. Because they allow for transparency, decal layers are particularly useful to stamp another layer of decals on your cars, separate from your primary paint.
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