So you want to paint a race car. Great... but where does one start?

Thanks Alan! Do you know where to find 2048 versions of the BR15 template? It's the only thing holding me back from painting on the new mod.

 

Hello. Sorry if this is a dumb question. Once you download the carviewer file, what folder should it be extracted to? Also the same with templates and how are other templates uploaded to the carviewer file?

 

If I'm understanding your question correctly, it doesn't matter where you save/extract the car viewer files.

As for actually changing the template that is displayed on the car, you'll notice that in each of the manufacturer folders of the car viewer files (ford/chevy/toyota/dodge) there is a file named "card.bmp". That is the display file. So you extract/save the template in your paint program as "card.bmp" to the corresponding folder (i.e. chevy if you're painting a chevy), replacing the card.bmp that is already there.

I hope I explained that somewhat clearly.

 

I think I understand. Just have to figure out what is the best paint program to use

 

Now THAT is what I'm talking about! No more excuses! Let's see them paints people!

Thanks for taking time to compile all these tutorials Alan, helluva resource

And you can bet I'm subscribed on Youtube now. I suggest others do the same as well!

 

I'm pretty much of a visual guy myself, so watching a video should benefit me nicely. Thanks for taking time out to do so.

 

This is definetly a huge step in the right direction. I just viewed the video. I'm going to take a swing at this after my son's baseball practice.

 

This thread ought to be "stickied" as the first thread at every site in the sim racing community, thanks Alan, it should be a compulsory course for every new member and even some of us old dogs could learn a few new "basic" tricks, who knows?

 

Alan! I guess, maybe you can help me a litte. I'm planing to do some frictional mod/ carset but so far the main problem for me is setting up contigs decal and series logo on car. Is there some kind of template for that? Or maybe some mip in mod can handle this thing like template for all cars in series - then I don't have to put them on the cars manually for each car? Maybe you have some PWF Busch series contigs template that I can use and only thing then I have to put somehow my frictional series logo on cars sides....

 

I have some frictional mod and carset so I want to build some kind of Nascar Toyota Series semi fric. for myself. I'm no too good painter to do the real mod or carset or to publish it here or anywhere. So far I did logo _mfg files with NTS logo(looks not bad!), front windshield with red Toyota letters and Toyota sign at above of windshield(maybe could do better). So now I need to put proper "Nascar Toyota Series" logo and maybe mexican flag next to both sides of car doors. That's actually is what I want for now. I am posting some of my samples here.

 

An excellent tutorial brimming with tips. Thank you.

 

Thanks for the tutorial. This was very helpful. I made two cars I'm pretty happy with -- one for me and one for my friend. Trouble is, and I may have just missed this somewhere, I can't figure out how to paint the pit crews. Right now when we pit, we have the exactly same blank, blue and red pit crews. Is there a separate template for this? BTW I'm using the BR15 Cup Series mod.

Thanks for any help!

EDIT: Sort of helped myself here, but I thought I'd share. There are a few links in this thread that point to pit crew templates. I started with the War Wagon 2.5 Update and went from there.

http://www.simracingdesign.com/threads/pit-crew-template.31452/