with developers Separating car & race suit decal editing

[DRT-Apophis 101]

As much as I love the newly updated 11 decal slots which opened up quite a range of creative possibilities, the function is still unnecessarily difficult and in some way even more frustrating to use because there's no option to edit the decals on race suit separately.

What's happening right now is that, because the coordinated decal locations between both car and race suit are changed to a weird direction after the update, there's a high possibility that when players thought they created a very good livery on the car, then switch to the race suit side only to see there're multiple duplicate of the same decals on the shoulder side or other parts of the suit that it looks ridiculous, worst part is that even the old combination also no longer worked.

Now we were forced to painfully go back and forth both editors to readjust and try everything but most likely you'll never find out any ideal solution to this.

Is it possible to add a standalone decal editor for the race suit in future update?  

Edited November 17 by DRT-Apophis

[BarryBL 4,319]

15 minutes ago, DRT-Apophis said:

As much as I love the newly updated 11 decal slots which opened up quite a range of creative possibilities, the function is still unnecessarily difficult and in some way even more frustrating to use because there's no option to edit the decals on race suit separately.

What's happening right now is that, because the coordinated decal locations between both car and race suit are changed to a weird direction after the update, there's a high possibility that when players thought they created a very good livery on the car, then switch to the race suit side only to see there're multiple duplicate of the same decals on the shoulder side or other parts of the suit that it looks ridiculous, worst part is that even the old combination also no longer worked.

Now we were forced to painfully go back and forth both editors to readjust and try everything but most likely you'll never find out any ideal solution to this.

Is it possible to add a standalone decal editor for the race suit in future update?  

Nice idea @DRT-Apophis

Got any screenshots that back this up? Any really nice liveries, but horrible race suits you've created. I can add it as a suggestion for the devs. 

[DRT-Apophis 101]

1 hour ago, BarryBL said:

Nice idea @DRT-Apophis

Got any screenshots that back this up? Any really nice liveries, but horrible race suits you've created. I can add it as a suggestion for the devs. 

Will do, I'll try to post a few when I'm back home from work (still 7-8 hours away arghhhh 🤮). 

Edited November 17 by DRT-Apophis

[BarryBL 4,319]

Just now, DRT-Apophis said:

Will do, I'll try to post a few when I'll back home from work (still 7-8 hours away arghhhh 🤮). 

Don't worry @DRT-Apophis, I've created some horror shows for the devs 🙂 

[DRT-Apophis 101]

9 hours ago, BarryBL said:

Nice idea @DRT-Apophis

Got any screenshots that back this up? Any really nice liveries, but horrible race suits you've created. I can add it as a suggestion for the devs. 

So I've just played with the livery editor a bit more, the changed decal coordinates between suit & car still need some time to get used to. It's not impossible to get around with other alternate combinations, but I still think having standalone editors for each would definitely make things a lot easier and opens up way more possibilities, at least I don't have to go back and forth to check everything all the time.

The most noticeable change is Decal Slot 2, it used to be one of the 3 title sponsor slots and now if you put your title sponsor there alongside Decal Slot 1 (AVAX for example), both the suit and helmet will have 2 of the same decal facing the same direction (the current slot 2 decals on the suit/car used to be slot 5/11 & slot 6/7 before the v1.13 if I remember correctly). 

Things are easier to deal with if all the decals are using the same color (as the example I shown), but as soon as you start playing with multiple colors (which the update is partly intending to make that a possibility), it still gets really messy and difficult to make both car & suit to match ideally just like before the update, so nothing is truly fixed.

Separating the editors will definitely sort out most of the difficulties we currently have, and ideally if the decals can have an option to add outline (at least white or black), it will for sure be the definitive fix to 95% of the issues, at least to what we currently have.

I replaced AVAX with Vacanziero, thank god this decal combination worked well with the suit (no duplicate on the same section):

 

[DRT-Apophis 101]

On 11/17/2020 at 9:52 AM, BarryBL said:

Don't worry @DRT-Apophis, I've created some horror shows for the devs 🙂 

I just noticed in both replay & highlights many of the decals are wrongly placed, it's been like that in every race I had, may be the coordinates were not written properly?