WIP Duplo Merc paint

[Dorsen]

I've finally started to work on the Duplo paint for the Merc. Fitting everything on the different panels is a real bitch! Here's a WIP screenshot.

 

[little P]

That looks really nice, it looks much higher res than most iRacing liveries I've seen too, is that just my eyes playing tricks on me?

 

[Dorsen]

When I'm editing paints, I set iRacing to not compress textures, so they become higher res, but you can't use that setting in races because it uses too many resources.

 

[Dorsen]

Oh god, what have I gotten myself into... This paint is going to take a looong time to finish...

 

[Dorsen]

Here's an update. I've basically finished the paint. I don't think I want to put any more on it. It'll just look cluttered. Give me some feedback, guys! Also, do you have any suggestions for those vents? I don't know what to do with them.

 

[Kenadian]

Wow looks terrific Dorsen, great work.

 

[Dorsen]

Thanks, Duke . Do you have any suggestions to what I can do about those vents over the front wheels? If I leave them white, it looks like I forgot them, but trying to match those duplo blocks over the vents is so painful I just can't do it.

Edit: No pain, no gain, right? I'm working on fitting the individual duplo blocks on to the vents. #¤&%#, this is a lot of work! Fairly simple, but tedious!

 

[Daunt]

Nice job. Those vents I know are the worst, I recall from the Koons Art Car paint I did. Overall I hate the merc template.

It's worth it though if you put the work into the vents though. It shows

 

[Dorsen]

Yeah, I'm working on it . Problem is that I can only get the blocks to match from one view angle. As soon as the angle changes, it looks less than good...

 

[Dorsen]

I'm finally done! I think it looks good, but of course, iRacing f*cks up the textures, so the Duplo logos on the doors look like shit . Is there a way to get around that or make it look better?

 

[Kenadian]

Are you saving 32 bit tga's, if so that's all you can do.

The rest is up to how iRacing renders it via each Drivers graphical settings.

 

[Dorsen]

No, still looks like shit (I saved the pics above at 24 bit).

 

[Kenadian]

Save your tga's at 32 bit and retry.

You may also want to check your replay graphic settings.

 

[Dorsen]

I saved the .tga's at 32 bit and checked my replay settings, which were set to medium, and set everything to max. But even after quitting and restarting the sim, it looks the same. Damn! I spent so much time on this, and now it looks like this... <insert collection of obscene swear words here>

 

[Dorsen]

All done!
I resized the logos on the doors to make them look better when compressed in-sim, so I've uploaded it to Tradingpaints . Hope some of you will use it .










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