NASCAR 09 Custom Car Thread

[Limadawg]

Here's my TAPS/Ghost Hunters Craftsman Truck I use.

[mwjr]

How are you guys getting the stripes along the bottom, etc. of the cars? Are you creating new layers and then using a paintbrush, or are you using a geometric shape, then filling in?

[auburntigersfan]

is anyone here willing to post a file of their car so others can use it. I literally can't do this because I have a mac and no photoshop. I wouldn't even be a big deal, I would spend hours making forza cars and giving them to friends.
examples of stuff I would give to people, I had to make all of these in game with just different shapes so it was hard.
http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k2...an/auburn1.jpg
http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k2...ouisville1.jpg
http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k2...louisville.jpg

[avrbas]

Quote: Originally Posted by mwjr

How are you guys getting the stripes along the bottom, etc. of the cars? Are you creating new layers and then using a paintbrush, or are you using a geometric shape, then filling in?

I draw on a seperate layer on top of the Paint layer to first get everything dialed in and when I know 100% it's done I'll either lock the layer or merge it down.

As for creating it, it really depends on if the lines are straight, curved. You can use the pen to create a curved line or use part of the Ellipse. For straights, just click and then shift click at another spot on the car and you'll get a straight line; perfect horizontal stripes you need to mouse click and shift click before moving

Quote: Originally Posted by chia51

http://www.dafont.com is a good source of fonts. if you cant find something there to fit your needs then somethings wrong.

http://www.masgrafx.com/masgrafxraci...nload&sid=1019 has template numbers, not alot but still a decent selection of race numbers.

Nice Crown Royal car btw, nice touch with the purple having flake in it

[GJEM]

How in the world are some of you getting so much detail on the car? Ex. Ryno's OS car Chia's Crown Royal car I'm using PS and I don't get how your doing it, is it just layers? BTW all the cars on here are excellent good job guys.

[TCrouch]

Well, for the MGD CoT car I had:



I created a few layers...a "base" that's the gold, and then set it to fill with a brushed metal effect.

I created a new layer above that and used the point-to-point line tool to draw out the black fill.

I used the point-to-point tool again to create the individual tears. I then used the retouch tool set to "Lighten RGB" and manually lightened the tears to make it look 3D and shaded properly.

Then I set the tool to Darken RGB and shaded the layer beneath so it looked like the black tear was on top of the gold.

Then you start throwing numbers and logos on top after that. After I was finished, I went back and put the associate sponsor on the rear quarterpanel "under" the tear but didn't take a new pic. The more you start dealing with Paintshop Pro/Photoshop/whatever, you start to think in layers, and you can do a lot of things.

[GJEM]

Thanks

[TCrouch]

Welcome. The other thing that helps is keeping your objects by themselves on layers. For example, I'll have a "numbers" layer that's only for the numbers, logos might be on a layer or two, etc. That way you can move bits and pieces around without having to worry about patching up spots where they used to be, or cutting and pasting and having the background carry with it. If you keep the images independent from the other layers, you can just tweak until you feel it's done.

[biglen]

Here's my Howard Stern Sirius car:

[mgoblue]

Quote: Originally Posted by TCrouch

Welcome. The other thing that helps is keeping your objects by themselves on layers. For example, I'll have a "numbers" layer that's only for the numbers, logos might be on a layer or two, etc. That way you can move bits and pieces around without having to worry about patching up spots where they used to be, or cutting and pasting and having the background carry with it. If you keep the images independent from the other layers, you can just tweak until you feel it's done.

Yeah, thanks for the info...it took me a little while, but once I started thinking in layers I could just paste some in (logos, whatever) as their own layer and move around, resize, etc very easily. I haven't had time during the week to sit down and make another car after my Adidas truck, but it's fun learning all this and seeing a real car in the game as a result. Hopefully this weekend I'll knock out a good Nationwide car.