forza 2 custom paint jobs

[graham enzk]

the livery editor in forza is great, just started to try something above and beyond basic shapes and stripes

stan from american dad was my first go, so it's a bit shoddy on the lines:



next up, stewie from family guy, a lot smoother on the lines this time, quite happy with it:









nowhere near what some of the other folk can do though, check this:







mental stuff and all made just from a bunch of different shapes as you can't import images or free draw!

anyone else into forza?

[graham enzk]

[kj]

Those are insane. I really need to get this, the guys at work are always on about it. I can't believe those graphics were all hand made, pretty cool.

[graham enzk]

you should just go buy it, it's so good.

well here's my bender car that i'm working on at the moment:





needs something on the bonnet i think.

maybe a zoidberg would be good...

[kj]

I think I might go buy it on the way to the movies. So the drawing tool must be pretty sophisticated if it'll let you do some of those things. You can't use the camera to import images?

[graham enzk]

yeah if you've got it connected up you can just upload direct from the game.
for me to connect the 360 to the net is a lot of hassle due to furniture and connection points etc that's why i just photo'd off the TV.
the paint tool is really good but you have to think abstractly sometimes, you just get a bunch of premade shapes (vinyl decals) like circle, triangles, square, curve etc that you can change the size in x and y axis and skew and differ the colour and transparency. it takes quite a bit of work but you feel dead chuffed when you get it.
for example that bender is about 90 shapes to make his head arm and the circle. you can have a thousand shapes per part of the car. left, right, front, rear and top.
buy it, you know you want to

[graham enzk]

one stewie standing on the world came in about 300 shapes.
though if i was doing him again i could cut that down as i've figured a couple of new things out since then...

[kj]

There are some pretty cool clips on YouTube, some showing how to do some of the paint jobs.





I have to say too that i love the music on both those videos.

[kj]

I just ordered this game. I can't wait to get my hands on it. I'm gonna spend most of my time on the graphics editor. Does it cost money to apply graphics to a car?

[graham enzk]

no, painting is free, it's just performance upgrades that cost. though if you want to paint the alloys you have to buy custom ones first.

[graham enzk]

so for my fourth design i thought i would try something a bit more challenging with shading and more complicated shapes and here's how it's shaping up so far:

poor guy has no nose at this point...





getting the face basically finished:



small version on side of car:



that's where i am so far, opinions?

[Keerin]

Aside from his lack of nose it's bloody brilliant!

[kj]

agreed. My copy should be here today, cannae wait! I'm going to make nudie graphics.