Multiplayer Custom Liveries

[| Hawxflight]

Hey,

Just a quick idea.

I think that when multiplayer launches in the next couple of months a really cool idea would be custom liveries. As in the idea that each player can customise his/her car so that they feel more 'connected' to their car.

iRacing does a pretty good job at this by having a folder in which the cars you own are placed, in the folder of your specified car, there is a space to put a .tga file of your custom livery. The livery has to be saved as your custom member number, otherwise it doesn't load. When you then start iRacing, it will load your livery so that the car you're racing has that livery applied. Meaning that when racing online, others can see your work and 'sponsors'.


Keep Racing,
Hawx

Cool idea? Discuss below.

[Eno]

Would be great, save the fact all 'skins' will be cash only.

Don't quote me or anything, but it wouldn't make sense to put liveries in the store AND give us the option of having our own.

[HarrierDuBois]

Originally posted by hawxflight:

iRacing does a pretty good job at this by having a folder in which the cars you own are placed, in the folder of your specified car, there is a space to put a .tga file of your custom livery. The livery has to be saved as your custom member number, otherwise it doesn't load. When you then start iRacing, it will load your livery so that the car you're racing has that livery applied. Meaning that when racing online, others can see your work and 'sponsors'

Interesting idea. But with that system can you change the livery in the games menu like you can in R3E atm or are you then bound to using your custom one?

As much as I'd like to see custom liveries in R3E, I don't think something like this would fly with R3Es model, too open for possible copyright issues...
What could work from my pov is user submitted liveries. Users, teams aso can submit their custom liveries to Simbin and they are published on the official platform after approval from Simbin. I think that would be the most realistic scenario.

[| Hawxflight]

Originally posted by christiangoepfert:

Interesting idea. But with that system can you change the livery in the games menu like you can in R3E atm or are you then bound to using your custom one?

That custom livery is bound to the car until you either change it(create a new one) or delete the file that is supporting the livery. Then it resets to the iRacing default livery.

Originally posted by christiangoepfert:

Users, teams aso can submit their custom liveries to Simbin and they are published on the official platform after approval from Simbin. I think that would be the most realistic scenario.

Neat idea. Though, would these then mean that SimBin would charge for the download of such liveries, as you are no longer buying their own 'in-house' liveries?

[tonygee]

sounds like a good idea custom livery

[HarrierDuBois]

Originally posted by hawxflight:

Originally posted by christiangoepfert:

Users, teams aso can submit their custom liveries to Simbin and they are published on the official platform after approval from Simbin. I think that would be the most realistic scenario.

Neat idea. Though, would these then mean that SimBin would charge for the download of such liveries, as you are no longer buying their own 'in-house' liveries?

The way I imagine it, no, these would be free of charge, they would be original creations of "the community" after all and merely be distributed via Simbins platform... =)
I'm not a dev nor a coder so I don't know all the ins and outs but I think with this system it could even be possible for teams/leagues to have their own unique liveries which could be made available to team/league members only (if that was wanted), which would give it a nice individual and exclusive touch.

[| Hawxflight]

Yeah, seems possible. If this were to happen, they would hopefully give us a UV map corresponding to the car. As the majority of UV maps are either .png or .tga, we would be able to open these in Photoshop and 'edit' the UV map to our liking.

[HarrierDuBois]

Yeah, they most probably work that way anyway, files are just encrypted. =(


"One thing we wanted to, but couldn’t do enough was offering better support and collaboration with 3rd parties. Due to time constraints, we could only offer a limited support to the amazing creators of telemetry, motion apps and plugins that a lot of our players use. We want to change that this year. We will soon create a public API documentation explaining everything that is available in Shared Memory and develop/improve it further based on feedback and requests from the creators of these applications." Source: http://insider.simbin.com/simbin-dev-blog-2/

This is all that's been mentioned in terms of public/3rd party APIs so far, but it is a start. Custom liveries are one main concern for the sim-racing community and Simbin are well aware of that, so I think (hope ;) ) tey'll come up with a decent sollution.

[| Hawxflight]

Time to wait and see. =)

[itchie]

cant wait to see porn and other "things" driving around the track

[HarrierDuBois]

Originally posted by itchie™:

cant wait to see porn and other "things" driving around the track

Yep, that's why I think only user-submitted liveries which

Originally posted by christiangoepfert:

are published on the official platform after approval from Simbin

are a realistic scenario.

[S Flynn]

Personally, I'd be amazed if RaceRoom allows "free" custom liveries.
It doesn't jive with their business model.

I'd be really happy if they do allow it!

[| Hawxflight]

Originally posted by itchie™:

cant wait to see porn and other "things" driving around the track

I'm presuming that you don't think that everyone else has the maturity to not put such things on liverys. iRacing, to my knowledge, doesn't have any bans/rules imposed on the liverys that you can race with. That being said, everyone I have ever raced with on iRacing has always had the up-most respect and maturity. -Maybe this is the wrong community for such ideas to be given.

[HarrierDuBois]

Originally posted by hawxflight:

Originally posted by itchie™:

cant wait to see porn and other "things" driving around the track

I'm presuming that you don't think that everyone else has the maturity to not put such things on liverys. iRacing, to my knowledge, doesn't have any bans/rules imposed on the liverys that you can race with. That being said, everyone I have ever raced with on iRacing has always had the up-most respect and maturity. -Maybe this is the wrong community for such ideas to be given.

Oh well, I think nobody wants to lose his expensive subscription for iRacing. ;) But seriously, I don't think a model such as iRacing is aimed at such a broad audience as R3E. And I wouldn't be too sure about inappropriate liveries problems never occurring on iRacing, just because it isn't discussed broadly doesn't mean it doesn't happen, maybe it's just dealt with quietly.

[Darth]

So, we are in 2015, and???? no Custom Liveries?