Bug with MNP paint or Lotus Evora?

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I don't have more of the paint to do tests, but my Lotus Evora repainted in a GTR's midnight purple looks.... gray. And very very flat.

My GTR in the same color looks great. It looks rich, deep and pearlescent. The Evora looks flat gray with a little lavender. In person, it pretty much matches the pavement.

Does paint look weird on the Evora?
Or is it the midnight purple that's bugged?










 
Why did you use your phone to take these pictures? you could have used the ingame camera :lol: would have been easier to see the described effect.

I've only painted one car with MNP and it was my S2000 I believe, and it looked absolutely fine on there.

Did it have this effect in GT Auto or is it only when on track?
 
On some cars Midnight Purple definitely has a pretty grey hue, which is quite annoying. On my GT-R R35 it looks fine while the same chip looks about as grey and bland as on your pictures on my ZR-1.

I'd recommend going with another purple paint (like Plum Crazy from Dodge) for the desired colour, or leave that weird-ish pearl effect on your car, in my opinion it doesn't look very nice though.
 
I agree, it should look a lot better than it does. At the same time, each paint chip will look different on every car, by this I mean you have to take the angles and lines of the cars' body in account. The Evora has sweeping lines, concave and convex surfaces whereas the R34 is slab-sided. A paint, especially a pearlescent paint is going to reflect different light on diifferent cars, like the Evora vs the GT-R. Because of the angles and lines of the Evora's body a lot of sky and ground is reflected in the paint, which can make it look greyish. Why it doesn't look deep is a GT5 fault. But otherwise these are real life principals at work. I have a uncle who owns a paint shop which does a lot of custom work. He gets many customers who want to paint there car in a paint they saw on a different car, and no matter how much he tells them that it will never look how it does on the car they saw it on, nobody believes him until they drop $5,000 - $7,000 to paint their Mustang or Corvette and it turns out completely different than the picture they had in their minds.
 
If you want a nice purple Dark Purple Mica is my absolute favourite.
 
UrieHusky
If you want a nice purple Dark Purple Mica is my absolute favourite.
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Yea, that one is good. The last car I painted Midnight Purple didnt come out so hot so I tried that one instead and was pleased with the outcome.
 
I used my digital because it was easier to upload. It's kind of washed out in the garage too, yes. But it's just horrible in daylight on a track.

XS, I understand how angles can affect the way paint looks, but this... this is 10x more extreme in person than these photos appear.

There's something more than angles going on here. If you've ever seen it, something is clearly very, very wrong with either that paint color, the Evora, or the way my particular car had the paint applied to the textures (depending on how it's coded - yes, I'm a programmer, I do know how these thing work). From what KiroKai says, I'm going to guess it's the paint not meshing well with other textures. They probably had trouble getting that color to look right in general and tweaked the GT-R to make it look passable.

Thanks for the replies. I guess I'll avoid that paint.
 
The Prune whatever paint chip is a pretty vibrant dark purple, fyi.

Anyway, the same paint chip often looks different on different cars. Particularly depending on the quality of the standard, for example. (Some standards are better than others.)
I've had some paints look great on one car, and then shabby on another.

Another issue - don't know if it's the case with this particular paint... But sometimes they have the same name, but they're not the same paint chip.
 
watermelonpunch
Another issue - don't know if it's the case with this particular paint... But sometimes they have the same name, but they're not the same paint chip.
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If its from the manufacturer its premium and standard.

And actually looking at your pictures again my R32 GTS came out similar looking.

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More blue and the purple is alot lighter.
 
watermelonpunch
Another issue - don't know if it's the case with this particular paint... But sometimes they have the same name, but they're not the same paint chip.
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It was the MNP that I got from buying a Skyline.

Yours shows a glossy glare though. Mine is just flat and washed out.

BongRipz
And actually looking at your pictures again my R32 GTS came out similar looking.

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More blue and the purple is alot lighter.
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Yours in that picture is showing sun glare from a glossy surface. I avoided that in my photos to show the areas that are simply washed out without glare. Different effect and cause.
 
Another factor is that some cars seem to have a filter on them...

Get a Grand Sport Corvette

Paint it white... and watch the Soap Powder commercial begin to start up as you stand back in horror at the filth on the side of what should be a pure white car.
 
Ryk
Another factor is that some cars seem to have a filter on them...

Get a Grand Sport Corvette

Paint it white... and watch the Soap Powder commercial begin to start up as you stand back in horror at the filth on the side of what should be a pure white car.
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I have seen this type of thing on other cars. And not just with white.
 
TheeFrogmanlego
That stuffs baked shadows XD
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Yeah, I tried some other paints and I'm pretty sure now that it's the Evora that has something stupid baked in. I'm pretty disappointed that this is a "premium" car and it looks like this, and that some cars have blocky baked shadows that look like dirt with light paint, even some that come in white.

Here's one with another dark paint showing pretty much every possible lighting angle. Gray, gray gray, lighter gray, lavender, gray and darker gray. It's actually the Honda midnight whatever - you know, the purple that's so dark that it looks like gloss black from most angles. I guess I'll avoid dark paint on this car. WTF.

 
Ryk
Another factor is that some cars seem to have a filter on them...

Get a Grand Sport Corvette

Paint it white... and watch the Soap Powder commercial begin to start up as you stand back in horror at the filth on the side of what should be a pure white car.
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Is it sad that I actually want to go try this out now?
 
You'll get a sweaty light beige car with a white stripe... rather than an all white car.

If you pick a light blue - this stain filter will darker up whatever you paint the car with... and filter it in the yellow direction. A darker colour won't seem to be as bad..
 

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