Carbon fiber appreciation thread

[TheLegend20le]

Managed to finally get some colours onto carbon thanks to reading this thread, so thanks.
Used my P1 to experiment on and this was the outcome of my first attempt...

 

[Carrera1963]

Thanks for the tips on this thread, I think this is my favourite “workaround” to not being able to paint individual parts in CF.

Here’s a WRX with CF lips/mirrors/spoiler/roof/scoop:

Also fun playing with the “coloured CF” using opacity:

 

[MidnightRun85]

Does anyone else find it a bit stupid that the roll cage becomes carbon as well. 🤦

 

[BLiTZ]

Does anyone else find it a bit stupid that the roll cage becomes carbon as well. 🤦

Yes. It only affects certain cars, some of the older Gr.4 / 3 cars don't change at all.

I'd rather the cage was non-paintable or in a seperate section entirely and limited to flat colours like the windscreen banner backgrounds.

Also worth noting that on some cars, cage colour also changes the interior where the shell is exposed (This is a blessing and a curse).

 

[TheLegend20le]

I'm having a lot of trouble trying to put some colour over carbon on an R5 GT Turbo, as you can see in the photo even though I'm using the same colour and opacity it's coming out a different shade and it's really annoying as I have no idea why...Anybody have any idea what I'm doing wrong?

 

[Nuschel01]

Double layering of transparent decals

 

[TheLegend20le]

Double layering of transparent decals

Pretty obvious one, my bad 😂

Thank you though!

 

[Kita Kangaroo]

 

[996rick]

I've enjoyed making carbon versions of some classic liveries. This Carbon Calsonic GT-R has been my Gr.4 car of choice for Sport mode.

 

[BloodRaven]

Yes with GT7's livery editor they've added the ability to adjust opacity of individual decals manually. It's really a nice feature.

Did they remove this feature? I can't find it anywhere in livery editor.

 

[Squarelegs]

I need to snap a picture of my carbon mix GR4 Supra livery, but here is my BMW M3. Nothing fancy, just some subtle black decals on the windows.

 

[Kita Kangaroo]

Did they remove this feature? I can't find it anywhere in livery editor.

When you're moving an decal, tap triangle

 

[GMW]

Just discovered carbon decals! LOL!!! Very useful as shown on my application to the now 'carbon' trim on this Porsche GT3RS



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[TSTO]

Still annoying that we can't just paint individual parts of the car with the prebuilt carbon fiber assets. Makes CF work much more bothersome than it should be.

 

[Darrenersmit]

Guys, check this out incase you didn’t know. It sucks that we can’t apply carbon individually to certain parts of the car and mix with other “Special Paint” but one workaround is using decals to cover parts of the car you don’t want in carbon. Say for example you only want the hood & spoiler in carbon you just place a circle over Body panel and stretch it out. Then use the angle adjustment and put both options to +10. It’ll cover the entire body. I know this isn't ideal as using decals for paint does not give the same uniqueness of the different special paint types, but it's better than nothing until maybe PD adjust this nonsense and allow us to paint parts in CF separately. One theory I had about why this is like this right now is possibly because maybe they tested it on PS4 and it was too intense for the PS4 to handle multiple cars with this texture at once? Who knows.

Now! I also messed around with the idea of having PAINTED CARBON! And it worked! I painted this F12berlinetta in Carbon Twill and then placed a maroon/brown decal over the body and lowered opacity to 50%. Painted carbon is cool 😎

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Pretty awesome that

 

[Darrenersmit]