Well, I just been trying to create my own logos and I know one thing that this game needs to improve on; the livery editor. It's getting annoying that there's such a limited selection of decals when previous Forza titles had more types to choose from. For instance in Nissan, I use to be able to find Nissan and Nismo decals for all of my Nissan cars and now there's just the modern Nissan logo.
Having to make so many of my own logos feels like a chore sometimes.
I agree that making logos is a chore, but there is a simple reason for why we don;t get a better selection of manufacturer decals: licensing.
Each brand represented in that part of the editor needs to have an agreement with Turn 10 / Microsoft in order to give them permission to display said logos. If a manufacturer has told Microsoft "you can use ___ but you cannot use ___", then that's what will happen.
This should make the logo creation process easier though, it's how I make all of mine:
10 games in I doubt there's gonna be much change to the livery editor now. If you know how to use it, there's very little they can do to improve it. It's the models themselves that need improving, so the shapes can fit cars more organically and remove restrictions such as unpainted areas. I'd love to colour code something like the new NSX with the grey grille surround for example.
The editor's not going to drastically change, unless Turn 10 are okay with making every single painter start from scratch. Right now, the ability to export your content to future releases is a huge convenience, one that painters take full advantage of.
As for painting onto the cars themselves, that's all down to how texture mapping works. While buggy areas are annoying, you have to understand that hundreds of cars need to have this tool applied to them, and there is inevitably going to be a drop in Quality Assurance when you're working on a project this large.
What we as painters are doing is essentially drawing on top of a texture map; we're not painting on a 3D surface even it that's what the end result looks like. You are covering a file like the one below with your own custom elements, and the end result is the livery on your car.
