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Gran Turismo recently celebrated its fourth birthday, but the Showcase, released with Gran Turismo Sport, is almost 9 years old. Although there was no auto transfer from GTS to GT7, many players have moved their decals and liveries to GT7 and ever since millions have even uploaded more and more.
Some made liveries for fun. Some made liveries for their personal vehicle to use in Sport. Others wanted to recreate some amazing replica liveries we have witnessed in autosport in last decenniums. From very well known liveries like Falken, Advan or Red Bull, from series such as Formula 1, SuperGT, DTM and IMSA to way lesser known liveries and races from Super Taikyu, old magazine scans or some 60s races where only a handful of pictures stood the test of time. These liveries have also been build by hunder-thousands of decals, all great scalable vectors in .svg form.
This makes the Gran Turismo Showcase the biggest digital library of motorsport related vectors of all time (no, i don't have a source for this, but I'm happy to defend this actually). On top of that, it probably also has the biggest collection of 3d models of replicated racecars. And yes of course, there is also a lot of value in so many artistic fictional liveries (and decals) where people have spent ages on and are true masterpieces, but I wanted to focus more on historical data, aka replicas.
This digital library does not only have an emotional value to a lot of people I imaging, it probably also has a historical value, in an age where the internet more and more is looking to preserve history (stuff like The Wayback Machine etc). I was wondering how you are looking at this data, do you also have an emotional connection? But also really wondering what PD is going to do with all of this when GT8 comes. Will there be an option to transfer decals and liveries? Is it auto transferred? What happens with all the data which does not get transferred by the players/owners?
Some made liveries for fun. Some made liveries for their personal vehicle to use in Sport. Others wanted to recreate some amazing replica liveries we have witnessed in autosport in last decenniums. From very well known liveries like Falken, Advan or Red Bull, from series such as Formula 1, SuperGT, DTM and IMSA to way lesser known liveries and races from Super Taikyu, old magazine scans or some 60s races where only a handful of pictures stood the test of time. These liveries have also been build by hunder-thousands of decals, all great scalable vectors in .svg form.
This makes the Gran Turismo Showcase the biggest digital library of motorsport related vectors of all time (no, i don't have a source for this, but I'm happy to defend this actually). On top of that, it probably also has the biggest collection of 3d models of replicated racecars. And yes of course, there is also a lot of value in so many artistic fictional liveries (and decals) where people have spent ages on and are true masterpieces, but I wanted to focus more on historical data, aka replicas.
This digital library does not only have an emotional value to a lot of people I imaging, it probably also has a historical value, in an age where the internet more and more is looking to preserve history (stuff like The Wayback Machine etc). I was wondering how you are looking at this data, do you also have an emotional connection? But also really wondering what PD is going to do with all of this when GT8 comes. Will there be an option to transfer decals and liveries? Is it auto transferred? What happens with all the data which does not get transferred by the players/owners?
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