Tips on doing complex decals for GT7

[meltyki]

Hello gtplanet! I've been a passionate livery creator since GT Sport, but if there is something that i wish i could do constantly, that would be me to be able to upload my own decals. I've been exporting new decals a while for now, but most of them are simple logos. Everytime when i open the Showcase tab and explore the liveries in the community, i am shaken by how good some of the liveries use super detailed and coloriful decals like anime characters. I've been trying to make those myself but it's being kind of a pain in the ass. There is no tutorial of someone doing one of these and it feels tiring to spend long hours on Inkscape trying to get the most simple of the thing done. If someone can give me a tip or knows some tutorial online i could reach to, i would be glad

 

[MatskiMonk]

some of the liveries use super detailed and coloriful decals like anime characters. I've been trying to make those myself but it's being kind of a pain in the ass. There is no tutorial of someone doing one of these and it feels tiring to spend long hours on Inkscape trying to get the most simple of the thing done.

I'm not an inkscape user so I can help with specific functionality, but if you wanted to post specific questions or examples, people may be able to help. You should also state whether you're trying to manually draw them, or autotracing them - the techniques involved are completely different.

Anime characters are one of the most time consuming things people do, and they're far from simple, they're probably going to take hours even if you get good with inkscape.

 

[Tommy moon]

I'm not an inkscape user so I can help with specific functionality, but if you wanted to post specific questions or examples, people may be able to help. You should also state whether you're trying to manually draw them, or autotracing them - the techniques involved are completely different.

Anime characters are one of the most time consuming things people do, and they're far from simple, they're probably going to take hours even if you get good with inkscape.

How feasible would it be to make this... thinking like 3 separate SVG. Template, the specific info, then maybe a simple cartoon style head shot. Is this realistically feasible?

 

[MatskiMonk]

How feasible would it be to make this... thinking like 3 separate SVG. Template, the specific info, then maybe a simple cartoon style head shot. Is this realistically feasible?

Completely feasible.

In order to not be terrible quality you are going to be looking at about 3-4 decals, you're correct on that. Since you know it's going to be multiple decals there's not much point in wasting time being overly efficient.

All the text can be recreated simply, any 'reduce nodes' function would be useful. The shield logo would ideally be a manual trace to keep the size down and it's pretty simple.

The photo would be an autotrace, which in inkscape might end up being one or two decals depending on how good the quality was. If you asked ChatGPT to redraw it in a GTA art style, then traced that image you'd be able to trace it as one image.

The background would be the most problematic thing, ideally you want to do a low detail autotrace of a clean version of the back-ground (i.e. tracing the source images, rather than trying to do it from the image above). If you were trying to minimise it as much as possible, you could probably just trace the out line of the background shapes and make it one colour.

Wouldn't be too bad all things considered, just a few steps.

 

[MatskiMonk]

How feasible would it be to make this... thinking like 3 separate SVG. Template, the specific info, then maybe a simple cartoon style head shot. Is this realistically feasible?

FWIW... I can just about squeeze it into 3 files looking like this...

 

[Tommy moon]

Completely feasible.

In order to not be terrible quality you are going to be looking at about 3-4 decals, you're correct on that. Since you know it's going to be multiple decals there's not much point in wasting time being overly efficient.

All the text can be recreated simply, any 'reduce nodes' function would be useful. The shield logo would ideally be a manual trace to keep the size down and it's pretty simple.

The photo would be an autotrace, which in inkscape might end up being one or two decals depending on how good the quality was. If you asked ChatGPT to redraw it in a GTA art style, then traced that image you'd be able to trace it as one image.

The background would be the most problematic thing, ideally you want to do a low detail autotrace of a clean version of the back-ground (i.e. tracing the source images, rather than trying to do it from the image above). If you were trying to minimise it as much as possible, you could probably just trace the out line of the background shapes and make it one colour.

Wouldn't be too bad all things considered, just a few steps.

Thank you... yeah I should have said the background doesn't matter.

Next question is it possible with a phone...I figure there is no getting around needing a PC.

 

[Tommy moon]

FWIW... I can just about squeeze it into 3 files looking like this...

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Wow wait did you actually make it?!

 

[MatskiMonk]

Next question is it possible with a phone...I figure there is no getting around needing a PC.

You might get a way with a tablet, but phone, narp.

Wow wait did you actually make it?!

Yeah...

3 files attached, you'll have to line them up by hand.

 

[Tommy moon]

You might get a way with a tablet, but phone, narp.


Yeah...

3 files attached, you'll have to line them up by hand.

Omg thank you so much!

 

[Tommy moon]

You might get a way with a tablet, but phone, narp.


Yeah...

3 files attached, you'll have to line them up by h

 

[Tommy moon]

You might get a way with a tablet, but phone, narp.


Yeah...

3 files attached, you'll have to line them up by hand.

Work in progress...but really stoked!