Why are low effort liveries so popular in showcase?

[Imbissbrunto]

It'll be interesting to see how they manage the carry over from GT7>GT8. If we can carry liveries over again, I expect an absolute deluge of people re-uploading EVERYTHING as fast as possible in order to be the one that gets the likes for any given replica.

Interesting. I didn't start making liveries until GT7 so I didn't know you could transfer liveries between games. Does this mean you were able to import all your designs from GT Sport and could share them again in GT7?

 

[MatskiMonk]

Interesting. I didn't start making liveries until GT7 so I didn't know you could transfer liveries between games. Does this mean you were able to import all your designs from GT Sport and could share them again in GT7?

They had to be publicly shared in GTSport before a certain date. Provided you'd done that, they then showed up on the livery selection screen in GT Auto in 7, you could then open them, and save them as though you'd made them in GT7. If they weren't shared by that date, you couldn't do anything about it. It also didn't work particularly well to begin with, sometimes the decals wouldn't carry over, and if you opened a livery that it couldn't retrieve the decals for, you basically ended up with a broken livery, and no opportunity to try re-importing it, as the game thought you'd already done it.

For example: This was a livery I'd made in Sport...

All of the custom decals were mine, yet I ended up with this...

This happened on 7 or 8 of my liveries, including my two most popular liveries (Jeff Koons Art Car on the VGT, and the Michel Vaillant Z4), which was a pain in the ass - to say the least.

 

[Imbissbrunto]

They had to be publicly shared in GTSport before a certain date. Provided you'd done that, they then showed up on the livery selection screen in GT Auto in 7, you could then open them, and save them as though you'd made them in GT7. If they weren't shared by that date, you couldn't do anything about it. It also didn't work particularly well to begin with, sometimes the decals wouldn't carry over, and if you opened a livery that it couldn't retrieve the decals for, you basically ended up with a broken livery, and no opportunity to try re-importing it, as the game thought you'd already done it.

For example: This was a livery I'd made in Sport...

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All of the custom decals were mine, yet I ended up with this...

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This happened on 7 or 8 of my liveries, including my two most popular liveries (Jeff Koons Art Car on the VGT, and the Michel Vaillant Z4), which was a pain in the ass - to say the least.

That‘s unfortunate, let‘s hope they‘ll fix this issue in GT8. Though I‘d probably have to make all my replica liveries from scratch anyway since they all include decals made by other players from the showcase.

That livery looks really cool btw, nice tribute to the DTM M4!

 

[Tornado]

Could be mistaken, but wasn't it found out that some of those likes were from multiple accounts of the same guy posting said threads?

This is the first I'm hearing of it, though I wouldn't be terribly surprised. When they weren't just copying articles off of whatever car blogs they followed many of them seemed to have the same posting patterns (outside of the ones like CorruptedDisc who spent half their time going after people who weren't in their dumbass slowchatting clique and wanted the forum to be used for what it was actually made for instead).

 

[Tired Tyres]

I was just reminded of this thread...

Yesterday I made a stock-looking Red Bull Junior livery with a bunch of which decals on the body to match the pattern of the standard vehicle's colour variants - with the idea being that you can just colour in the decals to get whatever custom RGB colour you want (and of course gloss/matte/powder finish, but not the various paints).

Scrolling through my Styles to link it on here my attention was caught by a previous car I made:

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It's literally just a full-body carbon-fibre "paint" with a couple of standard racing decals on it. 828 likes, 141 shares, 48 comments... Yes, the point is to mimic the GT4 "Black Beauty" but...

Yes, the first thing I felt when I saw that picture was um yes GT4 what a good game. I'd have given it a like if I'd seen it.

 

[TiMcF1]

I've noticed this too. As a secondary option to Pinterest, occasionally I may search for a particular car in the showcase hub if I desire some inspiration to start my own livery, but will like and repost any liveries I think are great.

It does seem the simplest liveries tend to be very appealing, I tend be attracted to them too. Though looking simple and being simple to create are two different things.
But, yes it does leave me scratching my head when I come across an example, with hundreds of likes and copy-paste comments, where both of those cases are true.

 

[PowerJunkie]

Something I've noticed a lot is that some of the liveries with hundreds or thousands of likes take no more effort than slapping a number plate on an otherwise standard car, case in point, of all the new BX liveries one of the most popular starts and finishes with a Japanese number plate, compared to various really cool heavily customised versions, what's the deal? Are people genuinely impressed by hitting "other" twice in the Livery Editor or does Showcase promote things in strange ways?

There are some of us that truly appreciate the highly detailed art works. I have tried my hand at it and I suck at it, and some of the work in showcase is outstanding. I do see the ones you speak of, and no, not impressed with them.