Another new video in the “Gran Turismo 7 Behind the Scenes” series has landed, this time focusing on the game’s enhanced livery editor.
The video, titled “Livery” is the fourth such trailer to land inside the last two weeks — and with just over 17 weeks left until the game itself launches we can’t help but wonder if the clips are going to keep coming at this intense rate.
While the video is new, some fans might be experiencing a little deja vu. That’s because this video is the one PlayStation Germany aired last week by mistake, with the audio, dubbing, and subtitles for the “Collector” video edited in. It might not be truly new footage then, but at least we now have the correct script for the video!
The livery editor is the central theme of the clip, with Yamauchi explaining how he feels that liveries are an important part of motorsport, with the best becoming inextricably linked with certain cars and races across history.
Gran Turismo Sport was the first game in the GT series to feature a livery editor, and even right back at launch in 2017 we were very impressed with it. Indeed Sport’s approach to the feature is one held up by other developers as a benchmark, and GT7 is promising to deliver an improved version.
While there’s not been a deep dive on the feature just yet, Yamauchi states in the video that the goal is to improve the usability, in order to allow gamers to express themselves with even more ease. That could mean a little extra filesize allowance on the SVG uploader, a UI change to display decal co-ordinates, rotation, and sizing, or any number of other little tweaks.
The GT series creator also notes that players have produced “several million” liveries already in GT Sport, though we think that’s an understatement. Yamauchi previously said in March 2019 that there’d been 51 million liveries uploaded, so that number could be up near 150 million by now.
As well as the livery editor, the clip gives us another look at some of the cars coming to GT7, including that unexpected Alpine A220. Both versions of the Super Formula SF19 — Honda and Toyota — appear too.
There’s also another appearance of the mystery light traces which seem to describe course maps. They’ve previously shown Deep Forest and Apricot Hill, and the traces in this clip merely look as if they reuse those lines.
If Polyphony Digital does keep up releasing new media at this rate, there won’t be long to wait until the next installment in the Behind the Scenes series. Keep an eye on GTPlanet for the latest!
