Forza - How to paint tutorials
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Following on from some discussions on another thread re making money on Forza and how to paint, thought I would start this thread to give help and advice.
I'm sure some of us will be happy to share some little snippets for money making, a little easy one, buy a Fiat 500 on the AH, can be bought for 1K, simply paint it yellow, put on black chequered squares down each side, the word taxi on the back, straight back onto the AH at 50k buy out, easy 49K profit
Right now my 1st tutorial, we will start nice and easy.....
Open Creator....(see told it was easy)
Add a shape...chose a circle...size 0.81 x 0.81...colour black.
Add a shape...chose a square...size 0.82 x 0.22...colour black, move this to Y 0.00 X 40.00
Go back to the circle press X to cut it and then Y to re-insert it, then highlight new layer and press Y again. You should now see a circle, a square and a circle in that order.
The 2nd circle now change colour to white (note it will disappear because of white background), now change size, drop it down to 0.50 x 0.50 (as you reduce it the black layer below will appear).
Highlight all 3 layers (right trigger), and press A, scroll down to 'group'.
Congratulations you have just created an 'a'.
Now (a bit of a cheat) cut (X) and paste 4 times (you now have 4 'a's one behind the other.
Select the 1st 'a' and change position. Move it to X 0.00 Y -200.00 (just for the moment)
Move the 2nd 'a' to X 0.00 Y -80.00. 3rd 'a' to X 0.00 Y +80.00 and 4th to X 0.00 Y +200.00.
You now have a line of 4 'a's.
Highlight the second 2, press A and scroll down to UNGROUP. You now have black circle, black square and white circle (as well as 3 'a's). Now select the Square change the size to 1.10 high, maintain the 0.22 width now move it upwards until the bottom is level (keep the background grid up), now highlight the circle/square/circle as above and group them....You now have a d too.
Either repeat the above step for 'a' 3 or if you want cut and paste the 'd' twice, moving the 2nd to the X 0.00 Y +80.00 location and remove 'a' 3 totally.
You should now have a d d a
Create a new Layer another square 0.82 x 0.22 it will appear right between the two 'd's, and now another new square layer, 0.20 x 0.22 and move it to Y +75.00 X 0.00.
Now create new layer...select lower letters 1 's'. size is 1.00 x 1.00 move it to Y 10.00 X 315.00, its already the right size.....
WELL DONE YOU NOW HAVE adidas
Now before we get into the difficult bit, highlight everything and group it. Now move the group to Y -120.00 X 0.00.
Now for the stripes.
Create a square Y 0.26 X 0.95, SKEW it to -0.50 and move it to Y 0.26 X 0.95
Create a square Y 1.05 X 0.95, SKEW it to -0.50 and move it to Y 25.50 X 69.50
Create a square Y 1.05 X 0.95, SKEW it to -0.50 and move it to Y 26.50 X 87.50
Create a square Y 0.27 X 0.85, SPIN it to +26.50 and move it to Y 3.00 X -218.50
Create a square Y 0.27 X 0.36, SPIN it to +26.50 and move it to Y -14.00 X -175.00
Create a square Y 0.54 X 0.85, SPIN it to +26.50 and move it to Y 87.00 X -100.00
Create a square Y 1.40 X 0.85, SPIN it to +26.50 and move it to Y 132.00 X 35.00
You now have the stripes too.
Highlight any layer you have used and press A, scroll down to 'Highlight all layers', you will see a little yellow triangle in all the layers, press A again and scroll down to group, now change position to 0.00 / 0.00, press A again and save vinyl group 'adidas'.
Well done you have just made your 1st logo
One thing, this is a simple version for putting on a white car, if you are putting it onto a different colour you will have to ungroup the layers and change the white centres to the letters to the colour of the area it is going on.
ENJOY
I'm sure some of us will be happy to share some little snippets for money making, a little easy one, buy a Fiat 500 on the AH, can be bought for 1K, simply paint it yellow, put on black chequered squares down each side, the word taxi on the back, straight back onto the AH at 50k buy out, easy 49K profit
Right now my 1st tutorial, we will start nice and easy.....
Open Creator....(see told it was easy)
Add a shape...chose a circle...size 0.81 x 0.81...colour black.
Add a shape...chose a square...size 0.82 x 0.22...colour black, move this to Y 0.00 X 40.00
Go back to the circle press X to cut it and then Y to re-insert it, then highlight new layer and press Y again. You should now see a circle, a square and a circle in that order.
The 2nd circle now change colour to white (note it will disappear because of white background), now change size, drop it down to 0.50 x 0.50 (as you reduce it the black layer below will appear).
Highlight all 3 layers (right trigger), and press A, scroll down to 'group'.
Congratulations you have just created an 'a'.
Now (a bit of a cheat) cut (X) and paste 4 times (you now have 4 'a's one behind the other.
Select the 1st 'a' and change position. Move it to X 0.00 Y -200.00 (just for the moment)
Move the 2nd 'a' to X 0.00 Y -80.00. 3rd 'a' to X 0.00 Y +80.00 and 4th to X 0.00 Y +200.00.
You now have a line of 4 'a's.
Highlight the second 2, press A and scroll down to UNGROUP. You now have black circle, black square and white circle (as well as 3 'a's). Now select the Square change the size to 1.10 high, maintain the 0.22 width now move it upwards until the bottom is level (keep the background grid up), now highlight the circle/square/circle as above and group them....You now have a d too.
Either repeat the above step for 'a' 3 or if you want cut and paste the 'd' twice, moving the 2nd to the X 0.00 Y +80.00 location and remove 'a' 3 totally.
You should now have a d d a
Create a new Layer another square 0.82 x 0.22 it will appear right between the two 'd's, and now another new square layer, 0.20 x 0.22 and move it to Y +75.00 X 0.00.
Now create new layer...select lower letters 1 's'. size is 1.00 x 1.00 move it to Y 10.00 X 315.00, its already the right size.....
WELL DONE YOU NOW HAVE adidas
Now before we get into the difficult bit, highlight everything and group it. Now move the group to Y -120.00 X 0.00.
Now for the stripes.
Create a square Y 0.26 X 0.95, SKEW it to -0.50 and move it to Y 0.26 X 0.95
Create a square Y 1.05 X 0.95, SKEW it to -0.50 and move it to Y 25.50 X 69.50
Create a square Y 1.05 X 0.95, SKEW it to -0.50 and move it to Y 26.50 X 87.50
Create a square Y 0.27 X 0.85, SPIN it to +26.50 and move it to Y 3.00 X -218.50
Create a square Y 0.27 X 0.36, SPIN it to +26.50 and move it to Y -14.00 X -175.00
Create a square Y 0.54 X 0.85, SPIN it to +26.50 and move it to Y 87.00 X -100.00
Create a square Y 1.40 X 0.85, SPIN it to +26.50 and move it to Y 132.00 X 35.00
You now have the stripes too.
Highlight any layer you have used and press A, scroll down to 'Highlight all layers', you will see a little yellow triangle in all the layers, press A again and scroll down to group, now change position to 0.00 / 0.00, press A again and save vinyl group 'adidas'.
Well done you have just made your 1st logo
One thing, this is a simple version for putting on a white car, if you are putting it onto a different colour you will have to ungroup the layers and change the white centres to the letters to the colour of the area it is going on.
ENJOY
Alex@POD said:
When creating a decal, can you pan within the window? or zoom in/out? ie if I try to write a long word, I run out of room as i can't move the letters far enough... iykwim?
No I dont think you can, make the letters smaller maybe?Cheers for doing this Carl, Its a big help to folks like me.
Dan, yes please, would be good to make my own CF.
GenePoolReject13 said:
No I dont think you can, make the letters smaller maybe?
Cheers for doing this Carl, Its a big help to folks like me.
Dan, yes please, would be good to make my own CF.
Ok mate ill pop one up later tonight with some pics. Its one of the good ones as i think you can cover the top of a car with just 20 odd layers.Cheers for doing this Carl, Its a big help to folks like me.
Dan, yes please, would be good to make my own CF.
A little thing I do when making words (using standard forza fonts not custom) is I make the first letter whatever size shape etc then just stamp it the number of times there are letters, Then just select change vinyl shape and choose the letter you wish.
It makes for correct size letters and keeps them inline and all that is required is moving the letters so the gap between them is equal.
Might not be for everyone but it's what I do
It makes for correct size letters and keeps them inline and all that is required is moving the letters so the gap between them is equal.
Might not be for everyone but it's what I do
MotorsportTom said:
I've got a logo I want to make but i'm not sure how to do it so gonna need tips.
Haven't got any pictures yet but i'll post some when I'm home, it's of the Speedsport logo as I did some work experience with them last year so thought it'd be good to make it on forza!
Got a pic mate?Haven't got any pictures yet but i'll post some when I'm home, it's of the Speedsport logo as I did some work experience with them last year so thought it'd be good to make it on forza!
If you want to meet me online tonight then I will happy talk you through it if you like.
Little bit of a cheat for outlining letters, make the complete word up then group it, copy and paste the group 5 times, then change the first 4 to the outline colour, in this case white, then move each of them 1x +0.05 +0.05, 1x -0.05 +0.05, 1x -0.05 -0.05 and finally 1x +0.05 -0.05. you now have each spread out slightly and group 5 in the middle the main colour (can adjust to 0.10 if you want)
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