iRacing Gimp, Spec Maps

How to get the chrome, metallic, and matte finishes on a car in iRacing with gimp.

[@dan1elhalas]

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[@AAA-yu1eo]

Thanks man I'm not gonna lie the first time I watched this I couldn't understand but I watched it again and I know how to do it now

[@grahamcremer4956]

Awesome video Daniel! I did not even think about using opacity for scaling roughness and metallic properties, thank you very much!

[@dan1elhalas]

No problem. So many different ways to get it done lol

[@drewherchko8898]

GIMP warriors, baby

[@randallbledsoe2228]

Great video, this taught me how to do spec maps!!. Thanks

[@StudioDaVeed]

Cool, that metallic silver is just what I am looking for!

[@soiled]

awesome run down dude, I don't use photoshop either, I've used Paint Shop Pro for years. This spec mapping is pretty sweet , I had no idea it was just variations on Pure Green and Pure Reds to get these effects. thanks again!

[@dan1elhalas]

Yeah, not sure if it works for paint. It's just the grey shades weren't working for me when I was messing around with it so I was like.. Hmm, I wonder if just solid red and green would work and whalla lol

[@419tommy]

if you don’t use single window mode,u can just drag and drop folders from the template to the car paint etc. or from paint to paint

[@fallaitpasmeconnaitre5577]

Thank you Daniel !

[@briankennedy9040]

Thanks for the tutorial. Why are the parts layers white, but you used red or green?

[@dan1elhalas]

I've never dove deep enough into the parts. I've done them with and without showing on the tga upload and never noticed any difference, mainly just worry about the body.

[@briankennedy9040]

I think I found out that iRacing uses black and white in the templates, but it only uses the one color channel. So white works but I like your method better. Only use the color channel for that layer.

[@thewiseguyzclassicrock]

Trading paints asks for a decal layer after uploading a .mip file. I haven't tried it yet.. but I think it will stamp it over the spec map.

[@dan1elhalas]

That would make life so much easier. I still haven't tried messing with uploading to trading paints. Spent 4 hrs trying to get this figured out since we dont have all the options that photoshop does. Thanks for the input.

[@racegrubb2152]

It wont let me paint the red or green channel, it says cannot modify the pixels of layer groups i missed something lol

[@HOUNDDOGRACING]

I have a question. When I saved the first step to, car_spec_(number) I couldn't open it again in gimp, or Trading Paints. Where do I find the MIP file and where do I save it?

[@dan1elhalas]

I saved it on the computer in the specific folder. As a tga file. To my knowledge it has to be a tga file and the iracing program converts it to the mip file. Computer-documents-iracing-paint-caryouwant-export as

[@419tommy]

thanks man

[@alwaysonthemoveangie4946]

Awesome

[@scottleitner8927]

BTW putting the logos above the layer works...they don't appear as chrome.

[@DoucheVanDyke]

Explain this to me, cos I've been fucking up hard lol

[@scottboom5091]

I made a car kinda shiny and now every paint I make is the same shiny. Who do I get rid of the spec map

[@dan1elhalas]

Delete the spec map out of your paint folder.

[@justinwilliams3830]

I gotta be doing something wrong... cuz my paint doesn't load. it reverts back to the default paint. I don't understand how following directions could give me the wrong result... of course it's now 2021 so there's that.....

[@dan1elhalas]

Same thing still applies.

[@justinwilliams3830]

@@dan1elhalas then I'm doing something wrong. oh well.. I guess chrome isn't for me then lol

[@chrisradley9816]

My car comes out either matte red or chrome red. Cant change the color of the car to a different color. Not sure what I'm doing wrong.

[@danhalas3936]

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[@ryanwilson5301]

I'm having the same issue and can't figure out why my car is a bunch of different shades of red.

[@rhule6659]

@@ryanwilson5301 I know this is two years old now, but if anyone ends up here with the same problem (as I did) then you fix it by going into layer attributes (double click on your red square next to Base Paint #1) and change RGB from "perceptual" to "linear". Same for the Green channel.

[@ryanwilson5301]

@@rhule6659 I gave up on it pretty much immediately after I couldn't find anything that explained how to do it.

[@HOUNDDOGRACING]

THANK YOU!!!

[@GoldenAnchovy24]

holy shit this is complicated