Glad this helped! It’s definitely a rabbit hole and for creative types can be quite a fun one once you’re past the initial learning curve

Thank you my friend, I’m glad you found the video helpful 🙏

Thanks man! I had originally thought to pull in stencils off the web but a lot of places try to charge for them. Then I though, “wait a second…🧐” and here we are.

Thanks man! I super appreciate the complement! I just found that there was very limited good quality content explaining how to do these things so thought I’d put my best foot forward to package it up and make it presentable. Glad you’re finding it beneficial!

That’s great of you to say! I’m glad it was helpful!

My pleasure 🤙

My pleasure brotha! 🤙

Hey, that’s awesome to hear man! Glad you’re finding the content helpful and I do believe that’s the first time someone has mentioned my content as being addictive! Hopefully it’s a gateway to greater things 😂 we have a discord specifically for livery design, if you’re interested to join let me know and I will post an invite link.

@@GTJesse Definitely interested in that! Adding a community aspect to this for me would be great. The design capabilities of this game are incredible. I'm grateful that you put this knowledge out there for people like us

@@cmz10 100%! It’s a great community too, with a range of designers of all skill and experience levels. It’s not “my” discord, a fella named Nilvils created it, but it’s where I’m most active. discord.gg/qpavRQnM

@@GTJesse Awesome. Joined. See you there. Thanks again!

@cmz10 awesome man see you there!

Glad to help. Learning new software is always a little overwhelming. Especially in the age of iPhones and apps.

Haha love to hear it! Eureka moments are the best 🤙

Happy to help!

Been there before! There’s nothing worse.

Glad it was helpful!

Hey! Just seeing this for some reason, but that’s right. Larger more complex files have to be uploaded in pieces and recompiled in the game. Which is why you’ll often see anime characters or portraits of TSwift in bits and pieces in the decal library

Love to hear it man, cheers 🤙

Glad to help! 🙌🤙

Oh yeah man, it would probably be very similar. Vectors are a good format to use for screen printing so you don’t lose quality when increasing the size. Cheers buddy! 🤙

Glad to help 🤍🤙

My pleasure 🙌

Glad to help! 🤙

Thanks Stephen! 🤙

Thank you!

Hard to believe you’re not already doing this! I’m scared to see what would happen if you do!

@@GTJesse I still have various ideas that I would like to implement... but haven't found any suitable decals yet. 😅

I’m happy to help my friend!

You can just save the image to your computer and then drag and drop it to the art board. I leave the pop-up settings on default and go from there. When I'm converting decals, I almost always am starting with a JPEG. For keyboard shortcuts, there are a lot, and I've learned that there is software that will show your key strokes on the screen as you work, to make for a better learning environment, which i'll do for future tutorials. For this one, the most commonly used shortcut is CTRL+SHIFT+R, doing this after you've selected an object will snap your document to the size of the object you have selected. Beyond that, it's a lot of CTRL+C/V/X/Z for copy, paste, cut, and undo.

did you try to save as optimized svg?

For this one if I selected remove background it may have deleted the white fill, but I haven’t found much difference between the other settings. With multicolor I usually only adjust the layers and background check/uncheck.

Hey thanks for your comments buddy. For the number precision I’ve found it really depends on the decal but for some you certainly can go that low (and sometimes you have to). But for other you may lose a bit of quality going that low.

Using 1 can absolutely ruin an SVG. It depends on the dimensions of the SVG. If the original node was like 987.654 and it'll now be 988 or 987.7 on an SVG that's 1000 wide then it's largely going to be OK. If the original node was 6.851233 and it'll now be 7 on an SVG that was 10 wide, it's going to shift a lot. Really need to experiment with 1 or 2, with 2 being the minimum in most cases.

Yeah I've not had a problem with it being on 1 with 4000 decals uploaded so far , I'm pretty used to how it works , but thanks for those numbers. If thr file is say 16kb I'll run SVGOMG on 3 but I believe it depends, as you are not using the optimised SVGOMG for gt. That might make a difference

Going off memory but I believe it’s CTRL + SHIFT + R

Hey buddy. There are sites like svgomg that do a brute force reduction on svg files. In illustrator there is also an option within the path menu to simplify, which reduces the number of nodes. Otherwise it’s very much an exercise in thinking of ways to re draw things to make them fewer layers and nodes. And also uploading in chunks, then re combining in the game if you have something that’s very complez

For text don’t forget to do object to path. For the file not showing in SVGOMG, it’s generally a pretty finicky piece of software. Can try adjusting precision and zooming in and out, but if you get the conversion from text to path correct then it should solve the problem

Hey AJ did you ever figure this out? Sorry for the delayed response

You need to Change to the original colour in the decal Menü, when you placed the decal on the car

GT can definitely process the translucent gradients, they're just very finnicky. Will earmark this for a potential future release.

@@GTJesseplease do

It would be great if that was an option

I know this comment is 5 months old but it’s a valid question and someone else might have the same one. The answer is that PNG files can’t scale infinitely like SVG files. When you scale a PNG up it will become pixelated, when you scale it down it looks a bit better, but it still doesn’t look great. PNG file sizes are also much larger than SVG file sizes so it’s much cheaper to store.

@@TangoKilo3 Honestly, valid response. Thank you 😊

have you every Heard od Japan? 😂

@@kelseysvenson8544 you what

The numbers thing is interesting. Have you forgotten to do stroke/object to path before uploading by chance?

Feel free to send me the file and I’ll take a look at it. Unclejesseraces@gmail.com

Just click triangle over the decal and add to favorites!

Welcome back brother! No idea on the NFL teams specifically except that PD does say no copyright, offensive, trademarked, etc decals. The nfl logos may be easier to detect? Not sure though.

I would try to pass it through svgomg first then try to upload it after removing all metadata

That’s would be a nice feature. I was actually looking into to Forza editor recently. Seems both the Forza and gt7 editors have different limitations, but combine the two and you’d be golden!

I would try using the app called Linearity Curve. It used to be called vectornator and I actually made a video about it a while back

@@GTJesse Thanks, bub!! Very much appreciated, and I’m gonna lookup the vid you made regarding it. 👊!

@RagnarOdinson absolutely! Best of luck!

Try adjusting some of the sliders in svgomg. You may have the precision up too high

Hey buddy! I’ve had zero luck getting radiator gradients to work. You can try various things with simplification and svgomg but nothing has worked for me 😭😭😭

@@GTJesse Bummer, I'm using Illustrator instead of Inkscape so I'm not sure if that would have anything to do with it. I'll keep trying to have a look into it.

@mooli7777 I’ve recently moved to illustrator for more professional design work but haven’t tested its functionality w/GT7 vectors yet. In Inkscape though radial gradients never really worked for ne

@@GTJesse Just managed to get the gradient itself working in GT7, however the gradient is placed in the wrong part of the shape. Still, progress.

Interesting, that’s cool to hear you’re making it work!

Usually the file size is too large, that’s the most common reason for the error. Is it under 15kb?

The bit at 7:10 will be highly dependent on the file you’re working with. With the ghost decal I can just click because the yellow is off in its own space but with some other decals they will be more layered and require some massaging. The layers toool too though.

Ok, i found it in another comment. In case someone reading this first: CRTL+SHIFT+R

Yep, you got it!

I know it man! I’ve become a hobbyist graphic designer thanks to gran turismo 😂. I was definitely overwhelmed by the initial learning curve when I first dipped my toes into it though. Some of those waifus are truly top tier. I haven’t tried to create one myself but it may be something to consider for a future video.

@@GTJesse it just sucks that you can’t just apply a wrap for any car ONTO any car because if we could, I’d happily take the time to adjust sizes and positions for various layers onto cars I actually like lol. And they really are! So many of them look like they’re ripped straight from the shows!!

Purely because it’s free. Illustrator is just fine if you already have a subscription.

Hahah you got this bro! 😎💪

I definitely understand the frustration. Graphic design software and graphic design in general is just hard, and makes me appreciate the work that those guys do that much more

Did you type out “17” using the text tool? Or sketch/draw it?

@@GTJesse I typed it out using the text tool. Why, is that not allowed 🥹

@@JohnCranberry23 it’s 100% allowed

@@JohnCranberry23that last comment sent too soon. Check out around the 25:00 minute mark and you’ll see the steps to work with text

@@GTJesse Great News! The Version of Inkscape I had was buggy and I finally managed to find an updated Version 1.1 which works and is in English and doesn't crash. So I tested both a simple shape and also watched your video past 25-minute mark and changed the number 17 path etc. as you explained. It also worked and both are accepted onto GT7. I have a question, however. Should I adjust the DPI to 300? I understand SVG files work differently, but I noticed a DPI setting on my older version which said 72 dpi, so I thought maybe I needed to increase the dpi for better quality if I decide to increase the image in GT7? Or should I just increase the size of the image manually or font size to 150 etc. in Inscape? Will it make a difference when using it given that SVG files can tolerate increases when using them as Decals? Do you have a video that talks about the image quality of SVG files? Anyway, appreciate any help. Found you on GT7 and followed you to check out your work. Cheers from Australia.

Did you do the Object to Path option?

@@GTJesse I didn’t do this before, after you told me I did it! Thank you!

No problemo! 🤙

I got the same isue, chage to path option and still doesnt display en GT7

Thanks Marko! I’ve honestly never made an anime decal but would be happy to make a tutorial. You’re actually not the first person who’s asked for it so it would probably make sense to go ahead and do the demo. I have a request from you though because my anime extends as far as Pokémon, initial D and some Naruto - is there a certain character or show you’d want to see? It will help me find some direction otherwise I’ll just be pulling something off a random google search :) thanks!

@@GTJesse Thank you so much for answering. Honestly I’m not a fan but they can be a tough job I assume. I would like to try to upload a similar stuff. Thank you so much once again for sharing such useful stuff and helping us! 😀

@@GTJesse I was referring to kind of stuff like those unique vinyls in nfsu for example. There is no specific character. Thank you so much!

I really need your help, I've already uploaded it by edge, google chrome and it does not work for me, everything changes it to path and it does not work for me. It loads to GT7, but I can't see it in the gallery to use it. @GTJesse

Shoot me an email with the file and I’ll take a look at it, might not be straightaway but I will get back to you 🤙

Unclejesseraces@gmail.com

email sent, hopefully you can see it and tell me it's wrong and how to correct it!@@GTJesse

@stevenipple5590 messaged you back 🤙

It just depends on how you do the trace bitmap. If you use multi color and ungroup the output layers, you can just delete whichever layers you don’t want to keep - in this case the white one.

Nissan Silvia S13, keep an eye out for it in the used car dealership

Hey! With the chrome effect, it’s super important that you add the gradient at the very end of your editing process. If you add the gradient then change something else then it can cause the file to not upload correctly in gt7. Also making sure to save as optimized svg is key, and if you’re still having issues, trying to pass thru svgomg before uploading could help.

Thank you for the response. Apparently fnishing the decal with the gradient solves the issue, when i previously merged all the parts of the decal right before upload. Much appericiated!

@gtmr_karnage6427 the gt7 decal world works in mysterious ways! Glad it worked out for you.

Hey buddy, feel free to email me at unclejesseraces@gmail.com with any questions

Hey thanks man, which converter are you using? I tried a few a while back and had mixed results, but I wonder if they’ve since improved. I also use SVGOMG to compress SVG files but that’s a little different than converting. Also if you’re having trouble with the file getting bigger I usually recommend pasting your final, cleaned up vector to a new document and saving that. For some reason it seems like some data gets embedded in the file and can’t get rid of it without saving a new file.

Click the object then CTRL+shift+R for resize

​@@GTJessethanks man!! You're a lifesaver

@alexisdayritt cheers buddy 🤙

Most of the design work would have to be done on a PC. You can do some of it on a tablet or phone too but it’s not the same process.

I don’t know anything about Forza but maybe it’s time I learn 🤷‍♂️

@@GTJesse sadly in Forza Motorsport liveries is based on a limited number of predefined vector shapes which you have to lineup in order to create logos etc.... I really hope that they will include SVG import in the new Motorsport game.

Hey buddy if you go through the trace bitmap setting then press apply, the auto trace should work pretty straightforward

@@GTJesse thx

Also if you check out this older video I made a much more in depth tutorial on auto trace kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mtifob2g076vooU.htmlsi=hOfn6IyqDRH4SOfk

@@X515H yw, good luck

From what I’ve seen they’re likely too big, double check the file sizes! That’s the catch all error code they like to use

@@GTJesse 7kb

Hmm that’s interesting bro, have you tried running it through SVGOMG?

@@GTJesse i'll try and i'll let you know

If you check out this older video I made a much more in depth tutorial on auto trace kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mtifob2g076vooU.htmlsi=hOfn6IyqDRH4SOfk

Just have to put a decal on it. Can only do some cars though and it’ll often be in the “other” category

Cheers buddy! Very complicated decals you have to draw from scratch and sometimes will have to upload in several pieces the combine in the game

@@GTJesse But Ive seen some right in the game, I just took someones style and disassemled it, so I was totally confused - sime pics were really complex with many colors and details! Since then I cant sleep ))))

@@user-be2wr4hq2g I hear you! Those decals are drawn from scratch and then saved as optimized svg

@@GTJesse what is csratch? ...😇

@@user-be2wr4hq2g 20:50

If it was easy then everyone would do it

@@GTJesse exactly. That means more options

100%!

😂😂

grab any logo off the web, paste it into Inkscape and do Trace Bitmap 🤙

@@GTJesse no, paste logo and your next step was cut paper around, 4:51

Ahhh! I got you, it’s a keyboard shortcut to resize the document to your object size. The keyboard buttons are Control+Shift+R.

It’s better than the Forza uploader so there’s that

Well... beeing better then Forza is the Industry minimum. sooooo...@@GTJesse

10/10 mate! Love your work!

It does require some effort yes

🤷‍♂️

​@@GTJesse I managed to , but now it says SVG format not supported 😞😞

Thank you for saving me this headache yea screw this we just need to make them change the setup I’m not doing all of this for so little. I don’t care if dude says yea effort is required this is stupid and an actual waste of time. Thank you for saving me from wasting my day on this crap.

They only carried over a limited number from GT Sport for each user

Definitely!

@@GTJesseoh ok cool. I only asked this because in forza, using someone else’s decals on your car stops you from sharing your design.