How to make my own livery for GP4 car?

This time I want to know from which program I can make my own livery for every car shape? And what I need ofcourse if its necessary.

Thanks in adavnce.

The old classics will be always better than the newest games.

Hey georgibg,

to paint a car you need the following:

- A mapped car shape in .psd file
- A painting program like Adobe Photoshop (no freeware) or GIMP (freeware and not very much less good)
- ZModeler (a program to view your shape in 3D and get the textures onto it)
- ZAZ tools

Then do the following steps:
1. Download the texture map of a car shape
2. Open ZModeler and then open the .z3d file of the car shape in it and compare which parts of the texture map correspond with which part of the car shape
3. Paint the texture map files (.psd files) with Photoshop or GIMP and safe the texture map as .tga file
4. In ZModeler, press E to open the material editor. Assign the two new .tga files to your shape and have a look if it works fine. If not, repeat step 3
5. When you're fine with the result, open SlimTex from ZAZ tools. Select Batch TGA to TEX and convert the files in .tex files.
6. Rename the .tex files to the name of the files you want to overwrite and if this car uses another shape than the earlier one, do the same with the shape files (GP4 lod files)

That's it. If you've done everything correctly, the new car will be in your game.
I hope this helps.


GPGSL : Team Owner of 'Maverick Track Performance' (MTP)

Yes this helps thank you! But I prefer to continue my work at GP3 and GP2 now I have a very big plans for it

The old classics will be always better than the newest games.

JohnMaverick Wrote:
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> 5. When you're fine with the result, open SlimTex
> from ZAZ tools. Select Batch TGA to TEX and
> convert the files in .tex files.
> 6. Rename the .tex files to the name of the files
> you want to overwrite and if this car uses another
> shape than the earlier one, do the same with the
> shape files (GP4 lod files)

I just want a reminder on this, dont we need to flip or mirror the tex file before saving?
Trial and error will obviously answer this, but..... been several years since i put a car in-game....

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GPGSL Team Owner Debut - Melbourne, Season 8 - present
GPGSL Test Debut - Hungary, Season 4. GPGSL Race Debut - Adelaide, Season 5.

It depends from car to car really, but is usually the same as other models made by that same person.
Normally, yes you'd have to flip. I don't know of any model that you have to Mirror for.

One quick way to check; if you've been using GP4 Builder to view the car as you paint, go 'Tools' -> 'Preferences' and if 'Reverse All Textures' is checked, then you need to Flip when you convert to .tex

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georgibg Wrote:
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> Yes this helps thank you! But I prefer to
> continue my work at GP3 and GP2 now I have a very
> big plans for it


That sounds very good... ...perhaps new track or carset for GP2/GP3..?

The message was from 2011 Henrik

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Ha ha ha ha..... Thank you for this fine information Eric I just looked at the latest post from todays date and went ahead writing... I better take a closer look at the posts next time around...



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/22/2017 08:37PM by shlund.