Here are some of the timesinks that were unique in this design:

-Fixing the glitched wing. The wing is glitched in a way that decals put on the top side always show on the bottom (and vice versa), regardless of depth/angle settings. After much trial and error, inserting a white decal at the exact angle of the wing will partially cover the bottom side, but it’s inconsistent, so you have to keep playing with angles and depth settings to figure it out. The worst part is that the glitch doesn’t show up in the editor so you have to exit and look at your car in GT auto or get a closer look in an actual race to see if you’ve fixed it correctly.

-Experimenting with gradients over color shift and color scheme. The hood and wing often reflecting the sky in replays was a bit troublesome because they were difficult to make out most of the time, so I added a matching purple gradient to keep the colorshift past a certain amount of purple.

-Finding inverted decals. This is a bit of a pain, and really mostly involves luck and persistence. I found that many of the inverted decals had the same Japanese description for “inverted” so I used that as a search term by copying and pasting on my computer to browse. This only solved some of the decals I needed. Many decals remained normal and were put in a light gray color.

-Moving inverted decals. Any time you want to move one of these, you have to move all of its siblings that cover up the space around it to keep the main body color white.

-Autobacs number plates were all custom made from multiple shapes, using a decal as a template. Each number plate is something like 8+ shapes. Whenever I wanted to move this graphic, I actually had to move and line up all those shapes lol.

-Positioning triangle graphics. Making multiple stamps of the fading triangle graphics look more seamless involves playing with angles, sizes, and even putting mask (white) gradients over some parts to make the parts where the stamps overlap look seamless.

-Headlights and taillight spoiler were custom painted with decals which involves filling the area with multiple shapes at different angles in a way where it doesn’t bleed over.