I have spent an unhealthy amount of time in the livery editor since TSW2 came out. It likes to crash, place multiple shapes you dont want and can just generally be abit awkward so I thought I would post some helpful tips that I have figured out... 1. Most important It can and will just randomly crash, meaning you loose everything you have just done. Save every 5 minutes or everytime you do a significant part of the livery. There is nothing more annoying than losing your last 45minutes of work. 2. Getting colour right. Paint your loco and check it in game before going to far Into a detailed livery, the colours from livery editor to game can look very different..if you have used body coloured shapes to make parts of your livery it can be tedious to change them individually later on. 3. Stop placing lots of unwanted layers. To avoid the sporadic placement of shapes, always create your new layer from the very top of the layers list and then move it to where you need it. It only seems to place lots of unwanted layers when they are being placed ontop of lots of other layers. 4. Speed things up.. To make things abit quicker, plug in a keyboard. This makes going up and down the layers list much faster than with a controller. 5. To paint handrails Apply whatever shapes/text you want on the bodywork. Now apply another layer above that so it covers it the handrails. (You need to make a few sections on some locos to avoid painting anything that sticks out as much as the rails do) colour it the colour you want the rails and now use projection. Turn the bottom slider down to the left until just the rails are covered. Move the top slider to the right to paint the rails fully. 6. Making detailed logos.. Make use of the big blank canvas that is the locomotives side. Start the logo as big as you can then just resize it down when your finished. This makes it alot less fiddly. 7. Layer Groups and Projection If you have painted handrails or whatever, using different levels of projection dont group these together. Once grouped the editor seems to use the same projection across the whole group meaning you end up with it not looking how you intended. 8. If you want to keep a consistent colour.. When writing text or making a logo that's going to be made of lots of Individual shapes its almost impossible (or very time consuming anyway) to individually paint them all the same colour. Do one that's definitely the correct colour then just keep copying that one and just change the shape or letter to whatever you need. I.e. if your writing 'UNION PACIFIC' make the U the correct colour of red, then just press X to copy that layer, change the shape to N, slide it along and repeat. 9. Projection can be very handy and save you some layers. You will find if you do a detailed logo/design you can be at the 300 layer limit in no time. Projection can be used in the opposite way to the handrails. By moving the lower slider all the way to the right you can project the image from one side onto the other side of the loco/wagon. This doesn't work for text etc as it ends up backwards but is still pretty handy. 10. Weathering I have still not quite mastered this... but the square gradient shape down the bottom of the shapes list is pretty good. Try stretching it the length of the loco/wagon, colour it brown/black or use both and then slide it/them down till the see through part of the gradient shape is all that's showing. These can also be used to make oily or rusty streaks coming of grilles, handrails etc. I have attached a couple of pics to show how I made a UP logo and then a couple of weathering using ^that method just to give an idea. Hope this helps some folks out!
i wish you could just draw custom shapes. becuase im curntly trying to make alivery whitch is basicly imposeble with the livery editor. I am trying to make the RhB Ge4/4 II 633 in the RTR (radiotelevisuin svizera rumanantscha) and it impossible trying to do the white lines on the red part with the normal shapes. pleas dovetail just give us more options for editing the basics shapes.
