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i was thinking the paint selection would only be for solid colors.
i was thinking do car branding logos on an additional "trim.joe" or some such, mesh. as well as windshield wipers, grill-work,
logos actually on the paint would be body00-body99 texture.
so racecars or custom paint jobs wouldn't be affected by this. except insofar as it would interact with the trim mesh.
// on topic still, but a lengthy digression
a while back i was thinking of how to do an ingame body decal system. like they have on console games. which is not really necessary on pc cause we have gimp. but could still be good for people who don't know gimp and also for some kind of sponsor system in the career mode.
if you haven't played on of those (forza and need for speed: pro street) you basically get a front, top, back, left, and right side views of your car and can position decals on them.
ways to do it would be to give each face a texture number as well, and then have a different texture for each side (all othogonally projected from view) so you can then do 2d paint routines to add decals to a car without leaving the game engine.
still that'd be lots of work for the off-chance the career mode would have a sponsor system. and without a sponsor system you might as well just draw your racing livery in the gimp.
i've been playing with some programming lately, and haven't been getting much modeling in. was thinking about applying the ambient occlusion texture to the tc6, but then this idea hit me for a way to not have to update and commit lots of, err more than one, .png files.
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