Gaming Factory has launched the Expanded Paint Shop update for its open-world drift racer JDM: Japanese Drift Master, adding a livery system, rim painting and two-point colour gradients. The update went live on November 13th.
According to a release, the livery system was the community’s most requested feature since the game launched. The studio called it ‘the final missing puzzle piece’ for representing street car and drift cultures in the game. The release does not state a price for the update.
Livery editor and paint shop changes
The livery editor offers hundreds of decals and stickers, with up to 5,000 sticker layers per design. Players can scale, rotate and recolour layers, use a symmetry mode, adjust camera precision settings, and reorder, hide or duplicate layers. Liveries can be saved as presets, each creating a separate save file in the game’s folder.
Liveries can also be shared in multiplayer: players drive up to another player, inspect their car and save its active livery to their own library of presets. The paint shop interface has been redesigned for a better gamepad experience.
The update adds colour gradients that use a start and end colour, with controls for angle, brightness and saturation. Rim painting is also new. Single-part and three-part rims can be painted like the car body, with factory finish, gloss, metallic, sateen, matt and chrome materials. Stock rims cannot be changed.
Bug fixes
The patch fixes several crashes, including those caused by force feedback steering wheels, the car parameters screen, HUD issues and collisions. Traffic and AI drivers now spawn correctly after leaving multiplayer.
Photo Mode fixes address an oversaturated post-process effect, screenshots not saving correctly on Steam, the gear shifting to Neutral when leaving Photo Mode, and the Landmarks activity registering a landmark without a photo being taken. The release also lists general stability and performance improvements.
Gaming Factory says players must update the game before launching multiplayer, as the game needs to be up to date to connect with other players.
The following was sent as a press release to Inven Global.
