#9 Bill Elliott Evernham Motorsports Dodge Intrepid

I made a custom paint scheme for the old game in this style, but I liked it so much I decided to tackle it again. It's a shame there's no method for importing paint schemes between versions (the body style is the same for Gen5 cars) or sharing them. Either way, I still need to make a few tweaks. I want to add the C-Post Dodge dealers logo, and the mini Evernham Motorsports logo.

I started with the Chevy base model for the Gen6 car, because of the smoother front and the headlights/tail lights were closest to what the old Intrepids had around 2001-2002

Richard Petty STP 43 Pontiac Paint Scheme - NASCAR The Game: Inside Line

The latest paint scheme I've been working on for NASCAR The Game: Inside Line is a version of the STP Pontiac Grand Prix. Specifically, I'm focusing on a version like the 43 that Richard Petty drove in his final seasons. I kinda overdid it on the STP logo though, going for the older, wavier look. I might wind up changing that. The Pontiac logo is very easy to create. Making the layered stripes was a bit more of a pain than I thought it would be, particularly where they meet each other.

There are still details I think I'll add. In his final season, Pepsi was an associate sponsor, Pontiac had a vertical logo on the B post, and Uniden was on the C post. The Richard Petty fan appreciation tour logo would be a project of its own. For now, I just have STP on the back. There is still grill and headlight work to do to make it look more like the Pontiacs. I'm also using the default number tool. The real one is more compressed. After that, adding a gradient to the red-orange on the bottom sides might give it shadowing that looks like the older cars.

Also, the game is limited, in that I can't continue the red stripe that goes down the middle onto the rear spoiler, breaking the line from above and behind. Still, I thought the car was close enough to share my progress:

Questions From The Internets

One cool thing you get to do when running a blogo-site is you can see search engine terms people use to get to your little corner of the Internets. Often, these are lost souls on a wayward journey, searching for answers in this crazy mixed up world. According to my information, 99% of them just want to know how to hit 200 MPH at that one track. Still, I'm a nice guy, so I figure if Google decreed that my site provided the best answer to a question, I should probably actually answer that question. Without further ado:

"nascar the game inside line how to get the gen 6 cars"
According to rumor, Gen6 paint schemes and body styles will become available very shortly after the release of the first patch. Since the patch came out today, that should mean we get it any day now. Try to forget the fact that the patch was 3 months late. Aaaannnny day now.

For more information on how the Gen6 DLC will work, try to decipher this official news post.


"how to make a texaco racing car on nascar the game inside line"
The Texaco Havoline car is an iconic NASCAR paint scheme. It's relatively simple to make, but there is one hang up - the Texaco star logo. You could manually make a 5 point star, but there's an easier option. Using the in-game fake money/credits you earn in career mode, you can purchase decal-packs under the "Rewards" menu. Purchase the "All Stars" pack to get different star shapes, including a basic star that works perfectly for the Texaco logo.

When designing your custom paint scheme, create a custom brush. The bottom layer should be a large red circle. Then add your recently purchased star decal on top in white. Then add a capital "T" in Red on top of that. From there, you just need some yellow and/or red-orange trim, basic yellow text saying Havoline, a number, and whatever manufacturer style you prefer. Easy peezy.

 Thunderbird grill not included.

Unless, of course, you're one of those people who remember Davey Allison's old white and black paint scheme. Then things get a bit more complicated.

Shit.

That's it for now. Except for questions about that track which rhymes with Zalladega.

#9 Bill Elliott Coors Motorcraft Ford Thunderbird

In case you haven't noticed, I'm a Bill Elliott fan. I modified my 1985 version of his car to the blue striped Thunderbird he ran a few years later. I think this version actually works a bit better with the game's modern body style.

Check out the huge amount of negative camber on that front right tire. For those of you chomping at the bit for a good Talladega setup, there's a hint for ya. More on that later.

 

The front-left tire has maxed out positive camber. Not exactly photogenic.

#9 Bill Elliott Coors & Melling Oil Pumps Ford Thunderbird

I decided to see if I could make the current body of the car even somewhat work as an old 1985 Thunderbird (back from the days when the cars had vastly different styles.) I think it worked out okay from certain angles, but less so from others. There's that spoiler-color glitch that needs to be fixed; it should be white. I still need to do some work on the car, such as creating the Melling Performance Parts logo that goes on the back.  If anyone has a good image of that logo, leave a comment please. I haven't been able to find a good high resolution pic of it.

#11 Bill Elliott Budweiser Ford Thunderbird

I used the automatic number tool for this mockup of the old Junior Johnson Budweiser/Amoco car driven by Bill Elliott between 1992-1994. It actually worked pretty well in this case.

#4 Kodak Chevrolet Lumina

I decided to remake the old Morgan McClure Kodak #4 Chevy for NTG:IL. I think it turned out pretty well. Getting the "4" to look right probably took the most effort here. These old 90s designs were simple, but I think they hold their own compared to the cluttered mess most teams run these days.

NTG:IL Crash Pictures - 02

One thing I've noticed is that actually flipping your car is relatively difficult compared to previous NASCAR games. I don't know if this is an intentional element of realism reflecting the effectiveness of all the modern safety features which you can see deploy or if it's just an attempt to limit glitches. Still, it can be done. And the roof can at least be superficially damaged.

 Notice the water coming out of the barrels. 

Either that, or I just ran over Alex Mack.

Side Note: The spoiler of the car often reverts to the body color of the car. While this Coors Light car is still incomplete, I had to make the whole body white and paint the front blue, a bigger hassle than just adding white to the back and lower sides. This is the only way to make the spoiler match for now. Hopefully this glitch will be fixed in a patch.
 

 

The smoke and spark effects remain a stand-out graphics improvement for this game.

 

Let us pause for a moment of reflection.

Still, if you know where to go, you can catch some great air.

 Even backwards.

NASCAR The Game: Inside Line - Headlight Glitch

There are some useful features in the NTG:IL paint shop that weren't there in the previous game. For one, there's an automatic number system that even gives you the option of changing the outline color. You unfortunately can't change the size of the numbers, though, meaning you often have to do numbers manually to make your car look right. The game does include small "contingency" sponsors, which you had to redo manually in the previous game. This is a great addition. As in the previous game, you can turn on or off the manufacturer headlights and custom grill styles. You can also select colors for your wheels, fin, spoilers, etc.

I have noticed a few glitches though. For one, the spoiler cannot be painted or written on. Any attempt to put a design on it will just go through. This wouldn't matter, except the spoiler color selector simply doesn't work very often.

This spoiler is supposed to be white. It reverts automatically to whatever color the main body of the car is.

There are other issues with things "resetting" as well. Because of the number-sizing issue, I've often just turned off the automatic number stickers and made my own. They have an annoying tendency to turn back on at random, turning the sides and roof of the car into an unreadable jumble.

The same thing happens with the headlight stickers, but with a weird twist. If you're trying to make a car from a different era, it's often useful to turn them off. The game will randomly choose to turn them on. As an added, "fuck you," it rotates them 180 degrees, making your car look glitched out.

This:

Becomes this:

Notice how the small squares mid-way up are also glitched out.

Those are supposed to be white rectangles:

Luckily, the problem with the numbers and headlights can be easily solved by going back in to edit your paint scheme, making sure those stickers are set to "off," and re-saving it.

#28 Texaco Havoline Ford Thunderbird

Here's a paint scheme test using the new paint shop in NASCAR The Game: Inside Line. I decided to go with a relatively simple scheme like the old Davey Allison/Ernie Irvan #28 Texaco Havoline Ford Thunderbird. It was fairly easy to make a custom "brush" for the front grill and Texaco star logo. The fonts in the game are still somewhat limited, however. It would take a lot of fiddling about to make this quick mockup look better. Still, not a bad start.

Once again, I found I had to make a custom Ford logo, because apparently it hasn't occurred to Eutechnyx that we might want to include manufacturers in our custom paint schemes. Also, the different manufacturers still have different body styles, even though they are supposed to be the uniform COT, rather than the new Gen6 car. As a result, this Ford is actually a Chevy in game, because the Ford body style includes annoying grill indentations that mess with logos on the nose.

One good thing NTG:IL has going for it with custom paint schemes is the option to include all of those small contingency sponsors on the side/nose of the car automatically. They can be turned on or off, and they even thoughtfully left room for you to include more if you want. They definitely deserve credit for that. It was a pain to put them in place for NTG:2011.