Trading Paints is the painting community for iRacing. If you’re an iRacing member, you can design, share, and race your own custom paints all through Trading Paints. You can create a scheme to share with the wider iRacing audience or you can keep your paints private, only to be used by your friends or race team.
The beautiful thing about Trading Paints with iRacing, unlike other racing games such as ACC – where you need to download each file individually to your documents folders – is any Trading Paints member can also see your custom paint schemes you are racing without taking any extra steps due to it being syncronised with iRacing.
Creating Your Trading Paints Account
To create account is very simple, you just need to ensure you have an active iRacing subscription so you can input your iRacing customer ID. The rest is very standard with an email address and password.
When you do create an account you will need to activate your account by clicking a link sent to your iRacing Private Message inbox. Important note that the iRacing activation is sent through iRacing and not the email address you used to sign up with. This is done to match your Trading Paints account to your iRacing account.
How To Find Your iRacing Customer ID
There are a few ways for you to locate your iRacing customer ID. One of them is through the iRacing companion app, the other is through the iRacing UI.
In the companion app, when you click on the menu bars in the top left corner, you will be greeted with your user name, directly underneath that will be your iRacing customer ID, it’s usually always a 5 or 6 digit number. On the iRacing UI homepage, your iRacing customer ID number can be found in your profile area in the same way.
You’ll Also Need Trading Paints Downloader
Since iRacing does not automatically load custom car paints, you’ll need to install and run the Trading Paints Downloader. This program loads custom liveries from Trading Paints onto cars in iRacing when you race.
When Trading Paints Downloader is open while you race, iRacing gives Trading Paints a list of cars in the session that require custom paints to be loaded. Then, Trading Paints Downloader fetches the paints corresponding to each car in the server and loads them into iRacing. After a few moments, custom paints will begin to appear on cars you see in the server.
If you are in a server and you notice custom liveries are not showing, it may be that you need to open the downloader to refresh paint schemes, which will then show after a few seconds.
How To Select A Paint To Race
To assign an iRacing paint to your car, navigate to the paint you’d like to use and click the “Race this paint” button. You must be logged in to Trading Paints to do this.
Selecting “Race this paint” will automatically assign the selected livery to your car in iRacing. The next time your car appears in a session with the Trading Paints Downloader program running, you should see it.
After selecting to race a paint scheme, it will be shown in your ‘My Paints’ section, where you can see and manage all the custom paints you’ve assigned previously.
Creating Your Own Paint Schemes
You can use the Trading Paints Paint Builder, included with a Trading Paints Pro account, to create simple custom paints. You will not be able to create your own liveries without a pro account.
The Trading Paints Builder helps you create your liveries without complicated photo-editing software. Paint Builder is simple enough to use for beginners, yet powerful enough for advanced painting pros.
If you want more flexibility and have experience using advanced graphics software like Adobe Photoshop, you can download iRacing’s PSD templates — then, upload the completed exported files to your My Paints section of Trading Paints.
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