iRacing Car Paints Part 2: Chrome, Metallic & Spec Maps Explained

📥 Download the free Spec Map Reference Sheet: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KbBt... In this follow-up to my beginner paint tutorial, we take a deep dive into Custom Spec Maps and how they affect the look and feel of your iRacing paint jobs. You'll learn how to create realistic chrome, metallic, satin, matte and glossy finishes by understanding what each Spec Map channel actually does. In this video we cover: ✔ Metallic (Red Channel) ✔ Roughness (Green Channel) ✔ Clearcoat (Blue Channel) ✔ Layer Masks & Workflow in GIMP ✔ Matte Finishes ✔ Chrome Effects ✔ Layers upon layers ✔ Materials Explained Whether you're creating your first custom paint or looking to take your designs to the next level, understanding Spec Maps is one of the most powerful skills you can learn as an iRacing painter. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📺 Watch Part 1: Learn how to create gradients, install paints with Trading Paints, add logos and avoid color banding.    • iRacing Custom Paint Tutorial for Beginner...   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Timestamps 0:00 Intro 1:41 Recap & Setting up Layers 6:09 Spec Map Channel Guide 8:42 Making the car completely 'matte' 11:55 Making the rear bumper 'chrome' 16:19 Handling the sticker on the bumper 20:46 Thanks to you all ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #iRacing #TradingPaints #GIMP #CarPainting #SpecMap #PBR #SimRacing