JDM: Japanese Drift Master’s Expanded Paint Shop update is live, giving players a custom livery editor, new colour gradients and the ability to paint aftermarket rims. Gaming Factory has put the Steam patch notes online, and the headline number is a fairly generous 5,000 sticker and decal layers for each design.
That should leave plenty of room for a restrained racing stripe or the sort of colour scheme that makes the neighbours close their curtains. Hundreds of decals and stickers are available, with controls for scaling, rotation and symmetry alongside colour, brightness and gradients. Layers can also be reordered, hidden and duplicated, so fixing a design does not have to mean starting again.
Finished liveries can be saved as presets, and multiplayer adds a useful sharing route. Inspect another player’s car and you can save its current design to your own library, which sounds rather more convenient than asking someone to explain exactly where they placed the seventeenth tiny triangle.
There is a practical catch worth knowing before borrowing a design. Gaming Factory’s earlier explanation says liveries are made around a particular car model and its fitted parts, so applying one to a different configuration of the same model may need adjustment. A different bumper or bonnet can change where those carefully positioned graphics end up.
The standard paint tools have been expanded too. Two-point gradients let you select starting and finishing colours, then alter their position and angle, while the interface has been reworked for gamepad use. Single-part and three-part aftermarket rims can be repainted with different finishes, although stock rims remain unchanged.
The patch also addresses crashes involving force-feedback wheels, the car-parameters screen, the HUD and collisions. Traffic and AI drivers should spawn correctly after leaving multiplayer, while photo-mode fixes tackle oversaturated images and Steam screenshots saving incorrectly. Gaming Factory says players need to install the update before connecting to multiplayer, so make sure your version is current before heading out to compare paint jobs.
The official Steam patch notes contain the full breakdown and link to the developer’s more detailed livery explanation. The game’s Steam store page is here, if this is the update that finally persuades you to clear some space in the garage.