Assigning Paint Groups and Car Paint

Switching a material to car paint is not enough on its own — for a part to be paintable in-game it must be assigned a paint group. This trips up almost everyone doing their first body-part swap.

The rule

A part can use a car-paint material, but if you want to actually paint it in game, it needs a paint group assigned. "Car paint material" and "paintable" are two different things.

Assigning a paint group

This is done in the Carbin editor, in the Material Indices section:

1. Open the carbin and find the part you want to make paintable.
2. Scroll down in that part's entry to Material Indices.
3. If you did a material swap, sync it first: click the button in the **top

right** of the Material Indices section, then click the part again so the materials sync.

1. If the material you're changing is carpaint secondary, the list of

available paint groups is on the right side — pick the group you want.

Fixing broken paint after a rotation or swap

Community-confirmed gotchas:

• Rotating a car-paint part can break its paint while a plain plastic part in

the same operation is unaffected. If paint breaks after a transform, re-check the material indices sync.

• Changing a part to carpaint can appear as "evil blue" or break a neighbouring

part (e.g. a wing you never touched) if paint IDs aren't set correctly — there is more than one value involved, so sync the indices rather than editing a single field by hand.