How do you paint cars?

One of the more interesting resultants of this sim was the rise the painting community. The ability to paint your own car and race it against the stars of the NASCAR series has been one of the most appealing aspects of the game, and the skills of said painters have grown to be remarkable. Today there are artists designing paint schemes for real NASCAR teams that had their start painting car models for NR2003. In edition to this there is an extensive rendering community designed to properly show case these paint jobs. A render is a more graphically pleasing view of a paint scheme than an in-game shot. The reasons behind this are a higher polygon count which gives a more accurate representations of the cars. This has led to creative placement of paint schemes in realistic environments.