Purpose

I wrote this guide for anyone who wants to rip and customize a driver roster or season for the purpose of offline practice. Please don’t steal people’s paint schemes.

Why

Offline practice with AI is the best way to familiarize yourself with a track, traffic patterns, passing opportunities or weather and pit strategies. Customizing your roster allows you to fine tune AI opponent behavior, with the added bonus of real-life liveries via Trading Paint.

How To - Trading Paint Rosters

You need to bookmark several key iRacing folders for quick reference. Ensure that Trading Paint client is running. All folders are under your user profile on Windows.

PRO-TIP :: Pin to Quick Access these folders

iRacing Paint folder

Here you will find 1 folder per car. This is the place to grab custom paints.

C:\Users\{{username}}\Documents\iRacing\paint\toyotagr86

Trading Paint AI Rosters

AI rosters are added from Trading Paint and synced to this folder. Simply copy the ```json`` file to a safe location.

C:\Users\{{username}}\Documents\iRacing\airosters

iRacing AI Seasons

AI seasons are created inside iRacing. You can copy an existing pre-build season and edit.

C:\Users\{{username}}\Documents\iRacing\aiseasons

Steps

1. On Trading Paint select any AI roster you desire
2. Start iRacing, go to AI Single player, create a Single Race with your roster
   • TIP: Ensure Number of AI Drivers includes ALL of your roster entries
3. Start the simulator session, Trading Paint will download all paint schemes into iRacing\paint\..
4. While the sim is running, copy ALL of the .tga files to a safe location
   • TIP: Trading Paint clears the paint directory between races
5. Create a new folder under iRacing\airosters for your custom roster
6. Copy the original roster.json into your new folder
   • TIP: Ignore the tradingpaint.txt, this will cause problems with your paint schemes
7. Copy the .tga files from step 4 into the new roster folder
8. Exit the sim, and create a new Single Race with your custom roster

Outcome

If you followed these steps correct you should see

• Driver list from the original Trading Paint roster
• Custom paint schemes from original roster

From here you can make driver tweaks as you desire. When you fire up a a new single race you should see all of the custom paints that you downloaded. By creating a copy of the roster you ensure that Trading Paint doesn’t blow away your paint schemes when you switch rosters. This is merely asthetic and doesn’t impact your sessions.

That’s A Wrap

Thanks for riding along on this adventure. Give me a follow on Trading Paints or on the socials.