Drifters have been hounding Gaming Factory for a proper vinyl editor ever since JDM landed on Steam back in 2025. On November 10, the Polish studio confirmed in its latest Steam development update that the Expanded Paint Shop Update is just days away from going live, bringing a full custom livery builder, window stickers, and aftermarket wheel painting to Guntama's 250 kilometers of highways and mountain touge roads.
Why Swappable Body Kits Forced Two Rebuilds
Shipping a decal editor sounds simple until every fender, hood, and side skirt on the car can be swapped out. Because Japanese Drift Master centers on modular exterior parts that widen arches and reshape bumpers, projecting flat stickers cleanly across changing body lines turned into a major engineering headache. Gaming Factory admitted it scrapped the entire livery feature twice over the past year after early prototypes tanked frame rates, triggered visual bugs, and felt too shallow to enjoy.
What Lands Inside Kaori's Upgraded Paint Shop
Once you clear the sixth campaign mission and open Kaori's shop on the map, the updated painter hands you up to 5,000 decal layers per build. Drivers can stack basic shapes, patterns, and brand logos across both bodywork and glass windows, complete with scaling, rotation, and left-to-right symmetry mirroring. Controller players also get a cleaner menu layout so nudging vinyls into place with thumbsticks feels far less fiddly.
- Up to 5,000 individual sticker and vinyl layers per car
- Full decal placement across body panels and glass windows
- Scale, rotate, and mirror shapes with updated gamepad menus
- Custom paint support for single-piece and multi-piece aftermarket rims
- Gloss, matte, satin, metallic, pearlescent, chrome, and carbon finishes
- Wraps adapt cleanly across swapped hoods, skirts, and widebody kits
Rebuilding a broken feature twice takes patience, especially when drift culture lives and dies by matching widebody fitment with a signature door livery and painted deep-dish wheels.
Wheel customization rounds out the patch by letting builders spray aftermarket single-piece and multi-piece rims in the same gloss, satin, matte, pearlescent, chrome, or carbon finishes available for bodywork, while factory stock wheels stay locked to OEM colors. Between painted lips, animated underglow, and 5,000-layer door graphics, tandem crews on both Simcade and Arcade handling modes will finally be able to build recognizable team cars when the free Steam update arrives within days.
