Today, JDM: Japanese Drift Master launched its highly anticipated livery system, introducing an extensive collection of customization options that allow players to create their own designs and further personalize their vehicles.
The JDM: Japanese Drift Master feature arrives as the community’s most requested addition since the game’s initial release, addressing one of the remaining pieces needed to represent Japanese streetcar and drifting culture better. The new livery system expands the existing Paint Shop with more than 100 decal designs and shapes, giving players access to hundreds of stickers and up to 5,000 layers for each custom design.
Players can freely adjust the scale, rotation, color, saturation, brightness, and gradients of individual decals, while additional tools allow them to reorder, hide, duplicate, and apply symmetry to layers. Custom liveries can also be saved as presets, with each preset generating a separate save file in the game’s directory.
Multiplayer players ins JDM: Japanese Drift Master can also share their creations with others. By approaching and inspecting another player’s vehicle, players can save its active livery to their own preset collection, making it easier to discover new designs and bring them into their own garage. The update also improves the Paint Shop’s vehicle painting interface, including a redesigned layout for better gamepad support and a new two-point color gradient system that lets players select starting and ending colors, adjust the gradient angle, and fine-tune brightness and saturation.
Rim customization is another major addition, allowing players to paint single-part and three-part wheels independently of their vehicle’s body. Available finishes include factory, gloss, metallic, satin, matte, and chrome, alongside additional controls for color saturation and brightness. Stock rims are excluded from this feature, but the expanded options offer far more flexibility when coordinating wheel designs with custom liveries.
Alongside the new customization features, the update addresses several crashes related to force feedback steering wheels, the car parameters screen, HUD issues, and collisions during gameplay. Traffic and AI drivers should also spawn correctly after players leave multiplayer.
At the same time, Photo Mode receives fixes for oversaturated post-processing, improperly saved Steam screenshots, and transmission behavior when exiting the mode. The JDM: Japanese Drift Master update additionally corrects an issue that could cause the Landmarks activity to register a photograph without the player actually taking one.
General stability and performance improvements are also included in the release. Players should make sure JDM: Japanese Drift Master is updated to the latest version before attempting to enter multiplayer, as an outdated game client will prevent them from connecting with other players.
JDM: Japanese Drift Master is available now on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S. For more on the simulator’s story, cars, and recent updates, be sure to check back to Simulation Daily.
