♦ ♣ ♥ ♠ ♦ ♣ ♥ ♠ ♦ ♣ ♥ ♠ ♦ ♣ ♥ ♠♠Your Garage♣♦ ♣ ♥ ♠Your garage is the central hub for all things relating to your cars. From here, you can customize your cars and choose which ones you wish to use in Rally.
You can have 3 cars in your garage at any given time, though you may own as many as you like.
First, you'll need to get to your garage. You can get there by hovering over your 'My Gaia' link, and then selecting 'Car' from the menu that drops down.
Clicking on this will take you to your garage- it will look like this:
When you join, you will be given one free car automatically- this is the car that you will see parked in your garage. These freebies are great starter cars- they'll be great for learning the basics of Rally and customizing, and if you decide that cars are not for you, you won't have to invest as much as if you purchase an entire car and build it up from scratch.
You'll notice some options along the top right of the garage screen-
The -/+ option controls your zoom and allows you to move the camera closer to or further from your cars.
The shield icon brings up a list of your available and completed achievements relating to Rally. These are simple tasks that you will complete in time as you play with your car and visit Rally.
The gear is your settings for the garage- presently, it is only used to toggle quality settings.
The screen option allows you to view your garage in full-screen mode. You can press Escape on your keyboard to exit full-screen mode.
The speaker option at the far right allows you to enable and disable the background music and sound effects.
The options below will take you directly to Rally or to Sam's Body & Parts for shopping.
The options to the left where the type of car you have are these:
The images above show the toggled options relating to using the car in Rally- you can only use one at a time, so your active car (the one with the star) is the one that will appear when you place a car in Rally.
The option to 'Remove From Spot' will take the car from your garage and put it back into your inventory.
The 'Rotate' option will turn your car sideways in it's spot in your garage.
♦ ♣ ♥ ♠ ♦ ♣ ♥ ♠♣Getting Started♠In order to customize your car, you'll need to get some goodies to put on it!
Along the top left of your screen, you will see options that correspond to different parts of your car and will bring up options for what you can equip to your car. If you do not have anything to equip, you will instead get a link to Sam's Body & Parts where you can find items to equip. You can also click the link to the right which will take you there, as well.
A quick note about Sam's shop-
There are options under the main tabs that once functioned as a filter to ensure that you were only seeing options that would fit on your car, though at present time, they seem to be broken. As the car being used in this tutorial was the freely provided Scion xD, this option would be the one that we would use--
--though, as clicking these currently wipes all items from the shop interface, I will show you another means of identifying what wil and will not work for your car.
Some of the items have a special header before the item name, such as this one:
What this is telling us is that this paint is for the UFO only and will not work on any other car. You can see these headers by hovering over the item or clicking on it to view it's information before purchasing. An item designed for the UFO will not work with any other vehicles- just as those headed Possum will only work on the possum, Scion will only work with the Scion vehicles (CT, XD, or XB), Musculero will only work with the Musculero, and Kiki will only work with the Kiki car.
Here is another example of a specific header, for the Kiki car-
Some items have no header identifying which cars that they will work for. These items will work for all standard vehicles- which is everything
but the UFO, Kiki, or Concept Car.
For this example, we'll use the heart paint--
Once you are sure that it will work for your vehicle, you can purchase it.
When looking at other items, be sure to check their headers as well. Not all decorative items will work with all vehicles, just as not all paints will work.
This decal, for example, only works with the Possum-
While this one works with all standard cars- this is what we will go with for the tutorial.
Some item sets are limited more than others, such as the items that go under the car. Presently, the only options are a bell for the Kiki car and neon lights that can be equipped only to Scion cars.
The last tab in the shop is where you can purchase other vehicles.
You can click on each one to learn a bit about it, and then make your choice. Some are more expensive than others, while others are more affordable.
For this example, we will go with the Concept Car and place it in our garage later.
Once you have everything that you need, head back to your garage. Click through the different sections and select the items that you want to equip. Items for that portion of your car will now appear in place of a link to the shops-
As you add items, you will see your car below changing. Once you are finished, you can see a full list of everything equipped on the leftmost option in the equip section.
And, just like that, you have a customized car!
To add other cars that you have purchased, click one of the spinning plus signs in the empty spaces-
This will bring up Sam asking which of your cars you wish to place. Since we got the Concept Car while shopping, we can place it here.
Your car will appear in the empty space. You can dismiss it by clicking 'remove from spot' if you want to put a different car there, or select 'use in Rally' of you want this to be the car that you race with and park in Rally.
With some effort and time, you can collect any number of cars and customize them to your liking.
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