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Paint modifications are the most common type of visual tuning in the Need for Speed series.

Need for Speed II[]

Car paint modification was first available in Need for Speed II, as players has the choice of selecting only preset factory colours.

Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit[]

The PC release included the option of selecting custom colours in addition to the default factory choices.

Need for Speed: High Stakes[]

Need for Speed: High Stakes uses the paint system from its predecessor. In the PC release, car interior colour can't be selected, but is changed accordingly to the selected body colour.

Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed[]

The paint system introduced in Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit is largely retained, although the PC release introduces the option for players to select custom car interior colour.

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2[]

Players can only change the body paint of the car with factory colours.

Need for Speed: Underground[]

From Need for Speed: Underground and upwards, no factory colours are eligible anymore, but different types of paints like gloss, metallic, and pearlescent paint can be selected. It is also possible to paint the engine, muffler, rear spoiler, rims. Car paints don't boost the star rating of a car as much as spoilers.

Need for Speed: Underground 2[]

Need for Speed: Underground 2 retains the paint system from its predecessor, but also introduces side mirrors painting.

Need for Speed: Most Wanted[]

Need for Speed: Most Wanted removed many options available in Underground 2. From this game and later on, the whole car body, rear spoiler, and rims are paintable. Rims can be painted with chrome, gloss, and matte colours.

Need for Speed: Carbon[]

Need for Speed: Carbon brought the individual colour option back and also added new paints such as candy, chrome, iridescent, and matte paint.

Need for Speed: ProStreet[]

Need for Speed: ProStreet has the same painting system as Carbon. In this game however, it was possible to paint the hood, bumpers, and doors individually.

Need for Speed: Undercover[]

Need for Speed: Undercover retains the paint system from its predecessor.

Need for Speed: Shift[]

In Need for Speed: Shift, players can choose car colour from a colour wheel with paint finish options including gloss, metallic, candy, pearl, chrome, matte, and flip. Paint can also be applied to individual body parts such as hood, front bumper, rear bumper, trunk, glass, and rearview mirrors.

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (2010)[]

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (2010) does not allow individual colour options. Players can only change the body paint of the car with factory colours.

Shift 2: Unleashed[]

Players can choose from a set of preset colours or select a custom paint set by Hue, Saturation and Brightness, also having paint finishes such as metallic. Individual parts including rims colour are also available.

Need for Speed: The Run[]

Players can only change the body paint of the car with factory colours or other.

Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2012)[]

Car paint can be changed by driving through a Repair Shop in the single player portion of Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2012).

Need for Speed: Rivals[]

Need for Speed: Rivals offers body paint alteration of each racer vehicle with an available selection of pre-defined stock colours or with the application of a custom colour and paint finish.

Need for Speed (2015)[]

Body and rim paint can be recoloured using a HSB cylindrical-coordinate model and PBR (Physically Based Rendering) material properties. The paint work can be altered in six categories; Hue, Saturation, Brightness, Metallic (Metalness), Roughness (Light Reflection), and Clearcoat.

Need for Speed: Payback[]

Body and rim paint can be recoloured using a HSB cylindrical-coordinate model and PBR (Physically Based Rendering) material properties. The paint work can be altered in six categories; Hue, Saturation, Brightness, Metallic (Metalness), Roughness (Light Reflection), and Clearcoat.

Need for Speed: Heat[]

In Need for Speed: Heat, the base colour of the bodywork paint for a car can be selected with sliders ranging from 0 to 100 for three aspects to make up its HSL colour; Hue, Saturation, and Lightness. The specifications of the bodywork paint for a car can be selected with options from three fields; Material, Effect, and Coat.

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