At this point its just that the system required to produce a masked image would be a considerable amount of work to implement. The system can function without it, so its best to get other things working first.
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So we got dynamic ttf loading working! Here is a more recent WIP layout featuring everyone’s favourite font 
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Much to my surprise I got masking and raytracing working! This opens the layout possibilities back up again.
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Thought I’d give a custom layout a go, using one of the few recent cars I put more than 10 fixtures on:
Font used: Archivo (regular weight, bold, black) Archivo - Google Fonts
Font sizes: 180 px (year), 60 px (car name), 36 px (specifications), 24 px (description)
Technical notes:
- The colour of the background should be customizable, should it not sufficiently contrast with the car itself. The same applies to the text.
- If needed, the Automation logo can be placed between the year and the front shot.
- In case it wasn’t that obvious, the camera will need to be zoomed out for taller vehicles.
- For the lower side shot, a “flat” front-quarter angle á la Gran Turismo 6 garage icons could be used as well.
- The short description is meant to either be sourced from the car or input directly as plain text.
- Checkbox options should be present that include or exclude the model trim and engine variant names (in the above example, both would be absent, the example being a bespoke race car with a bespoke engine).
- Should some lines (such as the weirdly long chassis number of an Italian 60s race car, or a Japanese 90s warm hatch trim) encroach onto the front and rear shots, a narrow variant of the Archivo font can be used.
What's that car, and why is it horribly out of focus?
Sorry, I didn’t Gaussian blur the pictures of it for no reason. You should be able to get a clearer look at it in due time, though.
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Here is a layout nearing completion
And a gif of using the WIP poster UI:
P.S thanks @XenoYparxi for the primary inspiration for this layout.
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