First up, thanks to
"SantaUndercover" for mentioning where to find the
"Not Captured" vehicles.
The best way I've found to photograph almost any vehicles is a s follows:
STEP ONE (1-5) - MAKE A LIST:1. In freeroam, press the pause button.
2. Press
“RB” until you reach the
“PROGRESS” tab.
3. Select
“HORIZON PROMO”.
4. Press
“Y” and select
“NOT CAPTURED” and press
“B”.
5. Make a list of the vehicles you need to photograph.
TIP: Simply write out the list if only a few vehicles are required. If you need quite a lot of vehicles however, use your smartphone to voice record the name of each vehicle into an email, SMS or similar as you scroll through the list. This can then be printed either from your phone or copied into an email which can be sent to your PC and printed from there (editing if needed). This enables you to tick off each vehicle as you photograph it.
STEP TWO (6-12) - CREATE CUSTOM EXHIBITION:6. Drive or fast travel to any racing event and press
“X” to
“SETUP EVENT”.
7. Choose
“EXHIBITION”.
8. Choose
“BLUEPRINT AN EXHIBITION”.
9. Press
“RB” button until you get to
“CUSTOM” and press
“A”.
10. Scroll through the vehicles and press
“A” to add any you are missing for the achievement.
11. Add up to 49 vehicles that you require + one vehicle that you own (so you can take part).
12. Press
“B”, select
“YES” to confirm selection and select
“CREATE BLUEPRINT”.
STEP THREE (13-25) - TAKE PHOTOGRAPHS:13. Press
“X” to
“SETUP EVENT” and select
“EXHIBITION”.
14. Select the
“EXHIBITION” you created.
15. Select a vehicle and once loaded select
“START RACE EVENT”.
16. When the race has started, immediately open photo mode and take photos as normal.
17. When processing is complete, press
“B” twice and select
“YES” to
“EXIT PHOTO MODE”.
18. Pause and
“QUIT EVENT”.
19. Drive back to the same event and press
“X” to
“SETUP EVENT” again.
20. Choose
“EXHIBITION”.
21. Choose
“EDIT YOUR EXHIBITION” and press
“A”.
22. Press
“Y”, select
“Selected” and press
“B”.
23. Deselect any vehicles you’ve already photographed.
24. Press
“B”, select
“YES” to confirm selection and select
“CREATE BLUEPRINT”.
25. Select
“YES” to
“OVERWRITE EVENT”.
STEP FOUR (26-27) - RINSE & REPEAT:26. Re-enter the
“EXHIBITION” you created as different cars from your list will be in the next race.
27. Repeat 19-24, deleting any photographed vehicles so they don’t appear again.
TIP:If your wanted vehicles stop spawning after a few races, change your own vehicle at your garage and add it whilst in the “EDIT YOUR EXHIBITION” and this should spawn different vehicles.
Reading the above it seems very laborious, but that's because I've listed virtually all button presses for anyone starting out. It doesn't take long in reality.
Just before I started writing this, I needed 40+ vehicles to complete the achievement and whilst testing, I managed to photograph 20+ vehicles in 5 races, which is something I hadn't seen since the start of the game. :)
Used the same technique on my son's account and got ALL 25 required vehicles in 3 race starts. :)
I ended up buying one of the last six vehicles I needed in the "Auction House" and when I used that car in the same custom exhibition, 4 of the last six vehicles where on the start grid! LOL
I was struggling to find just two cars in order to have all 539.
One was the
2016 Ford Shelby GT350R Pre-order Car, which I ended up seeing randomly driving around in the desert (as you do).
The other was the
* 2011 Porsche #45 Flying Lizard 911 GT3 RSR, which was a bit more elusive for me.
In the the end I tried creating custom blueprint exhibition with just two vehicles.
These were the
#45 Audi R8 and
#45 Porsche 911 "Flying Lizard" cars and when I started the race the lineup was 50/50 Audi/Porsche, so managed to capture the last car.
Not needed for the achievement as that kicks in @ 530 cars photographed,, but if you have slight OCD and want to capture all of the cars, maybe this will help someone.