Tracers Rounds (From SimHQ)

[Upthair]

Originally Posted by choctaw111

You two "proof" photos are only showing that the tracer has just lit as it is coming out of the barrel and takes a foot or two to reach full brightness, nothing more.

Taking a foot or two to reach full brightness? Maybe, and maybe not.

Take a look at the tracers after they reach full brightness. Their width is the same down the length of the trace.

Take a look:



If you still say this one bullet has just lit out there, then the "just lit" part is even brighter.

If it is argued that distance is the reason why the nearer end is brighter than the farther end, then this reasoning applies to all vidoes where each tracer segment has homogeneous brightness and width from beginnnig to end. In other words, when a vidoe show that the tracer segments have the same brightness and width down their length, that is because "distance" intervened, and actually they are not homogeneous.

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Originally Posted by Upthair

Take a look:

If you still say this one bullet has just lit out there, then the "just lit" part is even brighter. ~

You do realise that the "lit part" is the only part making that light, right? It's not a glowing tube with a burning end, it's an illusion created by your eye and brain.

Now this is where the camera and eye start to differ, and where compression, framerate and lens quality fall short.

The tracers in Cliffs of Dover are accurate. This is coming from the people who made them, and the people who have actually seen and fired real tracers in real life!

[Novotny]

*idiot hat put on*

If it ain't on youtube it ain't real.

[GF_Mastiff]

Originally Posted by Novotny

*idiot hat put on*

If it ain't on youtube it ain't real.

theres a State Farm commercial that just cracks me up!

[Upthair]

Originally Posted by speculum jockey

You do realise that the "lit part" is the only part making that light, right? It's not a glowing tube with a burning end, it's an illusion created by your eye and brain.

Now this is where the camera and eye start to differ, and where compression, framerate and lens quality fall short.

What you said here had already been implied or emphasized in my first post in this thread.

[BOBC]

Having had some ideas on tracer I see this thread with the same thoughts of naked eye v camera effect. see my argument at http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=32624 and what may be a PC monitor limitation .

I certainly cannot understand how a tracer round can flash on and off so giving us a dashed line, and it cant be seen as one long streak of light, how can it still glow at 0.1inch from barrel and be glowing 250 yds from barrel, in reality that is, but it could on a slow fps film camera, where the film frame was exposed for the length of time it took to do 250 yds.

The arguments put fwd as videos are null and void as they are how cameras capture it. They illustrate my very reasoning.

A video here showing what I feel we would see in reality

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx5aR...layer_embedded

BOBC

[Freycinet]

That looks exactly like what I see in CoD

[Gabelschwanz Teufel]

Aside from the slightly out of focus blur which causes the rounds to look like "blobs" that's what tracers look like. They are smaller points of light, for lack of a better term, not quite as large as what shows on that film.

[BOBC]

If thats what CloD now has thats great news.

Cant find a youtube of it yet but no doubt one will be made soon.

What colour are they ?

BOBC