More realistic machine gun tracers?

[Avionsdeguerre]

First video = a plasmagun
the second video = Han Solo
Lol

[Fuchs]

men in black are near!!

[ChrisDNT]

"Tracers in real life look like star wars lasers."

Once again, I've been AA gunner on what was basically an improved WWII design canon (the Oerlikon54) and I NEVER saw, during day or night, any "lasers", either from the gunner seat or looking at the battery from a certain distance.



@the fanboys : before saying that the tracers look in real life like lasers because "God" or his saints said it, just remember the "atomic" muzzleflashes from IL2, which were also "really real", until they disappeared.

[Blackdog_kt]

That's strange...i've been a flak gunner on dual 20mm Rheinmetal guns and they looked very similar to CoD, including their transition from "streak" to "dot" as they move away and the angular offset effect diminishes.

The only issue i can find is that the ones in CoD are a bit too thick when they are close to your viewpoint, but if i remember correctly this is due to a limitation in the way they are rendered.

[Wutz]

Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt

That's strange...i've been a flak gunner on dual 20mm Rheinmetal guns and they looked very similar to CoD, including their transition from "streak" to "dot" as they move away and the angular offset effect diminishes.

The only issue i can find is that the ones in CoD are a bit too thick when they are close to your viewpoint, but if i remember correctly this is due to a limitation in the way they are rendered.

Yes that is how I remember them too! Out of curiousity at which squadron where you serving?

[proton45]

To cut to the chase...here is the best answer (solution) to this issue that I have heard.


Selectable camera shake (view)...someplace in the config file we need a little option for "camera shake view". In "off" mode, we have what we have now...But in the "on" mode we have all the little cinematic camera shake effects that everyone is used to seeing in documentary's...mainly the tracer wobble, that everyone seems to feel is "more realistic". For the most part we have half of the camera effect view (in the game), we have the tracer streak, but not the wobble. In real life, a tracer is more like a spot of glowing color...not a streak of color.