Tracers Rounds (From SimHQ)

[Erkki]

A camera's shutter speed is from 1/100 up to 1/2500-3000 in daylight. Animations start working for a human eye after 1/25.

edit: afaik the tracers appear white in guncams(colour ones...) because especially old films are very sensitive to IR light. The tracers simply burn through.

You can find some US kamikaze-footage taken in the dawn/sunset and even night, you can see the full spectrum of the tracers in them. I thought both sides used mainly red, like in il2, for rifle cal rounds.

[Royraiden]

Originally Posted by Erkki

A camera's shutter speed is from 1/100 up to 1/2500-3000 in daylight. Animations start working for a human eye after 1/25.

Shame on me!!!Ok thats through a camera.The human eye works in a similar way,during the day the tracers should appear shorter.

[Erkki]

I dont think the "shutter speed" improves. But pupil lets in more light.

But yeah, in dark enough all light "burns in" your eye for some time... But it didnt happen, to me, with the tracers. Wasnt all pitch black though, but the perfectly clear star sky(edit, all 3 times actually). The tracers are bright but not that bright, and they're gone quick anyways.

[Royraiden]

The aperture on a lens mimics the human pupil.The bigger it gets, the more light comes in.Also from the videos I saw,the tracers look larger when you look at them closer to a perpendicular angle,so being on a parallel angle with the tracers should result in them looking even shorter.Anyways we really dont know if those are the final tracers.We should wait and see.

[Erkki]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5slCTLrFHI

1:50 onwards, then later when the B6N approaches very low. With the longer shutter speed and dark background the tracers finally start to have some colour a human eye would see... And they're red star wars lasers!

[Royraiden]

Originally Posted by Erkki

1:50 onwards, then later when the B6N approaches very low. With the longer shutter speed and dark background the tracers finally start to have some colour a human eye would see... And they're red star wars lasers!

Nice footage.I have to admit that most of those look white,some orange,and the rest obviously red.But werent those higher caliber than the machine guns used on airplanes?

[Itkovian]

Well, the nice bit about that video is it does show the smoke trails these tracers left, which is one of the visual elements I rather like (for example, BoB2 does those pretty well).

Itkovian