What a tracer should look like (before spazzing just look).

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@ Heliocon: Yep, your revised explanation is in agreement with my personal experience, if that's worth anything

Originally Posted by kalimba

well, seems like those who saw real tracers and those who didn't agree that CODs tracers aren't right...
So what would be the good compromise here so everyone feels that we get
realistic impression of what would be real tracers as seen by humans in a real plane flying at 250 mph ?....What would be a common ground as reference in that case ? The best thing would be to have something on film or video that would bring unanimous agreement as a basis to work from....

Am I dreaming ?

salute !

It's very simple really. Just make them a bit thinner and make the amount of glow dependent on ambient light conditions. I don't know how simple it is to do in coding/graphics design terms, but that's the only thing two things they would need to change.

That's why i've been a supporter of the initial stock tracers. They may not be 100% correct but they are a much more sound foundation and starting point for getting correct-looking tracers as viewed by the human eye with a couple of modifications, while what we've usually had in other sims in previous years is harder to modify into what the eye actually sees.

The basic idea behind the CoD tracers is totally correct as far as i'm concerned and they exhibit all the correct traits in terms of shape/size depending on angular separation and amount of streaking depending on distance. They just need a bit of fine tuning and i mean that in the literal sense of the word, they just need a tiny bit of touching up and they'll be looking exactly like what i've seen in real life.