New curving bullet trail effect Updated !!! - Printable Version

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- Hajo - 09.07.2008

It's awesome hock: !!! Now, tracers looks like the ones on WWII guncams! Many thanks for this mod !

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- Hellzone - 09.07.2008

That looks great, Keep up the great work stuka. KUDOS for you

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- wingflyr - 09.07.2008

Yeah! Great mod M8. Thank you and Cheers to you.

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- creamy - 09.07.2008

a neat little mod here a thumbs up from me a question tho

will you be updating this little pack

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- ringilldun - 09.07.2008

Thank you so much!!! This mod is absolutely brilliant!!! Can you imagine how much life there is left in this old sim? Oleg should be proud, and it just keeps getting better!

/Magnus

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- Guest - 09.07.2008

Many thanks for this mod, stuka!
The bullet trails have a much more natural look to them now!!
Good one and much appreciated! 8) :lol:

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- Guest - 09.07.2008

Quote:Can you imagine how much life there is left in this old sim?

True
And who would said that just a year ago.

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- Obelix - 09.07.2008

Excellent!! Very fine job, great looking! Thanks

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- choctaw111 - 09.07.2008

danger Wrote:

Mangas Wrote:Or they, at least, may be good but for 37mm cannons... The true trails should be much more spiralled on their way... Look at these gun cam films I found for you:
http://guncam2002.tripod.com/
I hope they'll help you to improve your mod. Btw, the Bf-109F-2 in game arms firing has the nice spiralled trails, IMHO the best and most natural looking of all planes in game... Is that possible to make something like these? :wink:

Once again, thank you for you work.

My best wishes,
Mangas.

i think this had been noted before, but i will bring it up again........

you will see that the reason behind the "spiral" effect on the guncam footage is quite simply because the camera is fixed to the wing, when you fire the gun it gives a circular motion on the camera which in turn gives a spiral effect to the smoke when recorded on film. the smoke trails them selves dont actually have a major spiral effect, it is just enhanced through the camera vibration.

There is a little more to it than that.
The air that the bullet or projectile is passing through is not uniform. It is moving. Especially given the fact the the air is disturbed by the bullet passing through it. Light a candle or match and when it burns out watch the smoke that comes from it. Do this outside though as inside the air is mostly still. The smoke will not rise in a perfectly straight line. The smoke trail will be bent by the moving air, causing that effect.
An even neater experiment that I have done is to fasten a sparkler (like the ones you can get for the 4th of July) to an arrow, and shoot it with a bow. That is very much like a tracer, and you can see the smoke trail behind that as well. It has the same effect of looking all bent and distorted. The longer the smoke has been in the air, the more bent and spread out it becomes till it disappears.

I have tried this mod and it looks very good. Thank you very much for the time you put into this.

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- Venatore - 09.07.2008

stuka_40,

Thank you for this mod. This is a really great effect enhancement to the game

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- creamy - 09.07.2008

so ive been flying around and firing the tracer and came to a conclusion the tracer smoke is way to thick like a rocket imo i think making the tracers thinner would be better

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- choctaw111 - 09.07.2008

creamy Wrote:so ive been flying around and firing the tracer and came to a conclusion the tracer smoke is way to thick like a rocket imo i think making the tracers thinner would be better

I always give credit for peoples work. I thought I would mess around with this and see what I could do with it seeing as it is in the beta phase.
I also noticed that this only effect 1 kind of smoke.
Fly a Yak9UT or similar and you will see. This new smoke only effects 1 in 3 tracer rounds. The other two smoke trails are still straight as these are a different kind of smoke trail.
This is what I made. I hope you don't mind Stuka_40. I think it is great that you have made this possible.
I found that messing around with this that you can get a very realistic corkscrew looking smoke trail. I don't yet have a screenshot of this. Just a thinner smoke trail. I will post a corkscrew smoketrail soon.

Edit...Pardon the stars on the 109. I was just testing in the QMB :oops:

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- choctaw111 - 09.07.2008

Here is the new corkscrew pattern next to the standard cannon corkscrew on the 190.
I don't really know if I like it or not.

I just want to restate that I think this a great thing you have done, Stuka, and one of the things the sim has been needing since day one. The straight tracer smoke was always in need of being fixed.

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- RAF_Magpie - 09.07.2008

choctaw111

i like the thin smoke, but not the extra-cork effect... is it possible to get just a thinner version of Stuka's mod?

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- fabianfred - 09.07.2008

looks great with the cannon on the F4UC :lol:

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