[choxaway]

Having been impressed by Bob2's excellent aircraft to aircraft tracer/smoke trails, it made me realise how unrealistic IL2's ground to air shell smoke trails are. In real wartime footage, you see flak bursts but no smoke trails from the shells as they soar upwards and it occurred to me that these trails in IL2, aside from being unrealistic, must also be framerate hoggers too.
Would it not therefore make sense to eliminate these and just leave the shellbursts instead?

[jewks]

test from support

[Klemm]

Trails from big caliber guns (75 mm and up) aren't visible. 20mm and i think 37 mm did have those smoke trails though.
What you see in movies are the bursts of (mainly) 88 mm FLAK.