09.03.2010, 11:39
i have just seen that phillip-eds spiralsmoke mod only applies to german aircraft of the required caliber. why not allied and japanese aircaft
20mm spiralsmoke mod- why only axis aircraft
09.03.2010, 14:43
i think the spiral smoke trails were only seen coming from German 20mm cannons and that's why it is only available with them.
09.03.2010, 15:02
Firstly this was Eexhaton's work; not mine 
My one is the intermittent tracer. The intermittent tracer is the most realistic for all guns; except those (like the 20mm) that clearly show a spiral present.
There is a curvin tracer mod in existence that looks similar to gun-cam footage; search for 'vas-curving' tracer or something like that
My one is the intermittent tracer. The intermittent tracer is the most realistic for all guns; except those (like the 20mm) that clearly show a spiral present. There is a curvin tracer mod in existence that looks similar to gun-cam footage; search for 'vas-curving' tracer or something like that
10.03.2010, 00:06
Also don
10.03.2010, 05:28
Thankyou Philip.ed 
It's indeed my smokespiral mod. Philip.ed did the Intermittent smoke trail mod.
And it's only for 20mm cannons that are used on Axis units because they have the sole feature of having a spiral (2D) smoke trail in IL2.
It replaces that ugly 2D trail.
In fact - almost every gun that fires a bullet or shell has such a spiral - but the smoketrail does'nt show it all the time under every condition.
Most of the time it's also too small to show or too light to be visible. But that is just technobabble.
Barrel rifling, propellant mix and environmental conditions during firing is what makes a smoketrail (spiraled) show up.
(@Plumps) so yes, smoketrails don't always show up.
Still - a great deal of historical (luftwaffe) footage shows this very specific spiraled smoketrail effect (see my mod release video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1xYiehWEqI ), so that is the reason I recreated this effect within the limits of the IL2 game engine.
The limits being:
- smoketrail is projected only on every tracer round fired in IL2
- IL2 engine is not good at large particle amounts - so this effect can cause weird graphical effects.
oh well, just read the mod-release topic.
8)
It's indeed my smokespiral mod. Philip.ed did the Intermittent smoke trail mod.
And it's only for 20mm cannons that are used on Axis units because they have the sole feature of having a spiral (2D) smoke trail in IL2.
It replaces that ugly 2D trail.
In fact - almost every gun that fires a bullet or shell has such a spiral - but the smoketrail does'nt show it all the time under every condition.
Most of the time it's also too small to show or too light to be visible. But that is just technobabble.
Barrel rifling, propellant mix and environmental conditions during firing is what makes a smoketrail (spiraled) show up.
(@Plumps) so yes, smoketrails don't always show up.
Still - a great deal of historical (luftwaffe) footage shows this very specific spiraled smoketrail effect (see my mod release video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1xYiehWEqI ), so that is the reason I recreated this effect within the limits of the IL2 game engine.
The limits being:
- smoketrail is projected only on every tracer round fired in IL2
- IL2 engine is not good at large particle amounts - so this effect can cause weird graphical effects.
oh well, just read the mod-release topic.
8)
10.03.2010, 11:38
Also, while the MG151/20 effect is only used by a few German cannon and AAA cannons, the other two tracer smoke effects are used variously for everything from .30 cal up to 75mm cannon.
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