[Strike]

Hello guys! I couldn't find this suggestion anywhere else, so I thought I could put it out there and see if someone accepts the challenge

Basically I was hoping for a mod which alters the tracer skins (color and shape) to match something more of a realistic look. I've fired tracer rounds myself and They're really much more worm-like (spiralling). I suppose the actual skin won't be possible to animate because of the game engine, so maybe getting the right look will be difficult. Other than that I find the tracers just rather large and laserbeam shaped

Besides that, I thought about modding the small debris that falls of a plane when struck by smaller MGs, so instead of small rotating tennisballs (thats what they look like to me) I'd like to see metal pieces and something looking like airframe

And lastly some new watersplashes (a lot of vapour around the base of the funnel and then thick at the bottom and narrow at the tip of the splash.) instead of the perfect coliflower looking thing.

Please let me know what you think

[ALOTEF]

Tracers-They look quite spirally to me... :? But I've never had the privilage of firing a real MG before. :wink:
Debris-I like this idea. I've often wondered why the debris is green! Light green!?
Splash-I also like this. The water splashes here are good, but, lie alot on this sim, could be better.

[GeneralPsycho]

i know that there is a traser mod, so make it spirally motion looking, couldnt find it, it must be in WIP download section somewhere

[Poltava]

I've both fired tracer, and seen tracer live, fired in war time, and I think that the spirally thing is partly an optical effect: especially when firing from a moving platform, the tracer will appear snaking or moving in spirals relative to the position where you are. Especially in the night time, tracer takes on all kind of strange shapes, especially viewed through an image-enhancer. Still the basic ballistic geometry is about a projectile moving in a arc. So if you see it straight from the side, and both the firer and the target is fixed, it will be pretty much a straight band. (Tracer bouncing, like it can do in IL-2, and going all crazy here and there, is very common, IMHO.)

Still: it would be a nice mod, not because it's more "realistic" but like that prop-mod because it gives a visual effect that we expect from seeing a lot of movies.

[Carnagexxx]

It change only the Smokelines, not the tracers it self

I also would apriciate thinner "~~~~~~" like tracers

"--------" look like lasers

[Strike]

I know what you mean about that motion effect and I agree, I suppose that because bullets fired from a rifled barrel will rotate it could sling some of that phosphor around in circles too, causing that effect. But Generally they look like small worms, from behind they're pretty much just dots travelling up and then down, but from the side they take on a longer shape.. At least how I saw it it looked like they do in IL-2, only much smaller (narrow) and less drop shaped... and perhaps a bit longer.

I'd love to see them bounce off the ground, but this would have to be merged with the ground hit effect, because the game simply hasn't been coded to show ricochets (except from on some planes like the IL-2 where it's a special unique effect)