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JRock 11-19-2010 12:45 AM

green tracers?
 
all of my guns and cannons fire green tracers.... anyone know how to fix this? TIA :confused:

WTE_Galway 11-19-2010 12:56 AM

What aircraft are you flying?

Russian aircraft historically used barium which resulted in either red or green tracer.
Green tracer on Russian aircraft is historically correct.

JRock 11-19-2010 01:00 AM

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Originally Posted by WTE_Galway (Post 199316)
What aircraft are you flying?

Russian aircraft historically used barium which resulted in either red or green tracer.
Green tracer on Russian aircraft is historically correct.


im a noob flying a 109. it looks like star wars. totally ridiculous. :-x

WTE_Galway 11-19-2010 01:36 AM

Well a 109 should not be fitted with a Shvak :D
German tracer is usually white or red.

What are your graphics settings for the game?

Be sure to select OpenGl (not DirectX) as the renderer.

JRock 11-19-2010 01:45 AM

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Originally Posted by WTE_Galway (Post 199322)
Well a 109 should not be fitted with a Shvak :D
German tracer is usually white or red.

What are your graphics settings for the game?

Be sure to select OpenGl (not DirectX) as the renderer.

when i originally installed the game, i selected dirextX, but after reading up, i realilzed that opengl was better so i merely edited the line in the .ini hoping that would work. i guess it didn't.....

WTE_Galway 11-19-2010 01:48 AM

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Originally Posted by JRock (Post 199324)
when i originally installed the game, i selected dirextX, but after reading up, i realilzed that opengl was better so i merely edited the line in the .ini hoping that would work. i guess it didn't.....

I would try changing the settings with the ingame setup and see if DirectX versus opengl makes a difference.

IceFire 11-19-2010 04:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JRock (Post 199317)
im a noob flying a 109. it looks like star wars. totally ridiculous. :-x

Although the 109 does not normally have green tracers, the Russians used green tracers in the ShVAK machine guns. And StarWars was meant to look like World War II. Maybe not so ridiculous.

:cool:

I'd used the game setup.exe and set OpenGL from there. Also check to make sure you have recently updated video card drivers. Not sure what else would cause this unless you're using some sort of weird MOD.

Foo'bar 11-19-2010 07:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JRock (Post 199317)
im a noob flying a 109. it looks like star wars. totally ridiculous. :-x

Make us a screenshot from that green tracers, please.

JG53Frankyboy 11-19-2010 12:18 PM

and the green tracers ingame are SchKAS btw ;)

and a "typical" german color in game are the blue ones of the MG151/20 and MG131.
this color has no other nation (beside the romanian and japanese planes with 13mm weapons :( )

Former_Older 11-21-2010 06:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JRock (Post 199317)
im a noob flying a 109. it looks like star wars. totally ridiculous. :-x

Hi JRock

As others said, it may seem ridiculous, but then again, it may only seem that way because of your preconceived notion of what it looked like

Consider that Puff in Vietnam looked like a neon tube stretching from the plane to the ground :!: At least, according to LT Fred Downs jr it did

I think that a lot of the finer details have been lost to us, considering the sights of the times. I was looking in a catalog at a print of a US Aircraft carrier being bracketed by Japanese shells the other day, and it looked so strange- these pastel colors were tinting the enormous water columns from the near misses

Well, what I didn't realize was that the IJN was using dye packs to help gunners recognize their near misses and differentiate them from another gunner's. What seemed completely unreal had a solid basis in fact


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