More realistic machine gun tracers?
 

Dear Luthier,

I personally think yhat the machine gun tracers look a little fake, too 'straight and laser-like" if u will.

I've seen those old ww2 gun vamera footage on youtube, and the tracers always look like "twisting" and "turning" worms as they arc toward the target.

Could we expect more realistic looking tracers in the future?

Thanks and i'm loving COD!

This has been discussed a million times.

To make this short - tracers are wobbly on film/video because the gun camera shakes. Tracers in real life look like star wars lasers.

Have you ever shot a machine gun with tracers in real life?
When ever I see these kind of threads I always think, this is what Holywood does to kids. :rolleyes:

if you are trolling dont read the rest.

if you are honest in your question, its been explained over and over again in these boards, that the curly effect is due to camera shake on the plane. you dont see the curly, and oyur eyes dont see like a camera.

in a matter of minutes someone will explain you the details of this, but you are wrong. no curly effect should be seen, the only thing I think is wrong ( withou facts or proof, jsut feeling) is the tracers are too thick.

+1 :)

tracers fly straight in real life
where did anyone think the term "hose 'em down" came into it from?

i agree, so to be honest, tracer are a little bit smaller and less brighter in day light that the one we can see in hurricane...
So, to be honest too, i never shoot with an hurricane so can't be sure :rolleyes:

here is example of evening shooting with tracer it's look like star wars :p

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKVH-WyTjBM


and this one in day light

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldu8P...eature=related

yes, they are supposed to look straight. in cod, they look straight and ugly. Old ones from il2 looked better imo.

i also like those from rise of flight.

Because, you know, if they look like lasers in the videos posted, it's because of the speed at which the camera capture the images.

i agree so it's a game not the real life :)
So!!! it can be improve in the future (i like the ROF tracer too)

First video = a plasmagun
the second video = Han Solo
Lol :)