What a tracer should look like (before spazzing just look).

[winny]

Originally Posted by kalimba

MOuhahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahaa !

You know that this subject has been debated since last year ?
And initially, and actually the ONLY Luthier's response about tracers in COD was : those COD's tracers are PERFECT and there is nothing wrong with them so we wont change a thing about them....
If anyone can show at least 1 guncam or video or whatever that comes even close to what we see in COD's , then I will be convinced....Until then...
You guys are very funny insulting each other about physics, anatomy of the eye, and laser beams, but in the end, it only takes a good programmer to give us something that would give the impression of what actual tracers would look like from a pilot point of view....Something that would satisfy both RL observers AND
those who only saw ww2 guncams....Cause right now, neither side is happy !

Salute !

You've just reminded me..

Illya also said somewhere (it could have been Oleg, I haven't looked for it) that they initially tried to model them as tracked points of light. The problem they ran into was frame rates.

The lower the frame rate the longer the streak appeared and even at 30 fps the streak was way too long, they had to make a compromise.

That compromise was I think probably, to make the trails, to all intents and purposes, physical objects.

All I was suggesting was that maybe the developers could think about programing tracer streaks relative to motion across the screen, ie. Think in 2D and just paint them in behind, length realtive to speed. Do away with the physical 'bars'.