New Tracers

[Wolf_Rider]

That 'tube goes 3D, Phat, if you look at it gazedly crosseyed (like the 3D art pictures that get about)

Originally Posted by Strike

Hi choc!


In reality tracers are just like a laser-pointer. If you point it steady on the wall, it looks like a dot. If you move it in circles, the light is still a dot, but it APPEARS like a circle. If you draw a line really fast, then you have the "tracer" effect.

It's all down to your eyes "shutter speed" and relative movement of the object.

yep, its "after image" which creates the "trail". Some might remember as youngens, writing their name in the air with sparklers? its the same thing.

Grab a screenshot of the sim tracers and you'll get bright little dots, not streaks


What people need to get away from though (and I'm not having a go at you or anyone else... its just, this is where it came up). the eyes do not have shutters or a shutter speed... it is a constantly streaming input.

[choctaw111]

Originally Posted by FS~Phat

I just made this quick video in Adobe Premier Pro to show side by side the difference in the tracers.

IL2 COD Tracers 18301 beta vs 15950 official
Beta Left Panel Official Right Panel
Notice contrast is better in the newer beta (left) and tracer viewing distance is increased.
That and the dimmer gun flash effects is about the only difference I see.
(and the obvious missing clouds)

Thank you very much for taking the time to do this.
The increased view distance for the tracers is nice to see.
I read that the bullets actually ricochet off the ground and water. What about bouncing off aircraft or ground targets? Are ricochets dependent on what the bullets hit and/or angle of impact or does it seem more random?

[mazex]

Originally Posted by Strike

(btw don't think about invading Norway, we may not be able to defend ourselves, but you will get killed on our horrible roads and drown in the fjords.)

Ahh, when I did my military service in 1989/1990 we actually invaded Norway A friend at another company where on an exercise in Jämtland in the winter and they where out on a tough exercise in the mountains along the Norwegian border with lots of snowfall etc... On the second day of the march they crossed a small road where a Norwegian border patrol jeep passed by (they where a company so quite many soldiers). The Norwegian kindly asked if the guns where loaded with live rounds? Yes they answered and the border patrol smiled and said: "As you are in Norway now I guess this could be called an invasion then?". They had taken the wrong valley in the snow storm and after getting some help with the map they humbly aborted the invasion and returned to Swedish soil