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Originally Posted by kendo65
I'm 99% certain that the spiralling effect in the tracer smoke is down to rifling of the barrel causing the rounds to spin, rather than any camera-shake effect.
I'm really happy that this effect is modelled (visible on many gun-camera films from this era), but as Oleg has said previously all different types of round are modelled - previous tracers showed simple light-streaks with no smoke. I have no doubt that all are modelled accurately.
I'm a little bit surprised at some of the reactions to the spiral tracer smoke though - when the previous tracers were shown there was a chorus of voices asking where was the smoke?!?
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I think the debate was about whether the smaller RAF 303 rounds should have smoking tracers or not. In IL2 they didn't while the larger rounds did.
I've seen plenty of footage of smoke trails coming from 303 rounds but I'm sure as Oleg says, different tracers had different properties and some types may have been smokeless.