Friday 2010-10-29 Dev. update and Discussion

[The Kraken]

Originally Posted by Baron

Im no expert but i allways thought the "smoke" was more related to air tempetures, meaning the colder it is/higher up they are fired the more smoke is beeing seen. Smoke as in vapors caused by cold air meets hot shell.

I don't think that's a factor here. Temperature and air humidity come into play with water-vapor related effects like contrails or visible wing tip vortices. Smoke however are unburnt particles which usually dissipate quickly, regardless of the atmspheric environment.

[kirq]

I'm so buying this game!

[winny]

Originally Posted by The Kraken

I don't think that's a factor here. Temperature and air humidity come into play with water-vapor related effects like contrails or visible wing tip vortices. Smoke however are unburnt particles which usually dissipate quickly, regardless of the atmspheric environment.

I don't think its vapour either..

You get smoke off some tracers but not all (even the same type). If you watch any gun camera footage you can usually see some smoke, also you can get defective tracer which burn unevenly causing the round to spiral and on top of this the air flow can disrupt the flight of the rounds. The SoW tracers are pretty good but maybe a little too pure(?) in flight.

[philip.ed]

I had always been under the impression that, dependent on altitude, the tracers would burn with more smoke where the air was colder, as the chemical evaporates from the heat and reacts with the cold air to produce smoke.
I'm not 100% sure on this though.