Frankly, these lasers...

[badfinger]

So, the only reason the tracers look like lasers is that George Lucas decided this was how a laser shot would look, if you could see one?

This whole debate is an incredible waste of time.

binky9

[robtek]

Originally Posted by binky9

So, the only reason the tracers look like lasers is that George Lucas decided this was how a laser shot would look, if you could see one?

This whole debate is an incredible waste of time.

binky9

Not entirely correct, real spacefights would be really uncool in a movie theatre, as would real laser beams be.
So George Lucas decided to use the cool flight mechanics and tracers from wwii combat footage, just replace the background with space and the corsairs with x-wings / zeros with tie-fighters -> voilá: a cool spacefight!

[LukeFF]

And to think we don't even have the Fw 190 yet...

[nearmiss]

Originally Posted by LukeFF

And to think we don't even have the Fw 190 yet...

Yeah! that will open a whole new area of misconduct and rants.

[Biggs]

Originally Posted by nearmiss

Yeah! that will open a whole new area of misconduct and rants.

Hey hey dont get ahead of yourselves now... Before any of that happens we will surely be buried in 'the 109/spit is porked' and or 'the 109/spit is overmodeled' threads...

Im building my whine-raid shelter as we speak!

[badfinger]

"So George Lucas decided to use the cool flight mechanics and tracers from wwii combat footage, just replace the background with space and the corsairs with x-wings / zeros with tie-fighters -> voilá: a cool spacefight!"

So, Lucas copied WWII tracers in StarWars, CoD is set in WWII, ergo, the tracers in CoD look right?

Still, a waste of time.

binky9

[JAMF]

Originally Posted by binky9

"So George Lucas decided to use the cool flight mechanics and tracers from wwii combat footage, just replace the background with space and the corsairs with x-wings / zeros with tie-fighters -> voilá: a cool spacefight!"

So, Lucas copied WWII tracers in StarWars, CoD is set in WWII, ergo, the tracers in CoD look right?

Still, a waste of time.

binky9

If Lucas had used visuals, that would have looked like lasers, it would have been less exciting. A laser would have been a straight line to the target, there one moment, gone the next. No streak that your eyes would be able to follow, so it would appear bland, like having no noise in a space movie.

A tracer we see, is a point of light at the end of a bullet, but as our eyes have their own "frame rate", they appear as streaks of certain length. Like twirling sparklers in a circle. So Lucas used streaks, as they are more exciting.