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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Pei on September 30, 2001, 03:00:00 PM

Title: AA tracer: a question.
Post by: Pei on September 30, 2001, 03:00:00 PM

This has been nagging me for a while:

Why is it that player controlled guns leave smoke trails but AI guns don't?

It's not a big thing but I was wondering about it for a while. Is it a gamepley concession to keep the clutter down?

Anybody?

Title: AA tracer: a question.
Post by: Fester' on September 30, 2001, 10:33:00 PM

they used to leave trails.

i personally think all ground guns should not have smoke trails on tracers including taks and vehicles

Title: AA tracer: a question.
Post by: LtHans on October 02, 2001, 03:00:00 AM

The AA guns don't leave smoke trails because they don't use the same ballistic model.  They used to leave smoke, but you could obviously see the bullets leaving a straight trail with no gravity affects.

Players have smoke though, as we deal with gravity.  I wouldn't want to see the smoke leave either.  We need the smoke for correcting your aim with ship cannons and vehicle howitzers.

Hans.

Title: AA tracer: a question.
Post by: FDisk on October 02, 2001, 03:34:00 AM

one small thing

FPS!