billster1212 Posted November 23, 2012 Posted November 23, 2012 I liked them...would love for there to be an option to enable them again. I have the DCS A-10 and I know it does not have tracers...Just wondering if there is a way to get them back somehow. Anyone have any ideas? :smilewink:
Witchking Posted November 23, 2012 Posted November 23, 2012 Well...its an issue of realism. There are no tracers for the GAU8 cannon IRL...so I personally am glad to see them gone..but IIRC u can get tracers for training rounds. I must say though...I saw the ricocheting bullets in a video the other day and damn...I think i miss some of that ricochet effect from FC2. But I think we all know that it was a bit too much in FC2. There was no feedback of the cannon hit...almost felt like the tank was invulnerable. I love the current DCS world effect when rounds hit the tank....a lot more natural feeling. WHISPR | Intel I7 5930K | Nvidia GTX980 4GB GDDR5 | 16GB DDR4 | Intel 730 series 512GB SSD | Thrustmaster WARTHOG | CH Pro Pedals | TrackIR4 pro | |A-10C|BS2 |CA|P-51 MUSTANG|UH-1H HUEY|MI-8 MTV2 |FC3|F5E|M2000C|AJS-37|FW190|BF 109K|Mig21|A-10:SSC,EWC|L-39|NEVADA|
SmokeyTheLung Posted November 24, 2012 Posted November 24, 2012 Actually 30x173mm rounds are made with a tracer version. Can't remember the manufacturer, but there's a brochure available on the web with a tracer varient listed. If you watch some of the early a10/GAU-8 flight test videos you can also see some tracers in action. That being said, they're obviously extremely rare and probably almost never loaded. It's easy to add a colored tracer effect to the rounds in sim. You need to find a file called "shell_table.lua" (I'm away for the holiday and can't remember the exact location/name) Towards the bottom you'll find a couple of entries for the GAU-8 rounds. Hopefully you'll be able to figure it out from there, but if you can't I'lll post a detailed description when I'm back in front if the computer System specifications: Computer, joystick, DCS world, Beer
billster1212 Posted November 24, 2012 Author Posted November 24, 2012 (edited) Thanks Smokey..would appreciate that Actually 30x173mm rounds are made with a tracer version. Can't remember the manufacturer, but there's a brochure available on the web with a tracer varient listed. If you watch some of the early a10/GAU-8 flight test videos you can also see some tracers in action. That being said, they're obviously extremely rare and probably almost never loaded. It's easy to add a colored tracer effect to the rounds in sim. You need to find a file called "shell_table.lua" (I'm away for the holiday and can't remember the exact location/name) Towards the bottom you'll find a couple of entries for the GAU-8 rounds. Hopefully you'll be able to figure it out from there, but if you can't I'lll post a detailed description when I'm back in front if the computer If its not too much trouble for you to do that for me ( and maybe a few others) I would really appreciate it.:) I just did it myself...pretty easy..just changed the setting from -100 to 100 and voila ...tracers..thanks for the tip!! Edited November 24, 2012 by billster1212
SmokeyTheLung Posted November 25, 2012 Posted November 25, 2012 Sorry, forgot about this one. Glad you figured it out. System specifications: Computer, joystick, DCS world, Beer
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