Machine gun tracers
Moviehawk
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Anyone have any suggestions on how to do machine gun tracer shots? I am working on a video portraying a dogfight with a WWI era bi-plane - shooting at another. I have tried particle emitters, but need bullets with some trailing smoke - can't quite figure this one out.
Thanks for any ideas.
Allen
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Try this link:
http://www.ageofarmour.com/3d/free/carrara-particle-emitter-scenes.html
Thanks ... I am trying something similar to that already (great idea and solution though) - looking for some way to get smoke trails from the traces - like in the movie Flyboys.
Thanks
Maybe I am misunderstanding the question. Simply make the particle emitter a child of the bullet. When the bullet is animated (moved) the smoke trail (particle emitter) will go with it and create a trail behind it.
Just some info! Not every round fired from a machine-gun is a tracer. Typically every fifth round is a tracer! ALso NATO/US rounds are usually a red/orange and Soviet/Russian tracers are usually green. ASk any vietnam vet