wolfbane

I just had to dig up my old account after all this time MIA so i could drop by and say that I love the demo! Can't wait to get my hands on the full game now :) Oh and you did a damn fine job with the tracers.. I'm loving them ;)

Very nice vid, but there´s one thing that i think is very distracting and that is how the soldiers hold their weapons, it just doesn´t look right. It looks like the barrel of the weapon has a weird angle like it´s allways tilted slightly upwards. I´ve seen the same thing in an otherwise very nice vid for the Red Orchestra mod for UT2003. RO looked like a fantastic mod and i really liked to try it but as soon as i saw how the soldiers held their weapons it really turned me off. It simply didn´t look right at all and kinda blew the whole illusion of realistic ww2 battles right out the window. Dunno why i react so much to small details like that but i guess it has something to do with some very basic/primitive function in my brain or something..

Fyi i did not replace the stock tracers in my addon TracerFX. But other people have implemented my tracers in their addons/mods to replace the standard ammo based tracers for different weapons/units. All my addon is doing is creating tracers with the drop command and this does not affect the ammo based tracers of different weapons/units in any way. If you see ammo based tracers and my drop created tracers at the same time even if you have tracers switched to "off" in the game difficulty settings its not my addons fault but the fault of the addon for the weapon/unit that is being used, ie the default ammo based tracers for that particular weapon/unit is configured so that it can´t be switched off or just configured wrong for some reason. /wolfbane

Well, what can i say.. truly kickass work bn880! The custom tracer objects you made look really really cool just as i thought they would. I tried to do something similar for my little addon but i never really got it to work since i couldn´t get the config right. Very clever to use the car class/simulation, i don´t think i would have ever figured that out.. I think i know what tracers i will be using from now on..

No you can not do that without a complete rewrite of the code and some genious new engine workarounds.. It´s impossible to associate a specific weapon with anything since the weapon objects don´t have an object id that you can get hold of. If it was possible to get hold of a specific weapon´s (magazine would be even better in this case..) object id it would have saved me a shitload of trouble and weapon specific tracers would allready be in the addon believe me.The only thing you can do is to associate a specific type of weapon or ammo with something (in the addon it´s the tracers and a unit). I tried the idea with associating ammo types with tracers in a previous version but i removed it since it was just a pain in the ass to use. / wolfbane

Seems like my old filehost went down for some reason so i had to change the links to new ones. Download should work now.

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New version is up, you find a download link in the first post. "Changelog 1.06 bugfix - a bug in the file wbe_tracerfx_cleanup.sqs was causing ctd. i couldn´t recreate the actual bug myself but i think i have found the cause of it and changed the code so it shouldn´t occure anymore (fingers crossed). fix - slightly increased the pause in a loop in the wbe_tracerfx_ricochet.sqs file so it´s not as cpu intensive as in the previous version." I hope the nasty CTD bug is fixed in this version but since i havn´t been able to recreate it myself i can´t be sure. Please try the new version and see if it works. If it doesn´t work i´ll try to fix it asap.

Yes i know that it would be a bit more realistic to have somewhat more elongated tracers rather than the perfectly sphere shaped tracers that are in the addon now. But it seems like some of you think it´s very easy to change that. I just want to tell you that it´s not. To create elongated tracers i need to create custom models for the tracer objects, a config file to go along with the new tracers objects and pretty much rewrite all of the script code as it is now. I´ve been working on just that for some time now on and off but i´ve had some major problems to get it to work right and to little time to fix it. Then bn880 said he´s working on some tracers too with a similar concept to what i had in mind and i pretty much lost my motivation. His work will probably be so much better than anything i can do so i dunno if i will be releasing anything at all. Maybe i will, but please don´t hold your breath waiting for it.

The site seems to be down, is this the one they had? [imghttp://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2005/TECH/space/01/14/huygens.titan/top.main.titan.shoreline.jpg[/img] (From CNN) Omg that´s so cool, i think it looks like a shoreline to the right in that pic. But maybe i´m just imagining things.. Would´ve been neat to see that that pic in full color.

Oh crap.. that looks like a serious bug The code from error you posted is from a cleanup script running in the background. I havn´t been able to reproduce the error myself yet but i think i know why it occurs. I will try to fix it asap.

Thanks again for you kind words Miles Teg! I hope it works a little better than the previous version.

Latest version is now 1.05. Check out the first post for a download link. /wolfbane

Don´t worry i don´t see your post as whining at all. I totally agree with what you say. The idea of only supporting a handful of weapons was not very good at all. Even though people can add support for their favourite weapons ammo it´s still not good. The reason i implemented the check for different ammotypes was to get rid of the problem with tracers being fired when a handgrenade or a pistol etc was used. I think i have found a better way to solve that problem so i can get rid of the stupid limitation that requires support for different ammo types. So in the next update of the addon all your favourite weapons should be able to fire tracers and the silly problem with tracers being fired from handgrenades etc will hopefully be gone. If all goes as planned that is.. but i think it will (fingers crossed that i will not have as many problems and bugs as in the recent updates.. )

Unfortunately there seems to be a very serious bug in the addon from version 1.02 on. This bug is the reason for the numrounds parameter not working as it should. I can´t believe this bug slipped through my testing but it did. The weird thing is that it looked like the script(s) was working allright but infact it was only a part of it that worked as it should. I will release a new version to correct this bug. Locke: I will include your code for the trajectory of the tracers as it is more accurate than mine. I may implement it like Keycat suggested with a 0 to the speedmod parameter to enable it. I prolly make it the default setting too since it seems like that most of you would like it that way. The reason for the speedmod parameter is that those who want a slower tracer speed so that they can see the tracers better should have the option. The whole idea with this addon was not to make a super accurate replacement for the default bis tracers for longrange fireing with snipers or whatnot. The idea was to make machinegun fire from infantry units look a bit more realistic in firefights over normal ai engagement ranges, not nessecerily from the gunners point of view. Yes, you could call that eyecandy if you want. But i don´t think the tracers are totaly useless now as you say even if they are not following the actual bullet trajectory to a 100%. I can use them without problem to hit targets at fairly long ranges (way beyond the engagement range of the ai) dead on with a machinegun without using a crosshair, the default bis tracers and with the ricochets turn off. Tracers irl arn´t allways that super accurate either since the phosphour on the back of the projectile tend to burn out at random and/or fall off during the flight and thus creating all sorts of weird streaks of light in various directions (that´s not even close to the trajectory of the bullet) in the air. Keycat: I have considered adding some randomness to how often the ricochets are created but forgot about it. I will prolly implement that in the next version. Thanks for the suggestion. I can´t say for sure when the update will be available since i have alot of stuff to do irl but i´ll do my best to get it out as soon as possible. Thanks for your continued support. /wolfbane