I decided to take a short break from my front-burner projects (for my sanity's sake!) and reworked all of the tracers. I got a little carried away and created one for almost every WWII machine gun, cannon, anti-aircraft gun, or anti-tank gun that I could find evidence for using tracers. Available information is often conflicting on tracer usage, color, etc, so I'm sure this is not 100% accurate, but it will add a lot of variety and is at worst within the realm of reasonable possibility. A lot are for weapons we don't yet have, but if anyone ever wanted to make a slew of light and medium AA guns for example
, they would find a ready made tracer effect for that gun.
The appearance represents my attempt to make the best of the very limited mechanics CFS3 offers for tracers. I tried to mimic the appearance as it would look to the naked eye, so they are shaped more like colored streaks of light, with some detail work to hide the drawbacks of CFS3 rendering as well as possible. X-shapes hidden as well as I can by tapering the front end, and the round end texture blending as seamlessly as possible into the long side texture. The width is proportional to the caliber of the round up 37mm. 37mm and above are all the same since they usually shared the same size tracer element. The length is proportionate to muzzle velocity. So this should result in a wide variety of combinations or shapes, sizes, and colors gracing the angry skies. The smoke is the most I can make a 1,000 meter x-shaped stick look like a trail of smoke.
Have fun!
I find they look better live than in a screenshot.
Here is a list of the guns included:
BELGIUM (1)
47 mm Model 1931 anti-tank gun
CHINA (1)
20mm Solothurn ST-5
DENMARK (2)
Bofors 20 mm automatic gun L/70
20 mm AA Machine Cannon M/38
FINLAND (4)
7.62 ITKK 31 VKT
12,70 LKk/42
20 ITK 40 VKT
Bofors 75 mm Model 1929
FRANCE (14)
Darne machine gun
FM 24/29
7.5 mm Fabrique Nationale Mle 38
MAC 1934
MAC mle 1931 machine gun
Hotchkiss Mle 1914 machine gun
Hotchkiss M1930 machine gun
Hispano-Suiza HS.404
25 mm APX modèle 1937
Hotchkiss 25 mm anti-aircraft gun
25 mm Hotchkiss anti-tank gun
AC 37 anti-tank gun
AC 47 anti-tank gun
47 mm APX anti-tank gun
GERMANY (40)
MG 08
MG 13
MG 15
MG 17
MG 30
MG 34
MG 42
MG 131
MG 151/15
Becker Type M2 20 mm cannon
2 cm C/30
2 cm Flak 30
2 cm Flak 38
MG FF cannon
MG FF/M cannon
MG FF/M cannon (Night Tracer)
MG 151/20 (HE Round)
MG 151/20 (AP Round)
MK 101 cannon
MK 103 cannon (HE Round)
MK 103 cannon (AP Round)
MK 108 cannon
3 cm MK 303 Flak
BK 3,7 (AP Round)
BK 3,7 (HE Round)
3.7 cm Flak 18/36/37
3.7 cm Flak M42
3.7 cm Flak 43
3,7cm KPÚV vz. 34
3.7 cm Pak 36
3,7cm KPÚV vz. 37
3.7 cm SK C/30
Rheinmetall BK-5
5 cm Flak 41
7.5 cm KwK 40
7.5 cm Pak 40
7.5 cm Pak 42
8.8 cm Flak 18/36/37/41
8.8 cm SK C/30 naval gun
8.8 cm SK L/45 naval gun
HUNGARY (1)
MG M.07/31
ITALY (9)
Fiat Mod.1926
Breda Mod. SAFAT cal. 7,7
Breda 38
Breda M37
Fiat–Revelli Modello 1935
Breda Mod. SAFAT cal. 12,7
Breda 20/65 mod.35
Cannone-Mitragliera da 20/70 (Scotti)
Cannone-Mitragliera da 37/54 (Breda)
JAPAN (31)
Type 11 light machine gun
Type 91 machine gun
Type 3 heavy machine gun
Type 1 heavy machine gun
Type 89 machine gun
Te-4 machine gun
Type 92 heavy machine gun
Type 92 machine gun
Type 97 heavy tank machine gun
Type 97 aircraft machine gun
Type 98/Type 1 machine gun
Ho-103 machine gun
Type 2 machine gun
Type 3 aircraft machine gun
Ho-1 cannon
Ho-3 cannon
Ho-5 cannon
Type 2 20 mm AA machine cannon
Type 98 20 mm AA machine cannon
Type 99 Mark 1 machine gun
Type 99 Mark 2 machine gun
Type 96 25 mm AT/AA gun
Ho-155-I cannon
Ho-155-II cannon
Type 2 cannon
Type 5 cannon
Ho-203 cannon
Ho-204 cannon
Type 1 37 mm anti-tank gun
Type 94 37 mm anti-tank gun
Type 1 47 mm anti-tank gun
NETHERLANDS (2)
Schwarzlose M.08
Bofors 37 mm anti-tank gun
NORWAY (1)
Madsen machine gun
POLAND (6)
Karabin maszynowy wz. 30
Karabin maszynowy wz. 33
Karabin lotniczy wz. 36
Karabin lotniczy wz. 37
Oerlikon FF
Nkm wz. 38 FK
ROMANIA (3)
ZB-53
Browning Aircraft Machine Gun - F.N. Caliber 13.2 mm
75 mm Reșița Model 1943
RUSSIA (26)
DP-27
DS-39
PM M1910
PV-1 machine gun
ShKAS machine gun
SG-43 Goryunov
DShK
Berezin UB
Berezin B-20
ShVAK cannon
Nudelman-Rikhter NR-23
Nudelman-Suranov NS-23
Volkov-Yartsev VYa-23
25 mm automatic air defense gun M1940 (72-K)
37 mm anti-tank gun M1930 (1-K)
37 mm automatic air defense gun M1939 (61-K)
Nudelman N-37
Nudelman-Suranov NS-37
Nudelman-Suranov NS-45
45 mm anti-aircraft gun (21-K)
45 mm anti-tank gun M1932 (19-K)
45 mm anti-tank gun M1937 (53-K)
45 mm anti-tank gun M1942 (M-42)
57 mm anti-tank gun M1943 (ZiS-2)
85 mm divisional gun D-44
85 mm air defense gun M1939 (52-K) (in anti-tank role)
UNITED_KINGDOM (23)
Browning .303 Mark II
Browning .303 Mark II (Phosphorus Incendiary Round)
Lewis gun
Vickers machine gun
Vickers K machine gun
Besa machine gun
Vickers .5 inch machine gun
15 mm Besa machine gun
Hispano Mk. I
Hispano Mk. II
Hispano Mk. V
Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
20 mm Polsten
QF 1-pounder
Bofors 40 mm L/60 gun
QF 2-pounder naval gun
Ordnance QF 2-pounder
Rolls-Royce 40 mm cannon
Vickers 40 mm Class S gun (AP Round)
Vickers 40 mm Class S gun (HE Round)
QF 6-pdr Class M Mark I with Auto Loader Mk III
Ordnance QF 6-pounder
Ordnance QF 17-pounder
UNITED_STATES (14)
M1917 Browning machine gun
M1919 Browning machine gun
.50 Browning AN/M2
.50 Browning M2HB
.50 Browning AN/M3
20mm AN/M2
20mm AN/M3
20mm M39/T-160 cannon
1.1-inch/75-caliber gun
37 mm gun M1
37 mm gun M3
37 mm gun M4
37 mm gun M10
3-inch gun M5
