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[ Bug Report ] Cannon Tracer Bug.

62.8k ZeroWithSlashedO  16 days ago

I'm very sure almost all of us knew one bug about cannon tracers having a buggy look when spawned a little too much. However, this one's different.

I'll cut to the chase.
Somehow, someway, the tracers would just... not show up at all when I set it. Let me tell you about it.

The GIF above is an example of how it looks like... In case it wasn't obvious enough.

I had known this bug for quite a while now, but it seemed to have gotten worse by this point.

I've known that this bug had existed ever since I was making the BT4A2 MBT that I uploaded a while ago (come check it out in the meantime).

During this time, when I tried making the 30mm coaxial look like it was firing subcaliber rounds, the tracer seemed to have been having issues spawning because the round ended up being too small.
I decided it wasn't a big deal since the main cannon that I had also set tracers up with, were properly spawning them to the settings I set. The color looked good, the length looked good, and the spacing were spawning as they had been set to, which was All Tracer.

After the whole ordeal of trying to make this godforsaken MBT work, and finally uploading it to the website, I took a pretty long break. And came back today to try finishing the SPAA I had made from the same hull a while back.
I didn't notice it at first, because I was a bit too focused on trying to make the proxy rounds work. But when I thought about the tracers, I went to set them up. The problem? I already did. It was set to 2 rounds per tracer.

I wondered "Why didn't it show up?", and tried to fix the issue. I reset the tracer settings, tweaked the length, changed the opacity, even changed a few of the game settings, namely graphics. Alas, none of them worked.
The problem with the bug is that it seems to be some sort of... Unintended update to the game's code? Because re-opening SP doesn't seem to have fixed it either. So, I gave up. I should also mention, I did try disabling mods that I thought were interfering with the tracer program.

So I turned to discord, asked one server about it and... It doesn't just seem to be me. Which strengthened my theory that it isn't a mod, or tracer settings that was causing it. But rather the game itself for whatever reason refused to spawn tracers.

Because of this, I'll ask the same question here too.

Is anyone else experiencing the same issue?

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    Might Be Relevant Cannon Settings:

    Diameter: 7% (35mm)
    Velocity: 1150m/s
    Reload Rate: 0.0545 seconds
    Tracer Spacing: 2
    Tracer Length: 0.4
    Tracer Color: #FFFFA0FF

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    Changing the caliber didn't make any difference. It's still invincible.

    16 days ago
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    31.1k IFVuser

    @ZeroWithSlashedO the boxy turret shape, the radar, not to mention that its armed with a 35mm, much like the real life Type 87 does

    16 days ago
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    @IFVuser
    close, but like I said:

    After the whole ordeal of trying to make this godforsaken MBT work, and finally uploading it to the website, I took a pretty long break. And came back today to try finishing the SPAA I had made from the same hull a while back.

    One of the inspirations, well, more like the whole inspiration was from the Type 87, so yeah.

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    31.1k IFVuser

    Is that a Type 87 i see in the GIF?

    16 days ago
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    @AndrewGarrison
    @WNP78
    @PhilipTarpley

    Thought to let you guys know.

    16 days ago