Hello,
I was testing gun modifications and ran across a couple of sites to help you out with making those guns your' very own. Naturally, if you can get to your' XML files, you can see the rate of fire, caliber, duration of pause between bursts, etc. Many of us are more familiar with dealing with military weapons that are X mm in size. Thus I looked up a handy and simple conversion calculator to determine what value to enter to simulate various mm weapons vs the standard 0.5 caliber attribute.
http://www.convertunits.com/from/mm/to/caliber
Next, we were given this nifty feature to change colors of our tracer rounds and even the color of jet engine exhausts. Some of us aren't as familiar with hexacolor listings as others. (Admittedly I only remembered a few from back in the day when building your' own website from scratch with only HTML codes was all the rage.) Here's a page that can help you find the perfect color for your' preferences;
http://www.colorhexa.com/ (There is a link there to look up basic colors by name too, so don't fret!)
Looking for realism? Soviet tracer rounds tended to be a pale green while NATO standard is usually a vibrant red. Presently Russia and China are both known to continue to use the green color. I've seen mention/photos of orange-red, white and rarely a pale blue. There are exceptions as well though. During the Iraq war the US would occasionally throw in green tracers to confuse their adversaries. I've seen photos of M2 Brownings on Humvees firing white tracers (?) however those may possibly have been incindiary rounds? Dunno!
Most modern aircraft in the EU and US no longer deploy tracer rounds as so much of the aiming process is automated and aided by the onboard targeting computer/radar/etc. that they would only cause unnecessary wear on the weapons. Tank hull weapons still tend to fire tracers due to the limited range of vision. In modern combat, in the Spec. Ops. community especially, an emphasis on using Infrared tracers has been pursued and may soon spread to the standard GI Joe, due to the widespread use of IR optics. On a historical note, in many cases Night Fighters avoided the use of tracers to avoid giving away their position.
Hope this helps, and keep those imaginations burning! ^_^
-DA
@NlaEid Thanks it helped alot
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can anyone tell me how to get to my XML files?
@DragonAerotech got it
@FilenotFound I found mine through trial, error and sheer dumb luck on Windows 10 then made a shortcut to the folder that contains them. You can edit them in plain old Notepad.
How do I get toy XML files? I mean, how do I get to modify them?
@Mudkip Yeah! That's a great site! Thanks! ^_^
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@Aviation I haven't played with the Engine exhaust colors yet but likely will in the future. I need to refresh my memory on RL engine exhausts to pick and choose which colors I think should be applied there. Try picking one to change and check that out, then restore it to its original color once you've seen which it applies to. Process of elimination to deduce what colors to choose to replace them. For example I'd like for my afterburner equipped aircraft to have a bluish exhaust as opposed to the stock coloration - but I need to pick out the right shades or it'll be a waste of time.
@Derpy1109 Thanks for clarifying on color aspects for tracers! I just had to search for more info after that and came up with a page that had a ton of info on tracer colors, as it applies to WW2 at the least;
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/archive/index.php/t-12320.html
"Soviet tracers tended to be green, while NATO usually red"
Depends on the timeframe, but this mostly refers to rifles, not aircraft MGs and cannons.
In reality, Russia's 7.62s are green, and I know for a fact their cannons shoot red. Can't remember what colour their 12.7s are, but I do know 20mm+ is red.
I believe American .50's fire red tracers, and their WWII-Korea cannons, being imported British-built Hispanos, fire white tracers.
.303 British was typically yellow to my knowledge. See above for Hispanos.
I honestly do not know what colour most German and Japanese tracers were, my only knowledge is so varied. I want to say German 13.4s are bright blue, and cannons white, but even that is uncertain. And for Japan.. oh god, I have no idea.
Just so you know the weird, ridiculous world of tracers.
Nice guide! Quick question: what does the first pair in the hex code for engine exhaust color do?