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