script suggestion

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I think a good script for the particle system would be a way to make tracer bullets (or laser shots). Could this be done?

2

Wouldn’t it be easier to do that with motion blur?

3

Don’t use particels for tracer bullets or comparable things. It may look easy, but you have to accept strict creative limitation.

My suggestion:

  • use a small Cylinder with material emitter to 1, make the material not receive or cast shadows
  • parent a simple lamp with a low value to center of the cylinder
  • use motion blur (and of course IPO)
  • or maybe use postprocessing gaussian blur.

Using blur, no matter which, will slow down the rendering, i figure out, if you use both blurs, you will have to wait forever