projectile trails

[ownlyme]

a big problem of factorio has always been the lack of shooting visualization.
ideally, each bullet would be it's own projectile and leave a trail of smoke, like the railgun does.
it's kinda possible to fake that, by giving the projectile an animation that includes the smoke trail.
the issue is, that when the projectile hits the enemy, the smoke trail disappears too.
i think this is not possible to do with the current attack parameter system

demo: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/ownlys_tracers

or maybe just add beautiful bullet trails to the base game

[curiosity]

Good thing it's been possible (and, indeed, even part of vanilla) for a very long time already. Just look at rockets.

[ownlyme]

great idea, i found it

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projectile.smoke={{
      name = "smoke-fast",
      deviation = {0.15, 0.15},
      frequency = 1,
      position = {0, 1},
      starting_frame = 3,
      starting_frame_deviation = 5
    }}

let me see if i can make it look as good as the railgun smoke