Love the plane, but the cbts need white and blue flashes/lens flares.... The Bryster

Thanks for the input. I'll check out the white/blue idea, but pass on the lens flares. I am using a virtual camera, not a real one.

the flame textures is good but need more light.

The flames have to have more transparency and light. And to be shorter. Love the decal and the texture on the plane, btw. But why's the nose transparent? No machine gun there.

Thanks vasquez and Erlik. Your ideas are good ones. Erlik the nose is transparent and there is a machine gun there. It is just out of ammo at the moment. LOL Right now I am re-rendering the scene per TheBrysters suggestions. I have included more light and transparency. I will post it here when it is done and we will move on from there.

If you are incorperating the Brysters suggestion for white and blue flashes I have seen Clay's Volumetric fire done in blue, once peaked might work quite nice for this. It used to be available in the free stuff here but is no longer. I had grabbed when it was available so if you want I could e-mail it to you. Its a rather nice mat, just a suggestion. Cheers

Thanks croowe I already have it and will check it out now that you mention it.

more yellow :P

someone who has more knowledge correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't remember wing guns on this bomber (of course, I couldn't say if it was a B25,26..definitely not a 29..;) The 25, if I remember correctly, had several .50 machine guns in the nose, the other one had a nose mounted machine gun, with a guy in front of the pilot and copilot (there was a tank-busting version that had a 75mm cannon between the pilot and copilot, and you had to do some fancy footwork to dodge the recoil..;)

Looks through Jane's Fighting Aircraft of WWII book Ahh... Here it is, Martin B-26C Marauder Medium Bomber... It would also be cool to have the tracers show if you get around to doing a wider angle shot.

I thought it was a B-17.......... Some artists depict gunfire as a series of pulses. Just a thought. The Bryster

I think the second one looks more like shots firing from the canons but I go with Drac on a little more yellow. Catlin

What's the shutter speed on that virtual camera. The props look all blurry ;-) Nice work!

Thanks everyone. If I add the yellow to the blue the result will be green. Sailor ed look at props that are spinning and tell me they don't look blurry to you. I guess the shutter speed of my camera is the same as the human brain. I will try a render with the yellow and see where it takes me. Parkled the cannon are on the side of the fuselage under the cockpit and wing root. They may be mach guns, but I think they are 20 mm cannon.

ya learn somethin' every day..always a good reason to stop by..;) Should stop noddin' off on the History channel..;)

I like the prop alpha texture - maybe add a little thickness to it though to simulate the width of the angled prop blades. Either do this in post or try and do it by mapping to a disk with thickness and try a volumetric texture instead. looks cool! - Scott

I this book is pretty cool... (Looking at Jane's WWII Fighting Aircraft again.) The profile of the canopy and the glass on the nose definitely makes it a B-26 Marauder. Powerplant: Two Pratt & Whitney R-2800-43 double row 18-cyl engines, 2000 HP each. Armament: Eleven 50 caliber machine guns. One flexible in nose (seen in this pic, the aircraft nose and this gun are what distinguishes this aircraft from others), four "package" guns in pairs (those other guns you see aren't on the wings, but are on pods on the sides of the fuselage), and the rest are on turrets (not seen in this pic.) Heheh... I thought that book would be handy for something.

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@pauljs75 I love all the Janes books. They are very informative and the most well researched of any out there. The Pratt and Whitney double wasp not only powered this plane, but the Hellcat, Corsair, P-47, and DC-6.

If anyone is into historic aviation go to www.HistoricAviation.com and subscribe to their warbird tech book club.

looking good! The prop blur is very believeable. I might make the initial burst (at muzzle) a little smaller with a fuzzy edge to it. Rather good so far though!

Thanks Incarnadine I am still working on it.