SWEP Lengthening bullet tracer?

[NotJohnSmith]

Simply want to lengthen the time a tracer (tooltracer) is active (:
was curious if anyone knew how I could do that, a simple timer?

[LUA]function SWEP:ShootBullet( damage, num_bullets, aimcone )

local bullet = {}
bullet.Num = 1
bullet.Src = self.Owner:GetShootPos()
bullet.Dir = self.Owner:GetAimVector()
bullet.Spread = Vector( 0,0,0 )
bullet.Tracer = 1 // # shown
bullet.TracerName = "ToolTracer"
bullet.Damage = damage
bullet.AmmoType = "Rifle"

self.Owner:FireBullets( bullet )

self:ShootEffects()

end[/LUA]

[c👌de_g🎷]

You cannot. Tracer effects are active for a set time by the effect code that declared it. Now you could do something really hacky like create a beam entity of the same material the tool tracer is, but it seems more work than worth.

[NotJohnSmith]

[QUOTE=code_gs;51208160]You cannot. Tracer effects are active for a set time by the effect code that declared it. Now you could do something really hacky like create a beam entity of the same material the tool tracer is, but it seems more work than worth.[/QUOTE]

Thank you for the speedy reply! Sad that it can't be lengthened. You're correct, it wouldn't be worth the time it'd take.