Trails

Trails is a graphics effect in all of the 3D Universe games starting with Grand Theft Auto III. The effect blended the last rendered frame on top of the newly rendered frame with transparency tp create a sort of motion blur that would make car chases feel more action paced. It was a common technique used in Renderware powered games at the time and had nice results on Cathode Ray Tubes.

Trivia

 * The PC ports of Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City remove the effect, but they remain in the console versions.


 * There are mods to add them back to the PC Ports and also to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.