Crosshairs

[esteel]

you use crosshairs ? use the force !
you use a custom crosshair? cheater!!!! XD

Hehe, use the cheater force? Custom Crosshairs are even allowed in the ladder.
And yeah i think morfar has some point Though i know both of you are just joking around.

In the last days i made some crosshairs. They do all work properly.
Anyhow, are there any specs i should follow to avoid incompatiblity? Or limitations?

I'm not totaly sure.. Colors close to white will be replaced with the color you selected some others are just displayed 'as is' but i think you can only use some sizes for the crosshairs though i'm not sure which ones. And to avoid incompatibility just use numbers > 8 and < 32.. but the menu needs to be adjusted for crosshairs > 8 or you set them via console..

[Gut_Eater]

I made some simple crosshairs. Just for fun. Had too much time .
Since i have no webspace i can show only some screens of what i did. If someone is interested in the crosshairs, i could mail them.
(Of course the files in the *.pk3 have a transparent background and not a black one like shown in the screenshot)





I uploaded the files here: (thx esteel )

http://rapidshare.com/files/7498351/zzz ... GE_big.pk3
http://rapidshare.com/files/7220348/zzz ... _small.pk3

Just put ONE of the files in your /data directory. You can choose the crosshair in the console by typing

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crosshair "xx"

[esteel]

Interesting looks.. i'm satisfied with mine. though i might try and see if it can be done with two colors.. The circle could use white/black and the dot in the middle could also be made half white/black so one can't miss the crosshair on different backgrounds.

[kozak6]

Cool.

The crosshair I always use for ET is a variant of 23. It has a teeny tiny central dot, the vertical legs are shorter, and the horizontal legs are longer.

If I designed a crosshair, I would have super long horizontal legs, with graduations so I could use them to lead a target and compensate for lag.

[esteel]

If I designed a crosshair, I would have super long horizontal legs, with graduations so I could use them to lead a target and compensate for lag.

Interesting idea.. I understand the idea and it sounds neat but is lag really that much of a problem those days? Also as i wrote above.. The lines really would have to be thin not to cover up the model you aim at.

[kozak6]

I haven't played much Nexuiz lately because it hasn't run well for me since 1.2.1 (*points at sig*), and I don't know if there are any populated American servers yet (on Euro servers, I usually ping around 250, often worse), but I do enjoy laserjumping into weird spots and lasersniping or MG sniping, so I would make good use of it.

They would have to be really fine since if I remember properly, the crosshair expands when you zoom.

[tChr]

the crosshair expanding while you xom was a bug iirc, and was fixed a long long time ago Except from when you are invisible in minsta, but i think its fixed there too

[Gut_Eater]

I updated zzz_crosshair_GE_big.pk3. Crosshair #25 and #26 were added. Kozak6, you might have a look.



http://rapidshare.com/files/7498351/zzz ... GE_big.pk3

[ai]

esteel, I liked that round crosshair with a dot in the middle (that's the one I'm using), but could you change that dot to become a little bit bigger or more visible in some way? Sometimes I have a hard time hitting people. They are inside that crosshair just not in the middle and at big distances that makes it even harder.

Or if you could tell me how to do it (or someone else for that matter). The crosshair in the data.pk3 is just totaly white for me. If it is crosshair8.tga (morf told me that).

[Gut_Eater]

I can describe it using gimp. Just create a file e. g. 45x45 with black background. Draw a white dot and a circle round it. (I dont know the correct words in the english gimp menu. But you will get along). If you are ready with drawing go to <Layer> <transparency> <color to transparence> and choose black.
Save as *.tga.