Weird crosshair crap

[Roanoke]

I looked at the default crosshairs, and I concluded that they were far too small. Scaling them helped, but now it was an eyesore. I made my own crosshair, of two colors. It is attached. The odd thing is, is that if you look at it with no scaling and with some custom coloring applied, there is a thin colored border near the black sections. Why is this? I designed it with inkscape then exported it as .tga. The file is a tga file masquerading as a png file (imageshack doesn't take tga's).

[divVerent]

Hehe, this bug is actually in your graphics card and not in the engine, and thus can't really be helped.

The color of pixels that are fully transparent does matter if they are direct neighbors of non-transparent ones, due to how the interpolation on the GPUs is done.

What you can do about it is easy: assuming your file is gfx/crosshair42.tga, you then do:

fixtrans gfx/crosshair42.tga

and then copy fixtrans/gfx/crosshair42.tga from the directory with your nexuiz settings to gfx/crosshair42.tga.

The "fixtrans" command makes a new TGA with this problem not entirely removed, but made much less bad, by changing the color part of fully transparent pixels to the color of the nearest pixel.

Another thing: don*t use such large images for crosshairs

[Roanoke]

Thanks. I'll try that and see. As for big images, it's comforting having an enormous crosshair in front of you (at least for me)

[esteel]

Hehe, that crosshair must overshadow players 'behind' them.. how can you hit at all

[Roanoke]

Div: What do you mean by fixtrans? Is that a shell command? If it is, I don't have it.
Esteel: I had that problem until I set the crosshair to have alpha