Crosshair Colour
g0t_w00t
Join Date: 2004-07-29 Member: 30233Members, Constellation
Join Date: 2004-07-29 Member: 30233Members, Constellation
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<a href='http://kisan.100free.com/spredit.zip' target='_blank'>http://kisan.100free.com/spredit.zip</a> <span style='color:red'>(clicking the link may not work, copy and paste it in browser)</span>
This program will let you edit the sprites. If you don't get how to use it or just don't want to, explain more how you want it and I'll make it for you.
Let me rephrase what I said a little more clearly - I believe a sprite cannot have it's colors changed in-game. Your crosshair must always be the color it starts as in the beginning of the match. It can't shift colors, to my knowledge.
I think blue's negative is yellow...
<!--QuoteBegin-g0t.w00t?+Aug 1 2004, 11:27 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (g0t.w00t? @ Aug 1 2004, 11:27 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->actually, that would be quite handy. almost solid red (just enuff to see thru) main part, and a solid blue outline would be good. id need it for all weapons and both alien and rine<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Should be quite a complicated process. For the crosshairs, it doesn't seem to be possible to mix multiple colors (e.g. red and blue) with partial transparency (like the current crosshairs), using the conventional transparency methods.
A way to work around it, is to create a color mesh for the areas that require transparency (i.e. alternating between the color you want and the transparency color) and then use AlphaTest during compilation. I'll try it out right now.
<i>edit: The attached file should fit the description. To install, extract 'mesh_xhair.zip' to your \nsp\sprites folder. If it's not to your taste and you want to roll back, just unzip the contents of 'default.zip' to the same directory. Oh, and remember to tell me what you think of it. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--></i>
like, make holes 4 times larger than they are now?
if you dont want to it ok cause the xhairs are damn awesome anyway
g0t.w00t?
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Extract the contents of <b>one</b> of the files, to <span style='color:green'><b>\ns\sprites</span></b>, to achieve the following effect:
<span style='color:gold'><b>1-4_mesh</span></b>: installs the crosshair (less transparent)
<span style='color:gold'><b>1-8_mesh</span></b>: installs the crosshair (more transparent)
<span style='color:gold'><b>default</span></b>: reverts all crosshairs to the NS defaults
You can also just install the crosshairs for certain weapons, by extracting the crosshair sprite (mesh_xhair.spr) and only the appropriate weapon text files.