[sprel] -new Motion Tracking Sprite

l0tus · October 2004

<div class="IPBDescription">simple, yet effective</div> just an experiment i put together in PS7 real quick. the word <i>hostile</i> is animated to scroll across the recticle whenever it locks on to an enemy. it gets a little crunchy when HL starts to enlarge it (as i suppose any sprite does) because i tried to keep the default sprite size in mind, and had to make the circle small to fit.
<img src='http://l0tus.nsarmslab.com/ss/motion01.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
<span style='color:red'>•</span><span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:gray'>hosted <a href='http://l0tus.nsarmslab.com/l0tus-motion01.zip' target='_blank'>here</a> by <a href='http://www.nsarmslab.com' target='_blank'>NSArmslab.com</a>.</span></span>

DragonMech · October 2004

W1N!!!

Paranoia2MB · October 2004

secks
*tries it out*

Chrono · October 2004

i like it <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' />

Drfuzzy · October 2004

You need to center the circle, its off to the side :o

l0tus · October 2004

the circle is off to the bottom·left so i could fit it all into a sprite the same size as the default. for me, it's more than close enough. im not using it to aim, after all...

Windburn · October 2004

Fantastic concept lotus, looks great in game, even the text shows up great 90% of the time, and the other time the alien is too close for you to pay attention to it <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' />
Just a question though, i'm really really fond of the original MT sprite. I'm going to have a go at it now, but i'm sure you'd be alot more succesful, I was wondering if perhaps the original sprite could be resized to fit that blue circle in your sprite. (imo, it would be the pinnacle of sexiness)

Fox_One · October 2004

Looks fantastic! <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' />

Drfuzzy · October 2004

Yea, i love this sprite, but when you jump around the corner to shoot the skulk on the circle, its not where its suppose to be because its off-center.

l0tus · October 2004

...lol.

Vash_Fourty_Five_Lc · October 2004

Just got off a siege game with this, great stuff. I guess it is sorta mis-leading benig off-center, but I didnt have any problems. Great great great stuff, I'm gonna have a go at adding a few touches probably, you're doing some great work, conversions and creations alike. Keep it up my man. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' />

CplDavis · October 2004

omg that is awsome!

using now

lotus you have now proven yet again why you are my fav custom sprites guy for NS

<8 <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' />

cortex · October 2004

:O nice one lotus. im pretty sure you can deviate from the original size of the sprite so you can make it centered.

i would use it but, i have my own <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' />

Windburn · October 2004

Hrm, after spending the majority of a couple of hours working on this, this is the final thing that i came up with in regards to my comment before ^ (till i can be bothered going back and touching up a few things)

The inner red circle is constantly spinning, other than that the animation is exactly the same as lotus' (although i'm not too sure the larger circle pulls off as well as yours does lotus).

Dark_Soul · October 2004

very nice work Lotus, you're doing some great sprites here <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' />

Vash_Fourty_Five_Lc · October 2004

very nice Sykotic, gonna release that one too?

l0tus · October 2004

yeah it looks like you might've shrunk the outside recticle to one px thick instead of 2. that might be causes it to look a bit odd at certain distances. i had tried a thinner recticle initially, but those four flat pixels it puts on the sides to complete the circle looked weird to me when HL softened them in·game. im werking on another right now, sans recticle. as for your new animation: i thought about something like that, but i was just too lazy after putting in that hostile, heh. i'd like to see yours sometime. sounds awesome-

Mr_JeburtO · October 2004

/me uses

jesterusaf · October 2004

so lotus if u center it and give it the red circle spinning thingy, i will shine your shoes

Windburn · October 2004

Well, here it is, and yeah you are right l0tus, I shrunk the reticle, and i don't think it's quite what i'm after- i'll sit down when i get a chance and rework a similar one from scratch instead of using the default mt sprite. It's still fairly feasible, but i'd love to see what you come up with now <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' />

*edit* rofl would you believe it was 121k, 1k over the upload limit - here it is zipped.
If you want to use it anywhere, don't bother crediting me, credit l0tus and the NS team.

Fox_One · October 2004

Well, I tried redoing this...hit some snags.

Here's how it should look:
<img src='http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v166/kevlarfox/nsstuff/mt.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image' />

Here's how it looks in-game:
<img src='http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v166/kevlarfox/nsstuff/mt.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />

I've already mirrored it so the text is correctly aligned, but the...blobbiness I can't figure out.

cortex · October 2004

maybe try thinning and dimming the circles... if its too bright the anti-aliasing shows up all screwed.

kabo0m · October 2004

I used it and I love it (not the latest version) and I am going to tell my clan about it <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' />

<img src='http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/KatyKabo0m/H-L/co_angst0106.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image' />

<img src='http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/KatyKabo0m/H-L/hostile.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image' />

Shazbot · October 2004

Looks like the red circle is not perfectly in the center... more to the top. Maybe I just think that because I need to go to sleep... *passes out*

l0tus · October 2004

@Fox: i believe its the fact that you resized the default sprite's (canvas) area that made it blob out like that. thats why i was trying to use the default sprite size, as some people have commented on. i learned that when you change the actual size of a sprite that NS needs to rotate and resize (i.e. that ricochet spark we were talking about over at NSA), bad things can happen... <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' />

Fox_One · October 2004

Ahhhhh...thanks for the heads-up.

Hmmm...shame the MT sprite doesn't have a corresponding .txt file...

jesterusaf · October 2004

is there a way that u can fix the quality of it? the letters are fine but the circles are blocky

Fox_One · October 2004

Look at the sprite. It's a pixel circle, no AA. It's designed that way. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />

[sprel] -new Motion Tracking Sprite

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