Crosshairs

[Kyllian]

Yea. Me = Kel at Atari
Oh, and Hobbes > Everyone

 

[CrazyCougar]

Yea. Me = Kel at Atari
Oh, and Hobbes > Everyone

Couldn't resist linking back to that thread since it's likely the origin of most of the custom crosshairs floating around.

 

[Kyllian]

Yep, I even got the entire thread saved to my HD
And I think its safe to say I made the largest pack... 30+ crosshairs

[SideNote] I had that ava sitting around the last 2 weeks. Figured use that instead of the FLCL ones I got
[SideNote2] Holy Sh*t! Just checked the number of dl's of my last 2 xhairpack releases... its up to 150 total... Last time I checked, it was at 100 total.
Wow

 

[pine]

I use the TTM 8 crosshair preferentially, Circle 1 if the server isn't running TTM. I actually had the aforementioned TTM crosshair in UT1 as well; it's just the one you would get when the UT1 rocket launcher 'locked on' to something. That little circle with a dot in the center = the win.

 

[m&ms]

you could even make binds to switch colours after you've loaded into an incompatibley coloured map.

could somebody tell me how to do that? its really annoying when i switch to a map with grass and suddenly my crosshair is just shy of useless

 

[pine]

p.s.

Don't they have spelling bee's in Utah?

*COUGH*

[strongbad]Ohhhh, if you want to show pluralization, then it's just
B-E-E-S, but if you have a contraction, it's B-E-E-apostrophe-S!

Ya scalawag.[/strongbad]

 

[TWD]

It's been comming up a ton so bump.

 

[pine]

Switched to bright green cross 1. It's much better, tbh. I was playing with all my graphics settings cranked and no HUD or crosshair at all for awhile, and I realized I don't even use the damn thing most of the time. Huge crosshairs are just distracting.

 

[wildfrogman]

I like the neon pink dot. Its bright enough and conflicts enough so I dont lose it aiming at raptors in ons. And once you see the dot on somebody you know you have em with the shock or ltg.

 

[Kyllian]

And I think its safe to say I made the largest pack... 30+ crosshairs

Scary how things change in 5 months...
Latest version of my xhair pack is up around 60 xhairs...
Now to just wait for the patch to be finalized so I can release the damn thing

 

[TWD]

I recall such a thing being on the menu. Basically it said that when you go in and edit crosshair settings it doesn't rewrite the ini and get rid of your custom xhair.

 

[Kyllian]

Yep, custom crosshair support is definitely fixed.
I'm running the 3204 patch on my system and they work flawlessly

The main reason I want to wait til the 2k4 patch is in public hands is because with the patch in beta form, you get punted from utsecure servers if you try to change crosshairs in the middle of the match(illegal package load)
So, when patch goes public, my xhair pack won't be far behind. :tup:

 

[Sir_Brizz]

good lord, I thought it was supposed to be "easy and cool" iirc....

 

[Kyllian]

Sorry that the mini-tutorial seems a little daunting.
I was just typing like mad trying to get one together.
The pics I posted later on should help tho.

Brizz, it may not seem easy to pull off based on my tut, but its really easy after you do it once or twice

 

[Sir_Brizz]

nah it's not that it seems "hard" it's just such a big pain compared to how Epic was talking about before. Have you tested "multiple xhair packs" yet?

 

[Kyllian]

Actually, I haven't.
I seem to be the only one who's spoken up about making a pack with all this extra stuff

 

[TWD]

Not exactly. If someone makes the package for you with a umod installer it's really easy for someone to add the crosshairs to the system. So tell me when someone has a nice dot with a circle all in a pretty umod for me.

 

[Kyllian]

lol
Dunno about the umod part, but I got 3 versions of the dot xhair
one that's bout 4 pixels wide normally(2x2white with a 1pixle wide black ring)
And 2 others that are about 62 pixels wide each(need to be scaled down to about 0.2)
The 2 huge ones I got in my pack seem to scale better and show up better than the small one

 

[TWD]

Yeah you can do it in a umod, but then again i don't know anything about umod files.. Most people probably just wouldn't bother is all lol It'd just be better to make a zip file with a /system directory under it and all the files in there. Then they'd just have to unzip to the ut2004 directory and it's all done.

 

[Kyllian]

Yea, that's what I mean
I've never really cared for umod. Too much chance they messed it up.
I prefer zip's, cuz if a file gets in the wrong folder, I know who to blame

Update on my pack:
- Added at least 15 new xhairs since K-Aus v5.1
- Updated a whole mess more
- Cleaned up many of the animated ones and tweaked the timings
- Updated the readme to be more noob friendly
- Got friendlynames to show in the Weapons tab in Settings(u/int/ucl files for that, 3204 patch required)

Total Crosshair Count: 68(I think...)

I think it'll be finished and released by this weekend at the latest