Crosshairs for Dark Places, How to?

[Roy Batty]

I'd like to make some crosshair's for Dark Places, but not sure how to do it, I have basic photoshop skills.

Any tips?

[grave_digga]

I think this thread will be helpful.

[Roy Batty]

Thanks! I searched but didn't run across that thread.

[osjclatchford]

my tips would be, use a square canvas, add a dot in the middle and work round it, keep it simple in colour and keep the outer edges 100% transparency... can't fail!

alpha on the artwork itself is not so vital as dp does this for you, also keep it a fair size (512 x 512 is good) as it can be shrunk quite neatly in dp too. however try to avoid too much detail as this is oftimes lost in the 'shrinking' to fit it on-screen...

hope this helps
Regards

Latchford

[Roy Batty]

I just want to copy the shotgun crosshair from left 4 dead (in non dynamic mode). I am so used to it after 4k hours playing that game.

I tried to rip it from the vpk's, but it seems coded into the engine as I couldn't find it in there. I found HL2 ones tho... LOL

[Roy Batty]

Ok, I managed to make the crosshair I like, so I guess I'll post it up here. =]

Here's also the settings I have in my autoexec.cfg for it, it's too big if you don't adjust the size. It's also white with these settings, of course you can change it to any color that you like. I have it replacing crosshair #3 of course.

crosshair 3
crosshair_color_red "255"
crosshair_color_green "255"
crosshair_color_blue "255"
crosshair_size "0.5"