Animated Crosshair

[HDoan]

Can someone give me a tutorial on how to animate a crosshair? Like when I charge my plasma pistol, on the weapon theres a circle that changes color. I want to do that with a crosshair.

[fatso784]

From my knowledge, you can't animate crosshairs. They're sprites.

[HDoan]

Then how come theres a charge option in the .weapon_hud_interface file under crosshair? and does anyone know how to fix my first person? It wont go with tool or tool+ so I tried using the third person model and the model is to far to the right

[Jay2645]

You can animate crosshairs, but only when the weapons is charging/when you see an enemy. I don't know how to do it, though.

[CabooseJr]

I thought CMT was gonna make a tutorial on how to do that.

[HDoan]

So did I but I think it was for the crosshair changing when close enough. I got the first person view of my weapon to work but the weapon is too low, is there any way to move it up a bit?

[Jay2645]

I think that if you move the FP model up a bit, it should look about right.

[HDoan]

That didn't work

[Con]

leet's reticule animations are actually done in the weapon's FP animations

[Zeph]

There's a way to do it, but it's not in the typical way. Evolution was going to do it. I'll forward this to Wave and if he's up to sharing, since his mod is going standalone now, he'll post about it.

[CtrlAltDestroy]

Yeah, I do mine by making them part of the FP arm/FP weapon models, exploiting animations and functions.

[Bad Waffle]

Yep, CAD saw the idea in an earlier EVO build, and obviously he stole it for the RL and such.

But yea, you model your reticle (or make it a plane with the crosshair texture) and link it to its own frame, which will control the movement, rotation, and scale of the reticle when its doing whatever. Ill make a quick video of the last evo build for halo.

[HDoan]

Thanks for all the help, does anyone have any idea on how to shrink the first person model :|

[CtrlAltDestroy]

Yep, CAD saw the idea in an earlier EVO build, and obviously he stole it for the RL and such.

But yea, you model your reticle (or make it a plane with the crosshair texture) and link it to its own frame, which will control the movement, rotation, and scale of the reticle when its doing whatever. Ill make a quick video of the last evo build for halo.

Actually I made that RL before I saw any evo content with it. :p

[Oxygen]

ummm..ya, metroid already had the same/similar ideas when working with the hud. so neither of you are the first. anyways...i guess you could make a simple square or circle in max and uv an animated bitmap on it. i dunno...depends on what you're good at - animation in max or bitmaps and shaders in guerilla.


~Oxy

[PenGuin1362]

ummm..ya, metroid already had the same/similar ideas when working with the hud. so neither of you are the first. anyways...i guess you could make a simple square or circle in max and uv an animated bitmap on it. i dunno...depends on what you're good at - animation in max or bitmaps and shaders in guerilla.


~Oxy

l33t's been doin this a long time -_-

and that would not work, you would have to animate the model itself. the only animated textures halo 1 supports are scrolling textures

how do you shrink the model? scale -> x,y,z click and drag :rolleyes:

[CtrlAltDestroy]

No, you can have rotational shader animations.

[Scooby Doo]

penguin, couldn't u use something similar to the water shaders? like a sequence of multiple bitmaps - starting with the normal crosshair and then rotate it consistantly for the bitmaps next in the sequence? that could be a possibility, but it would be much easier to model it into the fp. although, you could make it very simple and just make like 8 bitmaps and rotate it 45 degress each time...

can the shaders for a crosshair be set up that way though? i dunno...i's a N3WB!


-Scooby

[PenGuin1362]

hm, i dunno, i never took the time to look at the water shader. although it's easier to do it in fp. that's how bungie did on the gun itself.

[HDoan]

Notice how I don't understand what you all are saying because I'm a noob
edit: also does anyone know how I can make the lasrs damage vehicles like a banshee while someone is in it? I have it so it detonates in the damage_effects but the vehicles and people get sent a little to far... a little to far as in 10000 feet. What should I set my damage effects to?

[Masterz1337]

.5- 3 world units

[HDoan]

.5- 3 world units
and what would I change in damage_effects with that :eyesroll:

[CtrlAltDestroy]

The fields at the very top (range).

EDIT: Nvm, force. (Instantaneous acceleration)

[HDoan]

The fields at the very top (range).

EDIT: Nvm, force. (Instantaneous acceleration)
Oh thanks

[Dole]

Yeah, I do mine by making them part of the FP arm/FP weapon models, exploiting animations and functions.
As in, the Spartan Laser charging or the Rocket Launcher targeting wouldn't work while the Third Person hack is active?

[CtrlAltDestroy]

Precisely; nor when zoomed.

[HDoan]

Does anyone have a tutorial for making effects?

[Tarzan]

Does anyone have a tutorial for making effects?

I'm pretty sure Kenney001 posted something either here or at halomaps about particle systems that should help a lot with making effect tags...

[HDoan]

Nice tutorial Masters :) http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?pg=3&fid=3034
EDIT: Does anyone know were the plasma pistol charge particle is :|