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Animated Reticles
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 3:35 am
by scar tissue
I am in the process of making something that hasn't been done before (to my knowledge) and I had an idea when I was messing with reticles.
http://img79.imageshack.us/my.php?image=image10tz.jpg
I made this (idea from bungie for halo2) when I thought, wouldn't it be neat if the reticle spun? Can it be done?
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 10:44 am
by Kurroda
i dont no can you animate things in halo 1
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 1:38 pm
by Phenomena
no.... of course you cant have any animations in halo 1 *looks at animation trigger... this is pretty much pointless i guess* >_>
but to answer your question... no animated reticles = no
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 2:11 pm
by scar tissue
Okay. Thank you.
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 2:39 pm
by CtrlAltDestroy
Phenomena wrote:no.... of course you cant have any animations in halo 1 *looks at animation trigger... this is pretty much pointless i guess* >_>
but to answer your question... no animated reticles = no
Couldn't you make a plane in the middle of the screen (in the weapon's model) with the reticle's texture, and animate it to make it spin? >_>
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 4:00 pm
by tebteb
[ZMT] L33T wrote:Phenomena wrote:no.... of course you cant have any animations in halo 1 *looks at animation trigger... this is pretty much pointless i guess* >_>
but to answer your question... no animated reticles = no
Couldn't you make a plane in the middle of the screen (in the weapon's model) with the reticle's texture, and animate it to make it spin? >_>
But then it wouldnt really lock on, if you did want it to lock on you have to go thru alotta scripting
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 4:10 pm
by scar tissue
I'll look into it more and see if I can figure it out. Thanks for the input.
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 4:36 pm
by CtrlAltDestroy
tebteb wrote:[ZMT] L33T wrote:Phenomena wrote:no.... of course you cant have any animations in halo 1 *looks at animation trigger... this is pretty much pointless i guess* >_>
but to answer your question... no animated reticles = no
Couldn't you make a plane in the middle of the screen (in the weapon's model) with the reticle's texture, and animate it to make it spin? >_>
But then it wouldnt really lock on, if you did want it to lock on you have to go thru alotta scripting
You know, not everything can be achieved by scripting.

Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 4:37 pm
by RaVNzCRoFT
No, not under normal circumstances. Reticles are .DDS bitmaps, and they are not capable of withstanding animations.
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 4:51 pm
by Kurroda
[ZMT] L33T wrote:tebteb wrote:[ZMT] L33T wrote:Phenomena wrote:no.... of course you cant have any animations in halo 1 *looks at animation trigger... this is pretty much pointless i guess* >_>
but to answer your question... no animated reticles = no
Couldn't you make a plane in the middle of the screen (in the weapon's model) with the reticle's texture, and animate it to make it spin? >_>
But then it wouldnt really lock on, if you did want it to lock on you have to go thru alotta scripting
You know, not everything can be achieved by scripting.

just like every thing cant be done by hex editing alot of people there answer is hex edit god
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 4:52 pm
by gh0570fchurch
well hex editing is wwwaaayyy too complicated for me... i prefer simple skinning, modeling, and hmt...
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 6:10 pm
by scar tissue
gh0570fchurch wrote:well hex editing is wwwaaayyy too complicated for me... i prefer simple skinning, modeling, and hmt...
Amen. But if this is possible, I will try to go outside the box for it.
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 9:33 pm
by SuperSunny
Simply done, but I don't think it can work through DDS manipulation, it needs tif files.
All you do is add more sequences to the sprite bitmap with blue outline so the bitmap core seperates it into a sprite sequence that animates. Same thing done in like explosions.
Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 12:07 pm
by Phenomena
pfft... typical sunny... going around pwning people... well... your just a big fat bully!

Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 1:20 pm
by nsilva
Phenomena wrote:pfft... typical sunny... going around pwning people... well... your just a big fat bully!

Yo usaid big fat. They describe the same exact thing. So it was just a waste of words
Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 2:10 pm
by CtrlAltDestroy
And what you just said was spam, a waste of even more words.
Thanks Sunny, I'll go try that.

Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 5:26 am
by Phenomena
nsilva wrote:Phenomena wrote:pfft... typical sunny... going around pwning people... well... your just a big fat bully!

Yo usaid big fat. They describe the same exact thing. So it was just a waste of words
no big does not mean fat, big means vertical, fat means horizontal.
Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 7:41 am
by gh0570fchurch
ok, i think that this is whole conversation is just a waste of words
EDIT:
Royal wrote:actully and thats why it should be locked
exactly
Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:11 am
by Kurroda
actully and thats why it should be locked