Custom Reticles

viperfreek89 · Post by **viperfreek89** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 1:02 pm

Does anyone know how to make custom reticles? I've been trying, but to no avail. help would be greatly appreciated.

coodude25 · Post by **coodude25** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 1:44 pm

Well i have been working on this too, and though i have not figured it all out yet i still get some of it. Just open you weapon tag, and like 3/4 of the way down there is a link to the hud interface tag. Open this and find the bitmap that it uses, and you can use this as a reference. The problem i am having is there are things called sequences (or something like that can't quite remember right now) and you need to create them and use sequence indexes which i dont know how to use. So what i'd do if i were you is just make a new bitmap with a white reticle on a black background.
try to make it at the top left corner so it is in the center for the game.
Sorry i don't know anymore, but until i learn how sequences work, i don't think you can do it perfectly.

viperfreek89 · Post by **viperfreek89** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 1:50 pm

yea, i've found that much out too, i've also found out that if you do "tool bitmap" instead of "tool bitmaps" that it gives an error about needing a border around the image because of something to do with sprites. but when i tried to compare my reticle bitmap tag with the reticle_combined bitmap and my reticle tag, and fill mine in to match the combined_reticles one, when i checked out the bitmap and guerilla closed out. i believe the thing i did to make it close out was un-check the box marked compressed... again, any help would be appreciated

Banshee Ace · Post by **Banshee Ace** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 6:18 am

that's how far i've gone but there are people out there who have successfully have done this...

viperfreek89 · Post by **viperfreek89** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 10:27 am

yea, and i have sent a few PM's out already, i guess im not important enough to reply too...

Banshee Ace · Post by **Banshee Ace** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 1:45 pm

i've sent PM's too to people who've done this... they probably really dont care about us...

TheMissingLink117 · Post by **TheMissingLink117** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 1:29 pm

All you do is edit a bitmap and its alpha channel, or you could probably make a new bitmap all together.

Banshee Ace · Post by **Banshee Ace** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 1:46 pm

no that's bot what he meant... he meant bitmap tags with a sequence of bitmaps in it.. in other words more than one bitmap in a bitmap tag... how is this done?

Danke · Post by **Danke** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 1:50 pm

You need to compile a bitmap tag in tool, then change the settings and recompile it. Oh, and all those bitmaps need to be in one folder.

Banshee Ace · Post by **Banshee Ace** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 1:50 pm

SOME PLASE MAKE A TUTORIAL FOR THIS!!!

TheMissingLink117 · Post by **TheMissingLink117** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 12:36 pm

I'm assuming you could use kornman00 to fuse the bitmaps, if not, try giving each bitmap you want in the sequence a name like 0,1,2 or bitmap: 0, bitmap: 1. That's what you do to fuse different LODs together, so I'd mess around with that.

Banshee Ace · Post by **Banshee Ace** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 12:37 pm

how do you fuse bitmaps?!!??!

viperfreek89 · Post by **viperfreek89** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 2:53 pm

i believe what he's saying is fusing the mipmap togeather, if so, can you please give us more details on it? like mabe a link to the "kornman00"program you referred to

viperfreek89 · Post by **viperfreek89** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 6:46 pm

sorry for 2x post, but i've found the kornman00 program, now how do you "fuse" the bitmaps?

viperfreek89 · Post by **viperfreek89** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 10:27 am

... cmon ppl, i know you know... [/bump]

Banshee Ace · Post by **Banshee Ace** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 12:28 pm

MAN SOMEONE HAS TO KNOW!!! I HAVE MADE OVER 20 NEW CROSSHAIR .TIF FILES!!! I wanna put these in halo!!!!

SilverStone641 · Post by **SilverStone641** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 12:44 pm

go find the guy that made the H2 mods. he'll tell ya. i'll look into it more for you as well

viperfreek89 · Post by **viperfreek89** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 1:35 pm

what you mean by the H2 mod, if u mean New Mombasa, there werent any crosshair changes in that.

Banshee Ace · Post by **Banshee Ace** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 2:41 pm

he's talking about halo pc.. igniore him...

Danke · Post by **Danke** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 2:52 pm

Are all your reticles seperate .tif files? Because it'll work (better IMO) that way too. You just need to compile them, set all the settings in guerilla to what you want them to be, make shaders, then change the ui/something/hud weapon interface's reticles to goto your files, test it out and go back and make them centered in guerilla, and keep doing it until they're right.

The hard part should be the bitmap/shader settings. The centering is just annoying and time consuming.