Animated Crosshair

[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.

[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

[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?