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Hey im just wondering how would you put a sniper scope like on a battle rifle/ when it zooms you have a scope

Second how to you change the design of the zoom in witht the sniper instead of just having that lil dot mabye give it iron sights

one word: model.

answer: you need a customized model.

go in hmt and go to weapon then on the weapon go down to magnification levels and write how meany for example a sniper would be
magnification levels 2
magnification range 8
magnification range to 8

and try editing bitmap and u cant have ironsights

What i want to do is edit the crosairs. So if i want a round scope i need to make the model a circle?? And what bitmap is all this stuff under?

sorry to spam but can any 1 tell me HOW TO DO THIS!!!!

Read the other posts stupid

use "search" it is your friend

Good lord, look what I pulled out of my ass!

Here's how to make a scope like this:

First, lets make it red.
Go into HMT, and enter the weapon HUD interface tag (wphi), which is at or near the bottom.Click on the sniper. Find the dropdown box called screen effects (you need phenom's plugins). Select zero. find the section about desaturation, in which you will see boxes for R, G, and B. They should be:
R 0
G 1
B 0
which is the color of night vision. change it to this (or whatever color you want):
R 1
G 0
B 0
But lets make it so it's automatically red when you zoom, not just when you hit the flashlight button.
In the desaturation section, uncheck the following boxes: additive, and connect to flashlight.

now to make it round and add add crosshairs.
first, go into HHT and go to the same tag, the sniper in wphi.
find the dependencies "ui\hud\bitmaps\sniper\sniper_scope_mask_sm" and "ui\hud\bitmaps\sniper\sniper_scope_mask2"
swap them both to "ui\hud\bitmaps\pistol\pistol_scope_mask"

now, we go back into HMT and find (in the bitmaps tag) "ui\hud\bitmaps\pistol\pistol_scope_mask"
save the texture. open the texture in photoshop (you'll need dds plugins).
heres a guide to what you see:
white=black
black=completely transparent
grey=the darker the grey the more transparent it shows up.
knowing that, draw something, I did this:

Important: anything that touches the edge of the image will stretch accross the screen. so if your circle touches the edge, it will look dumb in game.
save that as A8R8G8B8, and inject the texture. That should be it. If you have any questions about the procedure of making the scope, post them here.
Wait, one more thing, did you notice the black reticle and that the 2x and 8x were missing on my pic?
now, we go back into HMT and find (in the bitmaps tag) "ui\hud\bitmaps\sniper\hud_reticles_scope"
save the texture. open the texture in photoshop (you'll need dds plugins). if you the reticle, 2x and 8x should come up. Which ever ones you want black, you erase (draw over with a black pencil). now we're done.