Custom Reticles

viperfreek89 · Post by **viperfreek89** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 3:13 pm

i only have one bitmap for a reticle (testing purposes) but when i try to edit the type of file so that i can select it to be un-compressed, it either closes guerilla out or just messes the bitmap up

Danke · Post by **Danke** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 3:16 pm

Make sure if you change the settings for a .bitmap in guerilla, that you recompile it in tool. If you did do that, then I dunno what the problem is.

viperfreek89 · Post by **viperfreek89** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 4:12 pm

what is the command line to compile the bitmap tag? sorry if i sound like an utter newbie

Danke · Post by **Danke** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 4:39 pm

tool bitmap
or
tool bitmaps for a directory

Run tool without command line parameters to see what you need to type.

viperfreek89 · Post by **viperfreek89** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 6:19 pm

thats what i tried but it says not a valid tiff file...

Danke · Post by **Danke** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 6:21 pm

Are you sure you saved it as a .tif with default save features?

viperfreek89 · Post by **viperfreek89** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 6:22 pm

i do that, but i thought you were referring to compiling the .bitmap tag, thats where my confusion comes from...

Banshee Ace · Post by **Banshee Ace** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 6:39 pm

gurilla crashes when you edited the .bitmap tag...

viperfreek89 · Post by **viperfreek89** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 6:42 pm

theres obviously a way to successfully get it to work... anyway, once it successfully creates a bitmap tag, is it ready to be used as a reticle?

Banshee Ace · Post by **Banshee Ace** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 6:45 pm

i i tired and i got an error in tool and the custom crosshair i made didnt appear in game...

Danke · Post by **Danke** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 6:47 pm

You might need to make a shader for it, I'm not too sure though. Take a look at the originals and see.

What I meant by "compiling a .bitmap" was using tool to make one from a .tif. If you edit a .bitmap in guerilla, and save, then recompile the tif into that .bitmap, it'll fix it up to the settings you set using guerilla.

{GR}Snake · Post by **{GR}Snake** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 9:30 pm

HI...umm thats all

Danke · Post by **Danke** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 9:32 pm

Ummm.... that's spam. I don't like you now.

{GR}Snake · Post by **{GR}Snake** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 9:34 pm

Dan!! wrote:Ummm.... that's spam. I don't like you now.

well i was gonna type something but i completely forgot sry. umm i probly shuldnt be writing this either

coodude25 · Post by **coodude25** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 5:58 pm

well i figured out how to make a custom reticle, but i am still working on the ammo hud. For the reticle, just design a picture with any reticle (the center of the picture is the center of the in-game screen no matter what size you make it) Now the best thing is to use the other reticle bitmap as a reference, and basically what i think you might have done wrong is in the bitmap tag, change type to 32-something and in the hud tag change the checkbox to not a sprite

viperfreek89 · Post by **viperfreek89** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 7:58 am

ok, i've run into a problem, i sucessfully compiled the bitmap, and made it the same as the combuned_reticles bitmap stats, then set it as the bitmap for the combined reticles, and all that, but whenever i tried it in-game theres no reticle at all... help plz!

Danke · Post by **Danke** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 4:16 pm

Hmmmm...

Are you sure you cleared out the sequence index, or fixed (depending on whatever you did)?

viperfreek89 · Post by **viperfreek89** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 5:15 pm

omg, i forgot about the sequencing index lol

Banshee Ace · Post by **Banshee Ace** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 8:46 am

guys i wrote up a tutorial on fusing bitmaps into one bitmap tag go here: http://files.halomods.com/viewtopic.php?t=14645

there are pictutres too...

viperfreek89 · Post by **viperfreek89** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 1:46 pm

nice, and i found out reticles too lol