I've been trying to get a bright white color on my Default xhair, but it keeps coming out as an off grey, even when the RGB values are 255,255,255. Is it designed this way or am I doing something wrong.

crosshair "1"
cl_crosshair_file "Default"
cl_crosshair_scale "20"
cl_crosshair_red "255"
cl_crosshair_green "255"
cl_crosshair_blue "255"
cl_crosshairalpha "255"
cl_dynamiccrosshair "0"

You're doing it right, it's just that the in-game crosshairs are bad and dark =P Just use a custom hud crosshair, its way brighter like you want

By any chance is there a HUD Default xhair? haha I've been using the cross with the black outline but I find the Default a lot better.

edit. I'm talking about the ( . ) xhair, not the regular default xhairs

http://i.imgur.com/GW1Md.jpg

To get that I used the font file from: http://etf2l.org/forum/general/topic-15735/page-1/

But since I'm pretty picky about how TF2 outlines fonts (not very well) I made my own outline by copying gmang's method that he used for his HUD, namely the health numbers and things.

Firstly, download the font file at the end of the first post, not the one later posted, it's positioning was changed, unnecessarily so. Put the tf2cross.ttf file in the tf/resource folder.

Then in Hudlayout.res put this in.

xHairCross
{
"xpos" "c-53"
"ypos" "c-50"
"wide" "100"
"tall" "100"

"fgcolor" "255 255 255 255"
"controlName" "ceXLabel"
"fieldName" "XhairCross"
"visible" "1"
"enabled" "1"
"zpos" "2"
"font" "xhairCross"
"labelText" "x"
"textAlignment" "center"
}
xHairCross1
{
"xpos" "c-53"
"ypos" "c-50"
"wide" "101"
"tall" "100"

"fgcolor" "0 0 0 255"
"controlName" "ceXLabel"
"fieldName" "XhairCross1"
"visible" "1"
"enabled" "1"
"zpos" "1"
"font" "xhairCross"
"labelText" "x"
"textAlignment" "center"
}
xHairCross2
{
"xpos" "c-55"
"ypos" "c-50"
"wide" "103"
"tall" "100"

"fgcolor" "0 0 0 255"
"controlName" "ceXLabel"
"fieldName" "XhairCross2"
"visible" "1"
"enabled" "1"
"zpos" "1"
"font" "xhairCross"
"labelText" "x"
"textAlignment" "center"
}
xHairCross3
{
"xpos" "c-53"
"ypos" "c-50"
"wide" "100"
"tall" "101"

"fgcolor" "0 0 0 255"
"controlName" "ceXLabel"
"fieldName" "XhairCross3"
"visible" "1"
"enabled" "1"
"zpos" "1"
"font" "xhairCross"
"labelText" "x"
"textAlignment" "center"
}
xHairCross4
{
"xpos" "c-53"
"ypos" "c-50"
"wide" "100"
"tall" "99"

"fgcolor" "0 0 0 255"
"controlName" "ceXLabel"
"fieldName" "XhairCross4"
"visible" "1"
"enabled" "1"
"zpos" "1"
"font" "xhairCross"
"labelText" "x"
"textAlignment" "center"
}

and in clientscheme.res search for fonts, and then put this in the bitmap font files section

"XhairCross"
{
"1"
{
"name" "tf2cross"
"tall" "16"
"additive" "0"
"antialias" "1"
"outline" "0"
}

Same file, put this at the very bottom, the number need to be one higher than the section just above it, so most of the time it would be 7

"7"
{
"font" "resource/tf2cross.ttf"
"name" "tf2cross"
}

It's set up only for 1920x1080, primarily because the way tf2 handles spacing, thats why xhaircross2 has a funky wide and xpos number.

That should be it, it's not EXACTLY like tf2's default, but it's pretty nice because you can change the fgcolor of each element, if you'd like to change from a white crosshair, just edit the fgcolor of xhaircross.

Hope I helped!

I'm a little picky myself, and I'm 1680x1050 :[ but I can tweak it myself. Can you suggest some thinner fonts though? I'm trying to get it as close to the Default as possible.

Well, there is also the method of using parentheses and either a . or a ● that way you would be able to edit the size of each element.

I spent a long time looking for fonts that had parentheses that were similar to the default crosshair, but the only ones I've found where a really odd shape, italicized, or standard ones with a flat top.

CheaP wrote:

I'm a little picky myself, and I'm 1680x1050 :[ but I can tweak it myself. Can you suggest some thinner fonts though? I'm trying to get it as close to the Default as possible.

change the 'tall' to '11' in the clientscheme. that's as close as I got it to default

The last number is the opacity of the color. ex. 255,255,255,OPACITY

RGBA - red green blu alpha

#4 can you upload your config. i keep trying to set up that crosshair and it doesnt work.

stupidpeople wrote:

#4 can you upload your config. i keep trying to set up that crosshair and it doesnt work.

Sure. Keep in mind, again, it's only gonna work for 1920x1080 out of the box, so if you use anything different, be prepared to edit some xpos, ypos, tall, and wide settings.

http://www.mediafire.com/?c6cm2wf5p1e9pc1

Should be good to go, if you have any troubles just ask 'em and I'll try to help you out. Also to note, I'm using an edited version of the flame's hud part of commhud, so some parts of the HUD, depending on the one you use might be out of place.

It probably goes without saying, but this isn't compatible with other huds unless they add no fonts or anything of that sort to the game.

thanks a lot boggy :D

Np, man!