Alliedassault - How to make crosshairs from scratch tutorial

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Crosshair making from scratch (PSP 8) tutorial

This is intended as a tut for new modders to make xhairs from scratch.
It is by no means covering all possible ways just how I do it.

I apologize for the image size but the detail is lost if i resize em.

For this you will need the following:

Paintshop Pro 8:
http://www.jasc.com

Winzip:
http://www.winzip.com

A lot of patience lol

I am doing this tut under PSP 8 because thats the latest version. (You may use any image editor you want but you need to know how to do alpha channels in it)

Ok lets get started :
Open PSP and make a new image 16x16 pixels (the xhair image size) and select the background as transparent.

[img]http://www.scorpionsshack.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/tuts/Image1.jpg[/img]
Heres the fun part draw your xhair make sure that u at least put a dot in the centre of the image cos thats where the bullets aim for lol.

[img]http://www.scorpionsshack.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/tuts/Image2.jpg[/img]

Next go to the menu at the top and select layers>new mask layer>from image>source opacity.

[img]http://www.scorpionsshack.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/tuts/Image3.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www.scorpionsshack.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/tuts/Image4.jpg[/img]
Then goto view mask in the same layers menu.
this will make it go red (hmmm funky!!)

[img]http://www.scorpionsshack.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/tuts/Image5.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www.scorpionsshack.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/tuts/Image6.jpg[/img]

Then go to layers menu a final time and select load/save mask and select save to alpha channel click on the save button and we are nearly there.

[img]http://www.scorpionsshack.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/tuts/Image7.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www.scorpionsshack.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/tuts/Image8.jpg[/img]

Now make a folder called textures and in it another folder called hud (no caps)

now goto psp again and save your image as crosshair.tga in the hud folder.
[img]http://www.scorpionsshack.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/tuts/Image9.jpg[/img]

Whoo hoo are we having fun yet? Final step time
right click on your textures folder and select add to zip

[img]http://www.scorpionsshack.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/tuts/Image10.jpg[/img]
at the end name it to what u want (usual modding practice is add a couple of zz's cos mohaa acts up if not sometimes.
and instead of .zip call it .pk3
So for example zzzzmyxhair.pk3

[img]http://www.scorpionsshack.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/tuts/Image11.jpg[/img]
Et voila all done stick it in your mainta folder and enjoy your new xhair.

[img]http://www.scorpionsshack.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/tuts/xhair1.jpg[/img]

Scorp

Coming soon custom scopes and animating your crosshair!!