Hiding Crosshair

Echa

I've got a 3D setup (and NS2 looks fantastic in 3D, except for some lighting issues) and I want to disable the games crosshair. I'll replace it with nVidia's crosshair that comes with the drivers. It scales with the depth of what I'm looking at where the games standard crosshair is always flat on the screen.

I know a bit of C++ but have no experience with lua. The main problem is I have no idea what classes or functions the games modding API has so I don't know what to do to eliminate the crosshair.

Koruyo

So the nvidia 3d stuff has a crosshair overlay? and you just want to get rid of the ingame crosshair to use that instead?


<a href="http://www.file-upload.net/download-4648298/crosshairs.zip.html" target="_blank">crosshairs.zip</a>

Go to
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Natural Selection 2\ns2\ui"

Replace:

crosshair.dds
crosshair-hit.dds

With the ones in my zip.

(dont forget to backup, tho you could also get the original files back by checking integrity of natural selection 2 in steam)


What did i do? I basically made empty files so the crosshairs will be invisible ingame. (seemed like the easiest and fastest way to do it)
How did i do it? You can edit .dds files with paint.net(you could also do it with photoshop + nvidia dds plugin) - i just opened the files ctrl+a and deleted everything - then saved the empty files.


Hope it works.

Soul_Rider

Crosshairs can be very simply removed in the code...

Will be back in a few minutes with the files to show you how to do it. (I've done it in GorgeCraft mod and previously in an Older version of Proving Grounds).

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EDIT:

Player_Client.lua:line 565 (well in my modded file anyway...). This is the whole original function as used in NS2.

<!--c1--><div class='codetop'>CODE</div><div class='codemain'><!--ec1-->function PlayerUI_GetCrosshairY()

    local player = Client.GetLocalPlayer()

    if(player and not player:GetIsThirdPerson()) then  
      
        local weapon = player:GetActiveWeapon()
        if(weapon ~= nil) then
        
            // Get class name and use to return index
            local index
            local mapname = weapon:GetMapName()
            
            if mapname == Rifle.kMapName or mapname == GrenadeLauncher.kMapName then
                index = 0
            elseif mapname == Pistol.kMapName then
                index = 1
            elseif mapname == Shotgun.kMapName then
                index = 3
            elseif mapname == Minigun.kMapName then
                index = 4
            elseif mapname == Flamethrower.kMapName then
                index = 5
            // All alien crosshairs are the same for now
            elseif mapname == Spikes.kMapName or mapname == Parasite.kMapName or mapname == LerkUmbra.kMapName then
                index = 6
            elseif(mapname == SpitSpray.kMapName) then
                index = 7
            // Blanks (with default damage indicator)
            else
                index = 8
            end
        
            return index * 64
            
        end
        
    end

end<!--c2--></div><!--ec2-->

Easiest way to remove ALL crosshairs is to edit the function to look like this:

<!--c1--><div class='codetop'>CODE</div><div class='codemain'><!--ec1-->function PlayerUI_GetCrosshairY()

    local player = Client.GetLocalPlayer()

    if(player and not player:GetIsThirdPerson()) then  
      
        local weapon = player:GetActiveWeapon()
        if(weapon ~= nil) then
        
            // Get class name and use to return index
            local index
            index = 8
            return index * 64
            
        end
        
    end

end<!--c2--></div><!--ec2-->

Index 8 is no crosshair.

If you don't want to delete all that code you can just comment it out like this:

<!--c1--><div class='codetop'>CODE</div><div class='codemain'><!--ec1-->function PlayerUI_GetCrosshairY()

    local player = Client.GetLocalPlayer()

    if(player and not player:GetIsThirdPerson()) then  
      
        local weapon = player:GetActiveWeapon()
        if(weapon ~= nil) then
        
            // Get class name and use to return index
            local index
            local mapname = weapon:GetMapName()
            
            /*if mapname == Rifle.kMapName or mapname == GrenadeLauncher.kMapName then
                index = 0
            elseif mapname == Pistol.kMapName then
                index = 1
            elseif mapname == Shotgun.kMapName then
                index = 3
            elseif mapname == Minigun.kMapName then
                index = 4
            elseif mapname == Flamethrower.kMapName then
                index = 5
            // All alien crosshairs are the same for now
            elseif mapname == Spikes.kMapName or mapname == Parasite.kMapName or mapname == LerkUmbra.kMapName then
                index = 6
            elseif(mapname == SpitSpray.kMapName) then
                index = 7
            // Blanks (with default damage indicator)
            else*/
            index = 8
            //end
        
            return index * 64
            
        end
        
    end

end<!--c2--></div><!--ec2-->

Of course you can copy and paste either of those code blocks over the function in your file and it will work. Also note, as this is a client mod, you can use it on vanilla servers.