Hello again Urik! Just wanted to drop by to let you know that I've made an improvement on my HUD from last time, and of course, I've given you credit for the custom crosshair support I integrated into it.

The new and improved HUD is here on the Steam Workshop if you wanna take a look.

Thank you again for your contributions!

@aldsTM Looks cool, thanks and you're welcome

Hello Urik! I don't know if you were the first one to figure out hudlayout.res and how to add elements to it such that they allow support for other UI elements like a custom crosshair, but as a newbie modder I wanted to thank you for the knowledge. I've used your idea to add Urik/SCHISM crosshair support to another existing HUD mod , and I wanted to give you credit for the idea.

Because of you, the mod that I've made contains a very small dot crosshair, but still allows support for an additional Urik/SCHISM crosshair, like SCHISM's Tri-Angled crosshair (therefore making it so that the Tri-Angled crosshair has a dot in the middle). It was an interesting discovery, so thank you for that.

Игра, временами, вылетает именно с модом. После отключении вылеты прекращаются.

гавно ебанное ссука!

Блять, я просто хочу нормальный прицел, сукаа...

Will this conflict with poM's No HUD mod?

There is file called hudlayout.res and it's like the main gui file. It defines areas and dimensions for most other elements (self panel, teammate panels, scoreboards, timer panels, etc ). And while the majority of these other elements have their own .res files so that they can be edited (to some degree) without touching hudlayout, weapon panel can be only modified in hudlayout.res since it doesn't have its own file.
Being a new custom element (image panel), the only way custom crosshair can be added is into the hudlayout.res (because it covers entire screen space and thus you can put xhair in the center). So that's why we have so many conflicts.
For example, "vertical" teampanels alignment usually requires modifying the hudlayout, because otherwise there just isn't enough space vertically (because hudlayout defines the area for teamdisplayhud.res) Which would again conflict if there's also weapon panel mod etc.
The drawback of the "global" method is that it shows always including ~

~ spectator screen and infected gameplay. The other way (survivor-only) which I used in my huds modifies additional files so it isn't possible to use with other
huds without re-editing those huds. You may have noticed my crosshair uses some weird material .vmt it's because it's the only files in default l4d2 which is a) unused (it's some hl2/cs leftover junk) b) is transparent/empty , so that you don't get pink
checkerboard without crosshair vpk. That way I could have crosshair supported in the my hud without too much complications.
I don't know about Neun weapon panel, it must've been written in description about differences.
There's a tool called BeyondCompare Pro (it's commercial, but there's *****ed versions on torrent trackers), I use it to compare files including text files like .res , makes it easier to see differences.
If you use some custom hud (not my), I could take some time to implement the crosshair support (survivor version) into that mod if you really need.

May I ask what's exactly special about NeunGUI weapon panel? I'm a NeunGUI user myself, but I don't use the weapon panel addon.

Just recenlty I've made a custom crosshair mod, using Urik's method to avoid conflicts, because the original custom crosshair-change method messes up the default weapon panel (exactly because of hudlayout.res).

You can see yourself how it looks from the screenshots here .

Ahh okay.

@AxiomNachtFox™ unfortunately not, it's likely hudlayout.res and almost all hud mods rely on this conflicting file. It could be done if Zeon adopted the same crosshair scheme I came up for my hud mods, I can't however enforce rules on everyone :)

This conflicts with NuenGUI Weapon Panel, anyway to fix this?

Its not working, i'm using improved stock hud but it wont work.

Thanks

@NI HAO LI LAO nope

If i used simple hud would i need to install this?

The original one can be disable with cl_crosshair_brightness 0 , I can't, however, remember if it doesn't affect the infected xhair too. The difference between this crosshair support and the other one is with this one, the custom crosshair is attached to global hudlayout.res resource file, so as result, it draws always, that is, always. Regardless if you're a survivor, infected or spectator. The other version of crosshair support in addition to hudlayout.res uses teamdisplayhud.res file so the crosshair only appears when you're playing on survivor team. So difference between them is in technical implementation and as a result less/more chance of conflict with other hud mods. But afterall, a lot of time conflicts are inevitable as everyone's gui/hud mod are different in terms of amount of modified configuration (.res) and texture files, and it's not possible to foresee and avoid it all.

what's the difference between this MOD and “Crosshair support (for default hud, survivors only)”?what'smore,How to remove the original crosshair,the original crosshair coexists with the mod

okok.. would you please make one with a red dot and a full red circle around it would be wonderful if you could do it for us

@StraaZi it's just the enabler (support) vpk, crosshairs are in that collection above (" crosshairs ")

hmm haw to use it =/ u press a key in game ???