HL2 2D Shooter Top Down. (How I move crosshairs in front of player?9 Thread

I have created HL2 Top down 2d shooter. Now The crosshairs is still drawn on the player... How do I move the crosshairs forward in front of player? Or have a dynamic crosshairs which you move with ur moouse like in cs2d?

I think thats what he was trying to achieve by posting here.
djjonastybe, I would recommend checking out the crosshair code to see how they achieve drawing it, then position it according to your standards (ie
pseudocode:
if ( getMouse->moved )
{
   crossHair.position = getMouse->getScreenCoord();
}

hacky code I know, but its an example. If I were more awake and it wasnt 2am I would try and take a look but I think id best sleep, good luck btw. Its not too hard just keep at it and btw, congrats on your progress =P

best of luck,
Josh

Edited by: 1337FeRReT

There was a 2D Sidescrolling mod released for Source, AntFarm 2D or something along those lines, and they open sourced their code. If you take a look at how they did the side-on camera, it will give you an idea of what you need to do in order to get your camera top-down.

For painting the crosshair, check out hud_crosshair.cpp. Its drawn in the CHudCrosshair::Paint() function at the center of the screen. The general idea here would be to change this logic to get the mouse position and draw the crosshair there instead. To get the mouse position, check out all the input functions (in_main.cpp/h and iinput.h). I won't give you exact code on how to do it coz learning is part of the process

Well you have a valid answer, I already knew of the mod's existence, but I can't find their code anywhere... All links to the mod are plain DEAD. So I have always tried to look for alternative, which i never found actually... Can you send me those files maybe?

Thanks, you just helped me with something I was trying to find for 2 years. Now I will figure out how to use this patch files myself:) I can read them with notepad. I guess they can be used with Visual Studio to patch the project files

lol I also uploaded in on moddb today:D I uploaded it as a mod in the mod section

I will try yours first.