[UT] How to change the Crosshair Thread

For UT, How would I go about changing the crosshair/crosshair color? (normally changed through preferences) via UScript?

- Edited By [BDA]Perseus On Sun 17th, Aug 2003 @ 8:43:37pm

Depends what game your on about - that kinda stuffs useful yano?

Yes sorry, heh, I just edited my post about that

Changed the title for you, sure someone will help soon.

Thank you!

I'm not exactly sure how to change colours in UScript, but I did I quick search for ya, and found this in the Paint function:

C.DrawColor.R = 15 * H.CrosshairColor.R;
C.DrawColor.G = 15 * H.CrosshairColor.G;
C.DrawColor.B = 15 * H.CrosshairColor.B;

The varible "H" is the varible type of ChallengeHUD, so its comunicating with unreal Tournaments main HUD. CorsshairColour is obviously a colour varible. "R", "G", and "B", all refer to a colour, "R" is red, "G" is green, and "B" is blue. From what I know, this all represent Byte varibles, so you can't go over 255 for their value. Fiddle with different int's (No Float numbers for Byte's), and you get different colours. Hope this helps.

Thank you...

Though I am still new at this... so maybe if you could help out a little more

so if H is from ChallengeHUD... I would do this?

class My_Mod expands ChallengeHUD;

if I wanted to expand : function Tick(float deltaTime)

How would I declare C and H?

- Edited By [BDA]Perseus On Tue 19th, Aug 2003 @ 9:44:17pm

Let me start by saying that I'm a UT2K3 coder, not UT. These functions are probably not exactly the same, but they are probably similar.

XInterface.HudBDeathMatch has the following function.

simulated function DrawCrosshair (Canvas C)
{
local float NormalScale;
local int i;
local float OldScale,OldW;

CrosshairStyle = Clamp(crosshairStyle, 0, Crosshairs.Length - 1);

if (!bCrosshairShow)
return;

NormalScale = Crosshairs[CrosshairStyle].TextureScale;
Crosshairs[CrosshairStyle].TextureScale *= CrosshairScale;

for( i = 0; i < ArrayCount(Crosshairs[CrosshairStyle].Tints); i++ )
{
CrossHairs[CrosshairStyle].Tints[i]= <b>CrossHairColor</b>;
//        NormalOpacity[i]= Crosshairs[CrosshairStyle].Tints[i].A;
//        Crosshairs[CrosshairStyle].Tints[i].A = float(Crosshairs[CrosshairStyle].Tints[i].A) * CrosshairOpacity;
}

OldScale = HudScale;
HudScale=1;
OldW = C.ColorModulate.W;
C.ColorModulate.W = 1;

DrawSpriteWidget (C, Crosshairs[CrosshairStyle]);

C.ColorModulate.W = OldW;

HudScale=OldScale;

Crosshairs[CrosshairStyle].TextureScale = NormalScale;

//    for( i = 0; i &lt; ArrayCount(Crosshairs[CrosshairStyle].Tints); i++ )
//        Crosshairs[CrosshairStyle].Tints[i].A = NormalOpacity[i];

DrawEnemyName&copy;;
}

Engine.Hud has

var() globalconfig color <b>CrossHairColor</b>;

and

defaultproperties
{
bMessageBeep=true
bHidden=True
RemoteRole=ROLE_None

bHideHUD=false

ConsoleColor=(R=153,G=216,B=253,A=255)

ProgressFontName="UT2003Fonts.FontEurostile12"
MOTDColor=(R=255,G=255,B=255,A=255)
ProgressFadeTime=1.0

HudCanvasScale=0.95
HudScale=1.0

bShowWeaponInfo=true
bShowPersonalInfo=true
bShowPoints=true
bShowWeaponBar=true
bShowPortrait=true

bCrosshairShow=true
CrosshairScale=1.0
CrosshairOpacity=1.0
CrosshairStyle=0
<b>CrossHairColor=(R=255,G=255,B=255,A=255)</b>

ConsoleMessagePosX=0.00
ConsoleMessagePosY=1.00

WhiteColor=(R=255,G=255,B=255,A=255)
RedColor=(R=255,G=0,B=0,A=255)
BlueColor=(R=0,G=0,B=255,A=255)
GreenColor=(R=0,G=255,B=0,A=255)
GoldColor=(R=255,G=255,B=0,A=255)
TurqColor=(R=0,G=128,B=255,A=255)
GrayColor=(R=200,G=200,B=200,A=255)
CyanColor=(R=0,G=255,B=255,A=255)
PurpleColor=(R=255,G=0,B=255,A=255)

FontArrayNames(0)=&quot;Engine.DefaultFont&quot;
FontArrayNames(1)=&quot;Engine.DefaultFont&quot;
FontArrayNames(2)=&quot;Engine.DefaultFont&quot;
FontArrayNames(3)=&quot;Engine.DefaultFont&quot;
FontArrayNames(4)=&quot;Engine.DefaultFont&quot;
FontArrayNames(5)=&quot;Engine.DefaultFont&quot;
FontArrayNames(6)=&quot;Engine.DefaultFont&quot;
FontArrayNames(7)=&quot;Engine.DefaultFont&quot;
FontArrayNames(8)=&quot;Engine.DefaultFont&quot;

HudOpacity=255
ConsoleMessageCount=4
ConsoleFontSize=5
MessageFontOffset=0

bBuiltMOTD=false
}

So... to change the default color, just set the CrossHairColor value in the defaultproperties of your class. To override the player's configured crosshair color, you need to override the DrawCrossHair(Canvas C) function.

[edit]
To answer your question about C and H variables, if you've extended (or expanded) ChallengeHUD for your class, then H == self. C is probably the Canvas object, and it is not passed into Tick() as a parameter, so you'd have to create your own var Canvas myCanvas variable and set the value of myCanvas within some other function that actually passes Canvas as a parameter. Then, once you've got that variable set, C == myCanvas. If you do that, be sure to check for none to prevent AccessedNone errors.

Why do you want to mess around in Tick() anyway?
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- Edited By scope.creep On Wed 20th, Aug 2003 @ 9:22:21am

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You may also be able to get the Canvas object by some sort of GetCanvas() function. Like I said, I'm not a UT coder.
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- Edited By scope.creep On Wed 20th, Aug 2003 @ 9:25:19am