Zoom Overlays

Krillancello · Post by **Krillancello** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 9:57 pm

Is it possible to have an overlay image when "zooming," such as to make it appear as though Doomguy is actually looking through a scope, and if so, how would this be done?

Skunk · Post by **Skunk** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 9:58 pm

I already asked and... no one has a clue.

wildweasel · Post by **wildweasel** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 10:33 pm

Didn't LWM have a script set up for that in Hellspawn?

HotWax · Post by **HotWax** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 11:32 pm

Create a custom crosshair image and use an alias to toggle it on and off.

Krillancello · Post by **Krillancello** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 11:40 pm

I can't find any [working] links to download Hellspawn. >_>

HotWax: How do I implement a custom crosshair?

Galaxy_Stranger · Post by **Galaxy_Stranger** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 2:01 am

Yeah, I was going to suggest that - but I can't remember how to use the x-hairs. The keybindings are easy enough, though.

dennisj1 · Post by **dennisj1** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 3:23 pm

Another WAD with an overlay is Barista. Maybe check that out.

Krillancello · Post by **Krillancello** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 4:40 pm

I can't find a "Barista" wad anywhere, do you have a link?

I still can't find how to implement a custom crosshair.

Edit: I've found the crosshairs in zdoom.wad (XHAIRBn/XHAIRSn), but I can't tell if just making an image an XHAIRB/Sn resource would crosshairify it.

dennisj1 · Post by **dennisj1** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 4:48 pm

Well, I don't know how to make a link but it's in the archives (http://www.doomworld.com/idgames/index.php?id=12885)

Sir_Alien · Post by **Sir_Alien** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 5:22 pm

dennisj1 wrote:Well, I don't know how to make a link

Use the URL tag, but in the first one put "url=http://www.sitename.com" (without the quotation marks) then between the tags put the relevant text.

Like this!

To see exactly how I did it, quote my post and have a look.

Krillancello · Post by **Krillancello** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 5:49 pm

Thanks for the URL. I've played Barista, and I'm looking for an effect similar to the Gas Mask in it. I XWE'd the file and found the Gas Mask is an IMAGE type called ZZGAS. However, I can't find any readable references to it in the other entries (maybe it's referenced in a binary entry, thus I can't read it to find the reference). The BEHAVIOR lump has 38 scripts in it according to DB, but there's no SCRIPTS lump; and DB has a habit of displaying the following when I try to check the scripts in a wad with BEHAVIOR but no SCRIPTS:

Code: Select all

// Doom Builder could not detect a SCRIPTS lump in the map,
// so it has decompiled this code from the BEHAVIOR lump.
// Please verify that this code is correct, because it may
// not always work correctly with newer engines.

#include "common.acs"

// BEHAVIOR 38 scripts, 0 strings

// ----------------------------------------

So... I'm essentially back at square one. I know what I want, it's been done before, but I don't actually know how to do it. =_=;

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 7:20 pm

The script lump has been posted somewhere on this forum. Maybe you are lucky and find it again.

dennisj1 · Post by **dennisj1** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 7:53 pm

The Barista script source is found in this thread.

Krillancello · Post by **Krillancello** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 8:43 pm

Thanks again, dennis. If my understanding of the code is correct, the helmet at the beginning as an example, Barista sets the hud font to the image files of the helmet frames in turn, outputting one character of text to show the image. I'll see if that works.