There's plenty of ways to overlay a borderless window crosshair. But using borderless windowed mode increases input lag and can adversely affect performance, especially on lower end systems. DISCLAIMER: I wanted to make sure that I was not in breach of the EULA before using this method for a custom crosshair overlay, as some methods of overlaying elements in full screen are intrusive and could possibly be used to gain an unfair advantage. 08:12 PMPosted by Crosshair overlay can't be bannable. I believe there are even monitors you can buy from big time, reputable manufacturers that have this feature built right in.
Only Asus moniters have this feature as far as I know, and only on a few models: MG248Q, MG28UQ and MG24UQ. I thought of buying one just for the crosshair feature haha, but I already have a decent gaming monitor and I'm not made of money. My PG279Q has it. I don't use it because it is ulgy AF and overdone. I will give a try to Overwolf, just keep in mind that this software in harvesting your personal data like crazy, like the big-data of gaming industry. 12:30 AMPosted by My PG279Q has it. I don't use it because it is ulgy AF and overdone.
I will give a try to Overwolf, just keep in mind that this software in harvesting your personal data like crazy, like the big-data of gaming industry. They only gather personal info if you make an account, and if you use the browser overlay they have access to your history. I don't have an online account and I don't use the browser, so I don't see any of this as an issue. You could of course block the program in windows firewall from accessing the internet, as it functions fine without it.
Virustotal scans reveal nothing wrong with the file/archive, however it is important to Know that even they can't detect everything (seen it for myself). I'm currently working on a simple json edit (with an online editor) and re-adding it into the archive (via 7zip portable). This will work as a form of duplication for the extension, allowing the users to toggle between 2 or 3 crosshairs (I will only make 2 duplicates, it's not hard but I will try to edit the icons and a few x-hairs myself as well).
Will return with an edited post or a new reply - in the meantime, got any suggestions for uploading the files? (or shall I use github as well?) EDIT: By the way, it is possible to use animated gifs renamed to.png and they will playback (you can easily make them with GIMP) - transparency is of course supported.
I run a non-dedicated LAN game and I've enabled the crosshair but I see that it only shows up when using applicable weapons/tools. Is there any way to have it always showing? The crosshair is very helpful when targeting dinos for things like forcetame or to send my dinos to attack.
UPDATE: I found a perfectly viable solution here: It's a program that overlays a logo onto your screen with lots of customization options. I simply put a crosshair image on my screen over my game while I play and I get a persistent crosshair.
The Recursion Real-Time Stat Tracker now has a built-in configurable crosshair overlay! It features automatic centering of images, the ability to use any custom user-specified image for the crosshair, an easy way to toggle its visibility on demand, and immediate updating so you can change the crosshair in seconds if desired. Installation On the main menu screen, press, find the 'Crosshair Overlay' mod, and press.
If you accidentally hide the mod manager or need to access it while in-game (it hides automatically when a session starts), move your mouse to the left side of the client and. Configuration To configure what image the crosshair overlay uses, click the component and. Press the button and navigate to the file path of the image you'd like to use.
![Crosshair overlay for monitor Crosshair overlay for monitor](/uploads/1/2/3/7/123724965/893856232.jpg)
A small set of preloaded images is included in the 'Crosshairs' folder. For easy access, copy and paste your own images into this folder so you can quickly navigate to them later on. To reach the mod folder, where the 'Crosshairs' folder is contained. The preloaded crosshairs are shown below: To restore the default white dot,. Additional premade crosshairs A larger set of premade crosshairs from the legacy.rtstpak files is available here:.
Simply download the image you would like to use and save it to the 'Crosshairs' folder. An incredibly large collection of crosshairs can be found at this, courtesy of Iris.
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The crosshairs compiled by Iris come in a variety of colors: You get a choice of numerous dot sizes, with and without borders: There are many types of crosses, with and without dots and gaps, as well as three-prong 'Kobra' crosses: Creating a custom crosshair Creating a custom crosshair overlay image is easy, and can be done very quickly using free online tools. One such tool is. Draw your custom crosshair image, then save it (remember to set the size of each pixel as 1px) and copy the downloaded PNG into the 'Crosshairs' folder.
Make sure that the space around your crosshair is even, as the Recursion Crosshair Overlay will automatically center an image, not necessarily the crosshair inside of it (, ). Of course, any number of programs can be used as well, such as. Frequently Asked Questions To contact me directly, please. Are crosshair overlays allowed? Won't I be banned? Many of the in-game reticles and iron sights in Planetside 2 are off-center by a few pixels, move around slightly with your player character's motions while moving your view or walking around, and offer little in the way of customization. You get a variety of reticles with the 1x and 2x optics, but for higher zoom scopes, you're locked into at most two options, often only one.
Crosshair Overlay For Fps
Crosshair overlays allow you to use any style you like with the assurance that it will always be centered and accurate. I don't like any of the available options, what can I do?
There is a common belief that crosshairs should be 1 pixel wide to be as small and unobtrusive as possible. This may be true for that scenario, but a 1 pixel dot is not as accurate a measure of the center of your screen as one that's 2 pixels wide would be (4 pixels total). Because all commonly used resolutions have an even number of pixels (for example, the ubiquitous 1920x1080), there is no 'center' pixel. The center is a group of 4 pixels in the middle of the screen, with 'true' center being physically in between those pixels and not able to be displayed. The premade images follow this and are at minimum 2 pixels wide. Dots or crosses with 1 pixel widths will work fine, but will be offset by 'half' a pixel from true center. My crosshair looks like it's off-center sometimes, is it inaccurate?
Assuming your crosshair image is accurate (the preloaded ones are guaranteed to be accurate, as are any images with evenly sized padding around them - see 'Creating a custom crosshair'), the overlay will be accurately placed. Many of the in-game reticles, scopes, and iron-sights are off-center and are not a reliable representation of the center of your screen. To ensure that your crosshair overlay is centered, compare its position to that of the hipfire crosshair.
![Crosshair Overlay Game Crosshair Overlay Game](/uploads/1/2/3/7/123724965/466591678.png)
An easy way of doing this is to hold a Medkit, which will show you a small white cross that can serve as an accurate reference point for the center. If it is for some reason misaligned, you can or manually input a position in the same place after turning off 'Centered Image' under the component's configuration options. Why aren't all the premade crosshair images included by default? Default crosshairs are a mandatory download for anyone using the Recursion Crosshair Overlay, meaning that a needlessly large collection of crosshair images would place an excessive burden on anyone with slow internet download speeds, metered connections, limited free hard drive space, and other restrictions. Keeping the external collections separate remains easily accessible to anyone interested while ensuring that people access these collections and download images on-demand without anything forced on them. Last update: Added: -Most popularly downloaded crosshair styles are now preloaded, with colored variants.
Mumble Crosshair Overlay
The total number of preloaded crosshairs is now 13. They are: cross, small cross, tiny cross, and dot, all in three colors (green, purple, red), as well as the default white dot. This is primarily for easy access of the most popular crosshairs.Startup screen, since many users were unaware that they could use custom images. This will hopefully help alleviate this problem, while experienced users can very easily turn off the startup screen by pressing 'Remove' on the component. I apologize for essentially adding a popup, but it was born out of an observed need and can be removed in seconds.
Thanks for understanding! With this update, users will need to reset their specified crosshair due to a change in the way the program handles the image. Sorry for the inconvenience, and this will almost certainly not need to be done again now that version 0.11 is out of Beta and into a full release.
And it's so easy you don't need to do nothing, since it's a portable software with all the necessary stuff built-in. No need to install other 3rd party software, nada. Just run and enjoy the game. (Sure, you can also customize with another crosshair of your preference. But it's optional.) With any further ado.
Download, extract, run and that's it. This is a software called 'Custom Desktop Logo', with all the bloatware removed, with only the crosshair included that I customized myself. Oh, and don't forget to run the game in 'fullscreen windowed' mode in order to see the crosshair. You are welcome.
Far as I'm aware, the Devs never really did confirm if crosshair overlays are ok or not, more like dodged the question to please everyone at the time. In my books it's still a grey area and will remain there until I see viable evidence of a 'current' dev clearly stating it's ok beyond reason of doubt. So if I were to get suspended for a few days or banned, I could use it in a support ticket. Not that there's ever been a recorded case of someone actually being banned for a crosshair overlay. Far as I'm aware, if the game doesn't like your Overlay, it just refuses to run and crashes with a G-Error.
Villanuk said: “ Well its an 'aid' to help you aim, or direct your bullets at a target from a third party program, for me thats cheating. ”Its touchy the devs have confirmed before that it is ok and tho i dont use one i can understand it because if you say its ok then everyone is on a level playing field as in computer gaming customizing your hud to fit you is widely accepted for most games other than FPS. The problem is its impossible to stop people from using overlays period i can take a piece of scotch tape and a sharpie and put that on my screen and get the exact same benifit as using a program to do it and no amount of internet tools will detect a piece of tape. Tho some people may call it cheating having a pink dot in the middle of my screen because i like that better than 4 little white lines doesnt make anything function differently just how my brain perceives it. WeRelic said: “ Well, in all honesty, a piece of tape and sharpie has zero chance of exposing things about the game, so I have no issue with that. Given an overlay program, and some image processing, it's not a huge stretch to start tracking player movements, or ingame objects such as projectiles/grenades/mines etc (aka wallhacks/ESP). Sure, it wouldn't be very effective or accurate, but that is a fine line you don't want to cross.
”It is indeed a line that people wouldnt want crossed but the devs have said that a simple crosshair overlay is fine if you start doing the other things then well they didnt say that was ok and can be banned. That said the amount of work it would require to try and do something like this that still wouldn't really work correctly especially when the game already gives you a good amount of information with spotting and the minimap and grenade indicators that something like this would be a waste of time. The crosshair is a special case because it doesnt make anything function differently it doesnt give you any extra information and personally if someone is shooting at me i dont care if their reticle is 4 white lines 4 lines with a purple dot pink dot or someone i know used Jack White. The entire argument could be circumvented by implementing a builtin crosshair editor.
” But on the other hand, I do recall an old argument back from the early days of SOE where the devs made the argument that the game is intentionally lacking said crosshair editor as well as weapon scopes taking up half of your screen. They want there to be a certain difficulty in aiming at players from the hip. They want scopes to come with big downsides as well, both from the hip and while aiming down sights. But I think there is a find line between difficulty and impossibility.
Like who in their right mind would use a x4 massive scope on a SMG or shotgun? I believe that some of these are simply implemented due to a lack of thought behind the implementation. My own argument for using a overlay is this: I could by all frikken means put a sticker on the middle of my screen and it would be the same. If people wish to call me a hacker or cheater for using a sticker, then go to hell. WeRelic said: “ I agree fully that a simple overlay isn't an issue. Just stating how quickly such a program could be extended into malicious functionality.
Surely you jest. Drawing an invisible window on top of the game with some pixels enabled is in no way even remotely similar to screen capture, real time image processing and advanced pattern recognition algos, especially when you can extract all the information from the game memory directly, which is what all the haxx in existence do already.
. First off, you'll want to install Mumble and extract the downloaded.zip file to an easy to access area (like the desktop). Now you'll want to navigate to your Dirty Bomb installation directorybinarieswin32, ( C: Program Files (x86) Steam steamapps common Dirty Bomb Binaries Win32) you'll know it's the right place when you see the Dirty Bomb executable. Place your desired crosshair in here and simply rename it ' crosshair' (from 'crosshair1' etc.). Now launch Mumble, go to ' configure', ' settings', then ' overlay'.
First you want to enable your overlay, then you want to click ' Load' and select the ' nonameslist.mumblelay' file, this will change the overlay from your friends list talking to a dot in the center of the screen. Then go to wherever you have mumble installed, ( C: Program Files (x86) Mumble for me) you'll know it's the right place when you see the Mumble executable. Make a backup of mumbleol.dll as shown. Now you want to drag the mumbleol.dll file you downloaded into Mumbles installation folder and overwrite it. That's the installation done! The following is to dis-encourage people claiming this is hacking/tampering.
I found the following on the Splash Damage forums; I would think that if it was a huge issue, the devs would have put their foot down and made it clear they are not to be used (the ui related ones especially). On a dev stream they said crosshair overlays won't be banned, since everyone can use them and they don't effect gameplay to a degree that can be called cheating/hacking. If you classify them as cheating you also have to consider VOIP overlays and the Steam overlay as cheating/hacking, which is stupid if you ask me.