1/2/22 - this entire post is irrelevant, outdated, and stupid but I'm leaving it here just in case someone wants to look at it. I created a new yz50wings crosshair that doesn't suck. You can find it on my profile
TL;DR:
Don't want to read the billion-word-long essay about the method used to recreate this crosshair in VTF form? Scroll to the bottom and click on the Download button to get these crispy-af crosshairs ASAP.
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Preface that nobody will read:
Everyone likes crosshairs. Some people like certain crosshairs more than others. Some people might use crosshair3, crosshair7, or even the default crosshair when playing TF2. But there's another popular crosshair out there that me and many others have used that doesn't seem to have gotten much love lately: konr's quake 3-style wings from the old ass Garm3n HUD. There have only been a few konr wings-related posts on teamfortress.tv lately; one was made about two months ago, while the others were posted two, three, or even five+ years ago. That's why I decided that I'd make a faithful 2021 remake of the crosshair, based on yz50 and clockwork's rendition of the reticle.
Why?
Because after testing every VTF rendition of konr's wings out there, I was disappointed. For starters, let's look at these screenshots provided by yz50 himself.
http://i.imgur.com/nDgLFmy.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/iLcSoRj.jpg
yz50... it's supposed to have the "none" crosshair overlap to make the sides a little more bold, and give the soldier crosshair those little prongs.
The original crosshair is actually not one, but two crosshairs. It's a text-based HUD crosshair overlapping TF2's cl_crosshair_file "" crosshair. Everyone already knows that text-based HUD crosshairs are a bit difficult to center because one-pixel adjustments via the x/y and tall/wide values in the .res file are quite difficult if not impossible. An easy solution for this is to just use perfectly-centerable .VTF based crosshairs, but that requires you to remake the combined text+default crosshairs in an image editor, which can take a bit of effort.
How about the others?
While many people have tried to remake these fancy fangs, most of the crosshairs end up looking a little off. Most people okay with that, but it literally makes me go nuts especially considering the fact that the original wings aren't even symmetrical in both axis. I'll provide some examples for you to see for yourself: yz50 wing mega comparison
How about yours?
Behold.
https://i.imgur.com/Egc3dQN.png
Bonus comparisons with the original screenshots:
yz50 wings
https://i.imgur.com/GZPZQOU.png
yz50 sollyhttps://i.imgur.com/nMtpSny.png
What did you change?
The original crosshair uses a font called G3rmenFont which literally replaces every letter, number, and symbol with Konr wings. The problem is that it's inconsistent because the left wing is different from the right wing, and they're both horizontally and vertically asymmetrical.
Inconsistencies
https://i.imgur.com/JCnpKzb.png
Asymmetryhttps://i.imgur.com/UgyOiGh.png
So what did I do? I made the gap on the left side further from the center by one pixel (turns out that the crosshair is actually a bit too thin to match with the seeker crosshair and the original screenshot, so I made it wider so it would fit perfectly), and I made both sides horizontally and vertically symmetrical. Unfortunately, because the crosshair was 1 pixel too tall to be centered vertically properly, so I had to trim a pixel out from the center. Here's what the end result looked like:
https://i.imgur.com/4zUFewn.png
I even made the default seeker and quartered-circle crosshairs symmetrical on both axis as well; even the DOT in the seeker crosshair wasn't symmetrical, let alone COLORED properly:
(Chad)
https://i.imgur.com/DcrtdLO.png
(Virgin)https://i.imgur.com/QHbtWs0.png
(Chad)https://i.imgur.com/2pT8JSN.png
(Virgin)https://i.imgur.com/bm70dqW.png
(Chad)https://i.imgur.com/XjPRQxv.png
(Virgin)https://i.imgur.com/ONOmcbi.png
Anything else?
Actually, I did make some more alternate crosshairs for those who might want to try them.
yz50 solly (with the dot from the seeker crosshair):
https://i.imgur.com/BzhfnMU.png
yz50 wings (without the dot)https://i.imgur.com/k5pLQBF.png
The crosshairs can be recolored with no problem, and also resize very nicely.
Fun fact: While I was taking screenshots, I think I realized that all of the crosshairs might potentially be too wide.
Link, bro:
Download
Special thanks to T3 jumperSageJay for helping test these for me