This mf rolled people with possibly the most poverty setup out there, tons of potential now that he has a properly functioning computer. Pick this guy up

I'm honored, thank you for the kind words

"double" was inaccurate, and the actual resolution of the crosshair file didn't change. I just filled the entire image with the crosshair instead of having big gaps around the sides

v2 release

this is something that I've already done by the way, as soon as I stop feeling like shit (the flu is kicking my ass right now) I'm going to reupload the new updated version of the crosshairs, as well as some comparisons since you like them so much.

uh did you not read what I said at the bottom of the post? You can shift over the wings to the left by 1 pixel and it's a perfect match. The goal of my crosshairs was to fix the centering issues that the originals had while staying 1:1 in every other aspect. Should you not like the fixed centering, I can provide an "og" version of the crosshairs. Not sure why you're getting so worked up over a crosshair and claiming that I'm supposedly "gaslighting" you over it. Your initial criticisms we're somewhat valid and I've taken to fixing my mistakes, but now you're just trolling.

in the process of fixing them right now, basically have been for the past 2 hours or so lmao. I kinda decided to forego vertical symmetry since it doesn't really matter and makes them look ass anyways.

here's a preview, compared to the crosshair shown in clockwork's clip video:
(top = cw bottom = mine)

https://i.imgur.com/cZDyrhd.png

idk about you but after comparing it extensively for like 20 minutes it lines up pretty much perfectly with the one in the video. Also do note that the video is taken directly from a 9 year old youtube video so the video version is going to look a lot more compressed and low quality (smoother) than the one I just put together

edit: I've shifted over the wings to the left by one pixel just to see if it would look 100% like the one in the video and it does. I've finally nailed the seeker size + wing font size, just gotta overlay them and turn it into a vtf and I'll reupload.

take back what I said, after some closer inspection, my crosshairs look preeeeetty damn close for an upscaled version of the wings, but they aren't as close as I want them. The original ones I made a year ago were fine... if you used crosshair scale 32 and played at yz50's resolution. The issue was that resizing them was really hard because the original ones were super low res because I based them off the image the yz50 posted somewhere on tf.tv (I forgot where) so they would turn out super blurry after increasing the scale in game. These new ones I made look okay, but they're still a bit low res ngl and the tips of the wings are too thick

lol idk how you can say that it's not 1:1, I literally imported the seeker from tf2 and overlayed it with the wings from the g3rmen hud font file, which is exactly what happens in game. I actually increased the gap between the wings themselves by 1 pixel because they were uneven in scale

not through tf2's settings, no. The dot is a part of the cross hair VTF, so it's basically impossible to change the dot separately from everything else. I can make a crosshair for you with a desired color however. Or, I could send you the Photoshop layer files so you can do it yourself

change log:

v2: completely remade crosshairs
-pretty much truly 100% guarantee batteries not included 1:1 now
-increased the resolution, crosshair may appear bigger compared to v1. Still 64x64
-added "og" version for people who like the uncentered "hud xhair" look
-no solly crosshair this time because like nobody uses it anyways and every time I try to upscale it photoshop spits out some horrid jagged garbage no matter what resizing filter I use

v1: release


how to update:
if you use the scout crosshair on every class without a no explosion script mod just drag and drop the new folder over the old one, if you wanna keep your custom assignements + explosion smoke just drag and drop the crosshair vtfs from the materials folder tree into the one already in your tf/custom directory

hey guys. Many people liked the last yz50 crosshair mod that I made, but it was kinda dog and wasn't 1:1 enough in a lot of different ways (2 pixels too wide, wings were too "thin", too small, etc) and it also looked like shit at higher scales. I remade the crosshair, made it look cleaner and more "hi res", and properly centered it again. If you just wanna download the crosshairs, feel free to scroll down to the bottom of the post. Otherwise, here's some background info on this project.

a short history of the konr/yz50/clockwork wings crosshair
history lesson by konr himself:

https://i.imgur.com/DjLmRXM.png

example footage from these 3 goats using older versions of the crosshair:

yz50

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYTZF9_EPVw

konr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUg2J_iJDDg

yz50 the squeakquel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oduzm75ZT7g

clockwork

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMQQ6Tx3Nsg

why tf2's default crosshairs suck
the "none" crosshairs (the default ones that change based on weapon) are literally all on the same file. They're very low res, have weirdly inconsistent coloring/transparency issues, and aren't even centered properly (although this is mostly because the default weapon scripts have the wrong centering coordinates). This centering issue is pretty bad for classes like sniper and spy who use the "wide cross" crosshair, where even a 1 pixel difference at a long range can determine whether you make a shot or not. Why this hasn't been fixed yet is a true valve moment lol. Another issue is that the "center dotted" crosshair resolutions are actually an odd number instead of an even number, and because computer display resolutions are even, this means that your dot can literally never be centered properly. GJ valve

why I remade the same crosshair that has been remade like 100 times online
because they all kinda suck, and the actual original way of "creating" this crosshair is also kinda wack.

most of the ones you can find online are improperly centered, but generally they just plain don't look true to the originals. I think I even saw a rainbow one somewhere lol

as for why I decided to make another one: konr, yz50, and clockwork "made" this crosshair by using an old ass technique to use custom crosshairs where you use a font with a bunch of letters assigned to custom crosshairs, then using a file in your custom hud to overlay text using the font to create a crosshair. They used a font that had the "wings" assigned to every character, and overlayed it on top of the default seeker in game to create the iconic crosshair. The problem with this method is that it's super inconsistent across resolutions, and is basically impossible to truly center properly. It also doesn't line up with the default crosshair all that well anyways, something that you can actually sorta see in the videos shown above.

so what I did was grab the font myself, grab the seeker and upscale it a little as if it had been resized already in tf2, fix them up by making them completely symmetrical and centered, and overlayed the two in photoshop. What you get is basically what the goal was in making the original crosshair using the wack hud font method, in the form of a more modern VTF format. VTF crosshairs can be perfectly centered as long as the source image is in an even resolution. If you compare my crosshair with videos of the original crosshair, the accuracy is basically perfect. Also you can change the color of it lol

here's some pictures:
scout (v2)

https://i.imgur.com/wv65L4M.png

"og" (v2)

https://i.imgur.com/K7JP9NA.png

https://i.imgur.com/dBjST3f.png

soldier (v1) (no more updates) (dogshit)

https://i.imgur.com/EwYOtZd.png

>>>DOWNLOAD<<<
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low iq installation method:

how to customize:

(IMPORTANT) NO EXPLOSION SCRIPT COMPATIBILITY STEPS
if you use a no explosion script mod, you need to do a couple of extra things to get it to work

1. Find out what particle effect you're using by opening the no explosion script mod's folder/VPK (you can open .vpk files by downloading GCFScape here) and then opening any of the explosive weapon scripts (like the one for the rocket launcher). The lines you want to look for look like this:

	"ExplosionEffect"	"insert explosion particle here"
	"ExplosionPlayerEffect"	"insert explosion particle here"
	"ExplosionWaterEffect"	"insert explosion particle here"

2. Copy these 3 lines, then go to the respective weapon script in the yz50 wings remake scripts folder, and replace the 3 lines there with the ones you copied.

3. Get rid of the no explosion script mod. It will overwrite the crosshair mod which prevents my crosshairs from working. This is because the no explosions mod uses the same file as my crosshair mod, and will overwrite it entirely, which includes the default crosshairs.

4. enjoy as usual

special thanks to yz50 and konr for making my favorite crosshairs of all time

coolest fucking thing in a while

got banned for saying "2nd place froyo LOL"

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