Journal #5445

That was pretty damn awesome. I like the attetion to detail, like the scope glass fading to black after taking a shot.
And indeed, it does need a proper scope.

Heh, thanks. I put that scope light effect in there as an idicator for the reload. When the lights out, you can't shoot, but you can still track your target with the beam.

The proper scope is almost finished, too. New video might be up tonight, or tomorrow. ;D

cool. an attached sniper rifle

Hehe, pretty cool. You have nice ideas there Strideh.

Cheers.

Updated now with the final scope.

100% accuracy :-). You gonna leave that?

Very nice. I'd make it more cs-ish though (area around the scope blacked out)

SpaG: the Combine snipers seem to be 100% accurate, so yeah.

Daubster: I had thought about it, but I'd rather keep it open, and as un-cs-ish as possible, it is Combine tech after all.

Heh well to be accurate Valve triggers the sniper to miss the first time so the player doesn't get owned.

Looking hawt. LOL the pun. Wait didn't someone else write that in a journal

"SpaG: the Combine snipers seem to be 100% accurate, so yeah. :P"

if they were 100% accurate we would never get past them :s

Quiet about the accuracy!

Its quite hard to hit a moving target, especially if you have to count lead-time.

The gun looks awesome. I love the overlay, it all really makes me feel like a combine sniper. >:)

Oh, and I think I do agree with Daub about the scope, make it a bit more black around it.

"Looking hawt. LOL the pun. Wait didn't someone else write that in a journal :P"

Thanks, I think Ant said it in my Volcano vid, iirc.

"if they were 100% accurate we would never get past them :s"

Probably should've said 'sniper rifles'. The gun itself always seems to hit exactly where the beam is aiming. It's the sniper AI that occasionally misses.

"The gun looks awesome. I love the overlay, it all really makes me feel like a combine sniper. >:)"

I shall work on a shooting range version of this so everybody can enjoy sniping innocent rebels. ;D

"Oh, and I think I do agree with Daub about the scope, make it a bit more black around it."

Hmm, well enough people have mentioned that to me, so I'll give it a try and see if I like it.

Leave it without the black part around the scope imo.

Well it has a faint black vignetting around the edges, what if I just deepen that up?

The problem with blacking out the edges is that, it being done entirely in Hammer, it's going to look off at certain resolutions, and entirely different at 4:3, 16:9 and 16:10 proportions. It's usually something handled with a bit of code, I'm assuming.

The actual crosshairs aren't actually just overlayed on the screen, so they won't suffer from odd proportions.