Is there any way to make your reticle turn green when you look at an ally?

lies

no there really isnt any way to do that

Truths. I don't think the game engine has any option for changing the crosshairs when you point at allies. Just at enemies.

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I approve of this new member.
Edited by SoulRot on Jan 30, 2009 at 05:19 PM

He isn't new. He's been here longer than you. -_-

wat,just because it says feb 2 doesnt mean anything. ive been around since june 5 2007 (well i registerd then)
i am not new
Edited by Dr Pepper And 7up Inc on Jan 30, 2009 at 05:47 PM

In my case, the join date is right. I joined just after starting to hang around the forums. But I've known about Halo Maps practically since I got Halo CE in early 2006, so I've been around Halo CE for longer than that.
Edited by Me KS on Jan 30, 2009 at 06:05 PM

ya Me KS couldn't be new...not because hes register date but on what he also knows...like me...i knew about halomaps at early 2006 aswell but i didnt join until i needed help and decided to do mapping....

OMG I joined in 2001 OMG I'm the best member. NO ONE CARES!

IT DOESN:T MATTER WHEN YOU JOINED IT's WHAT YOU CONTRIBUTE TO THE COMMUNITY>

Why was the last sentence in all caps but the 's' in the 'IT's' is lowercased?

i think u left capz on

I wonder, I think you could make a duplicate of the recticle, put it on top of the other, make it's default colour transparent and it's flashing colour green, the only problem then would be making it flash when you point at a team-mate, rather than an opponent (would that be possible??).

there might be a way for it to work (MAAAYBEE) it could require script but if you know how to get them to work then hit me up or pm me

I TINKS HE LEFT CAPZ ON TOOO.

Scripting is not some kind of magical tool that can do everything for you...but it can be very useful.

I don't think there is any kind of script that knows when you aim at a friendly

holy mother of a bump, worse then me, altho i got infracted on modacity from bumping something on the first page... so sad

MY ROFLCOPTER GOES SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI XD
and yes I do know but also yes it can be useful but I could try work on that to go green on freindly if I can figure it out :( like the same way I did with the Hijacking script :D

There isn't a command that detects whether you're pointing at a friendly or not. That kind of ruins any chance of being able to write a script.

yeah, you probably cant do it, but the game engine knows when your pointing at a enemy, so like, if you aren't aiming at an enemy, but are aiming at a player, it must be a friendly, if you get where I'm going with that?

*scarcasim* umm maaybe?

There's no command for changing the color of your reticule.

Oh... read the date wrong... just realized that 4 months later XD

Nice logic, that's a great idea. Using that and my suggestion:
we might actually crack this.

You cant because there is no way for the game to know if your aiming at a friendly or not. And you cant make it flash green, because then it would conflict with the red flashing, and only the red would show up, or it would not flash at all.

could this work:

attach a biped to every friendly, and check if each biped is within a certain FOV, and then do something with a weapon that has a sprite for an action, or place something in front of the player, or apply a screen effect that is a green reticule. The one problem is that you wouldn't know what gun the player is holding? or would you?

This isn't possible. Unless the Computer can determine what team is on your side and simultaneously generate a new color of the reticle for it, it's not possible.

Dont forget for SP, where you have like 5 different teams.

Thats not possible

there are no functions to make this happen. you can attach bipeds to whatever you want, after the computer knows where you are looking, what function is it going to look at to turn the reticle green? as far as i know, there are not any for halo 1

Why would you want a green reticle? It isn't necessary, if it isn't red it isn't an enemy, simple enough.

It would be a cool effect. I can see, though, it is not possible...

I know open sauce isn't a do-it-all magic Godsend, but is it possible that you could use it to do this?

If not, I suppose this thread serves no practical purpose.

this.
also, there is a function either in the weapons tag or the hud tag for a weapon that determines how close you have to be to an enemy for the reticle to turn red over them. does anyone know what that function is and where it is, and how to accurately set it? all weapons reticules should turn red on enemies only if the enemy is in the weapon's effective range. there have been alot of times where i couldnt tell if people far away from me in games were on my team or not though, so there is some defense of the green reticle.

The function that tells when the reticle to turn red, is in the weapon tag. I think "near reticle range" and the other values around that.