So i have these emoticon icons that i cleaned up a little bit, and i wanted to set it up so that i could make them appear, and disappear, on the players screen at my will with a script. Or is that even possible?

If i can get the appearing and disappearing then i can set up the rest so that it switches out the emotions when i need it to. Thanks for anything you can offer, guys :)

~Noms.

Make it a font, then write it to the screen in anyway you choose (cinematic title, print, sv_say, etc)

I'm assuming you don't want it as a reticle that you toggle on and off, especially since you would only have one, unless you use health as one, shield as another, motion sensor as another, and reticle as last. Then you could have 4.. of course that completely screws with the player *shrug*

Otherwise, OpenSauce, and make a postprocess just about writing the bitmap to the screen.

Yeah, if you don't have OS on this map, the best way would be to make those the font characters in place of special symbols (like #%^*+=). Then just use those symbols in a cinematic title.

awesome, guys. Though i'm having some trouble finding out how to make custom fonts. Could someone hook me up with a tutorial\walk through? Thanks for everything, guys.

You wont find any in the HCE community, but there's plenty of them elsewhere. Once you have a font file, you just run it through tool

Cleaned them up...I mean remade them for you. ;)



Clicky here for the high res PNG (with alpha) versions and PSD.
Edited by Btcc22 on Dec 29, 2012 at 09:41 PM

Lol, i'd already done that, but thank you :)

PS: I'm guessing i make a huge long bitmap and separate it by blue lines, then inside of each of the boxes i add a symbol? one for each symbol on the keyboard? Then run it through tool as a font? I've never done this :/

You don't make fonts like you do bitmaps.

You are going to have to make a font file like the ones used for the computer and then use the tool command windows-font, then select the font and size.

Look here
http://forums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?p=982187#post982187

Okay, excellent. Now all i need to be able to do is extract the halo font so i can edit it and re compile it. Can anyone hook me up with that? i've been searching high and low and can't manage to figure this one out either :/