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I would like to see contrast crosshair in future releases of MT.
On dark background it is light.
On light background it is dark.
On grey background it is (no, not grey) light.... contrast anyway.

I thought something is broken and now I don't have a crosshair. It turns out I was pointing to the sun — white crosshair on white background.

I think it will not be so hard to implement.

Minecraft has a per-pixel shader to change the crosshair color to the opposite of what's behind it, it's actually morehelpful than you'd think.

The crosshair can be customised by using a crosshair texture in a texture pack, see https://github.com/minetest/minetest/bl ... ks.txt#L60

paramat wrote:The crosshair can be customised by using a crosshair texture in a texture pack, see https://github.com/minetest/minetest/bl ... ks.txt#L60

What dimensions of texture should be? 8x8? 16x16?

It may be any size. It's rendered 1:1 on the screen.

Something like this should work fairly well:

1x:

10x:

I tried many different crosshair textures. And found the best (at least for me).

Scheme:


Texture has 21px × 21px size. Grey color is transparent area.

Texture:
(download and try it)



Screenshots:
(click for full view):

Inspired from the Moorhuhn shooter games with semitransparent pixels:


EDIT: It would also be possible to use the cursor as crosshair, to prank friends.

I would personally prefer a crosshair with contrasting middle and outlines. Would be so goddamn confusing to find in a shady-lighty background.