[Chdata]

Since overlays get stretched arbitrarily by the player's screen resolution, what are good sizes to make a custom screen overlay?

In my case I'm going to make something with a symbol in the bottom right corner, above the ammo.

I remember someone posting their tips on basically what I'm asking, but it was as a reply to some random thread and I just can't seem to find it.

[sarysa]

What I typically do is make it 16:9 and then just resize it with Paint .NET (or anything that has good resize methods is fine) to either 1024x1024 or 512x512.

Most users have 16:9 widescreen.

[Chdata]

Why does it have to be square?

Also, do you happen to have that RELOAD overlay I see in ff2 screenshots? The animated one(s)?

I'd like to see how its vmt is set up.

I have a mostly working animated overlay now, but instead of being a solid color, it flashes color like crazy, mostly being black.

[Maximilian_]

Originally Posted by Chdata Why does it have to be square? Also, do you happen to have that RELOAD overlay I see in ff2 screenshots? The animated one(s)? I'd like to see how its vmt is set up. I have a mostly working animated overlay now, but instead of being a solid color, it flashes color like crazy, mostly being black.

My FNAF bosses have animated overlays
My VMT file:

"UnlitGeneric"
{
"$basetexture" "freak_fortress_2\fnaf2/mangledeath"
$alphatest "0"
$translucent "1"

"Proxies"
{
"AnimatedTexture"
{
"animatedTextureVar" "$basetexture"
"animatedTextureFrameNumVar" "$frame"
"animatedTextureFrameRate" "17"
}
}
}

[Chdata]

freak_fortress_2\fnaf2/mangledeath

dats a little interesting

$alphatest looks like what I'm looking for, I'll try it

edit: UnlitGeneric

Yay, that fixes it.

[Maximilian_]

Originally Posted by Chdata freak_fortress_2\fnaf2/mangledeath dats a little interesting $alphatest looks like what I'm looking for, I'll try it edit: UnlitGeneric Yay, that fixes it.

Future boss (WIP)

[Chdata]

The interesting part was that you mixed a forward slash and a backslash.

[sarysa]

Originally Posted by Chdata Why does it have to be square? Also, do you happen to have that RELOAD overlay I see in ff2 screenshots? The animated one(s)? I'd like to see how its vmt is set up. I have a mostly working animated overlay now, but instead of being a solid color, it flashes color like crazy, mostly being black.

That RELOAD overlay is from my Drain Over Time plugin. It's included in the zip.

I suppose it could be 1024x512, whatever floats your boat. Naturally you know it needs to be a power of two.

[Chdata]

It doesn't. I made 16:9 overlay and it works just as intended. 1280x720

Only issue now, is that one player seems to have downloaded the texture just fine, but he gets crazy flashing purple checkerboard [missing texture] apparently. His dxlevel is 90 and texture detail is high. The texture itself has no LOD.

[Maximilian_]

Originally Posted by Chdata The interesting part was that you mixed a forward slash and a backslash.

Well...But this working