I find that when something works for RG it works well for every other weapon. However I sometimes think the crosshair doesn't matter at all. Have you ever tried playing with crosshairsize 0? I think the crosshair is a little overrated. There are moments when it's helpful but most situations don't require one. I have three configs. One with a single crosshair, one with customized crosshairs for each weapon and one without any. In my experience they're all about the same in play. Then again I get bored of using the same config all of the time so I change it every other week. Maybe everyone is different and a perfect config simply doesn't exist.

Yes, you are somehow right I guess.

Sometimes I think crosshair doesn't matter much, so I should rather use the most simplistic one and stick with it. Also the crosshair, in my case at least, has to be rather big, so that when my eyes don't look directly at it (my "focus" vision I mean), I still see it in my "peripheral vision".
I mean, I noticed that I rarely look directly at my crosshair, I rather look at the enemymodel and then put naturally the crosshair on the middle of the enemymodel/hitbox.

I find that the + is probably the best crosshair because of its simplicity and also because of the fact that it's very visible (more than a simple dot, at least if your + is fairly big). Also I don't like the dot much because in my opinion it's easier to aim with a crosshair with 2 parts like these : - and | for "horizontal and vertical aiming" , slightly easier to put + in the middle of a model than a simple dot.

However I play with drawgun 0 basically, so using 1 crosshair for each weapon is quite nice to get the information of which weapon you have currently in hands, I think it's quite nice to play with different crosshairs for each weapon if you have the gun hidden.
Also, maybe in the long term, having a crosshair specifically designed for each weapon can help your aim slightly at the end. Sometimes I want myself to believe that. I mean, in real life, a snipher doesn't have the same "crosshair" than an assault rifle for example. And in the army/military forces, a tank or a combat copter don't have the same "crosshair" either. I think there's a valid reason for that.
In real life, every weapon basically got a custom crosshair adapted to the weapon's function.
Ofc quake isn't real life, but it's still a shooting game, so it still shares some similarities with real life shooting :).

yellow +
is all I need
gg

green xhair 3 cs master race

crosshair 13, size big good for all weapons

crosshair 13 is fucking ugly if not using crosshairsize <27, at least at 1024x768.

My philosophy is that the Xhair is just there to help you find the middle of the screen. I use crosshair 7 with size 36 and its good enough for me.

well that would make you wrong

And it doesn't even matter! :)

I just have a small red +

Thinking about making it yellow/teal

But really, I don't even notice the crosshair.. Especially in PQL, no time for such things!!!

bind MWHEELUP "weapon 1; cg_fov 102; cg_zoomFov 54; cg_drawCrosshair 6; cg_crosshairSize 50; cg_crosshairColor 1; cg_hitBeep 2; cg_drawGun 1; r_lodbias 2; cg_impactSparks 1; cl_timenudge 0; r_textureMode gl_linear_mipmap_nearest; cg_gunX 0; cg_gunY 0; cg_gunZ 0" // pummel

bind MWHEELDOWN "weapon 2; cg_fov 102; cg_zoomFov 65; cg_drawCrosshair 2; cg_crosshairSize 36; cg_crosshairColor 5; cg_hitBeep 1; cg_drawGun 1; r_lodbias 2; cg_impactSparks 1; cl_timenudge 0; r_textureMode gl_linear_mipmap_nearest; cg_gunX 0; cg_gunY 3; cg_gunZ -2" // mg

bind r "weapon 3; cg_fov 102; cg_zoomFov 54; cg_drawCrosshair 7; cg_crosshairSize 42; cg_crosshairColor 25; cg_hitBeep 2; cg_drawGun 2; r_lodbias 0; cg_impactSparks 1; cl_timenudge 0; r_textureMode gl_linear_mipmap_nearest; cg_gunX -2;cg_gunY 2.5;cg_gunZ 0" // sg

bind e "weapon 4; cg_fov 102; cg_zoomFov 74; cg_drawCrosshair 2; cg_crosshairSize 39; cg_crosshairColor 11; cg_hitBeep 2; cg_drawGun 1; r_lodbias 2; cg_impactSparks 0; cl_timenudge 0; r_textureMode gl_linear_mipmap_nearest; cg_gunX 0; cg_gunY 3; cg_gunZ -2" // nade

bind c "weapon 5; cg_fov 102; cg_zoomFov 54; cg_drawCrosshair 7; cg_crosshairSize 32; cg_crosshairColor 25; cg_hitBeep 2; cg_drawGun 1; r_lodbias 0; cg_impactSparks 0; cl_timenudge 0; r_textureMode gl_nearest; cg_gunX 0; cg_gunY 3; cg_gunZ -2" // rocket

bind f "weapon 6; cg_fov 97; cg_zoomFov 75; cg_drawCrosshair 7; cg_crosshairSize 42; cg_crosshairColor 25; cg_hitBeep 2; cg_drawGun 3; r_lodbias 0; cg_impactSparks 1; cl_timenudge 0; r_textureMode gl_linear_mipmap_nearest; cg_gunX 0; cg_gunY 3; cg_gunZ -2" // shaft

bind q "weapon 7; cg_fov 95; cg_zoomFov 48; cg_drawCrosshair 7; cg_crosshairSize 33.7;cg_crosshairColor 7.5;cg_hitBeep 3; cg_drawGun 1; r_lodbias 0; cg_impactSparks 1; cl_timenudge 0; r_textureMode gl_linear_mipmap_nearest; cg_gunX 0; cg_gunY 3; cg_gunZ -2" // rail

bind ALT "weapon 8; cg_fov 95; cg_zoomFov 60; cg_drawCrosshair 7; cg_crosshairSize 32; cg_crosshairColor 25; cg_hitBeep 2; cg_drawGun 2; r_lodbias 2; cg_impactSparks 1; cl_timenudge -15;r_textureMode gl_linear_mipmap_nearest; cg_gunX -8;cg_gunY 0; cg_gunZ 0" // plasma

bind v "weapon 9; cg_fov 102; cg_zoomFov 60; cg_drawCrosshair 2; cg_crosshairSize 42; cg_crosshairColor 25; cg_hitBeep 2; cg_drawGun 1; r_lodbias 2; cg_impactSparks 1; cl_timenudge 0; r_textureMode gl_linear_mipmap_nearest; cg_gunX 0; cg_gunY 3; cg_gunZ -2" // troll

bind TAB "weapon 14;cg_fov 102; cg_zoomFov 65; cg_drawCrosshair 7; cg_crosshairSize 42; cg_crosshairColor 25; cg_hitBeep 2; cg_drawGun 1; r_lodbias 0; cg_impactSparks 1; cl_timenudge 0; r_textureMode gl_linear_mipmap_nearest; cg_gunX 0; cg_gunY 3; cg_gunZ -2" // lmao





<(D:)>

does timenudge affect plasma? i thought it was projectilenudge :o

timenudge affects enemy models

oh kk, didn't know. my bad. :(

seta cg_weaponConfig_g "cg_drawcrosshair 2 ; cg_crosshairsize 24 ; cg_zoomfov 60"
seta cg_weaponConfig_gl "cg_drawcrosshair 2 ; cg_crosshairsize 24 ; cg_zoomfov 60"
seta cg_weaponConfig_lg "cg_drawcrosshair 25 ; cg_crosshairsize 24 ; cg_zoomfov 85"
seta cg_weaponConfig_mg "cg_drawcrosshair 2 ; cg_crosshairsize 24 ; cg_zoomfov 60"
seta cg_weaponConfig_pg "cg_drawcrosshair 2 ; cg_crosshairsize 24 ; cg_zoomfov 60"
seta cg_weaponConfig_rg "cg_drawcrosshair 7 ; cg_crosshairsize 20 ; cg_zoomfov 60"
seta cg_weaponConfig_rl "cg_drawcrosshair 2 ; cg_crosshairsize 24 ; cg_zoomfov 60"
seta cg_weaponConfig_sg "cg_drawcrosshair 20 ; cg_crosshairsize 36 ; cg_zoomfov 60"
seta cg_weaponConfig_hmg "cg_drawcrosshair 2 ; cg_crosshairsize 24 ; cg_zoomfov 60"
seta cg_weaponConfig_bfg "cg_drawcrosshair 2 ; cg_crosshairsize 24 ; cg_zoomfov 60"

cross 2 for lg, 7 for all guns, gg

I used to spend ages thinking about this. I came up with what I thought was the perfect set of crosshairs for each weapon for me. Interestingly we both picked the exact same for MG, LG, Rail and HMG.

I tweak crosshairs all the time. Right now I am using the '+', but with varying sizes, colors, and hitstyles. For playing at low resolution, I sometimes use GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_LINEAR to keep the crosshair sharp.

r_texturemode doesn't affect the crosshair ;)

Ofc it does.

What affects the crosshair besides directly related cvars:
- r_mode
- r_ignorehwgamma
- r_textureMode


Best example is when you use r_mode 5 (640x480) with crosshair 7 (circle with a cross). If you use it with r_textureMode gl_nearest (NOT gl_nearest_mipmap_nearest, ONLY gl_nearest) with crosshairsize 32, the cross in the circle becomes thinner and has a black outline on its right side and if you use crosshairsize 31 or lower, the cross becomes black while the outer line remains the original color.

Just an example.

ah yeah sorry i was wrong. r_texturemode affects anything that has texture. So yeah it affects the crosshair aswell.

So the best texture mode for low resolution is gl_linear, correct?

I prefer GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_LINEAR right now, but I don't really know if it's the best. I play at 640x480, and along with making the crosshair sharper, I think it makes the crosshair a little brighter too, which helps because I am using the somewhat dark CG_CROSSHAIRCOLOR 1 (red).

Ah. I play on 1024x768, i tried 800x600 and 640x480 but i didn't like how the crosshair looked blurred at those definitions, and i had to increase it's size to make it more visible, neat.

I tried both gl_linear and gl_linear_mipmap_linear, but i don't see differences in sharpness, maybe it's my fault or maybe it's due to using a 2x antialiasing filter

Do you use any kind of antialiasing or anisotropic filter? I tought of doing that, on lower resolutions, but never tried it.

I like when the crosshair is a bit blurry or pixelized.

Less anal play and your vision would not become so blurry

I can accept the fact that you are a homosexual, but please don't project your weird little fantasies on me. It's rude and mildly disgusting as well.

the circle around the '+' helps me a lot

for the shotgun the circle helps i can understand that, because of the huge circular spread. For the rl and gl aswell, because of the circular explosions, it's a good representation of the explosion.

but for the lg and rail i don't see how it could help tbh. I mean, a dot or a simple + are enough to aim decently, the circle is just redundant.

helps me with rg flick shots, when aiming really fast, its easier for me to focus on enemy being in the circle than just the little cross... hard to explain as eng is not my native lang sry

similiar with lg the circle helps to point the cross faster and "sticking" it on enemy as i try to have him in the cricle all the time

it has nothing to do with spread just gives good reference for actually aiming on enemy as i try to have him in it...the cross is good and with the circle better! hope you understand :D

yep got ya

yes you got some valid arguments there :)

in my case i don't need a circle with lg or rail, i just put the crosshair on the enemy and thats all xD

ofc you don't actually need it :D

This.

As you probably already know crosshair differences are overrated, for me i simply choose a crosshair for trace aim and a crosshair for projectiles, i find the consistency helps

i got another a question for crosshair 7.
in my main config the cross in the middle is way thicker than in another one.

i attached two screenshots, both are cross 7, with size 30:

first with thick cross and also thicker circle around
[url=http://postimg.org/image/monc0vxpv/]

second with thinner cross and more transparent circle.
[url=http://postimg.org/image/ngbo08cd9/]

i want to have the cross from screenshot 2 in my main cfg.

any suggestons for the cvar which influences this problem?

thx in advance.

See #24.

just compared the values from post 24, they were identical in both cfgs, must be something else i guess... thx anyways..

cg_crosshairBrightness

cg_crosshairbrightness?

use the one cypher is using for bestest aim))