How to make: Illuminated Gunsights?

[Midnight]

Is there any threads or HTC help files that tell you how to make illuminated gunsights?

I know you need 2 files to make it work, but what's the theory to make it look right?

[Furious]

Try this discussion

Also some historical sites thanks to Mitsu and Aero.

[SlapShot]

Illuminated (alpha) gunsights require to bmp files ...

The blahblah_alpha.bmp is 128x128 pixel grayscale image. This is where the actual gunsight is created.

The blahblah.bmp file is a 128x128 RGB image filled with the color that you want the gunsight to be.

What happens is that anything drawn in the _alpha.bmp that is white to shades of grey is where the color will bleed thru.

So pure white will allow 100% of the color to bleed thru, while the graduated shades of white (grey) will allow percentages of the color to bleed thru. Black allows no color to bleed thru.

I have a bunch of alpha sights on my FTP site ...

http://ftp://AcesHigh:AcesHigh@slapshot.homeftp.net

try those. The AeroReviSights.zip contains most of the popular sights converted to alpha ... excellent work by Aero.

I made one of my own using one of Aero's as the template.