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Could someone help me with cross-hairs?

Dream9StudiosDream9Studios Posts: 125
edited December 1969 in The Commons

First post in the new forum, yay!

Anywho, I need something for an render idea I just had. I need a high tech, futuristic cross-hair overlay like someone is looking through a sci-fi sniper rifle at someone. The more tech/futuristic the better. Does that make sense? Can someone help me out? Hopefully for free and I will give you (or whoever) full credit on the artwork's page. I know nothing about real guns and I'm afraid if I play a video game (like Mass Effect) for reference I won't be able to stop!

It can be just a 2D overlay that I can apply in Photoshop, no need for a 3D prop. I just don't know where else to ask! :) Thanks!

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  • BlazeMystEraBlazeMystEra Posts: 464
    edited August 2012

    Did you look at the Future Tech Brushes? There are some, that could well be used as futuristic crosshair

    http://www.daz3d.com/shop/future-tech-brushes

    you'd of course have to own Photoshop to use them

    There are some nice free brushes available at Deviant Art too:
    http://nicola-montefusco.deviantart.com/art/Crosshair-Brushes-145597565 (even comes as png if I read that correctly, so you could use it in other programms too :) )
    http://spinnen36.deviantart.com/art/CoD-4-sniper-crosshair-140894473

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  • VuDu_DawLVuDu_DawL Posts: 14
    edited December 1969

    Here is a quickie overlay I did, at 2500 x 2500 px. in .png with transparency:
    http://muse.iswiz.com/reticle.png

    And the PSD it was created from:
    http://muse.iswiz.com/reticle.psd

    Is that the kind of thing you were looking for?

  • DWGDWG Posts: 770
    edited December 1969

    If you google "reticle png" (or any other graphics filetype), then you should find a whole bunch of examples of actual reticles (the technical name for cross-hairs), hopefully at least some of which will be okay for use (the FPS mod community tends to use them a lot).

  • Dream9StudiosDream9Studios Posts: 125
    edited December 1969

    @BlazeMystEra Yes, I have Photoshop CS5 so I can use those brushes. I think between the Future Tech and the brushes from deviantART I should be able to make something that fits my vision perfectly. Thanks!

    @VuDu_DawL I was looking for something more tech-y since it's a futuristic scene but I think I've got what I need now. Still, thank you for your assistance!

    @DWG Reticle, so that's what those things are called! Thanks! It took me about an hour just to think of the term "cross-hair" because I kept searching for "sniper rifle sight thing"... seriously. I can be so stupid at times; about certain things anyway. :)

    Thank you all! I truly appreciate all your replies and help.

  • DWGDWG Posts: 770
    edited December 1969

    LizzieP_D9S said:

    @DWG Reticle, so that's what those things are called! Thanks! It took me about an hour just to think of the term "cross-hair" because I kept searching for "sniper rifle sight thing"... seriously. I can be so stupid at times; about certain things anyway. :)

    It's not at all a common term, so no surprise you didn't know it, I had the advantage over most people of having had a job (programming cockpit displays for military jets) where it was one of our technical terms.

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