In the MOD era, there were commands to change the crosshair colors: crosshair_color_red (value 0…255) etc. These do not work since the Steam version release. Crosshair visibility with the dirty-orange color is very low on some scenes, and changing the color to bright green helped immensely. Is there a way to do this now? I have looked through the CVARS and found nothing.
No one at all? Depressing 
It takes a bit more work than simply setting a convar, but this procedure should work:
- Set up a custom folder.
- Using GCFScape, extract the files “resource\clientscheme.res” and “scripts\hudlayout.res” from “Black Mesa\bms\bms_misc_dir.vpk” and place them into the custom folder. For example, the folder structure might look like this:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Black Mesa\bms\custom
└───crosshairmod
├───resource
│ clientscheme.res
│
└───scripts
hudlayout.res
- Open “scripts\hudlayout.res” in a text editor and locate this block:
...
CHudCrosshair
{
"fieldName" "CHudCrosshair"
"textAlignment" "center"
"paintbackground" "0"
"brighttext" "1"
"centerwrap" "1"
"CrosshairColor" "OrangeBright"
}
...
- Change the “CrosshairColor” from “OrangeBright” to one of the predefined colors in “resource\clientscheme.res”, for example “GreenBright”, or edit to add your own custom color definition:
[code=‘clientscheme.res’]…
Colors
{
// base colors
“Orange” “255 176 0 160”
“OrangeDark” “255 176 0 42”
“OrangeDim” “255 176 0 110”
“OrangeBright” “255 176 0 255”
“LightOrange” “188 112 0 128”
"FadedBGColor" "0 0 0 255"
"OrangeDarker" "255 176 0 20"
"OrangeDarkest" "255 176 0 8"
"Green" "28 192 0 140"
"GreenBright" "28 192 0 255"
"GreenDark" "28 192 0 42"
"Red" "192 28 0 140"
"RedBright" "255 28 0 255"
"RedDark" "255 28 0 42"
"Black" "0 0 0 196"
"TransparentBlack" "0 0 0 196"
"TransparentLightBlack" "0 0 0 90"
"Blank" "0 0 0 0"
"ForTesting" "255 0 0 32"
"ForTesting_Magenta" "255 0 255 255"
"ForTesting_MagentaDim" "255 0 255 120"
}
…[/code]
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Wow. Thanks galore! I’ll give it a try!
Glad I could help!
Flavrans, my colour blind eyes thank you very much for this!
-hps