Lightgun crosshair enhancements

[unexpectedpanda]

Hey folks,

Thanks for fixing the crosshairs in hotd2 with the recent core update. Hopefully these enhancements aren't too much of an ask — I think they'd increase usability quite a bit.

• If you set a high internal resolution in Quick menu > Options in Retroarch, the crosshairs don't scale accordingly. For example, if you set a resolution of 2560x1920, the crosshairs are tiny, making them difficult to see. Would it be possible to introduce some sort of scale factor to compensate for this?
• The single color crosshairs can sometimes be hard to see (especially the blue one, which is quite dark and blends in easily with the video action). Any chance at brighter colors, with bonus points for a shadow/outline just in case those bright colors end up being used in the game for some reason? The following colors seem to stand out well against the action:

  • ffa200 (orange)

  • ff10c4 (pink)

  • 00d8ff (blue)

  • 00ff00 (green)

Screenshot with the original tiny dark blue and red crosshairs (they're there, I promise):

Updated crosshairs with white outlines, that have no chance of being missed or fading into the background:

[bslenul]

Small precision for devs trying to reproduce: the scaling thing is a Vulkan only issue, crosshairs (and VMUs btw!) have a fixed size with GL, so even at high resolution you can see them fine.

I really like the outlines idea! 👍

P.S.: Took me a while to find the red crosshair on your first screen! 😅

[unexpectedpanda]

scaling thing is a Vulkan only issue

I can't seem to convince Retroarch to run hotd2 on Flycast in anything but Vulkan on Windows 10, despite changing Settings > Drivers > Video to other renderers. But good to know the issue isn't present elsewhere :)

P.S.: Took me a while to find the red crosshair on your first screen! 😅

I thought the blue was even harder :P

[BroKill]

Hello,

is it possible to add a crosshair to the gamepad?

Would be too nice!

Thanks in advance

CHEERs