Friendly/Ally reticle enabler

[IceCrow14 43]

Hello everyone, this is a Chimera Lua script that basically changes your weapon reticle's color to green whenever you aim at an allied player, this is achieved through some real-time tag manipulation. Don't expect it to work on protected maps, also, as far as I know the reticle doesn't change if you're in a vehicle (unless you're in a passenger seat). Like always, let me know if you find a glitch and I'll try to fix it. Enjoy: ally_reticle_enabler.lua UPDATE: @aLTis's edited script (Latest version): ally_retical_modified_by_altis.lua

 

 

[Devieth 156]

I was just thinking about righting this, but kept thing "haha ha, I'm to lazy hell no." Really cice, it is a little sensitive though.

 

Update: You could do this btw.

local obj_ID = read_dword(dl_player + 0x2F8 + (unit_weap_slot * 0x4))

Instead of what your doing currently with this: 

local obj_ID = 0
if unit_weap_slot == 0 then
	obj_ID = read_dword(dl_player + 0x2F8) -- Primary
elseif unit_weap_slot == 1 then
	obj_ID = read_dword(dl_player + 0x2FC) -- Secondary
elseif unit_weap_slot == 2 then
	obj_ID = read_dword(dl_player + 0x300) -- Tertiary
elseif unit_weap_slot == 3 then
	obj_ID = read_dword(dl_player + 0x304) -- Quaternary
end

 

Edited December 19, 2018 by Devieth
For a change you could make.

[Sceny 3,042]

In regards to the vehicle reticles: do you mean the actual reticle for the vehicle weapons, or the little triangle on the hogs? 

[VoidsShadow 24]

22 hours ago, Devieth said:

I was just thinking about righting this, but kept thing "haha ha, I'm to lazy hell no." Really cice, it is a little sensitive though.

 

Update: You could do this btw.

local obj_ID = read_dword(dl_player + 0x2F8 + (unit_weap_slot * 0x4))

Instead of what your doing currently with this: 

local obj_ID = 0
if unit_weap_slot == 0 then
	obj_ID = read_dword(dl_player + 0x2F8) -- Primary
elseif unit_weap_slot == 1 then
	obj_ID = read_dword(dl_player + 0x2FC) -- Secondary
elseif unit_weap_slot == 2 then
	obj_ID = read_dword(dl_player + 0x300) -- Tertiary
elseif unit_weap_slot == 3 then
	obj_ID = read_dword(dl_player + 0x304) -- Quaternary
end

 

I'm just going to leave this here and hope it's what you meant.

ally_reticle_enabler - Devieth Edit - v001.lua

[Devieth 156]

4 hours ago, VoidsShadow said:

I'm just going to leave this here and hope it's what you meant.

ally_reticle_enabler - Devieth Edit - v001.lua

Yeah that't about it, I went in and make a much bigger change though myself which will make the crosshair color change be a bit more sensitive and accurate.

 

ally_retical_modified_by_devieth.lua

 

Video: 

Note: I did't add a distance limit here but it would be easy enough to add.
Note2: This will also work through walls.

IceCrow14, if you would like to look at the changes and officially add this to your script that would be cool.

Edited December 20, 2018 by Devieth
Added "Note2:"

[IceCrow14 43]

@Sceny For none of them, actually. The script is meant to read and write to the 'child' object ID tag (the biped's weapon), and vehicles, if I recall correct are considered as 'parent' objects to the biped (even though it would be possible to upgrade the script to also manipulate vehicle HUDs).

 

@Devieth About your first post, you're right, that can save some lines of code (Thx for the syntax tips you wrote in the edited scripts, they may be useful for other proyects). The reason why with the main script the reticle is somewhat oversensitive is because what triggers the color change is an address that changes its value everytime a player's name is about to be displayed in the screen. Initially I thought about implementing the detection part the way you did in your second edit but I didn't want to mess with the math back then but it's great that you did because now it might be possible to improve the script to also detect when you're aiming at NPCs. Possibly implementing something that constantly performs 'collision checks' between the camera vector and the bipeds' in-game collision model would do the thing but I think I have no clue about how to do that yet.

 

PS: I'll add all the files that have been posted here in the main post.

[Devieth 156]

2 hours ago, IceCrow14 said:

@Sceny For none of them, actually. The script is meant to read and write to the 'child' object ID tag (the biped's weapon), and vehicles, if I recall correct are considered as 'parent' objects to the biped (even though it would be possible to upgrade the script to also manipulate vehicle HUDs).

 

@Devieth About your first post, you're right, that can save some lines of code (Thx for the syntax tips you wrote in the edited scripts, they may be useful for other proyects). The reason why with the main script the reticle is somewhat oversensitive is because what triggers the color change is an address that changes its value everytime a player's name is about to be displayed in the screen. Initially I thought about implementing the detection part the way you did in your second edit but I didn't want to mess with the math back then but it's great that you did because now it might be possible to improve the script to also detect when you're aiming at NPCs. Possibly implementing something that constantly performs 'collision checks' between the camera vector and the bipeds' in-game collision model would do the thing but I think I have no clue about how to do that yet.

 

PS: I'll add all the files that have been posted here in the main post.

You can do NPC's by looping though the tags when the map loads and save friendly MetaID's to a table.  The just do a `if friendly_metaIds[MetaID] then` style check to see if that MetaID is in the friendly_metaIds table.

[aLTis 715]

I've updated this script. Let me know if there are any more issues.

 

DOWNLOAD: ally_retical_modified_by_altis.lua

 

Changes:

• More accurate (based on position of each bone)
• Works on protected maps
• Works in vehicles
• Doesn't turn green through walls
• Works with reticles that use multiple bitmaps
• Fixes a glitch where reticles became permanently green after reloading Chimera lua

Known issues:

• Name of the player you're aiming at appears faster than before

 

update: fixed an error that appeared when throwing a grenade

Edited June 6, 2020 by aLTis