[panthercules]

Hmmm - I must be missing something here - I tried opening up the existing periscope_mask_1024.tga file in paintshop pro and just reducing the brightness by about 30% and then saving it back down as darker_periscope_mask_1024.tga and then modifying the attack scope section of the .ini file to point to that new darker file. However, in game the attack scope graphics (lines/crosshairs) were all screwed up and there was a circle inside a circle in the scope view.

Is there some kind of trick about changing or saving down the .tga file that I'm missing here? I think it would be great for the attack scope to be a little darker than the obs scope, and it seems to be doable based on the posts above, but obviously something is going wrong here



[Edit] Well, I tried just changing the "color" line in the .ini file to a light gray* but it changed the whole screen so that the portion outside the scope circle just got semi-transparent, so obviously that's not the answer. I also tried saving the darker file down as "uncompressed" .tga (Paintshop Pro had defaulted to "compressed" and I hadn't noticed the first time around), but that didn't make any difference either. Any ideas?

*yet another thing I don't understand - all the hex codes I could find for colors show only 6 digits/places (such as FFFFFF), but the color line in the .ini file says "Color=0xFFFFFFFF", with 8 digits/places - what's with that?