Tags: °texture °SS2

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Change the file extension to .ZIP for unpacking.

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These are my crosshairs for SS2. I made 4 different types (Fragile Bombers, Hazard, Simple, Zooming) and tinted them in 4 colours (Amber, Blue, Green and Red). I also added appropriate cursors for Use-Mode.
It goes without saying that you can only use one at a time but with the mod manager you can change them easily at the start of the game.
Below are some screenshots.

// Merely 10 years later I created a few new ones ("Krosshair-...") that are larger, to accommodate for today's higher screen resolutions. And thanks to NewDark we can also use alpha channel transparency now.

Sorry, my mistake. I screwed up the folder structure so they didn't work with Zombe's Mod Manager.
That's fixed now and tested to work.
Thanks for telling me.   

Just curious: Which crosshair did you choose?

Kolya

I just modified the crosshairs. They now identify themselves in Zombe's Modmanager including type and color.
This should make switching crosshairs easier.

Kolya

The original cursor is green. And since my cursors are just recolored versions I didn't make a green cursor.
But I included the original green cursor with every green crosshair just to make sure everything works fine...

Kolya

Added an invisible crosshair on request. (No invisible cursor, no.)

You should add icons to these mods, so that a preview of each crosshair is displayed next to its name in the mod manager.

I think the colors for Amber and Red are exactly the same.  I used Hazard Red for a while and, comparing it to the picture you have posted (where it says Hazard Amber) they look exactly alike. 

Alright thanks, just making sure.  They looked very similar -w-;

Is it possible to alter the shading somehow?  Or is System Shock 2 strict in what shadings are allowed?

Well I can try and see what I can do.

Though I'm a little confused as to what you mean by "hard-edged stencil tool" and "making the background color the first one to appear so that it's transparent".

Isn't it possible to do this sort of thing in Paint? 

And aside from the icon picture, there were two other files that be either placed in the iface folder of the ss2 folder (or one could use mod manager to skip that any altering, but those two files still exist). 

The icon is only displayed in the mod manager. It has nothing to do with the actual mod. The real mod files are the textures in the iface folder.

You will need something better than Paint. I suggest the Gimp because it's free.

I mean that the drawing tool should not produce a blurry edge but a hard edge as can be seen in the image above. Looks kinda like 8bit or lack of anti-aliasing, doesn't it? That's because we only have 255 colours available after compression.

Open one of the mod files (eg CROSSHAI.PCX) in the Gimp. Search the Gimp's help for "color palette" and find out how to view and edit the colour palette of CROSSHAI.PCX. You'll see that of the 255 available colour slots in the palette only very few are actually being used. One is the first, which holds the background colour of the image.

Do you plan on making any more crosshair/cursor modifications?

Possibly. Did you have anything in mind?