[...] So i actually implement this in all my huds because i play without sound when i pub and still wanna know if i hit them so here's my explanation: First you gonna need this font file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/32v9jtnp8gijx12/crtfc.ttf put it into the resource folder of your hud next go into the clientscheme and copy this: http://pastebin.com/Y91xwuQJ into the Fonts section now scroll way to the bottom and paste this: http://pastebin.com/LYV0QKCA with the next following number. now go under scripts/hudlayout.res and copy this into it: http://pastebin.com/W8EU7rJa now go into hudanimations and paste this into it: http://pastebin.com/t8i5spw6

So, not only could you use this to change your xhair colour on hit, you could make it give you a cod like hit marker? Any explanation or anything people can give would be awesome.

I don't really see how this is useful :/ For me it would just probably be super distracting.

[...] Couldn't you just use multiple characters..?

[...] Thanks a lot. [...] Theoretically, if you could make a font file where one letter would be looking like 'hit!', you could than add it to the hud overlay and make it's color invisible, than in the animation file make it so that whenever you hit someone it sets the color to a different one than switches back to invisible. I'm using this trick with circles: http://i.imgur.com/qenD2.jpg http://i.imgur.com/ENUvL.jpg

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So you could, for example, make it a text popup on your hud, say bottom right, saying "hit!" everytime you hit someone? That'd be interesting.

[...] I thought it worked the same way Custom Crosshairs did? The hitmarkers in CoD and other similar games are like 4 little lines that pop up around your crosshair whenever you hit someone, i imagine this to work similar with this new animation in TF2? You could have anything pop up though, if you customise it?

This is not possible because players aren't always at the same position of the screen. The Crosshair is alway in the middle of the screen, so you know where to show the Red Cross. The only way this could work is a custom texture. But sv_pure 2 won't allow you to use custom textures.