Custom Crosshair Utility: Cheating? Options

[Stickman]

Hi all.

I've been using a little (24k) program called cutomCrosshair to provide me with a static crosshair in COD. The program performs the software equivalent of using a marker to draw a dot in the center of your monitor screen; it takes a given bitmap and draws it on top of any other application you have running. As it's a stand-alone program that does not interect with whatever game you may be running, it is invisible to PB or any other hack detectors.

It's obviously a cobbled together utility; there's a bug that causes the windows pointer to flicker on top of the game window from time to time. Instead of tracking the bug down and fixing it, the programmer added a hotkey to toggle the visibility of the windows pointer.

The biggest drawback is that the crosshair doesn't disappear when you aim down the sight, so it can obscure your view. I get around this by using an "inverted v" crosshair, so when aiming down the sight it only covers the gun model, not the target.

My question: Is this cheating? Should I stop? Or make the program available to all? The website I got it from has since vanished.

What say you all?

This post has been edited by Stickman: 03/15/06 4:25pm

[Bargod]

I've put a small dot in the center of my screen long ago. Old Man Mike uses a small piece of tape. Although it somehow seems dishonest when using a program to do it, for some reason physically putting a mark or tape on your screen just seems smart.

[Mr.Scruff]

how does that work out though puttng a peice of tape because ur guys gun does move, so how can the tape move with the gun???????

[Stickman]

how does that work out though puttng a peice of tape because ur guys gun does move, so how can the tape move with the gun???????

The gun model moves, but the aim point doesn't. Notice that the in-game crosshair doesn't move?

Scrapyard: There are any number of things one could do to gain an advantage in gameplay. A gaming mouse, a larger monitor, or a faster computer. Are they unfair? How about the piece of tape on the monitor? What makes this program different a different matter?

Not arguing, just trying to promote discussion.