DynamicCrosshair

Dynamic Crosshair — How to Fish

by PapaSalazar

A client-side crosshair that shows where your gun is actually pointing and traces the real spread cone the game will use for your next shot.

How to Fish ships no crosshair. The guns are held off to the side of the camera and their muzzles are driven by a physics recoil rig, so the barrel is almost never pointing at the middle of your screen. This mod stops you guessing: it reads the weapon's own numbers every frame, re-runs the game's own shot maths, and draws the result.

• Point of aim — a dot at the exact spot the muzzle is looking at, not the screen centre.
• Spread outline — the boundary of the cone your pellets can land in, traced from the game's live _spread value.
• Bullet drop — weapons whose projectiles travel and fall are simulated with the game's own integrator, so the crosshair sits where the shot lands, not where the barrel points.
• Blocked-barrel warning — when you press the muzzle into a wall, crate or teammate, How to Fish silently resolves the shot at that obstruction instead of downrange. The crosshair turns red and snaps to the impact point.

No Harmony patches, no network traffic, no writes to game state. It reads and it draws.

Install

With a mod manager (recommended)

Search for DynamicCrosshair Mod Manager or r2modman and install. BepInEx comes along as a dependency.

By hand

• Install BepInEx 5.4.23.5 (win_x64) into the folder containing How to Fish.exe, then launch the game once so it creates its folders.
• Drop DynamicCrosshair.dll into How to Fish/BepInEx/plugins.
• Launch. The config file appears at BepInEx/config/howtofish.dynamiccrosshair.cfg.

Press F8 in game to toggle the crosshair off and on.

Configuration

Edit BepInEx/config/howtofish.dynamiccrosshair.cfg (restart the game to apply).

Shape

Two independent settings: one for the spread cone, one for the point of aim. Set either to None

if you only want the other.

| SpreadStyle | |

|---|---|

| None | Do not draw the cone |

| Ring | Continuous outline (default) |

| DashedRing | Broken outline — reads better over busy scenery |

| Ticks | Four marks standing outward on the boundary |

| Brackets | Four short arcs, like brackets around the target |

| CenterStyle | |

|---|---|

| None | Do not mark the point of aim |

| Dot | Filled disc |

| HollowDot | Small open circle — readable on light and dark backgrounds |

| Plus | Four arms with a centre gap (default) — never covers what you are shooting |

| Cross | Four diagonal arms with a centre gap |

| Diamond | Small open diamond |

Size

Sizes are authored for 1080p and scaled to your screen height, so the crosshair looks the same

at 1440p and 4K instead of shrinking to a few specks.

| Setting | Default | What it does |

|---|---|---|

| ScaleWithResolution | true | Scale all sizes by screen height. Off = exact pixels |

| ReferenceHeight | 1080 | Height the sizes below are authored against |

| Thickness | 2 | Line thickness of the spread outline |

| OutlineWidth | 1.5 | Dark edge width per side. This is the main visibility control — raise it before anything else. 0 disables |

| CenterSize | 3 | Radius of Dot, HollowDot, Diamond |

| CenterGap | 3 | Empty space in the middle of Plus / Cross |

| CenterArmLength | 8 | Arm length for Plus / Cross |

| TickLength | 9 | Mark length for Ticks |

| Segments | 40 | Points used to trace the outline |

| DashCount | 12 | Dashes in DashedRing |

| BracketArcDegrees | 34 | How much of the boundary each Brackets arc covers |

| MinRadiusPixels | 3 | Smallest the outline may get. Weapons with no spread show only the centre marker, since a ring there would imply spread that does not exist |

| MaxRadiusPixels | 900 | Safety clamp |

Colours

All values are RRGGBBAA hex — the last two digits are opacity.

| Setting | Default | What it does |

|---|---|---|

| Color | 5CFFC8FF | Spread outline |

| CenterColor | FFFFFFFF | Point-of-aim marker. Keeping this a different colour from the outline is the single easie