Custom Cursors

i486 said:

That's fine. It would be ideal if every coloured pixel was accompanied by its pair like in the pointers, in all frames. For visibility. But that's a good template for experiments. I've no experience with making animated stars though, but the binary set needs some generic alternative for the "digital" cursors, either stars or gears.

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I've made drop shadowed versions of your Binary cursors, complete with small tweaks to hotspot and cursor positions, as well as two new cursor states and the animated spinners. I also added four new colours, black, white, a darker blue and a very familiar purple

More to follow...

Wow! very nice!
I'll use these...

Why no install.inf file?
We can use one template with all roles, for instance from a LLX pack, and change names to use in this scheme.

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i486 said:

That's fine. It would be ideal if every coloured pixel was accompanied by its pair like in the pointers, in all frames. For visibility. But that's a good template for experiments. I've no experience with making animated stars though, but the binary set needs some generic alternative for the "digital" cursors, either stars or gears.

I can show you the basics of animated spinners, it's not that complicated.

But for instance that sequence I posted, is a rip-off from your stock example, turned into a sequence.
It had to be re-drawn manually: simply in MS Paint (patience required) + layer per layer framed in GIMP.
From the PNG:


You drop it in RW Cursor Editor... and it generates an ANI automatically.
The GIF-preview:


And the ANI zipped below:
pixelstar-32.zip

Cesare said:

Is Hopachi planning on releasing a pixel star cursor set?

Who knows... it usually starts with a test.
But so far I don't know what to make of it. Firstly I want to make that 'move' role that @i486 asked but I'm not sure I got that one right yet.

Hopachi said:

Wow! very nice!
I'll use these...

The dark blue one looks best with a system-wide "dark mode" because of the lower contrasts. I think I'll make more sets like that.

Hopachi said:

Why no install.inf file?
We can use one template with all roles, for instance from a LLX pack, and change names to use in this scheme.

Install.infs are for the lazy

The real reason is that I never use them myself and I always toss them away from downloaded cursor packs.

Hopachi said:

I can show you the basics of animated spinners, it's not that complicated.

But for instance that sequence I posted, is a rip-off from your stock example, turned into a sequence.
It had to be re-drawn manually: simply in MS Paint (patience required) + layer per layer framed in GIMP.
From the PNG:


You drop it in RW Cursor Editor... and it generates an ANI automatically.
The GIF-preview:


And the ANI zipped below:
pixelstar-32.zip

That .ani is all I'll need to work with, thanks. It can be used as a 'busy' for the 32x32px format and as a part of 'working' for the 48x48px.

i486 said:

That .ani is all I'll need to work with, thanks. It can be used as a 'busy' for the 32x32px format and as a part of 'working' for the 48x48px.

Made the 48px from the 32px one...
Fastest way, resize image with no interpolation. That way you don't get blurred edges.

PNG sequence:


GIF preview:


the zipped ANI:
pixelstar-48.zip