Custom Cursors

Cesare said:

@Hopachi

Will you proceed in making the Riddler Premium Large cursor set that I have requested?

Hi Cesare,

As I said, not working. I don't get the animation going on all roles.

Can you show me how you would animate those tiny question marks on the up-down arrow?

There's two sets with dark orange outlines, with either purple or teal center. They are HC as in high contrast and the colours fully reveal themselves on dark backgrounds. The orange & teal version is similar to Hopachi's LLX Main (dark), and in the preview it looks as if the edges are lighter, but they're not - it's an optical illusion.

i486 said:

There's two sets with dark orange outlines, with either purple or teal center. They are HC as in high contrast and the colours fully reveal themselves on dark backgrounds. The orange & teal version is similar to Hopachi's LLX Main (dark), and in the preview it looks as if the edges are lighter, but they're not - it's an optical illusion.

I like these variations!
Thanks for posting!

I'm using the Orange & Teal one now.
I've modded it a bit... no shadows: saved in 8-bit color, all static. I know sounds retro.
You get a considerable size-reduction. Not that the original in 32-bit is that big, just for fun.


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Here's an interesting discovery:
Windows has SVG templates in the Cursors folder. Was there since 2019... I'm probably not the first to discover this but I sense this can be useful for other cursor projects.



I assume these get used by the New Pointer Settings:


Since these are vectors, they can be used in creating standalone custom pointers as well.

I wonder, what if you replace these templates by, let's say some other SVG template, like LLX, your favourite theme, you name it... can you create new ones based on these via settings?

I'm going to make some more adventurous variations now that the basics are more or less done.

Hopachi said:

I'm using the Orange & Teal one now.
I've modded it a bit... no shadows: saved in 8-bit color, all static. I know sounds retro.
You get a considerable size-reduction. Not that the original in 32-bit is that big, just for fun.


- - - Updated - - -

Here's an interesting discovery:
Windows has SVG templates in the Cursors folder. Was there since 2019... I'm probably not the first to discover this but I sense this can be useful for other cursor projects.



I assume these get used by the New Pointer Settings:


Since these are vectors, they can be used in creating standalone custom pointers as well.

I wonder, what if you replace these templates by, let's say some other SVG template, like LLX, your favourite theme, you name it... can you create new ones based on these via settings?

So those SVG files are the pointers you get when you choose the custom colour setting?! I didn't expect Windows to support image files as cursors like websites do, yet. What about the other three, does it simply use the existing system cursors for those or are they also SVGs? The edges are treated independently based on how dark the chosen colour is, and from what I know from my brief experiments they are usually either black or grey. It doesn't seem to allow white edges by default if you choose the custom colour setting, and what about animated cursors, would animated SVGs be supported? I doubt Windows can currently modify animated files like it does static ones now.