melonsap:

flying-potato2:

melonsap:

clockmocker:

Hello! I’m going to teach you how to get whatever cursor you want.

First, figure out what you want as a cursor. I’m going to be changing mine to a Skyrim mouse.

So first you get a picture of whatever you want, as clean as possible:

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Open your favorite art program and clean it up, then save as a png:

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Then go here and convert it to a .cur file. Make sure there’s no gap between the corner of the arrow and the corner of the png.

Next you go to Control Panel:

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Select Mouse from the list:

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Then go to the Pointers tab and pick whichever mouse cursor you want to replace.

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Click “Browse…” and find the .cur file you made earlier:

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And voila! I now have a Skyrim cursor.

You may have to tinker with the size a bit to get the point to be accurate. If that happens, just resize your png and convert to .cur again.

Happy customization!

yo can you make a guide for custom animated cursors too because stuff like the processing cursor and spinning wheel are important to be animated

So, animated cursors are a little trickier because there isn’t a reliable .cur to .ani (animated cursor) converter. You’ll need to download an old program to get what you want.

But it IS possible! And just as customizable.

Part 1

Let’s say I want my mouse to be Furret. First I need a gif with a transparent background.

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(If you want to make your own gif instead, you need a series of .png files, then to upload them on this website here and customize what kind of timing you want.)

This gif is definitely WAY too big to become a proper mouse. So we need to shrink it down. Upload or paste the link in here, then figure out what size you want.

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When you’re ready to test it, go ahead and click “Resize Image!”

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You’ll want to pay attention to that file size there. At MAX, you never want to go over 60KiB.

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So we have our tiny Furret. What now?

You see all those icons underneath the preview?

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You want to click this one.

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Then hit “Split into frames!” here. Don’t worry about the “Split options” box, it won’t really impact the end result for what we’re going for here.

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Ta-da! You now have every frame of your gif ready. Click “Download frames as ZIP, then once you have the Zip file, extract the files into a normal folder.

Part 2

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