Ergonomic Cursors
A downloadable asset pack
Colorful cursors in a shape of arrow adopting a vertical approach. The 45 degree angle make it perfect for aiming and a clear read of the cursor position. Optional animated crosshair pack in the downloads. These cursors were made and generated by myself. It's free download and of use in any project commercially.
*Animated cursors unavailable for now and some other shapes too
To do
Update animated crosshair for all 15 windows cursor sizes
Picture format of each animation frames
How I make the cursors
I make scripts for RealWorld cursor editor to generate the cursors for different size. They containt 15 different resolution (32x32 to 128x128). This way they won't get blurry when adjusting the size of the cursor in windows 10. They make up all the canvas region which might make them look big for some at the smallest cursor size. The downloads contains a cursor file (.cur) for using in windows and a picture file (.png) for other needs. Right now picture files are only in 32x32 as I don't have an automated way to save each resolution in png yet.
Manual Installation
1. Accessing the mouse properties window.
Windows 10: Right click your desktop background Personalise->Theme->Mouse Cursor
Other Windows version: Press both windows button and R keys, type in the text box main.cpl and press OK button.
2. Under the second tab "Pointers" select the cursor state you want to change.
3. Click the button "Browser" and a file explorer window will appear.
4. Browser to the cursor you want click open.
5. Click "Save as" to save the scheme and don't forget to hit apply
After reboot, default windows cursors might be used insted if your cursor file is not located in C:\Windows\Cursors. Simply deselect and reselect your scheme again. I made the cursors myself. They are .cur and .ani safe to use.
Download
Click download now to get access to the following files:
Development log
- Ergonomic cursors finalOct 26, 2021
- New cursorsJan 29, 2020
- All 15 windows cursor resolutionNov 25, 2019
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Hello Sky! You've inspired me and I started looking into cursors, and found that they aren't actually that hard to find or even create, so, long story short, I'm hooked on custom cursors now, and I'm even creating several sets of my OWN! Please check them out: https://gold-diamond.itch.io/ergonomic-cursors-remake, https://gold-diamond.itch.io/vectorgloss-cursor-pack. Thanks!
Nice job on those! I like theire clean style.
Sorry for late reply, been busy I'm moving out tomorrow then I'll works on stufff ;)
Is there a way I could private message you? My discord is on nexus mod I post there as bolbman. SkyHops#8923
I can show you how to animate them if you want.
What I aim for is an editor to make animated basic shapes :D
Thanks! It's cool. Apart from my e-mail, no. And I don't check that very often, unless I'm expecting something. I'll sign up for discord and let you know. I already know how to animate them, realworld cursor editor makes it pretty easy. Unless there's a way to animate single images without having to import several frames, then yeah, I'll be glad if you could show me. Check out this cursor pack: https://gold-diamond.itch.io/electroteal-cursor-pack it's sorta based on The Blue guy's technoblue cursor pack. The password is "Skyview"
The cursors are hand made?
Yup! They are!
My e-mail is ayoolasam05@gmail.com. You could use that for now.
Wow! These are EPIC! I can't believe this isnt popular! I'm using these for my cursor right now. And apart from the fact that I have to substitute some for the animated ones, its great! Keep up the good work. I really hope to see more of these soon. I hope its not too late though...
YEAH!!! Yes, pleeeasse upload them! I love these cursors so much, and I was wondering why most of the ones in the preview weren't actually in the downloads. And then, one of the downloads was labeled: "Ergonomic arrow clear" I was really looking forward to using that, so I was slightly disappointed to find that they weren't actually "clear". I know you've stopped working on these, but it'd be pretty cool if you could add a "clear" or somewhat transparent set of cursors to the pack! I don't even know if that's possible, but it'd be EPIC! And even if you can't, I'm still looking forward to getting the rest of the ones you already have, THANKS!
I'm sorry about the confusion of the download name. My logic was compared to with shadows it is clear ๐
I'll see what I can do ;)
All right. Thanks! ๐๐
Hello. Just checking in to see if there are any updates to the pack...
Forgot to upload those cursors I made long ago which you can see on the page but, was not downloadable. I'm sorry, Went on updating the script for new features and totally forgot about it. ๐ง
What's new I made work for future pack:
Also I implemented a loop for creating new frames animation since the beginning. ๐๐ฌ