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Title: Colored Mouse Cursor
Post by: SpinDoc1 on January 20, 2003, 08:26:01 PM

Hello,

A while back I found a red mouse cursor someone had made. Tonight I experimented with my own and I made a blue fade design. I couldn't use the existing AH cursor, as it would only allow grayscale, but I made a new one of exactly the same size, and I even included the magenta background. AH didn't start!!! It started to load and then the screen went black and I'm left on my desktop. Is there anything I need to do to make a custom cursor? I made a custom background a while back and it never had this sort of problem. thanks!

Title: Colored Mouse Cursor
Post by: MaddogJoe on January 21, 2003, 03:15:03 PM

in most cases that I have the "crash" its because I've forgotten to drop the color count back down to 256 before saveing the file. Other than that, your on your own  :)

Maddog Joe

(http://webpages.charter.net/maddogjoe/444th3.jpg)

Title: Colored Mouse Cursor
Post by: SpinDoc1 on January 27, 2003, 11:12:14 PM

Maddog, how do you drop the colors to 256 in Paint? I used the custom colors to create a neat effect with blue fade, but couldn't find any 256 option. Thanks in advance!

Title: Colored Mouse Cursor
Post by: Innominate on January 28, 2003, 12:11:14 AM

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Originally posted by DaLadyzMon
Maddog, how do you drop the colors to 256 in Paint? I used the custom colors to create a neat effect with blue fade, but couldn't find any 256 option. Thanks in advance!

Dont use paint for it, use a real image editor to convert it, they will dither and make things look reasonably decent.

Title: Colored Mouse Cursor
Post by: dracon on February 03, 2003, 12:14:13 PM

Hmmmm........ Colored cursor?  Cool.  I could use one and also something other than a SILVER plane to mark my location on the Map.

Are either or both available somewhere for download?

Thanks for the info,
Dracon

Title: Colored Mouse Cursor
Post by: skernsk on March 04, 2003, 02:58:11 PM

 

Can anybody who made a different cursor please attach the file here for d/l?

Thanks

Title: Colored Mouse Cursor
Post by: MaddogJoe on March 04, 2003, 05:45:56 PM

here's one that"kinda" looks like a plane  :)

Maddog Joe



(http://webpages.charter.net/maddogjoe/444th3.jpg)

Title: Colored Mouse Cursor
Post by: dracon on March 06, 2003, 12:09:21 PM

Thanks maddog:)
Dracon

Title: Colored Mouse Cursor
Post by: MaddogJoe on March 06, 2003, 04:02:12 PM

np !  :)  I always have trougle adding color, because you have to return your finished pic down to 256 colrs.... otherwise the game crashes when you launch the "new" item, and that "pink" background is the color you need for it to be transparent, not one shade lighter or darker.

When I get some time, I'll try a few more  :)

Maddog Joe

(http://webpages.charter.net/maddogjoe/444th3.jpg)