mouse pointer hiding in plain sight

Thank you SO MUCH for these.

CoH is a game of absolute visual chaos, especially in incarnate trials. Since I prefer to run in mouselook mode, with a button to toggle in and out, I'm constantly losing my cursor -- which means when I need to go click on something or place down a location AOE, I get completely lost. This will help a lot!

I use window scale as without it I can't see my power trays/chat tab easily (23" Monitor). I'd like it if the mouse pointer re sized with my window scale.

Oh, and a separate Sound FX setting for glowie/interface SFX would nice.

(This is largely a suggestion for the devs. Thanks Ruff.)

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Originally Posted by Shubbie Im very good at taking a problem and making it worse.

Agreed, thank you very much. The cursors are a big improvement.

They make the -compatiblecursors bearable! shame this is buried in all the mouse cursor problems.

Don't look at this as thread necromancy, look at it as a wakie inspiration!

Recently I've heard more complaints in the game about mouse cursors "hiding in plain sight," and it made me grateful for having Ruff-n-Buff's solution; but it made me realize that many people probably aren't aware a solution exists. As Christmas approaches and heroes and villains upgrade their computers and monitors, mouse cursors will get lost on bigger displays featuring better special effects. The larger mouse cursor mod has saved me a lot of frustration, and continues to save my characters butts, play session after play session.

So to prevent anyone having to dig around, I'll collect all of Buff's mods in one post, in reverse chronological order. His most recent (and probably most helpful) mod is listed first.

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Originally Posted by Ruff_Tuff_n_Buff I know it's been a long time coming, but I have good news for you all: You wanted larger cursors? Now you can have them! Preview: Download: http://bit.ly/q2wA3T Installation: Extract the zip to your CoX folder with the suggested path. If the folders do not exist, you must create them. Fear not! This will not alter your actual CoX installation (like Vidiot Maps). Exit the game, relaunch. 32-bit Windows: C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\data\texture_library\GUI\Cursors\ 64-bit Windows: C:\Program Files (x86)\City of Heroes\data\texture_library\GUI\Cursors\ Enjoy! Changelog: July 16th 2011 - Softened gradient found in black pointers. - Slightly altered the hues of mouseover pointers. - Added anti-aliasing to Hourglass cursor. - Added shadow to Hourglass cursor. - Added preview image and installation instructions to zip.

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Originally Posted by Ruff_Tuff_n_Buff I have an update on cursor customization, with some new cursors. Preview: Download: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/120706/cox_cursors2.zip Installation: Extract the zip to your CoX folder with the suggested path. If the folders do not exist, you must create them. Fear not! This will not alter your actual CoX installation (like Vidiot Maps). Exit the game, relaunch. The files should be about 5.5 KB. Personally, I use Winrar. 32-bit Windows: C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\data\texture_library\GUI\Cursors\ 64-bit Windows: C:\Program Files (x86)\City of Heroes\data\texture_library\GUI\Cursors\ The zip contains: cursor_hand_open.texture cursor_hand_closed.texture cursor_point.texture cursor_select_enemy.texture cursor_friendly.texture cursor_select.texture cursor_win_diagresize_backward.texture cursor_win_diagresize_foreward.texture cursor_win_horizresize.texture cursor_win_vertresize.texture

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Originally Posted by Ruff_Tuff_n_Buff OKAY! Until the developers acknowledge the accessibilty problem, I have created replacement cursors. Preview: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/120706/cursor-sample.png Download: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/120706/cox_cursors.zip Installation: Place the contents of the zip in your CoX folder with the suggested path. If the folders do not exist, you must create them. Fear not! This will not alter your actual CoX installation (like Vidiot Maps). Exit the game, relaunch. 32-bit Windows: C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\data\texture_library\GUI\Cursors\ 64-bit Windows: C:\Program Files (x86)\City of Heroes\data\texture_library\GUI\Cursors\ The zip contains: cursor_hand_open.texture cursor_hand_closed.texture cursor_point.texture cursor_select_enemy.texture cursor_friendly.texture cursor_select.texture Junk info: If you want all your cursors identical (bit for bit), I am sorry. The game has some bizarre checks in place to prevent this. It will even give a warning that having them the same is bad for your health and then refuse to launch. If you change even ONE pixel, it's good to go. Yeah, I don't know, either. The game APPEARS to expect a certain file size for cursors and will just truncate any data beyond that, so, this is why the pointers are relatively small. If I figure out how to make them bigger, I will let everyone know.

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Originally Posted by Ruff_Tuff_n_Buff Good idea! Here we go: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/group.php?groupid=190

Someone finally joined your club!

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger Thanks Ruff_Tuff_and_Buff for your contribution to the Community in this regard . I've also forwarded this concern along to the development team for consideration as a "Quality of Life" improvement. Thanks! - Z

Zwillinger, something this practical ought to be included with the game. Would you consider running it by the dev team a second time?

It is not just larger, but a different color than the default cursor.

I haven't lost my cursor at all since installing it.

I've found in recent years that I can't track bright flashy motions as well anymore, and the little details get lost in the shiny blob. Being one of those little details, my mouse pointer is often a casualty. I guess you can't stare at bright flashy motions for years without screwing your eyesight at least a little (Doc says I'm 20/20 though, must be my brain that's getting old).

I, too, "lose" the cursor sometimes when things get hectic, so I may try the suggestions above.

On a similar topic, does anyone else have troubles clicking on NPCs sometimes? Whether contacts, merchants, civilians, or guards at hazard zones, I often find that -- despite my cursor being right on top of them -- I don't get the targeting box, and I have to move around on various parts of their body before I find the right hot spot and the character becomes clickable. Hazard zone guards are notorious for requiring that I click them below the belt, literally.

Sometimes it seems like I'm playing some sort of adult MMO instead of this teen-friendly game. :-)

I also suffer from Sudden Unexpected Cursor-loss

I've not proved it yet but I am sure there is something in the latest configuration of the game/Windows that causes the mouse to jump position, probably to the centre of the screen.

However I do use these custom cursors and they most definitely help

I just wanna say that these cursors are AWESOME and I never lost mine again, plus despite me thinking that I didn't need bigger cursors, they do help! Plus they are more beautiful and self explanatory (like when they change to a hand or a double arrow to resize a window) than the regular ones.

(the thing I said that part of the arrow was cut only happened the first time I tested it)

Sir Ruff_Tuff_n_Buff, I am in your debt.

I may be late to the party for these.. but THANK YOU!

It happens to me all the time. It is worse for me for two reasosn:

#1: I'm two steps from legally blind, with vision so bad that glasses can't correct it further than 20/40

#2: Sometimes I'll play the game on my HD television, and doing so gives me two screens: my computer monitor and then the screen on the television. The mouse can get lost in any of them, and sometimes this will lead to an extensive search just to find the darn thing.

Thanks for the new things dude. ill give it a try