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  • 0. Blue: WoW Cursor help   04/16/2008 03:16:55 PM PDT
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I'm having great difficulty seeing the hand/pointing finger icon during graphically busy fights. Is there any way I can change the color or the brightness of the pointer icon so it contrasts much more versus the surrounding graphics on screen?

I have my graphics set so it's pretty vivid and colorful as it is to compensate for my crappy eye sight, and I don't have a problem with this when I'm out soloing around or in 5 mans when there aren't a lot of people standing around or AOE going on, it's just when the screen is real busy. During those times I can't find where my pointer is at and end up losing people because I can't click on the raid box to heal them.

If there is some way to make the thing stand out better I can find it faster and all will be well. HALP! please.

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  • 1. Re: Blue: WoW Cursor help   04/17/2008 01:23:49 PM PDT
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Can I get a blue to maybe post an answer to this question?
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  • 2. Re: Blue: WoW Cursor help   04/17/2008 01:32:23 PM PDT
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Hello Nethermind,

Unfortunately there is no default option for such a feature; however, there may be an AddOn that can adjust this. I would encourage you to post in our UI & Macros Forum at the link below to inquire about this.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/board.html?sid=1&forumId=11114

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  • 3. Re: Blue: WoW Cursor help   04/17/2008 01:40:16 PM PDT
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This question has come up before, but I dont remember the answer offhand.

While it's not easy (possible?) to replace the in-world cursor, it is very possible to have a brightly colored visible indicator follow it around to give the effect of a different cursor.


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  • 4. Re: Blue: WoW Cursor help   04/17/2008 01:46:40 PM PDT
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i'm not aware of any specific "high contrast" or "big" cursors, but you can modify the cursor by creating the path/file

World of Warcraft/Interface/Cursor/Point.blp

note: *not* /interface/addons/...

http://www.curse.com/downloads/details/10797/

has some samples

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http://wowinterface.com/downloads/info8369-GroupOMatic.html - Group O Matic
http://www.curse.com/downloads/details/7689/ - Misdirection Helper
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  • 5. Re: Blue: WoW Cursor help   04/17/2008 05:04:05 PM PDT
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I wrote an addon a while back for a player who was partially blind.

http://cyberartist.shackspace.com/wow/CursorGlow.1.3.20400.zip

Adds a big glowing circle around your cursor. Shows up when you hold down CTRL or move the mouse.

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  • 6. Re: Blue: WoW Cursor help   06/05/2008 01:54:56 PM PDT
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Q u o t e:
I wrote an addon a while back for a player who was partially blind.

http://cyberartist.shackspace.com/wow/CursorGlow.1.3.20400.zip

Adds a big glowing circle around your cursor. Shows up when you hold down CTRL or move the mouse.


Thank you soooo much. This is exactly what I've been looking for. I didn't want a huge cursor....just something to let me know where the dang thing was when everything started flashing all over my screen during a fight. Excellent job!
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  • 7. Re: Blue: WoW Cursor help   04/07/2009 06:05:33 PM PDT
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I just want to greatly thank you for making this cursor modification for those who have some visual impairment. You make the game fun !
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  • 8. Re: Blue: WoW Cursor help   04/07/2009 06:43:26 PM PDT
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Ugh, old thread bumps...


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  • 9. Re: Blue: WoW Cursor help   04/07/2009 08:55:14 PM PDT
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http://sites.google.com/site/wowsaiket/Add-Ons/Cursor
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  • 10. Re: Blue: WoW Cursor help   04/15/2009 01:39:55 PM PDT
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used to have an undead hand as my curor that seems to have been broken in 3.1...Is there a mod out there or a new way of changing the cursor skin?
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  • Runetotem
  • 11. Re: Blue: WoW Cursor help   04/17/2009 05:11:14 PM PDT
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bump for any info would be appreciated. the default mouse pointer icon as-is is too difficult to use.
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  • 12. Re: Blue: WoW Cursor help   04/17/2009 05:22:19 PM PDT
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Also, something I use because I have an eye problem, scar tissue on my left pupil, under vista options, I think under control panel, you can set it up to when you press Ctrl, it makes a circle flash around the mouse icon or pointer.

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  • 13. Re: Blue: WoW Cursor help   04/17/2009 06:28:57 PM PDT
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This old post seems relevant since people can't override the pointer graphics anymore since 3.1. One thing you could try is using a cursor trail to follow your mouse around; The addon _Cursor at http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info10531-_Cursor.html works well and is quite configurable.
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  • 14. Re: Blue: WoW Cursor help   12/26/2009 05:00:29 PM PST
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Q u o t e:
I wrote an addon a while back for a player who was partially blind.

http://cyberartist.shackspace.com/wow/CursorGlow.1.3.20400.zip

Adds a big glowing circle around your cursor. Shows up when you hold down CTRL or move the mouse.


It's a good idea, and I've been using it for a while now, but I play in a very high resolution (1920x1080) and it's still very hard to see in graphically overwhelming fights. Would it be possible to add the option to make the circle bigger, thicker, and always on and glowing? Thanks in advance.
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