Customizable Mouse Pointers

[DarkThoughts]

I sometimes lose track of my mouse pointer in the heat of battle and would greatly appreciate an option to help make it easier to track on screen. This could be as simple as making it larger or changing the colors to adding effects such as animated flames encircling it.

[Ghoste]

I sometimes lose track of my mouse pointer in the heat of battle and would greatly appreciate an option to help make it easier to track on screen. This could be as simple as making it larger or changing the colors to adding effects such as animated flames encircling it.

It's been a while since I've looked through all the files they gave us in the ui skin package. I seem to recall that there was one for the combat reticule (while in mouse look mode). If there were a graphic in there though for the mouse pointer, that could easily be edited with a photo editing program. That might be a good place for you to start looking though.

[DarkThoughts]

After I read your reply, I thought "Of course. That would be simple enough."

Then I began researching the matter which led me to the custom skins downloads. I have never worked with custom skins before but have downloaded and installed "Fade2Black" successfully. Still, I cannot find the correct file to modify the pointer image. I've looked at many of the files within the folder seeking out anything that might be related to the pointer graphic but haven't had any luck.

Does anybody know what the file name would be that I use to modify the pointer image?

[ahpook]

As a workaround:

In my mouse properties of my Windows OS there is a Tab called pointer options. At the bottom is an option called "Show location of pointer when I press the control key". I turn that on and I get a circle blip when ever I release the ctrl key. I thought it would be distracting but I find it very convenient to relocate my cursor. It does blip quickly and you can miss it if you are moving quickly or the screen is very dynamic.

[DarkThoughts]

As a workaround:

In my mouse properties of my Windows OS there is a Tab called pointer options. At the bottom is an option called "Show location of pointer when I press the control key". I turn that on and I get a circle blip when ever I release the ctrl key. I thought it would be distracting but I find it very convenient to relocate my cursor. It does blip quickly and you can miss it if you are moving quickly or the screen is very dynamic.

Thanks for the tip. I will use that until I can locate the correct file to modify.

I'm wondering if Turbine might have some future plans for the mouse options though. I feel like I should have been able to locate the pointer graphic at this point and the only thing I've found is an image of a computer mouse with red/blue buttons in the folder. There is also a lot of empty space in the mouse panel of the options section that I would hope to see better utilized in a future patch.