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Bob Todd
25th March 2002, 12:22 PM
I recently made a Feisar cursor, nicked from material off the WipEout disc using PSmplay. It looks dead good and goes with all the other WipEy stuff that I've got on my desktop.

I'd like to make a few more, and put them all in a bundle for download on WZ, but I'm stuck for ideas. What sort of WipEout-related cursors, either static or animated (but not too complex animations!) would you like to have? If there's a really good idea, or a large demand for one idea, I'll have a crack at it.

EDIT: This should give you an idea of what it looks like:
http://communities.msn.co.uk/_Secure/0LwDYGeQQ1pHNRFliUkopV04YqE0hMXC!7fmBnl*fEPq47l!lR Oh3R5Vjlg44nflkka4uo*DbwEg/preview.jpg
Eew, that's one fuzzy jpeg.

It says '.ani', but it's actually a static cursor. It's also 16-colour, but the software can make 256-colour ones too.

infoxicated
25th March 2002, 12:51 PM
I like it - really cool :)

I'd wouldn't mind seeing an AG systems one, or maybe different weapon symbols for the hold and drag cursors.

Maybe an explosion of some sort for the hour glass, or animated thrusters.

Let me know how you get on :D

Asimulant
25th March 2002, 04:04 PM
Lovely...

Real pretty!

Lance
25th March 2002, 06:22 PM
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i like the Feisar one. i would like to also see wo3's Pirhana and Icarus and AG-S, 2097's Piranha and AG-S, and Fusion's Xios and Piranha. yes i always want too much!

Wamdue
25th March 2002, 09:39 PM
very nice! id love to see the loading-thingy exchanged with an animated Curly

JABBERJAW
26th March 2002, 01:20 AM
That's pretty cool. You ever think of making prints for shirts? I bet you would have some interesting ideas.

Hyper Shadow
26th March 2002, 09:29 AM
I would definatly vote for an AG-5y5tems cursor

Bob Todd
26th March 2002, 09:31 AM
Right, looks like people want an AG-SYS one... I'll have a go at it during the next few days or so. :D

Angryman
26th March 2002, 12:23 PM
here are 2 that i made...
i think they look preety cooll.... they are of angryman and it flashes it's eyes, like the designers republic homepage:

download:

http://home.iprimus.com.au/starpet/angryman.ANI

and

http://home.iprimus.com.au/starpet/angrymanpoint.ANI

Bob Todd
26th March 2002, 01:45 PM
That's so cool! I'm going to use it as Working In Background.

I've been trying to make one of the evil smiley (the weapon stealer thingie from WipEout) winking its eye open and shut... but it just looks like its got a demented tic.

*looks for a good AG-SYS pic to use as a base*

Confusion
26th March 2002, 01:58 PM
I might just try my hand at making my own cursor..

jmoid
26th March 2002, 02:55 PM
the cursor is great. an animated curly would be cool.

vincoof
26th March 2002, 10:06 PM
Hey, that reminds me a cursor I've made ages ago for WO3-style Pirhana.

Hmmm I'll try to set it online.
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Darn, javascript error. I hate those ppl who called themselves experts and don't even know what building an html page means.

Sorry, anyway I can email the icon to anyone who wants.
It's not animated, it's not 32-bit coloured, and it's not really an icon (it's a gif file), but at least it's free ;)


Anna: best of luck for the Ag-s icon :)

Wiseman
27th March 2002, 04:54 AM
Hey those all look pretty cool!

I think I might use them on my laptop, that way everywhere I go, everyone will know what my favorite racing game is! :evil


And yes, I want an AG Sys. one too! :lol

Angryman
27th March 2002, 09:41 AM
thats the best i could do... looks pretty chiit!!

http://home.iprimus.com.au/starpet/curlygo.ANI

i also fixed up the DR Angryman giffs...
the eyes blink faster and the head is rounder...

Lance
27th March 2002, 02:31 PM
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vincoof, i'd like to have that one. the wip3out Pirhana was my first favourite ship, and stiLL one of my faves. [i like driving it in faster classes where i can't handle the Icarus; the agility of the Pirhana is great.] would you send it to me please?
^

vincoof
27th March 2002, 08:58 PM
Check
your
mail
box
please
:)

AmishRobot
28th March 2002, 12:22 PM
Nice one! Getting it to look three-dimensional in so few pixels is quite impressive. Is there anything special to do in making one, or is it just a bitmap? I'd like to take a shot at a Daniel Chang logo.

Lance
28th March 2002, 04:41 PM
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vincoof:
after i got home late last night, i checked email and there it was. thank. you. i downloaded the attachment, it looks like a pirhana, alright. the colours are good, bright enough to be visible on the webpages. i don't yet know what distinguishes Windows cursor files from others, but i will find out so i can use the custom cursor.
thanks.
^

vincoof
28th March 2002, 07:08 PM
Lance:
the only thing that a cursor has is the cursor point.
Cursors are most likely to point to the upper-left corner of its picture (like the famous arrow). For instance Anna's cursor points at the top-left.
But in fact you can let the cursor point anywhere. For instance the Hour glass cursor or the I-beam cursor (the cursor used to type something in a text field) points to the center of the picture.
For the picture I sent you, the cursor should point to the left of the picture.
Wow, I got all the explanations messed up ! :)

So what you have to do is :
1- download and install a cursor software (Anna uses cursordance, but I don't know which is the best though) and execute the app
2- create a new cursor and paste the picture I sent you
3- set the cursor point (eg left)
4- save the cursor file and exit the app
5- copy the file in the Windows cursor directory
6- change the Windows preferences in order to use you brand new cursor
That's it !
Maybe you'll have to restart Windows, but I'm not sure about that...

Lance
28th March 2002, 10:20 PM
!
aha, thanks for the info. i'm sure that cursordance do all that i need and more.
^

Pyro Annarchist
2nd April 2002, 07:44 PM
Yes, this is Pyro Annarchy... there are problems with my old account and I can't use it.

Here's an AG 5Y5 cursor... sorry it took so long.
http://www.angelfire.com/hi5/hyenawindustries/download/ag5y5_ship.cur

And the Feisar one I made earlier.
Static:
http://www.angelfire.com/hi5/hyenawindustries/download/feisar.cur
With animated thrusters:
http://www.angelfire.com/hi5/hyenawindustries/download/feisar_thrust.ani

The Gravity Stinger logo. Could make a good Precision Select cursor.
http://www.angelfire.com/hi5/hyenawindustries/download/gravstinger.cur

Tigron logo:
http://www.angelfire.com/hi5/hyenawindustries/download/tigron.cur

Download the lot:
http://www.angelfire.com/hi5/hyenawindustries/download/cursors.zip

Lance
2nd April 2002, 08:15 PM
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angelfire doesn't allow direct download anna. we have to go to your site first and access the dls through an index page there.

;) you spelled temperance right this time. and now the nick refers to you personally instead of a political outlook. :)

^

Pyro Annarchist
2nd April 2002, 08:39 PM
:D :D :D

Okay, try here:
http://www.angelfire.com/hi5/hyenawindustries/download/index.html

Don't know why there's a line break in the middle of it; I didn't put it there.

Wiseman
3rd April 2002, 05:21 AM
Actually, you kinda did put the line break there, but by accident.

On this line,


<a href="http&#58;//www.angelfire.com/hi5/hyenawindustries/download/gravstinger.cur"Gravity Stinger</a>


You forgot the > after ' gravstinger.cur" '.

So it's not reading the link, just the br tag at the end.

Pyro Annarchist
3rd April 2002, 08:39 AM
Ah, thanks. Is fixed now. :)

exarkann
6th December 2005, 02:06 AM
any chance of someone re hosting these? i didnt join up that long ago..

username
6th December 2005, 06:31 PM
can someone help, apparently i am un autherised to view the page ( i am talking about the dr angryman curser ) (i think that it would look good on my computer) i cant seem to access the others either ( error 404)

Lance
6th December 2005, 08:32 PM
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sometimes one gets the 'unauthorised' message when all that's really happening is that the server is busy
.

username
9th December 2005, 08:11 PM
still cant seem to access it. i shall try again late tonight, then not so many people might be on it