Mouse Cursors
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Mouse Cursors
Zas has sent me a patch that allows custom mouse cursors to be set in the game. I think it'd be cool if the mouse cursor changes sensitive to the context - an hourglass when waiting for the AI to move, a sword if moused over an enemy and clicking will attack, etc.
Would anyone like to volunteer to draw some cursors? Unfortunately they will have to be in black & white.
David
Would anyone like to volunteer to draw some cursors? Unfortunately they will have to be in black & white.
David
I think it can be any size, but the width must be a multiple of 8.
Zas has done one cursor in a patch he sent me which implements it: http://wesnoth.whitevine.net/files/game.cursor.patch
Yes, you can have black, white, and alpha (and inverse of the colour on screen, but I think that'd just look horrible).
You should also specify the 'hot point' (i.e. the tip of the cursor) for each cursor
It is kind of a shame that we can't do colour cursors, but I guess they just wouldn't be portable.
David
Zas has done one cursor in a patch he sent me which implements it: http://wesnoth.whitevine.net/files/game.cursor.patch
Yes, you can have black, white, and alpha (and inverse of the colour on screen, but I think that'd just look horrible).
You should also specify the 'hot point' (i.e. the tip of the cursor) for each cursor
It is kind of a shame that we can't do colour cursors, but I guess they just wouldn't be portable.
David
Colors can be added
By improving init_system_cursor()
i think we can have more colors.
i think we can have more colors.
Hi, I am new here... I have been addressed here from pixelation pixel-art board...
Well I'd suggest using a custom sprite to follow the mouse... keep the hardware cursor off with SDL_ShowCursor and keep track of mouse events to update a custom sprite to follow mouse position... it is quite easy to do and removes all limitations of 1 bit masked hardware cursors (we are doing it this way in Fenix Project, a general purpose 2D game scripting engine worked over SDL)
Well I'd suggest using a custom sprite to follow the mouse... keep the hardware cursor off with SDL_ShowCursor and keep track of mouse events to update a custom sprite to follow mouse position... it is quite easy to do and removes all limitations of 1 bit masked hardware cursors (we are doing it this way in Fenix Project, a general purpose 2D game scripting engine worked over SDL)
Thanks for your comments.Slainte wrote:Hi, I am new here... I have been addressed here from pixelation pixel-art board...
Well I'd suggest using a custom sprite to follow the mouse... keep the hardware cursor off with SDL_ShowCursor and keep track of mouse events to update a custom sprite to follow mouse position... it is quite easy to do and removes all limitations of 1 bit masked hardware cursors (we are doing it this way in Fenix Project, a general purpose 2D game scripting engine worked over SDL)
I have thought of this, however my main concern is that it'd likely be slower than the hardware mouse cursor. In particular, if the game is blocking due to the AI thinking etc, the mouse cursor wouldn't update.
This could be solved perhaps using threading, but I don't think it's worth adding threading for such a simple feature.
I may try this though, to see how it works out.
David