Editing the selection cursor

[spoon]

Does anyone know if it is possible to edit the selection cursor? (the little yellowish arrows that highlight what object (planet, sun, ship, etc) you have selected in the system map screen).

I see that there is a file called select.cur in the \Pictures\Game folder, but I'm not sure how to edit that file, or if that is actually the file that is used...

Thanks!

[TerranC]

It is possible. Fyron's Adamant mod does it. How, I'm not sure.

[Kevin Arisa]

It's not a mouse cursor.

Pictures\Game\Dialogs\selection.bmp

It is no different fromany other SE bitmap file. You can use paint or just about any other image editing program.

[Captain Kwok]

In the Pictures\Games directory you can find the default cursors the game uses. You can replace those either through a mod folder or just overwrite the default ones. John Beech of USY once made some nice cursors... not sure if there still Online somewhere.

[Captain Kwok]

Kevin Arisa said:
It's not a mouse cursor.

Pictures\Game\Dialogs\selection.bmp

It is no different fromany other SE bitmap file. You can use paint or just about any other image editing program.



It's actually a cursor file - but I'm sure there are freeware programs to edit those.

[Kevin Arisa]

I have the nice cursors. I think they are included in Eclipse Mod, but I can send them to someone for hosting seperatly if needed.

[Kevin Arisa]

spoon said:
Does anyone know if it is possible to edit the selection cursor? (the little yellowish arrows that highlight what object (planet, sun, ship, etc) you have selected in the system map screen).




The little yellow arrows that highlight your selected object is indeed a bitmap. I changed it for Eclipse to a silver box like image.

[Fyron]

Captain Kwok said:
In the Pictures\Games directory you can find the default cursors the game uses. You can replace those either through a mod folder or just overwrite the default ones. John Beech of USY once made some nice cursors... not sure if there still Online somewhere.

Are those the ones that were in the "Ultimate Mod?"

[spoon]

Kevin Arisa said:
Pictures\Game\Dialogs\selection.bmp



Thanks for the answer!

[Kevin Arisa]

no problem. glad i could help. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/cool.gif

[AngleWyrm]

Here's one I use that is much easier to spot on screen:

http://home.comcast.net/~anglewyrm/selection.jpg
It's a 4k 36x36 Windows bmp called Selection.bmp, and stored in your SEIV\Pictures\Game\Dialogs folder. bmp files don't seem to display in this forum, so the above is actually a jpg. Here is a Link to a bmp version (http://home.comcast.net/~anglewyrm/selection.bmp)

[Zaamon]

Forum does not dispaly .bmp files cause they are too big.