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So, animated cursors are a little trickier because there isn't a reliable .cur to .ani (animated cursor) converter. You'll need to download an old program to get what you want.
But it IS possible! And just as customizable.
Part 1
Let's say I want my mouse to be Furret. First I need a gif with a transparent background.
(If you want to make your own gif instead, you need a series of .png files, then to upload them on this website here and customize what kind of timing you want.)
This gif is definitely WAY too big to become a proper mouse. So we need to shrink it down. Upload or paste the link in here, then figure out what size you want.
When you're ready to test it, go ahead and click "Resize Image!"
You'll want to pay attention to that file size there. At MAX, you never want to go over 60KiB.
So we have our tiny Furret. What now?
You see all those icons underneath the preview?
You want to click this one.
Then hit "Split into frames!" here. Don't worry about the "Split options" box, it won't really impact the end result for what we're going for here.
Ta-da! You now have every frame of your gif ready. Click "Download frames as ZIP, then once you have the Zip file, extract the files into a normal folder.
Part 2
Part 2 of this, turning those frames into a .ani file, is slightly less straightforward if you're going in blind.
You'll need to download and install AniTuner. It's free and safe, but it also looks and acts straight out of Windows 2007, so be warned.
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Once you have AniTuner installed, go ahead and open it up.
You'll get a window open that looks like this:
Go ahead and click "Create a new animated cursor."
Now we get to the cursor creation stage. You can pick out a name for it and give it your author signature if you want to, but for now, we're just going to be working on the gif part of it. Click on "Edit Cursor Frames" on the left hand size.
Hit "Import image(s)," go to that folder with the gif frames, and press Ctrl + A to select them all. Don't worry about whatever file names they have, they're in the right order.
Ignore everything here. You don't need to mess with it unless you're further editing the image. Just make sure your background color is something you can stand seeing a few pixels of and that "Set the color as transparent" is checked, and you're good to go.
Unless your image was 32 x 32, you'll get this box. I'm going to hit "Resize Image to fit the new size," that way it doesn't cut off any bits of the cursor, but this is up to you. Check "Don't ask me again," then hit "OK."
Now's the slightly obnoxious part. It wants to ask you to adjust things for every frame.
You can hold down the enter button to blow through them, or you can button mash the "OK" button, doesn't matter. Just know that however many frames you put in, that's the number it's going to ask you to do this. So if you're compressing the entire Morbius movie, you've been warned.
If your file explorer pops up, you hit "Enter" one too many times and it thinks you pressed "Import Image(s)" again. Just X out of the file explorer and ignore it.
Now your window should look like this:
Right click that blank "Frame 1" and hit "Delete Frame(s)," otherwise you'll have a single flicker of nothing in your cursor.
Next you want to click "Set Length" down in the bottom right.
This is how many 1/100ths of a second each frame is going to last before it switches to the next. 10 makes a really slow Furret:
While 2 makes a fast one:
If you want to know the timing your original gif was set to, go to the folder your frames are saved to. All the frames will be named something like frame_00_delay-0.03s.
That last bit is the timing. "0.03s" means "3 jiffies," "0.12s" means "12 jiffies," etc.
Once you've decided how fast you want it, go ahead back to "Cursor Properties."
Ignore the Cursor Preview in the bottom left, it runs slower than your mouse will.
Now you want to choose your "hotspot." This is the part of the image that your computer expects you to use as the point you click with. You can set that manually with numbers, OR you can click somewhere on the image next to it to set it with crosshairs. So if I want it to be Furret's nose that clicks on things, I would click there.
You can test your timings, hotspots, etc with the "Test Cursor" button. Click it once to turn on your new cursor, then again to turn it off. If you somehow lose your mouse, just press "s" to get your old one back.
Pick your title and click "Save Animated Cursor..." on the left hand toolbar, then save it and close the program.
Congrats! You've just made a .ani file.
From there, treat it just like I did the Skyrim cursor in the first tutorial—go to "Control Panel," then "Mouse," "Pointers," click the cursor you want to replace, "Browse..." then find your file.
And there you have it! One animated cursor of whatever you want.
So in simple terms, the reason it reverts is because whenever your computer boots up, it tries to pull the cursor you made from its cursor directory. Failing to find one, it's like "well, guess I've gotta use something else" and grabs its default again.
To fix this, you just need to put your .cur or .ani into the file that has all the other cursors in it.
Open your file explorer and go to "This PC."
Pick out your local disk drive—it'll be the one with the memory bar displayed—and go into it.
Navigate down to the "Windows" file
Find "Cursors"
And there you go! This is where you want to save your files to make them permanent.
If you plan on making a lot of cursors, I recommend pinning it to Quick Access with this button:
This'll make it pin itself to the sidebar, so you can just drag things over to it instead of having to hunt it down each time.
After listening to the Kill Every Monster episode about mimics, the idea of adorable baby mimics as coins kept bouncing around in my head and I had to doodle it.
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