Changing the hot spot of cursors

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So far as I can tell, nothing I change in the INI file for a modded set of cursors actually has any effect.  The cursors themselves definitely work (they're basically flipped horizontally for a left-handed user) but changing the hot spot to x: 31 and x2: 31, doesn't.  So, the cursor highlights and clicks things as though it were still a right-handed cursor.

Also, it doesn't seem possible to throw the modded cursors in My Documents/My Games/GC2TwilightArnor/ and have them work either.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Also, it doesn't seem possible to throw the modded cursors in My Documents/My Games/GC2TwilightArnor/ and have them work either.
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You need to give your new cursor the exact same name as the default cursor, and put it in the exact same folder for it to work.

So far as I can tell, nothing I change in the INI file for a modded set of cursors actually has any effect. The cursors themselves definitely work (they're basically flipped horizontally for a left-handed user) but changing the hot spot to x: 31 and x2: 31, doesn't. So, the cursor highlights and clicks things as though it were still a right-handed cursor.
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Although I am not a complete expert on this sort of thing,it seems to me as though it is not possible to change the hotspot of cursors. I will need to look at the INI file again, since I don't do much modding in that area.

Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

When I put the cursors in, I made sure that I was using the same folder structure as the game directory uses.  That didn't work though, I had to backup the cursors in the game directory and put the left-handed ones in before I saw a difference.

It looks as though the INI file is not actually intended for use by GalCiv 2, so I guess that unless a left-handed cursor were supported in code, it wouldn't have any effect.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

       This is really wierd. I'm going to mess around with cursors myself and see what happens when I change them.

Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

    After running some experiments with images that happened to be lying around on my desktop, I came to the same conclusion as you that the cursors are not really "meant" to be modded. As for the left-handed cursors, you're right that the INI file was not really meant for Gal Civ and that left-handed cursors need to be supported in code. Over all, it doesn't look that good if you want to mod cursors. I would recommend just what yo're doing, namely backing up the original and replacing (sp?) the actual file.