Description
CursorGlow is an immersive, highly customizable addon designed to enhance your World of Warcraft gameplay by adding dynamic visual effects to your cursor. This addon brings life to your cursor with various glowing textures and colors that can be adjusted to match your character or your mood.
Key Features:
✨ **Tail Effect**
Add a mesmerizing tail to your cursor that dynamically follows your movements, creating a stunning visual trail as you navigate the World of Warcraft universe.
Customize the number of tails, their length, spacing, texture, and color to make it uniquely yours!
Tail segments fade smoothly over time without resetting, providing a seamless and dynamic experience.
🎨 **10 Unique Tail Styles**
Choose from **10 different tail effects** for your cursor:
**Classic Trail** – A smooth, elegant trail.
**Sparkle** – Fading, shrinking, scattered sparkles.
**Wobble** – Tail segments wobble as they fade.
**Burst** – Fast-fading, scattered burst particles.
**Rainbow** – A vibrant, color-cycling rainbow trail.
**Comet** – Comet-like tail that shrinks and fades rapidly.
**Pulse** – Tail gently pulses in size for a magical glow.
**Twist** – Spiraling, twisting tail segments.
**Wave** – Tail animates in a wave pattern.
**Bounce** – Bouncing motion for lively movement.
✨ **Stationary Sparkles** (New)
Small, short-lived sparkles are emitted while the cursor is stationary to add subtle, elegant visual feedback.
Starts after a short idle interval (configurable).
Emits repeatedly while the cursor remains still and stops immediately when movement is detected.
Uses a pooled set of UI frames/textures for low-overhead rendering.
Enable Sparkles While Idle — toggle sparkles on/off.
Sparkle Color — independent color picker for sparkles.
Sparkle Interval (s) — time between emission ticks.
Sparkles Per Tick — how many sparkles spawn each emission.
Pool Size — number of sparkle frames kept in the pool (density/perf).
Min/Max Size (px), Offset (px), Lifetime (s) and Sparkle Texture.
Dim Main Texture While Sparkling — optionally lower the main glow’s alpha so sparkles stand out.
🌍 **Global Profile Option**
Easily apply the same settings across all your characters with the global profile feature, saving you time and ensuring a consistent experience without the need to reconfigure for each character.
🌌 **Wide Variety of Textures**
Choose from over 20 unique textures, including rings, stars, bursts, and more, to match your personal style and preferences.
🌈 **Customizable Colors and Class Colors**
Personalize your cursor glow with a spectrum of colors, including WoW class colors—or use the full color picker to select ANY RGB color you want.
Align it with your character’s class or pick a hue that matches your aesthetic.
♻️ **Colorblind / Accessibility Mode** (New)
Built-in accessibility options to make CursorGlow usable for players with color-vision deficiencies.
Modes included:
None (off)
Protanopia (red-weak)
Deuteranopia (green-weak)
Tritanopia (blue-weak)
Achromatopsia (grayscale)
High Contrast (maps colors to selectable light/dark tones)
When enabled, color transforms are applied consistently to the main texture, tail textures, sparkles, and explosion particles.
Sparkle-specific colors are transformed as well (picker is respected before transformation).
Enable Colorblind Mode — toggle transforms on/off.
Colorblind Mode — select the preset transform.
High-Contrast Threshold — adjust luminance cutoff for light/dark mapping.
High-contrast light/dark presets available via profile keys.
🔄 **Rotation Effect**
Give your cursor extra flair with the **Rotation Effect**.
Enable rotation to make the cursor glow spin smoothly.
Adjust the rotation speed to suit your taste.
Works in all modes (including "Always Show on Cursor").
🪩 **Bounce Effect**
Add a playful touch with the **Bounce Effect**.
Enable bounce for an up-and-down motion of your cursor glow.
Customize bounce amplitude (height) and speed (cycles per second).
Compatible with other effects for maximum customization.
⚡ **Dynamic Size Adjustment**
The addon adjusts the cursor glow size based on your movement speed, making the effect more prominent during rapid motions for an immersive experience.
🛡️ **Combat Mode Specificity**
Configure CursorGlow to activate only during combat, always, or just on your cursor.
You have full control over when the effects appear.
🖥️ **Performance & Compatibility Controls**
**Low CPU Mode:** Reduce update frequency and tail length for improved performance on older computers or during raids.
**Auto-disable in Raid/Party:** CursorGlow can automatically disable itself or switch to low CPU mode when you join a group.
**Auto-disable on Low FPS:** Automatically disables or optimizes the addon if your framerate drops below a customizable threshold.
🟩 **Static Size Option**
Keep your cursor glow at a fixed, maximum size at all times.
Disables dynamic size changes and pulse animation for a consistent, bold cursor appearance.
💥 **Explosion Effect**
Trigger an explosive effect around the cursor on left-click, complete with customizable colors, sizes, and textures for a dynamic and exciting visual flair.
✨ **Pulse Effect**
The Pulse Effect animates your stationary cursor with a gentle pulsing glow, adding a touch of magic and liveliness to your UI.
Customize the size and speed to make the effect your own.
😴 **Idle Indicator ("ZZZ")**
A floating ZZZ appears above your cursor when you're idle—never lose track of your cursor again!
This feature can be toggled and now persists reliably between sessions.
🔧 **Easy Configuration**
Comes with an intuitive configuration menu integrated into the WoW interface, allowing you to tweak settings with ease—no commands required.
Setup is simple and user-friendly!
Added Locales:
enUS - English
esES - Spanish (Spain)
esMX - Spanish (Mexico)
frFR - French
zhCN - Chinese (Simplified) (Chinese)
zhTW - Chinese (Traditional) (Taiwan)
deDE - German
itIT - Italian
koKR- Korean (South Korean)
ruRU-Russian
ukUA - Ukrainian
Elevate your gaming experience with CursorGlow - because even a cursor deserves to shine!
Known Issues:
- None reported for this release. Please report any issues you encounter for future improvements.
Contributors:
- Special thanks to EKE00372 for translating the addon into Traditional Chinese (zhTW) and Simplified Chinese (zhCN). Your efforts help make this addon accessible to a wider audience across the Chinese-speaking community.
FYI...it does work in Cataclysm