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Description
Have you ever had a hard time finding your cursor when a battle gets crazy? CursorTrail uses a built-in, animated model to produce a glowing effect around the cursor and a bright trail when the mouse is moved.
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Options
The options window can be opened from the standard addons window, or by typing /CursorTrail or /ct. Settings are saved separately for each of your WoW characters, so your tank (for example) can have a different cursor effect than your dps characters.
Model: A list of cursor effects to choose from.
Scale %: Controls the size of the effect. Can be 1 - 999.
Offsets: Moves the center of the effect. The first number box moves it horizontally (negative numbers move left, positive move right). The second number box moves it vertically (negative numbers move down, positive move up).
Opacity %: Controls how intense the effect is. 100% is brightest, while 0% is invisible.
Strata: Controls whether the trail effect is drawn behind or in front of other UI objects. ("Background" is the bottom-most drawing layer, and "Tooltip" is the top-most.)
Fade out when idle: When on, the cursor effect fades out when the mouse stops moving.
Show only in combat: When on, the cursor effect will only appear during combat.
Show during Mouse Look: When on, the cursor effect will remain visible while using the mouse to look around.
Defaults: The default buttons each have a different set of preset values. You can use them as-is, or as a starting point for your own effect.
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Screenshots: www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/cursortrail/screenshots
Note: A list of available slash commands can be seen by typing /ct help.
Note: Profiles can be saved and loaded using slash commands:
/ct save <profile name>
/ct load <profile name>
/ct delete <profile name>
/ct list
Note: If the cursor trail effect unexpectedly disappears, you can quickly get it back by typing the slash command, /ct reload.
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Great addon, exactly what I was after.
There seems to be an issue tied to Vulpera's "Return to Camp" spell.
When ever I use it the cursor starts behaving like "Show only in combat" is unticked when it is fact ticked.
To fix I need to go into the settings untick the box and re-tick and that resolves it.
It only happens on my 2 Vulpera and only when I use return to camp and for both it is set in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms.
I am using "Spots - Pulsing, Holy" and all 3 options are ticked. Everything else is default.
EDIT, seems to be tied to the vale itself. I just got up to that stage in 8.3 intro and it happened on another toon
In reply to Testvonfarkle:
Ugh, this could be a tricky one to track down. Is it possible you were abnormally stuck in combat around the time the cursor trail got stuck "on"?
In the meantime, you could make a macro (/macro) with the following lines and drag the macro icon to your toolbar for restoring things back to normal with a single press.
/ct combat
/ct combat
Note: If those lines don't work, try ...
/ct reload
This seems to have the same problem the original addon did for ultra wide screen monitors. The cursor trail position relative to the wow cursor changes based on screen position i.e. the further off to the left or right of the screen your mouse it the larger the difference between cursor trail and mouse cursor becomes.
In reply to Th4n45:
Are you running an addon that changes the size of the view port (adds banners/strips to the sides of the screen)? Those type of addons typically cause mouse tracking problems for CursorTrail.
Version 8.3.0.2 is now available!
Changes:
- Fixed the ugly, bright-green background in dropdown menus. This was caused by a bug, and occurred if you did not use the MikScrollingBattleText addon. Background color always should be black now. (Thanks to Pnash for investigating and bringing this to my attention.)
I don't use MSBT, resulting in a green missing texture in the dropdown menu background.
Missing Texture Screenshot:
https://i.imgur.com/CNxQE47.png
CursorTrailControls.lua line 1601:
bgFile = "Interface\\Addons\\MSBTOptions\\Artwork\\PlainBackdrop"
FIX: change "Interface\\Addons\\MSBTOptions\\Artwork\\PlainBackdrop" to "interface\\dialogframe\\ui-dialogbox-background"
Code Screenshot:
https://i.imgur.com/vsD6Sfn.jpg
Possible other texture errors CursorTrailControls.lua lines 1066-1068:
button:SetNormalTexture("Interface\\Addons\\MSBTOptions\\Artwork\\" .. buttonType .. "Icon")
button:SetDisabledTexture("Interface\\Addons\\MSBTOptions\\Artwork\\" .. buttonType .. "IconDisable")
button:SetHighlightTexture("Interface\\Addons\\MSBTOptions\\Artwork\\" .. buttonType .. "IconHighlight")
Code Screenshot:
https://i.imgur.com/qUCJwp6.jpg
In reply to Pnash:
This should be fixed now in CursorTrail 8.3.0.2.
Thanks for your help. :)
In reply to UppyDan:
Happy to help, thanks for your hard work =)
Version 8.3.0.1 is now available!
Changes:
- Updated for WoW 8.3.0.1.
New Features:
- Added "Show during Mouse Look" option. When on, the cursor effect will remain visible while using the mouse to look around.
Hi! Nice addon, I am using it for a long time (more than a year) for not loosing my cursor in raids. Just one thing i don't like is that it hides effect when right mouse button is pressed (mouse look mode). Sometimes i hold it pretty long and then I still loosing cursor position. I do some editing of OnUpdate callback function every time it updates to remove this behaviour, but maybe you will want to add this as option? Thanks!
In reply to Smishleniy:
Yep, that is the top request made, so I will try to add it in whenever I have to make changes again.
UPDATE: I was able to add a new checkbox for this feature to the release I just made for WoW 8.3.0.1.
In reply to UppyDan:
Nice, thank you!
Hey, can you make working this addon for WoW Classic?
I dont find an addon like this for classic, the CursorTrail_7.2.5.4 File works,but not realy, i can see the lightning, but
not directly on the mouse.
Sry for my english
:)
In reply to Re3n_:
It's not looking good for me to create a version for WoW classic. There are big differences in how WoW drew models (the trail effects), and it's hard for me to make time to maintain the current version. Interesting though, that 7.2.5.4 works at all in WoW classic. Have you tried CursorTrail_7.2.5.1 ? That version has a good chance to follow your mouse properly.
Good English by the way. Much better than my second language ... none! ;)
In reply to Re3n_:
In reply to Re3n_:
... Also, have you tried the addon "_Cursor" by Torhal? It won't work in current WoW (which is why I created CursorTrail), but might in WoW Classic.
In reply to UppyDan:
I tried several versions of _Cursor, but it didnt work.
Hey! Love the addon but is there a way to get the effect to stop disappearing when i click?
In reply to syberdragn:
Sorry, there's no way to prevent that currently. It is a requested feature on my list. I will do my best to add it the next time I get motivated to make changes to this addon. In other words, I've been spending too much time playing WoW. ;)
where is the classic version?
In reply to nshawmc:
Regrettably, I don't have time to make a classic version. I recommend trying the original addon, "_Cursor" by Torhal that I based CursorTrail from. That addon stopped working long ago, but it may work fine in Classic WoW.