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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.
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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Hi, noticed something strange today. The cursor trail beginning lags behind my cursor while the cursor is in motion, about a 1-2 inch gap, but almost instantly snaps back to the cursor when the cursor stops moving. Is this intended with the new 8.2.5 patch? Maybe this has always been in and I'm just noticing it now?
In reply to Dietetixo:
Nope, nothing changed in the addon that would cause it. I suspect the graphics lag is caused by something using your computer's CPU / GPU. (This addon uses more CPU than most other addons.) Also, the lagging might change depending on the effect (model) you choose.
Hi ! Do you plan on adding a setting for right click hiding ? I would love to keep the effect even when holding right click. If it's a time constraint, is there a Github or something where I could implement that for you ? Thanks.
In reply to ExorionTV:
Hi Exorion, Sorry, I never figured out Github to put the code there. Time is the issue for me right now. Trying to get things done outside the house before winter comes. Also want to try doubling all the CursorTrail settings so we can have 2 "layers" of effects. But I will add your request to my TODO list. :)
Version 8.2.5.1 is now available!
Changes:
- Updated for WoW 8.2.5.
Any chance to make the addon compatible with WoW classic?
In reply to sinasinasinasinasina:
Not really. I'm finding it hard to make time to keep this version working. You could try one of the older releases on the "Files" tab, but I suspect they won't.
Also, check out the original addon, "_Cursor" by Torhal that I based CursorTrail from. That addon stopped working long ago, but it may work in Classic.
Wow, I recently started playing again and I love the updates.
I've been wanting this for years, so I present to you the best trail ever.
In reply to Glass_Swords:
Cool! Which addon does that trail?
Is there a reason why hiding the cursor when you right click takes a random amount of time to actually hide? I've set kTimer1Interval to 0 and that fixes it but it would be good to know if there are any negative side effects to doing this.
In reply to geheurjk:
Yeah. I was concerned about hiding/unhiding the model (trail effect) on every single right-click. That timer makes sure the right mouse button is being held rather than clicked, avoiding extra CPU usage on right-clicks.
But if the 0ms time limit it is working okay on your system, that's great. :)
Version 8.2.0.6 is now available!
New Features:
- Added slash commands to create profiles for saving your settings. Useful for switching the cursor effect when tanking, healing, DPSing, in a raid, solo, etc.
/ct save <profile name>
/ct load <profile name>
/ct delete <profile name>
/ct list
- Added new models:
"Object - Cat Mark, Green"
"Object - Cat Mark, Purple"
"Object - Cat Mark, White"
"Object - Hunters Mark"
"Object - Mark of the Wild"
"Spots - Puddle, Purple"
"Trail - Swirling, Orange"
- Added "Strata" option for controlling 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.)
Changes:
- Renamed model category "Particle" to "Spots".
- Renamed models:
"Glow - Burning Cloud, Bloodlust" ---> "Glow - Cloud, Flame"
"Glow - Ring, Bones" ---> "Object - Ring of Bones"
"Trail - Swirling, Holy" ---> "Spots - Pulsing, Holy"
"Trail - Swirling, Poison" ---> "Trail - Pulsing, Green"
"Trail - Swirling, Yellow" ---> "Trail - Pulsing, Yellow"
Known Limitations:
- The cursor trail (effect) might not stay in sync with the mouse cursor when using addons that "artificially" change the screen area (such as the SunnArt addon). The offset will be worse the further the mouse is from the center of the screen.
CursorTrail 8.2.0.5 is now available!
Changes:
- Fixed bug causing the trail effect to disappear permanently after hiding & unhiding the WoW user interface.
- Added new model: "Trail - Freedom".
- Renamed model "Particle - Sparkle, White" to "Particle - Sparkle, Yellow".
- To prevent the possibility of not loading previously saved settings, CursorTrail will use 0.0.0.0 as its version number if it can't read the version from its TOC file.
Known Limitations:
- The cursor trail (effect) might not stay in sync with the mouse cursor when using addons that "artificially" change the screen area (such as the SunnArt addon). The offset will be worse the further the mouse is from the center of the screen.
BUG WORKAROUND (for 8.2.0.4)
After hiding/unhiding the WoW user interface, the cursor trail effect disappears permanently. To get it back, type /ct reload into the chat window. This bug will be fixed in the next release (within a day or two).
This is not loading the custom configuration from SavedVariables\CursorTrail.lua.
It always loads the default settings - which is also the hot box labeled Default 1 in the config panel.
I checked the saved variables file after making settings and exiting to character select.
The data is stored.
The saved data is ignored whether from character login or a "reload ui" command.
When you exit to character select the Default 1 settings are then saved to CursorTrail.lua so we know it is saving.
This problem exists even if it is the only addon installed.
I am not an LUA programmer so I didn't find the coding issue.
I am an analyst, though, so I did figure out a way to make myself a workaround.
I changed Default 1 to be my settings.
In CursorTrail\CursorTrail.lua I made changes to lines 71 to 80.
I changed the values to what I wanted.
The values were gotten from the saved variables file BEFORE I did anything that would reset them to Default 1.
Now all my characters have the same exact settings.
This addon is pretty cool. I loose my cursor all the time - drives me crazy - so it's very helpful.
I wish there was a way to save my own set of defaults I could swap to for various situations: like raid, dungeon, and questing.
In reply to Jogs_with_Scissors:
Good job finding a workaround. :)
I'm not seeing this problem, but I checked the code and found it is possible to have this happen if CursorTrail can't read its version number from the TOC file. (Not sure how that could happen, but anyway ... )
It would be helpful if you can login to one of your characters using CursorTrail and copy/paste the following line into the chat (upper-case letters are important if you type it in).
/dump CursorTrail.kAddonVersion
That command should print CursorTrail's version number in the chat window. But if it says something like "empty result", then that's the problem. I will add a safeguard against this in the next release. But let me know if you DO see a version number because then something else is causing the bug.
Looks In reply to UppyDan:
This what I get.
Dump: value=CursorTrail.kAddonVersion
[1]="8.2.0.4"
Looks like what you would expect.
I'm going to delete and recopy the addon folder to see what happens to the save file.
In reply to Jogs_with_Scissors:
Weird.
After deleting and reinstalling the addon folder it is now working.
What in the world could have been an issue with the first copy that only resulted in a problem loading the saved variables?
You'd think a bad file copy over would cause bigger problems then that - like not running at all.
Unless the Windows unzip had a brain fart, but still, that's almost like a typo someplace type error.
This is the first time I have ever seen something like this happen and I've been using addons since the beginning.
I did notice something interesting.
---Saved variables using my edits to Default 1 before delete/recopy of folder:
CursorTrail_PlayerConfig = {
["FadeOut"] = true,
["UserOfsY"] = -1,
["ModelID"] = 166923,
["UserAlpha"] = 1,
["UserOfsX"] = -1,
["UserShowOnlyInCombat"] = true,
["Version"] = "8.2.0.4",
["UserScale"] = 5,
}
---Saved variables after delete/recopy of folder:
CursorTrail_PlayerConfig = {
["FadeOut"] = true,
["UserOfsY"] = -1,
["ModelID"] = 166923,
["UserAlpha"] = 1,
["UserOfsX"] = -1,
["UserScale"] = 5,
["Version"] = "8.2.0.4",
["UserShowOnlyInCombat"] = true,
}
--- ["UserShowOnlyInCombat"] and ["UserScale"] swap places.
---Additionally
I logged a character in and out repeatedly and checked the saved variables file after each logout.
The file contents alternates between the 2 versions listed above.
In reply to Jogs_with_Scissors:
Well there goes my idea for fixing it. :(
I haven't seen anything else in the code that looks like it could cause that problem.
In reply to Jogs_with_Scissors:
I'm with you ... no clue how its addon folder could have been messed up and caused what you saw. But nothing is impossible I guess. lol
Glad it's all working now. :D