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You can make .cur files here: www.cursor.cc
just click the 'Larger Drawing Area' drop down.
Here is the one I used: www.cursor.cc/?action=icon&file_id=46353
Edit: Since everyone is mentioning it, to make the defualt Windows cursor your CSGO crosshair you can use Custom Desktop Logo to set any .png as an overlay. Play in windowed fullscreen(borderless) and set cl_crosshairalpha 0. This may or maynot be "cheating". You won't/can't get banned for it, I doubt any LAN would allow it. This is what it looks like.
I use http://customdesktoplogo.wikidot.com/download for my crosshair. Will this be blocked? Could it be added to the list if it is? It's just a custom logo projected on the screen, I just made it a red dot.
Just about to commute home then I'll edit this post with instructions, friend.
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So, a bit of Googling will immediately link you to several detailed guides catered to a number of gaming communities for the Mumble Overlay method. This replaces the normal overlay of Mumble (e.g. players in channel and mic status) with a png file of your desired crosshair. It has the advantage of working on fullscreen applications which the second method does not, but I wouldn't recommend it so long as you play games on borderless windowed mode. Look it up at your leisure, I find it has too many points of failure, on top of already not using Mumble for my comms.
As for me, I use Custom Desktop Logo which is an open source software used to display PNG images overtop your display. You can make a folder with your desired crosshair in it, then set the display location for it as centred. This is a 2 pixel wide centred cross that I drew to double check the positioning/offset of my crosshair. Here's my crosshair which has a 2x2 square of transparency which sits over the 4 middle pixels of my display, and then has two concentric squares at a 45 degree angle for contrast. If you centre it properly over the first image the centre square should be filled with black, and each of the black lines should have the white pixels completely severing the line at the beginning. I ended up needing to put the offset at x=1 / y=1.
Good luck, have fun.
http://customdesktoplogo.wikidot.com/download
Copy your Recursion crosshair into the folder and use that. I use it now. Much more reliable.
Spread it, not a stat tracker but it's a crosshair. Works just as well.
Doesn't change the client in any way so it should be fine according to this post from RadarX.
If you want something super simple and lightweight (albeit old) you can use http://customdesktoplogo.wikidot.com/download
Completely free to use over any application (including windows) , just requires that you play in windowed or windowed fullscreen modes
I've been using custom desktop logo for the time being. Just requires ripping the crosshair files from recursion, loading it in the application, then calibrating it to get it in the center of the screen. Then you just run planetside in windowed mode. Not ideal, but it's free, lightweight, and it's not playclaw
http://customdesktoplogo.wikidot.com/download
Copy your Recursion crosshair into the folder and use that. I use it now. Much more reliable.
Spread it, not a stat tracker but it's a crosshair. Works just as well.
They will not. However, I use this software for my own custom crosshair
It's called Custom Desktop Logo
Here's a link to their website:
http://customdesktoplogo.wikidot.com/download
There's a help guide on their website, though it's pretty self explanatory.
You need to use PNG files, which is just a fancy image file, there's a free website I go to with fantastic image editing abilities:
ipiccy.com
It has 'premium features' which you need to sign up to use, but it's free to sign up and you don't get any spam from it. Even without the premium features it has great abilities, like being able to change any image file you upload to the website into a PNG file, which is necessary for the software
Here's a link to the latest reticle I use, again I've edited it. the green horizontal line at the bottom is for damage fall-off for my Conspirator:
https://i.imgur.com/rXhub4o.png
This other guy said he wanted me to message him about this also, so I'm going to @ him here, just FYI
/u/CKChance19
I use a program called custom desktop logo http://customdesktoplogo.wikidot.com/download
It seems to be a good solution while hi-rez figures out its issues because it barely uses any RAM or anything and is relatively easy to set up, start up and turn off.
I was going to try this overlay program for that very purpose. I know it has gotten people VAC bans on Rust, but I don't know if you could get in trouble doing that online.
Don't worry, mumbl is shit anyway. Try this out: http://customdesktoplogo.wikidot.com/download
I've suggested it to others and they have great success with it and apparently it's getting around.
If you need to edit your reticle be sure you save it as a .png with transparency preserved.
It's pretty straightforward, turn the animation in the program off so it doesnt flicker line up center with center in tribes and then turn the reticle in tribes off.
He uses Custom Desktop Overlay to have an image displayed over everything. Requires you to be in borderless windowed mode since it doesn't hook into anything. I already run borderless windowed anyways just because also I like to have my mumble overlay work using mumble-d.exe.
You can make an image easily or search for images of crosshair overlays from tribes or mechwarrior.
Apparently PlayClaw5 also works with a free Steam demo but I've never used it.
http://customdesktoplogo.wikidot.com/download
Program as old as the hills, but it works great. I made my own custom crosshair positioned for the weapons I use, and handmade to be comfortable for me specifically. It's not a one size fits all solution, because the guns in D2 have different center positions. LFRs for example are way off-center, so my crosshair will force me to miss if I use it.
Many crosshairs in games just don't work with the way my brain processes stuff, so I made one that does. I also have a pretty strong prescription that aberrates, so red colors go one way and blue goes the other. The only one that doesn't move when I turn my head is a very specific shade of neon green. The one Destiny has in settings is close, but not close enough unfortunately. CDL lets me have a crosshair that I can actually look at. Now instead of missing because the colors look like they're in different places, I miss because I'm bad at the game lmao
It has the same ADS spread as the Gasser. Although it's fire rate is so trash when ADS that you're usually better off hip firing in the first place (unless you're picking really long range fights).
If you're really struggling with the iron sights, then you can use a program like this one to place a dot on the center of your screen so that you always know where you are aiming. Go into an empty lobby, ADS with the dot, and figure out what your iron sights mean. Then turn it off and play the game normally.
you can just do it with things like Custom Desktop Logo, just draw any funny PNG you likes and overlay it on your screen. (set the overlay performance to 1fps)
or whatever overlay app you likes.
Rainmeter works as well, just set the object to "always on top"
After a little research I stumbled upon http://customdesktoplogo.wikidot.com/download which takes a tiny bit of configuring to get it to work but I have it set up to draw my usual recursion xhair. It also works in other games which is a plus and is ridiculously lightweight. It's also not playclaw.
Custom Desktop Logo is a light-weight program that can be used to have any transparent .png image as a crosshair overlay. Just do a search for "crosshair" images with transparency and set the image in a folder in the settings GUI.
There are options for opacity, size, but most importantly, location offset. You may have to tinker with it depending on your resolution and setup (multi-monitors, etc...) so that it is centered on your screen.
This is a good choice if one just wants a crosshair overlay, without having to deal with all the extra functionality of programs such as Recursion.
Hey, so I just figured out how to get this done. I was working on my custom HUD for TF|2, and I realized that you can actually accomplish this right now.
Caveats are you have to run in borderless fullscreen, and unless you set up a manual toggle, it will be overlayed even when you get into a titan.
So, using this program I managed to add a dot reticule to the center of my monitor.
So im thinking, you just make a mask of ... fuck it ill just start working on it. Ill get back to you when its done.
http://customdesktoplogo.wikidot.com/download
RUN GAME IN WINDOW, LEAVE CROSSHAIR IN CENTER AND CENTER IT THEN DISABLE IG CROSSHAIR. I CAN GIVE YOU Mine... compression messed it up so I can find a way to send it
copying my response to another thread:
>You can make your own crosshairs if you care enough.
>First, get http://customdesktoplogo.wikidot.com/download
>Set your game to windowed fullscreen
>Then make a crosshair image and overlay it on your screen using the app.
>For example, here's a green one for 1080p. https://i.imgur.com/sDGDQw6.png
>The only downside is that the darwin crosshair will show if the custom one doesn't fit over it.
Its really easy to do tbh, would be nice if there was options ingame of course
http://customdesktoplogo.wikidot.com/
Here's one example program I was looking at all the app literally does is add a logo over the game.
You could try Borderless Windowed with Custom Desktop Logo.
Grab a picture of your preferred crosshair with transparency, and layer it over top of Doom.
As a super sensitive simulator sickness avid gamer my whole life, I second some of the suggestions here. Play in a well lit room. If you have a monitor with a thin bezel, play in windowed mode to get more frame around the game. Try not to sit too close to your monitor, make sure you have the correct prescription if you have corrective lenses for your eyes. Frequent snacking or strong flavor drinks (ginger beer) also seems to help. The thing that works the best for me, and you can use it in almost all games is http://customdesktoplogo.wikidot.com/
I created a small neon green dot, about 4 or 5 mm, in my favorite graphics program, and use customdesktoplogo to overlay the dot right in the middle of my screen. It draws your eye to a fixed point and therefore reduces how much you notice other movement in your game.
Also, there are rare people, like myself, where this condition never gets better no matter how much gaming you do. I just can't play some games and I've learned to be ok with that.
Good luck with your struggle!
You could use a custom desktop decal program like this one, make your own crosshair on photoshop/illustrator, or find one you like on g. images and add it up. The only problem is you'll have to play in borderless windowed which kinda sucks. There are ways around it but it requires more work to pull off and external plugins and whatnot. However safe they may be, I'd still be cautious with those methods. I think a guy on here or /r/Overwatch posted a detailed guide recently on getting a custom crosshair in fullscreen.
As well as that obviously you have to deal with the dot crosshair in the middle as you can't get rid of it completely. What you could do is use a new crosshair in conjunction with some of overwatch's ones with bloom on and it gives a pretty nice effect, or simply turn the in-game dot crosshair black.
This is a great guide and all but I'm pretty sure you could also use a simple desktop decal app. Again, this guide is for fullscreen mode and I get that, but for people who play in borderless and prefer a way simpler and straight-forward method, get a program like Custom Desktop Logo 2.0, find a PNG crosshair image online or make your own simple one in Photoshop or whatever and there you have it.
>How 2 quickscope!!111!!!oneoneone
AJ2 got it wrong, keep the tracker. Get a crosshair overlay as shown here It may say as a virus when you download it but it isn't, just trust me ok. It's basically a glorified version of taping a crosshair to your screen.
>deal with BFG players?
Flanking M60 just out of tec-9 range usually does the job, fairly fast ttk and much suppression
>Quickscope zoom!111!!!oneoneone
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I mentioned this in another post.
"I use http://customdesktoplogo.wikidot.com/download for my crosshair. Will this be blocked? Could it be added to the list if it is? It's just a custom logo projected on the screen, I just made it a red dot."
Any chance this won't be blocked?
There is also Custom Desktop Logo. It's a pretty old program but should still work. I use this for Planetside 2. Here are some crosshairs as well.
Personally I switched to Custom Desktop Logo (some explanation here) which works in every game without dll fuss.
Thanks. I was trying that too, but changing the layout was bugging me. Old comfy habits die hard.
I did however find a nice little workaround that lets me keep my focus orb how I like it and accurately place a line over-top of it. There's a small donation ware application called Custom Desktop Logo. It lets you overlay any PNG file on top of your desktop.
I found where the 30% mark should be by using a screenshot of the focus orb, measured the width of the hp bar in pixels and multiplied the number of pixels by .3. Then made a PNG file of a tiny solid black line 1px in width and used the app's configuration for xy screen coordinates to place it over the hp bar on the focus orb. DDO has to be in Windowed Full Screen mode to do this.
yup thats me in that part of the vid. I use custom desktop logo, people will bitch about it, but idc. Im also the one calling them an aussie faggot. you dont understand the context and I dont give a fuck so go be a social justice warrior bruh.
I use custom desktop logo: http://customdesktoplogo.wikidot.com/
it is just an overlay and it defaults to the center of your resolution. I use the plus-shaped neon green one. It works great in KF2 as it is dead center of the in-game crosshair and when you ADS it is pretty much a perfect fit for where the bullets go.
If you can get your hands on some cheap (free) laptops that are otherwise useless, you can probably do something like this. The laptops should have WiFi, so networking is taken care of. You can set up VNC or remote desktop or whatever so that you can manage them more conveniently. All you'll need is a way to connect the power adapter and a short display cable to the TV.
After that, it's just a matter of configuring each laptop to display the data you want on screen in a loop, and pull the number you need from whatever server you need to pull it from. This might be as simple as running the powerpoint presentation like you already do, or a looping video, or something equally straightforward. Then add a simple utility like customdesktoplogo to display an image in the corner with the "Now serving: x" number you want. The laptops don't need to be the same specs or anything, it's not like they need to do any heavy lifting computationally.
That's good to know, since I like having a dot crosshair that's a tad smaller but with a thicker line. Would something like Custom Desktop Logo be bannable, which runs outside the game and doesn't inject or modify any files? It's not even an overlay, it just places an image on top of every window in your OS, and therefore, it doesn't need to have special configs other than running your games in windowed (or fullscreen windowed) mode.
http://customdesktoplogo.wikidot.com/download that is the one I use, just need to make the recticle (.png file to keep the transparency) image yourself. Follow the instructions to set the image and align it to center of your screen. You might need to run it as admin to keep it on top of the game though
You can record it and afterwards edit an overlay into it or you can use the following method:
you can download a program: http://customdesktoplogo.wikidot.com/
Extract it and open it up. You should see a coca cola picture somewhere on the screen.
Go into the settings (taskbar, rightclick the green lemon --> settings)
Then under "select images" select the overlay you have can download (just search on google for a interesting overlay)
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Under the "location" tag:
z-level: topmost
multi-monitor display modes: primary only
display location: bottom right
location offset: x: 0, y: 0
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"size" tab: 1
"animations/graphics" change the opacity to something you like