The
following block shows a simple method for making your own custom
cursor. Please refer to the Stencyl community help section for
further details on coding blocks.
General
Gist : this little 'how to' covers some basics for making a
custom cursor in Stencyl. In a nutshell, you need to hide the default
operating system cursor and swap out for your own custom cursor,
which will be an actor type.
Part 1 : Graphics
1 ) Firstly you will need to draw your one custom cursor in graphics program of your choice. I used Adobe Illustrator to draft up this pointer and exported it as a .PNG – Dims 29px 27 px, remember to save your .PNG in logical place in your project folder.
Part
2 : Importing a Cursor As An Actor Type
1
)Open Stencyl and navigate to your game project (assuming you have
already made a project)
2
)In the upper left corner press on the “Actor types”and create a
new actor. You will then need to add a frame and import your newly
created cursor!
Part
3 : How To Make it work
1
) Click on 'actor behaviours' and create a new behaviour! This will be
a basic behaviour to make your Cursor work in your game.
2
) Click “add event” in the top of the panel. Add > When
updating
3
)You can either navigate through the code blocks manually or you can
search for them. Using the image shown. Thats
how to make a basic Cursor in Stencyl! Don't forget to attach the block
to the Cursor Actor, the green button in the top right will allow you
to do this - “Attach to actor”
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| Block for making custom cursor |
Run
game!
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| Bug with cursor full screen * untick fullscreen mode! |
Please
take into account that the flash player from Stencyl ( when tested
from the game ) game glitches in full screen mode. The main default
operating system mouse will still be visible despite having the
cursor hidden.This could be an apparent issue with the flash player. - Dated from May 2016. Try unticking the full screen mode... Not the best
Notes
: this bug happens on a iMac OSX i5 10.9.5
