NieR-Cursors
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XCursor theme based on NieR Automata
NieR Style Cursors
Uses Blender 2.83, xcursorgen, imagemagick, and of course common bash tools like bc
. Building for windows also needs Python 3.
Now has prebuilt release archives bundled!
Preview Images
renditions updated when you run ./build.sh before committing. idk how thisll look online maybe it should be one big image don't feel like writing the code to make an imagemagick grid right now.








"Cool how do I yes?"
- have the tools installed
- download the thing
- run the
build.sh
file - a folder will appear called 'icons' that has the theme inside. up to your distro gods what to do with the generated theme.
Installation of prebuilt themes
- Linux: Unpack the archive and put the folder in your user icons folder (usually
~/.icons/
), then pick the cursor theme with whatever desktop/theme manager you use. - Windows: Unpack the archive, right-click 'install.inf', and select 'install'. Right now, not every cursor has a windows equivalent, so when the dialogue box shows up complaining about "File not found", just close it and move on. Finally, go to control-panel -> mouse -> pointers and select "NieR Cursors" as your theme.
F.A.Q.
Question | Answer |
---|---|
Why does .build.sh take years? | 60fps animations. Smoother than a well-oiled Adam. Strongly recommend using a workstation or gaming pc. |
Some cursors look 'off'. Ex: Default arrow. | They're mathematically perfect, not optically/perceptually perfect. Accounting for the distortion of dumb human brains takes more effort than I'm willing to put in right now. |
Why Blender? Inkscape or Illustrator would do this and that and everything better | Inkscape 0.9X straight doesn't support the cursor workflow of sharing assets and non-destructive modification. Inkscape 1.0 beta does but also eats my fukken soul every time it crashes or hangs, which is a lot. So much so that if I had $100 for every time I lost changes in Inkscape beta I would be well on my way to taking that computer science class I can't afford. Ergo, Illustrator is also out of the picture cause expensive proprietary biz. Blender with it's new Eevee render is a swiss army knife of artwork and has only crashed like 4 times so far so overall it has a Crash-Per-Session (CPS)[not related] rate improvement of a few thousand percent over Inkscape beta. There's an unmaintained Inkscape branch in this git repo if you still don't believe me, where I initially made the cursor and loading circle. |