Modding and customizing the cursor.

Hello everyone!

I wanted to change the unicorn cursor because I'm creating my own build without unnecessary modifications, only improving the vanilla version with graphics, convenience, and various features. I wanted to put a familiar cursor from Heroes III in the form of a neat horse.

Regarding this issue, not many people have bothered with it; searching online yielded the following information.

...the cursor (Pointer) can be hardware or software-based, and this is set in the "Video and Sound" settings. What's the difference? Here's what: If the cursor is set as "hardware," then the corresponding files are taken from the HoMM5_Dir/hwcursors folder, and if it's software-based, they are taken from the game resources. By the way, for your information: a hardware cursor is 4 times smaller than a software cursor). So, if you want a large cursor, uncheck the corresponding setting; otherwise, check it).
So, the setting determines where the game takes the cursor files from (and therefore, where you need to place the horse).
Therefore, if the cursor is hardware-based, the cursors are taken from hwcursors. To insert the horse there, unpack the icons.rar archive (8.39 Kb) into that folder.

If the cursor is software-based, a mod will solve the problem. Here it is: oldhorse.pak (45.3 Kb)
You can also replace the cursors in both places, i.e., unpack the rar file into hwcursors and put the pak file into data – just as insurance. That's it; the unicorn is a thing of the past. Enjoy!...

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Unfortunately, the author's links don't work; I had to search myself and barely find a solution.

hwcursors_heroes_5 - this is a mod, or rather, the original version of the cursor taken from the base version of Heroes V (hardware cursor); it should be unpacked into the root folder of Heroes.

cursors - this is a software cursor, also with a horse, which will be larger; it should be unpacked into the UserMODs folder.

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hwcursors_new - and this version was taken from the heroescommunity.com website; it's also a hardware version but removes the horse altogether, replacing it with a glove; maybe someone will like it; it should be unpacked into the root folder of Heroes.

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If you have any developments, I suggest we exchange them; after all, achieving a cursor like in Heroes III didn't work out; perhaps someone will try to make or adapt an existing version.