user iconDucksworth about 20 hours ago
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topic iconCursors made via Aseprite shows up empty when uploaded to site

I'm using 'export as ico cur ani' script on Aseprite to convert them. Cursor works fine on Win10 (tested by self) and Win11 (tested by a friend). Any solutions? Help would be appreciated. Having problem with both .cur and .ani files.

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user iconVlasta about 15 hours ago 0

So, I looked at the files and they are using the 32bit RGBA bitmap format, but have the alpha channel of all pixels set to 0 = completely transparent. This is incorrect.

Now, it appears that Windows has a workaround for this problem and detect this invalid state and ignores the alpha channel for images that would appear completely transparent. I have checked this by manually changing one byte in the file to make one pixel non-transparent and indeed, Windows showed an empty cursor with just this one pixel.

This web does not have this workaround and I will not be adding it, I do not want to help spread invalid cursor file.

You can possibly export the cursors in some other format and convert them in the cursor editor or inform Aseprite authors about this problem and maybe they will fix their export function.