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Official & Recommended Submission Method
The Online Cursor Editor is the official and recommended way to submit cursors to Cursors-4U.
If you want to submit your existing cursors, you can simply drag and drop your
.curor.anifiles (as well as standard images like.png) directly into the editor workspace to load, review, and configure them for submission.You can also use the Import files / ZIP / 7z button in the Workspace panel to batch-import entire cursor packs, Windows setup
.infschemes, or multiple loose cursor files directly into your workspace for quick submission. See the Importing Cursors & Archives guide for full details.Beta Flow Active
Site submission is live but closely monitored. Submissions land in a secure moderation queue and are reviewed manually by site administrators before appearing on the public library listings.
Submission Modes
When you click the Submit action button in the editor, a dialog box opens with two distinct tabs depending on your workspace:
Use this mode to upload one standalone cursor (whether static or animated) containing whatever canvas sizes you drew. The system packages your frames and multi-sizes into a single, compact cursor file. A Windows role selector sits in this tab, so you can set or change the cursor's role (Normal, Busy, Text, and so on) as you submit without going back to the workspace. Changing it here updates your workspace copy too, so a cursor never shows two different roles.
Automatically active if your workspace contains multiple items. Lets you upload up to 60 cursors as a unified package (e.g. arrows, hands, text pins). You can customize names and map Windows system roles for each item. If the cursors are not actually a matching set, use the separate cursors option described below to submit them as a batch of standalone cursors instead.
Separate Cursors vs. One Matching Set
The Cursor Set tab is also the fastest way to send in several unrelated cursors at once. Above the cursor list is a checkbox — "These are separate cursors, not one matching set" — that switches how everything you upload is treated.
Your cursors are published together as a themed set with its own set page and a Windows install file. Confirm the role and name for each cursor; moderators decide which members also get their own standalone pages during review.
Each cursor is reviewed and published as its own standalone cursor. No set page and no Windows install file are produced. Roles become optional and are simply kept as each cursor's own information, so nothing you picked is lost.
Roles are worth a note here. In set mode the editor gives you soft, non-blocking hints: it flags duplicate roles — only one cursor per role can go into the Windows install file, and the reviewer picks which — and lists any standard roles you have not assigned yet. Partial sets are welcome, so these are nudges rather than errors. In separate-cursors mode those hints disappear, because no install file is generated.
Whichever option you choose, it is a declaration, not a final decision. Moderators can still change how a submission is published during review.
Pre-Submission Review Cards
The submit window shows a card for every cursor you are about to send, with a preview and its sizes. Before the form opens, each cursor is checked and anything worth a second look is listed on its card with a button that takes you straight to it. The checks are advice, not a gate: you can read them and submit anyway. The one exception is an empty cursor, which blocks submitting.
The click point sits on transparency, so the cursor would appear to click slightly away from where it points. Set the hotspot opens that size with the hotspot picker ready. A hotspot you placed there yourself may be deliberate — a ring or a hollow crosshair — so that stays a soft note. A hotspot never moved off the default 0, 0 is flagged more strongly.
For sizes larger than 32×32, the drawing fills less than 80% of its canvas, so Windows will render it smaller than the size suggests. Review crop switches to that size and opens the Crop panel with the suggested target pre-selected — nothing is changed until you apply it. 32×32 sizes do not receive this warning. When all larger sizes are drawn small, the card groups their advice into one message.
A frame with nothing drawn on it makes the cursor flash blank as it plays. The card names the frame numbers, and Open frame selects that frame so drawing it or deleting it is one click away.
An entirely empty cursor cannot be submitted. Draw it, or remove it from the set, before the submission will go through.
Colors tell the two apart at a glance on a crowded set: hotspot notes are orange, canvas and crop notes are yellow, empty frames are blue, and a red left edge marks the ones that matter most. A summary line above the cards counts how many cursors were flagged and why.
Metadata Form Fields
To make your cursor discoverable and clear, you will need to fill in these metadata fields:
Give your cursor or set a clear, descriptive name. This will become the public header on its library page and is used to label downloads.
Explain your cursor design, inspiration, or drawing details. A rich description helps moderators approve your submission much faster. It is also added to the readme.txt in the download, when the download includes one.
Select an appropriate license model. You must have the rights to grant these licensing terms:
Creator name is required (2-200 characters) — it is the attribution that travels with your work, so every submission carries credit. If a cursor had more than one author, separate the names with commas. The portfolio URL is optional; it must be a valid
http(s)link, and multiple links can be comma-separated to match multiple creators. The moderator uses both to link and attribute public creator profiles on the site.Add a comma-separated list of keywords. The finalization engine merges these tags with AI recommendations to catalog your cursor in the library index.
If your cursor is a remix, recolor, or modification of an existing cursor in the Cursors-4U library, enter its numeric cursor ID here (e.g.
12345). The server validates that the ID points to a live published cursor and records your claim for moderators to review and link the attribution upon approval.A mandatory checkbox confirming that you are the original designer or have obtained the explicit license rights to share these files.
Submission Limits
To prevent spam and ensure stable queue speeds, submissions are rate-limited to a maximum of 5 uploads per hour and 15 uploads per day per IP address. Because one set submission can carry up to 60 cursors, there is also a cap of 180 cursors per day across all of your submissions.
Individual cursor files (
.curor.ani) must be 4 MB or smaller. Cursor sets must contain between 2 and 60 cursors. All uploaded files undergo automated binary structure validation and ClamAV antivirus scanning before entering the moderation queue.