Viewer Skins/Starlight
| By: | Hitomi Tiponi |
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| Viewer Version: | 2.1.1.208043 (and 2.1.1.207988/2.1.1.207725) |
| Information: | Starlight 2.1.8 |
| Source: | "Starlight" skin download |
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Important! |
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Use caution when installing these skins, as modifications to your installed software files are not officially supported by Second Life support |
About
This skin is designed to give more choice, and hopefully improve the usability and promote usage of Second Life Viewer 2.
It consists of a number of previously published viewer tweaks - produced by various residents (see credits in the downloaded 'Read Me' file) and added to, together with a slight reskinning to give the interface a lighter feel. It should hopefully benefit those people who have no wish to edit the XML code themselves, yet wish to benefit from a number of tweaks made by other residents, without using a third-party viewer.
To download the starlight skin for Viewer 2.1 click on the link in the box on the right.
Release 2.2.1 is now available for Viewer 2.2.0 Beta - Release 2.2.0.210127 ONLY . StarLight 2.2.0 Beta can be downloaded here - new features include smaller undocked panels and a choice of 3 colour themes
ALWAYS DOWNLOAD A NEW VERSION OF STARLIGHT IF YOU SWITCH VERSIONS OF THE VIEWER - STARLIGHT IS UPDATED REGULARLY
To discuss StarLight and get news of changes/versions/bugs etc. please visit the Viewer xml and Skinning Forum.
Major Changes to the Standard Skin
- When defocussed, floater windows, have a near-invisible background
- Sidebar reduced in size, becomes possible to drag, and does not slide the chiclets/buttons along the bottom bar (note: this is not changeable to crop the world view)
- Better formatting of tabbed IM window (tabs larger and no icons in them)
- Reformatted Profile panels for your own and other profiles
- Three additional Preferences panels
- Several UI components made semi-transparent
- "About Land" Button added to Navigation Bar
- Draw Distance slider added to Navigation Bar (between 32 and 512 metres)
- Options added to the menu ('XStreet', 'Grid Status', 'My Uploads', 'My Useful Features')
- "Inventory" Button added to bottom bar
- Resize marker for bottom bar to make it more obvious (from Kirstens Viewer)
- Camera control made smaller than the standard version (similar to the Kirstens Viewer approach but smaller)
- Minor tweaks to the skinning and usability (resizing columns, increasing glow, realigning text etc.)
- Special, lighter Black & Orange look (with several changes to colours and widgets)
Known Bugs and Issues
- Only working fully with English language version of the interface
- Draw distance slider appears on screen during mouselook and may produce a minor shadow effect on some widgets near top of screen
- Unable to set Roles on a group you own
- Erroneous "Ground Sit Right Now" option on the menu
Changes to 2.1.8 from 2.1.7
- Greater transparency on floaters when defocussed
- Numerous 'under the skin' changes to enable easier skinning in future
- Fixed a few minor errors in LL code
- Fixed three bugs
- Option to alter degree of avatar head movement added to the 'UI' preferences panel
- Minor formatting/textual changes
Changes to 2.1.7 from 2.1.6
- Works with releases 207725, 207988, 208043 of Viewer 2.1 and the Betas
- Draw Distance slider recoded
- Full length sidebar extension no longer covers toast notifications
Changes to 2.1.6 from 2.1.5
- Three extra tabbed panels in Preferences controlling more functions of the viewer
- Separation and reformatting of Second Life and Real Life details in the "Profile" tab of People
- New "My Profile" and "Edit Profile" panels
- Optional extension to place the Sidebar on the left-hand side of the screen
- Draw Distance slider widget moved from navigation to menu bar so it remains visible when other bars are closed
- "Create New Notice" button replaces confusing "+" on button for Group notice creation
- UI Size moved to Graphics preferences panel (as in Kirstens Viewer)
Changes to 2.1.5 from 2.1.4
- Works with release 206756 of Viewer 2.1 (fourth Beta available July 14th 2010) and release 207030 (full version available July 21st 2010)
Changes to 2.1.4 from 2.1.3
- Works with release 206543 of Viewer 2.1 (third Beta available July 7th 2010)
Changes to 2.1.3 from 2.1.2
- Works with release 206371 of Viewer 2.1 (second Beta available June 30th 2010)
- Sidebar can now be dragged across the screen (by pulling on the left-hand edge)
Changes to 2.1.2 from 2.1.1
- Works with release 206197 of Viewer 2.1 (first Beta available June 22nd 2010)
- Full length sidebar and vertical IM tab extensions make a return