Viewer Skins/Starlight
| By: | Hitomi Tiponi |
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| Viewer Version: | 2.0.1.203797 |
| Information: | Starlight 2.0.7 |
| 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 click on the link in the box on the right.
NOTE: If you want to use StarLight with Viewer 2.1 click here.
Major Changes to the Standard Skin
- Sidebar now sliding over view of the world and reduced in size
- Draw Distance slider
- Extended Chat Bar and Chat History
- Better formatting of tabbed IM window
- Several UI components made semi-transparent
- "About Land" Button added to Navigation Bar
- "Build" option added to the right-click on object menu
- "Grid Status", "Sky Editor" and "XStreet" options added to menu
- "Map", "Mini-Map" and "Inventory" Buttons added to bottom bar
- Generally lighter look and graphical/colour changes to fit in with it's Black and Orange look
- Various optional extensions
Known Bugs and Issues
- Only working fully with English language version of the interface
Changes to 2.0.7 from 2.0.6
- Debugging of minor display issue with vertical tabs and problem changing group maturity rating
- NEW optional extension to make the sidebar full-length
Changes to 2.0.6 from 2.0.5
- Works with Viewer 2.0.1.203797
- Draw Distance slider (between 32 and 512 metres) added to Navigation Bar
- Credits listed in Second Life Help floater
- NEW optional extensions:
- Vertical IM tabs (as used by some Third Party Viewers)
- Menu Bar is now removed by pressing 'Ctrl', 'Alt' and 'F1' - useful for machinima makers
- 33% longer Nearby Chat field
Changes to 2.0.5 from 2.0.4
- Maximum size of nearby chat field doubled to 1024 as in v1.23
- Hover tips settings now enabled under Advanced->Highlighting and Visibility (they were commented out in the Viewer 2 xml code so use with care)
- 'My Upload' added under 'Me' menu
- 'My Useful Features' added initially with 'Stop all Animations', 'Rebake', 'Statistics Bar' and 'Lag Meter' - but with the intention of making it easily customisable in later versions
- A number of formatting and cosmetic changes
Changes to 2.0.4 from 2.0.3
- Fixed bug affecting UI resizing
- Changed overflow buttons on specific profiles and places to be a '+' consistent with other windows
Changes to 2.0.3 from 2.0.2
- Works with Viewer 2.0.0.203055 (and also with release 202934)
- Sidebar now goes behind other floaters
- Build icons and progress bars now fit with colour scheme
- Text that was light grey is now brighter.
- Most scrollbars doubled in brightness
- Added 'Sky Editor' to 'World' Menu (saves two extra clicks)
- 'Home' icons change reverted to Linden icons
Changes to 2.0.2 from 2.0.1
- Works with release 202934 of Viewer 2.0 (available March 26th 2010)
- Chat bar shortened slightly so that it doesn't suppress chiclets too much on lower resolution screens
- Problem with Texture picker resolved
- Viewer keeps traditional 'home' icons rather than new ones introduced in most recent release of Viewer 2.0