Viewer Skins/Starlight
| By: | Hitomi Tiponi |
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| Viewer Version: | 2.1.0.207030 |
| Information: | Starlight 2.1.6 |
| Source: | "Starlight" skin download |
| Image: | Please add an image. |
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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.
Major Changes to the Standard Skin
- 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)
- 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
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