Black Glass for Firestorm Viewer

 

UPDATE! 06/27/2013
This theme is included to official
Firestorm release now. 
You don't have to download it from here.







I am very honoured  that my theme is included into
official Firestorm release now.
So every Firestorm user can use it now.





I created a new skincolour for Second Life  -  Firestorm Viewer.
It's based on the latest Firestorm version 4.4.0.33720 and it's MetaHarper Modern skin - ApalachianSky.

For me MetaHarper skin is the best for Firestorm, I like the design, the buttons, symbols and the whole look and feel of it.

But I wanted to get a more modern look,I didn't like all those grey windows.

So I started to create a new one with darker colours and changed lots of
backgrounds to get a more noble look of the design.
Also I changed the look of textfields, even in navigation bar and search bar.
Textfields are transparent now untill you use them.
All buttons and arrows changed, sliders and different colours.
Here some images to show you what to expect (click at pics to see enlarged version):

Here's a list of changes I did:

Window_Background.png          
Window_Foreground.png
Window_NoTitle_Background.png
Window_NoTitle_Foreground.png
Volume_Background.png
Flyout.png
Dragbar.png
Toast_Background.png
Toast_Over.png
NavBar_BG.png
NavBar_BG_NoFav.png
NavBar_BG_NoFav_Bevel.png
FileMenu_BG.png
FileMenu_BarSelect.png

favouriteButton.tga
startup_logo.j2c
Linden_Dollar_Alert.png
PushButton_On.png
PushButton_Off.png
PushButton_On_Selected.png
PushButton_Press.png
PushButton_Press_Selected.png
Checkbox_xxx.png
buy_press.png
buy_off.png
buy_over.png
ScrollTrack_Horiz.png
ScrollTrack_Vert.png
SliderTrack_Horiz.png
SliderTrack_Vert.png
SliderThumb_xxx.png
SegmentedBtn_xxx_yyy.png
DropDown_On.png
Linden_Dollar_Background.png
Linden_Dollar_Alert.png

Row_Selection.png

ComboButton_xxx.png
Inspector_Background.png
Inspector_Hover.png

Tooltip.png
TextField_Active.png
TextField_Disabled.png
TextField_Off.png
TextField_Search_Active.png
TextField_Search_Disabled.png
TextField_Search_Off.png

ChatBarHandle.png
WellButton_Lit.png
WellButton_Lit_Selected.png
DropDown.....png
Stepper_Down...png
Stepper_Up.....png
jump_left....png
jump_right...png

Pathfinding....png

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Colors.xml:

AccentColor
EmphasisColors
SchemeLightest colors
and a few more things......


Installation for Windows:

 

Read this carefully before downloading and installing
(Sorry, don't know if it works in Linux or Mac too)
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• Log out, close your Firestorm before starting! 

• Start the file: BlackGlass_extract to Firestorm-Release folder.exe

         in Admin mode (right click the file and run as Administrator). 

• Let it extract the files to your main Firestorm folder, like

         C:\Program Files (x86)\Firestorm-Release 

• When the [File Overwrite Confirmation] window appears, click on the [Yes] button to overwrite the existing  file   skins.xml

         This is a must cause otherwise the viewer would not recognize the new skin colour
         in it's preferences.

• Now start your Firestorm viewer and open the preferences in login screen:

Click at Skins / MetaHarper Modern / BlackGlass and Apply.

After restarting the viewer you should have the new look: 


BlackGlass

DOWNLOAD new version:

>>> BLACK GLASS for Firestorm 06/02/2013<<<

Created with Firestorm and GIMP in May 2013.

I hope you like it.
Enjoy and have fun!

Tommi Waydelich