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SL UI Color Changer

Zakka Statosky
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Join date: 6 Jun 2004
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07-13-2006 00:23
A friend of mine said there was once a program that change SL user interface color.. anyone know of it and if its still get able? xD
Oz Spade
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Join date: 23 Sep 2003
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07-13-2006 14:54
There used to be a program made by Mikey Spade that allowed you to do something like that. But really all it was was a GUI to easily create a colors.ini thing.

So instead of using a program, what you can do is go into your Second Life folder (usualy C:\Program Files\Second Life\app_settings) and open up colors_base.ini, then copy and paste everything from there into colors.ini then play around with it and modify certain settings and see what does what. You want to keep colors_base.ini unmodified so you can always go back to it if you mess something up.

I think the numbers are (r,g,b,t) with t being Transparency of the window/whatever.

I've made up my own which I use, basicly setting most of the GUI to a different transparency while keeping the color the same, you can find that here:
http://oz.slinked.net/downloads.php

Ezhar also made a modification to make the UI a different color, you can find that here:
http://sl.sdfjkl.org/secondlife/supergreen/

I'm not sure how up to date Ezhar's colors.ini is though. They (LL) sometimes change things in versions that can cause old colors.ini to crash the client on startup.

I should probably document what exactly does what in the colors.ini or something. *makes note to self*
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Fa nyak
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07-13-2006 17:33
if there's any interest in this, i've been meaning for a while now to sit down and learn some GUI stuff in C/C++ so i can move beyond simple console apps, and this would be a great excuse and a simple program to get me started :D

here's mine, in case anyone likes crazy purple/teal c.c;
colors.ini
picture
Baba Yamamoto
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07-13-2006 17:36
Go for it !
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Oz Spade
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07-13-2006 18:20
From: Fa nyak
if there's any interest in this, i've been meaning for a while now to sit down and learn some GUI stuff in C/C++ so i can move beyond simple console apps, and this would be a great excuse and a simple program to get me started :D

here's mine, in case anyone likes crazy purple/teal c.c;
colors.ini
picture


Yeah this would be totaly awesome if you'd be up for it. :)
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