New Aurora button style

[Haleth]

Hello!

I want to update the theme of my Aurora/FreeUI addon to a more flat/modern look, starting with buttons of all kinds. Eventually I want to get rid of the shadow border too.

I got feedback from someone though that they liked the old theme more. So I figured I'd ask around. What do you prefer?

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New:




Don't pay attention to the blue/pink colour, those are based on class. Also, the latter two screenshots are darker because it's evening.

[10leej]

I quite like the flat look myself. But, I'm currently working on an Aurora Skin for BobUI and not sure how it would look with my borders.

Here's my still very incomplete skin

[Nibelheim]

I reckon it could be done just by changing the defaults. Setting the gradient defaults to result in a flat gradient makes all buttons/etc flat, and then add a setting for border style

This way it would only take anyone 10 seconds to switch styles to their choosing

[Haleth]

Fair point. I do actually want to make it easier to change the theme, but it was never designed with that in mind and it'll be quite a pain to add more advanced options.

Part of the reason I actually wanted to move away from the gradient is because of technical issues. Any gradient alpha texture on a frame that has an AnimationGroup as a child, or is a child of a frame with an AnimationGroup, will go completely white on every OnUpdate call as long as the animation lasts. My original 'fix' to this on the talent frame, for example, was to disable the Play function of the glow animation of the 'Learn' buttons. This caused taint though, and now I use a whole lot of workarounds (including setting the gradient alpha every OnUpdate for the duration of the animation), and it -still- doesn't work properly in certain scenarios which I can't identify.

I could of course find or make me an actual gradient texture, but then that makes customization more difficult. Unless I add an in-game option for people to switch between the flat and gradient texture, then set the colour...

ponders

[Be3f.]

Was never really a fan of the highlights

+1 for flat .

[Tonyleila]

Do you remember why you gave us the gardient back? Flat looks all cool at light backgrounds but if you have a dark background its not good to see the buttons or input filds. they are to hard to differ from the window background color. Test this at the Horde AH in OG (dark place where you have to find buttons)
Also if you change again this will maybe be the death of Missing Textures - I currently don't have time to change everything I personaly don't care about the white button @ talent window

However if you want to change the puffy border feel free to do so for myself I already use a 1px border but thats an easy lua edit everyone can do if he wants.

+2 for stay gardient because I gave you 2 reasons ;D

[Kkthnx]

The flat look is way better. I have always liked a flat look. Its very simple and matches more things than not. I think it looks a lot better. Change is never bad.

[Haleth]

Thanks for the feedback, everyone I'll be pushing new builds to GitHub soon that prepares for the solid/gradient option, and already has a colour option. GUI components will follow later.

Originally Posted by Tonyleila Do you remember why you gave us the gardient back? Flat looks all cool at light backgrounds but if you have a dark background its not good to see the buttons or input filds. they are to hard to differ from the window background color. Test this at the Horde AH in OG (dark place where you have to find buttons)

Good point, but the difference here is that the buttons are (almost) solid, whereas the old ones (before gradient) were semi-transparent.

Originally Posted by Kkthnxbye™ Change is never bad.

[Nibelheim]

Originally Posted by Haleth

F*** yeah! Reminds me of those old 8-bit games I used to play

[Kkthnx]

Originally Posted by Haleth Thanks for the feedback, everyone I'll be pushing new builds to GitHub soon that prepares for the solid/gradient option, and already has a colour option. GUI components will follow later. Good point, but the difference here is that the buttons are (almost) solid, whereas the old ones (before gradient) were semi-transparent.

Pure love right here!