Aurora window theme

[Haleth]

Hello!

I have a little project going on in my UI with the goal to replace the default Blizzard artwork with my theme of choice, Aurora. I named it that way because of how light is visible right through the frames and I wanted the name to be as shiny as the looks.

It all started when Tukui beta included a small script that would modify frames such as the option frames, popups, ... And their buttons. This set me on my way to do this for every UI frame.

So how does it work? First. I replace the default Blizzard artwork with small fully transparent files in the Interface folder. I can't replace all artwork though, so I polish it up by using lua code to find and hide specific frame regions. When everything I don't need is stripped off, I apply a lua background or extra frames, do the same with the tabs, and restyle the buttons (which glow and pulsate in class colour on mouseover).

Even though it's rather simple, I'm quite proud of it.

This is how the new frames look:



















I still need to do the bg scoreboard and trade frame. Once I figure out how to change the text colour on the quest and dialog frame (halp) I will do those as well, and then every frame will be restyled. The spell book could use with a different text colour as well.

I'm also sill looking for some nice close button/scroll button/scroll bar/... To match it. I'm worthless with creating my own textures, so suggestions are welcome. Feel free to have a go at it if you want to. I'm thinking of a similar theme to the frames and buttons, or something OS X/Windows 7 like.

Big thanks to Tukz and Karudon for the original concept, sacrife for help with regions and Quokka for helping me with textures.

Because the original base code is still included I can't upload it separately, but it's included with permission in FreeUI.