A combination of my longing to create a customized button and my excitement for the forthcoming game Star Citizen inspired me to make these 12 buttons. I took the frames of the logo from a video, edited them and used the morph function of the GAP plugin for GIMP to create additional transitional frames. First, the static buttons.
These are simpler than the other 6 in that they only light up. They do have a unique pressed state, as the spinning ones below use the hot frame for pressed.
This gif is an example of sorts of the spinning effect of the final 6 buttons. Since it's a gif, it looks really rough and to save time, I only rendered the spin effect twice. The actual buttons look much better. They spin 7 times before settling on the hot state. If I had my way, it would loop forever, but since that's not possible, I used as many frames as I could without the speed going faster than 24 frames per second.
These examples are all 50x50 pixels and I think that's the size of the original and Shell buttons. For flexibility and detail, I made them at 256x256. I think it looks pretty nice on my three row taskbar with the size set to 85, but play with it to get it to your liking. I worked hard on these, so I hope you find them to your liking.
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