Is there a way to make stuff in litestep by a certain % transparent (i.e. translucent)... and then when you mouse-over them, they fade in to 100% opacity, and fade back to transparency when the mouse moves away?
grdtransparent may be able to do everything listed above
*grdTransparent should do it, but you might need a module to have a mouseover action that you can set.
LSBox will do it for active/inactive, but not mouseovers (at least not that I can see in the 2.95 doc).
One thing you might be able to do is 'cheat' by making a hotspot around (1px greater on all sides) a given box or whatever it is, and have that mouseover change the transparency (you just might have to do a little tweaking as far as which is displayed first on the screen so that only the border is the hotspot).
don't forget a great animation module: lsdynamic ;)
You could also use layercut and make a fade in/out animation. Then you'd just need to set the fade out to your standard gfx and the fade in to your hover gfx.