Accessing texture for GUI through Script?

Questions & Answers
1

I have an image that I want to be able to be shown in the GUI. I’ve made a variable for the texture, but I can’t use the Inspector to assign the image. How would I go about assigning the image to the texture variable? I have this:

var axeTexture : Texture;
function Start () 
{
	axeTexture = Resources.Load("axe");
}

function OnGUI ()
{   	
    GUI.DrawTexture(Rect(Screen.width/2-49, Screen.height/2-47,98,94), axeTexture);
}
2

Remove the Start function. If you’re assigning the variable in the inspector, you wouldn’t use Resources.Load.

3

Anyone else who is having problems with this and is getting the “Null reference exception” error, make sure that you have a folder called “Resources” in your Project panel. And the code in my original post should work, once you make the Resources folder.