Color picker not displaying correctly

Unity Engine
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I’m having a problem where the Editor doesn’t display the color picker correctly in the vfx graph. I’ve been having this problem for some time now, and I can’t color my effect correctly because of this. I’m also using the Universal Render Pipeline with both Shader Graph and VFX Graph installed (and some others).

My symptoms listed below:

  • Color gradient box is really small
  • Intensity buttons don’t show up
  • Labels for intensity buttons are squished together.

Screenshot:

Error Messages in the Console:

Unable to find style 'ColorPickerOriginalColor' in skin 'GameSkin' mouseUp
UnityEngine.GUIUtility:ProcessEvent (int,intptr,bool&)

Unable to find style 'ColorPickerCurrentColor' in skin 'GameSkin' mouseUp
UnityEngine.GUIUtility:ProcessEvent (int,intptr,bool&)

Unable to find style 'ColorPicker2DThumb' in skin 'GameSkin' mouseUp
UnityEngine.GUIUtility:ProcessEvent (int,intptr,bool&)

Unable to find style 'ColorPickerHueRing' in skin 'GameSkin' mouseUp
UnityEngine.GUIUtility:ProcessEvent (int,intptr,bool&)

Unable to find style 'ColorPickerHueRing HDR' in skin 'GameSkin' mouseUp
UnityEngine.GUIUtility:ProcessEvent (int,intptr,bool&)

Unable to find style 'ColorPickerHueRingThumb' in skin 'GameSkin' mouseUp
UnityEngine.GUIUtility:ProcessEvent (int,intptr,bool&)

Unable to find style 'ColorPickerSliderBackground' in skin 'GameSkin' mouseUp
UnityEngine.GUIUtility:ProcessEvent (int,intptr,bool&)

Unable to find style 'ColorPickerBackground' in skin 'GameSkin' mouseUp
UnityEngine.GUIUtility:ProcessEvent (int,intptr,bool&)

Unable to find style 'ColorPickerExposureSwatch' in skin 'GameSkin' mouseUp
UnityEngine.GUIUtility:ProcessEvent (int,intptr,bool&)

Unable to find style 'ColorPickerCurrentExposureSwatchBorder' in skin 'GameSkin' mouseUp
UnityEngine.GUIUtility:ProcessEvent (int,intptr,bool&)

Internal: JobTempAlloc has allocations that are more than 4 frames old - this is not allowed and likely a leak

Internal: deleting an allocation that is older than its permitted lifetime of 4 frames (age = 5)

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I had the same problem and fixed it by updating the Visual Effects Graph in the package manager.

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Having same issue…

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I;m experiencing the same issue! Still dont know what caused it. Other projects seem to be normal

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Update Visual Effect Graph package then restart Unity and my Color picker is appearing normal again

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I have the same issue. It started today (2022.3.0f1) while using Visual Effect Graph (14.0.8). Then I updated Unity to 2022.3.2f1. Nothing has changed. I can’t use the color picker in the entire Unity Editor. Please help.

EDIT: Everything back to normal after deleting the Output Particle Node with the bugged color field.

EDIT 2: it’s back again… unable to use VFX Graph.

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I had this same issue and found this solution else where and it worked for me.

  1. “Mouse Click” at the color selection area on the color node.
  2. “esc” + “space”
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on the latest version but not working. i guess thats because im in the older version of unity

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If anyone else runs into this issue, what fixed it for me was switching my Editor Theme in Preferences - from Dark to Light and then back to Dark. The same can probably work if you switch from Light to Dark then back to LIght.

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This worked for me, thank you.