Component of type GUI Text is no longer available in Unity. References to it will be removed!

Asset & Content Management
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Hi

I know that GUI Text has been removed a few versions ago. So here his the thing, a project that I have from 2019.1 I’m trying to test and build&run on android using 2020.1, but when i build and run i get this error:

Warning (yellow)
Component of type GUI Text is no longer available in Unity. References to it will be removed!
Error (red)
Component could not be loaded when loading game object. Cleaning up!
UnityEngine.GUIUtility:ProcessEvent(Int32, IntPtr)

And it fails to compile and run.

I’ve checked all my scenes and prefabs and I can’t find GUI Text anywhere. But when I try to build it keeps giving me that error. Also, I tried to write a script to find “GUIText” on all my project and point me to where it is… but since GUIText is not any type in 2020, it can’t search for it.

Conclusion, how do we fix this? How do we find where it is located and remove it?

Need help with unity game versions upgrade.
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Have you tried looking for the component in 2019.1?

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Yes but I can’t find it. In any case the upgrade to 2019.3 and 2020.1 should remove it for you right?

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Hello, this is a known bug that should be fixed reasonably soon. Unfortunately, for now you will have to manually find these references and remove them. The easiest way is to run a text search through your scene files (if you’re using text serialization; if not - that’s going to be a bit more complicated). You should look for anything matching !u!92 (the ID for GUILayer), !u!131 (the ID for GUITexture) or !u!132 (the ID for GUIText) and remove the entire entry up to the next component (i.e. the first line beginning with — !u!XX below it).

The problem here is that you don’t see these loose components on GameObjects in the Editor, but the actual scene file does not get reserialized until you modify and save it. Thus, if no changes are made to the scene, it triggers the missing component check upon being loaded until it finally gets re-saved.

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Well, it happens on 2019.3 and 2020.1… pretty annoying because the error doesn’t even tell you in which file it found it

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We have the issue logged here: Unity Issue Tracker - Loading Scene files with removed Unity components results in uninformative errors

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It’s not only a problem of “warning thrown”… it is in fact an error thrown, and as such, it won’t build your game on android or iOS, blocking a customer release. So it is not something to take lightly

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To be fair, relying on an alpha or beta version for a client release sounds like a irresponsible thing to do

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Im reporting it here so it doesn’t make it to the final version. Not saying you should make releases with a beta/alpha. The idea is that it gets fixed before this turn final otherwise people won’t be able to make releases.

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Ok, I misunderstood your post then. My apologies

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So to conclude: 1) it’s an error that will stop a release (so it’s critical). 2) if the upgrade doesn’t automatically remove it, the compilation error should at least tell you which prefab or scene has it, so you can load it up and resave (that’s all it needs to do).

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The title and severity rating of this issue have been adapted. It is a high priority issue and @ascentress is working on a fix.

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Hi, updated to Unity 2019.3, got an error for every scene:
Component GUI Layer in Main Camera for Scene Assets/Scenes/FirstMenu.unity is no longer available.
It will be removed after you edit this GameObject and save the Scene.
UnityEngine.GUIUtility:processEvent(Int32, IntPtr)

but I didn’t use it at all in this project

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In older versions of Unity, the GUILayer component got added automatically to every camera, so if you’ve upgraded the project, that’s the cause.

If you’re not using OnGUI() in any MonoBehaviours, you can safely ignore the message.

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The error is critical, the project does not start,
decided simply: turned off on the camera Flare Layer

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This is the answer !
Remove FlareLayer Component

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Still happens in 2019.3.7!?

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The error handling has been improved for this. It should now point you to the affected GameObject.

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@MaxUnity111 @Jelmer123 @LeonhardP
The “Component GUI Layer in […] is no longer available” error is still persisting and removing the FlareLayer Component doesn’t resolve the issue for me. The Outline is not at all working/visible. Any help?

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Remove the component “Flare Layer” (main camera)

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