Creating Solid Colored Bg Rectangle With Code

Unity Engine
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I’m really new to Unity scripting (I come from a Flash AS2 and AS3 background), and I’m trying to create a solid 2 dimensional background.

In flash, I would do something like this:

var canvas:Sprite = new Sprite();
var gfx:Graphics = canvas.graphics;
gfx.drawRect(0,0,200,200,0x0);
addChild(canvas);

And that would place a solid black rectangle (200x200) at the point 0,0 on the stage. In Unity, I’ve been looking around at the built in GUI functions. I figured out how to manually create a GUI element, add a texture to it, and then make it solid black - however, this is all within the Unity UI. How would I do something like this with code (I’m using Javascript)

I was hoping to do something similar to this:

var color:int = 0x000000;//assuming colors are assigned in hexadecimal format
var width:int = 200;
var height:int = 200;
var x:int = 20;
var y:int = 20;

Gui.drawRectangle(x,y,width,height,color);

drawRectangle is not a Gui function, but is there something similar that will allow me to draw a simple rectangle? Do I have to manually create a material in the Unity UI?

Thanks for any help!
LaRue

2

You can just change the background color of the camera to black.

–Eric

3

Thanks! That’ll work perfectly for what I’m planning on doing. I didn’t even know that was possible.