Display a part of a texture in a Guilabel

Unity Engine
1

hi,

I have a texture (256x256) which has around 200 flags in it nicely put on a grid and eah flag is 18x12 pixels.

Now I’d like to be able to display just 1 of these flags in the new GUI.

Like GUI.Label(Rect(0,0,18,12),flagtexture);

But it may only be 1 texture, so a small part of the big texture.

I want to use this technique to save space because it seems rediculous to me to have to use 200 separate textures and all their overhead when it can be done with only 1 texture containing them all?

Found an article here (http://www.unifycommunity.com/wiki/index.php?title=Animating_Tiled_texture_-_Extended) but thats working with a material and it looks like GUI stuff is not working with material.

Anyone have a suggestion on how to achieve this ?

Regards,

Bart

2

Hmm, anyone know maybe if I could change my flags to be a custom font and then use that font on a guilabel to display the flags, or am I dreaming loud now ?

3

Why don’t you just copy that rect from the big texture to a new texture, and set the label to use that?

4

Any suggestion on how to do that ?