Problem with gui.skin

Unity Engine
1

Hey guys,

I’m trying to change the gui.skin to another skin but I’ve tried it for several times but it doesn’t seem to work.
When adding a new skin I don’t receive the same icon that I see with people over the internet, I’ve uploaded a screen shot of the icon I receive.

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I’m very new to Unity so it’s possible that It’s just a simple mistake but I’m not sure. Is it because I’m running Unity Free?
I’ve made a script with this code :

public GUISkin customSkin;
void OnGUI()
{
GUI.skin = customSkin;
print(“customSkin setted”);
}

I attached this script with my Main Camera and attached the new skin to it. He does print ‘’ print(“customSkin setted”);‘’

Anybody who can help me?
Thanks!

2

GUI.skin doesn’t modify the appearance of console messages, only GUI components, like GUI.Button and GUI.Label etc.

3

Hey Beennn,

I know that it doesn’t affect my console, but the fact that he writes to the console means that he did change the skin, I have all kinds of buttons, toggles, labels in my project but the skin isn’t applied to it…

4

You didn’t check if it was set, you just printed a message, which would print with or without the skin being set. You’d do something like:

	void OnGUI () {

		GUI.skin = testskin;

		if (GUI.skin != testskin)
			return;

		print ("skin was applied");
	
	}

To check if the skin had been set.

5

Try setting GUI.skin = customSkin at the beginning of all of your OnGUI() methods that need to use the custom skin.

As a test, change your script to:

public GUISkin customSkin;
void OnGUI()
{
    GUI.skin = customSkin;
    print("customSkin setted");
    GUILayout.Label("This is a label");
    GUILayout.Button("This is a button");
    // If you've defined custom styles, add controls for them here.
}

When you run this, does it use the custom skin?

Also, when posting code, please read about Using code tags properly.

6

Hey TonyLi,

Thanks for your response, I didn’t know that I had to apply it to each script so Problem Solved! Thank you very much!

7

Happy to help!