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I have got a script to rotate a gui texture with a certain angle, but I’m not able to find a rotate by touch algorithm.

Something like the one in this game: the wheel rotates by touch.
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Any ideas?

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Here is my take on the problem. I did not know GUI.DrawTexture()s could be rotated. The core logic was borrowed from this here from code that was posted by @ben pitt. This code needs to attached to an empty game object.

using UnityEngine;
[ExecuteInEditMode()] 
public class RotatableGuiItem : MonoBehaviour {
    public Texture2D texture = null;
	public Vector2 size = new Vector2(128, 128);

    private float angle = 0;
    private Vector2 pos = new Vector2(0, 0);
    private Rect rect;
    private Vector2 pivot;
	private bool rotating = false;
	private float initialMouseAngle;
	
	void Start() {
        UpdateSettings();
    }
	
    void UpdateSettings() {
		pos = new Vector2(transform.localPosition.x, transform.localPosition.y);
        rect = new Rect(pos.x - size.x * 0.5f, pos.y - size.y * 0.5f, size.x, size.y);
		Debug.Log ("Rect="+rect);
        pivot = new Vector2(rect.xMin + rect.width * 0.5f, rect.yMin + rect.height * 0.5f);
    }
 
    void OnGUI() {
		if (Application.isEditor) { UpdateSettings(); }
		Vector2 guiMouse = Input.mousePosition;
		guiMouse.y = Screen.height - guiMouse.y;
		if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0) && rect.Contains(guiMouse)) {
			Vector2 v2T = ((Vector2)guiMouse - pivot);
			initialMouseAngle = Mathf.Atan2(v2T.y, v2T.x) - angle * Mathf.Deg2Rad;
			rotating = true;
		}
		else if (Input.GetMouseButton(0) & rotating) {
			Vector2 v2T = ((Vector2)guiMouse - pivot);
			angle = (Mathf.Atan2 (v2T.y, v2T.x) - initialMouseAngle)  * Mathf.Rad2Deg;
		}
		else if (Input.GetMouseButtonUp(0)) {
			rotating = false;
		}
       	Matrix4x4 matrixBackup = GUI.matrix;
        GUIUtility.RotateAroundPivot(angle, pivot);
        GUI.DrawTexture(rect, texture);
        GUI.matrix = matrixBackup;
    }
}
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It’s working, but the angles values are strange, is there any way to limit it to 360 and -360 ?