Stretching a Texture2D to fill entire button

ina · October 30, 2011, 7:58am

How do you stretch a texture2d to fill an entire button (with button being larger than the texture2d)?

How do you do this if the texture2d is square, and the button is rectangular - how do you get it to stretch the entire long length of the rectangle?

Bunny83 · October 31, 2011, 3:39am

To make a GUIStyle to stretch it’s background image you:

have to set fixedHeight and / or fixedWidth to 0
have to set stretchHeight and / orstretchWidth to true
may want to setup a border (that isn’t streched) or set it to (0,0,0,0)
may want to set an overflow value to make the image larger than the element is.

btw. A GUISkin is just a collection of GUIStyles (and some general settings). Every GUI element is drawn with a GUIStyle. A GUISkin is just an easy way to exchange all styles at once.

smartkiran143 · December 11, 2012, 6:09am

when you import images unity resizes it to the nearest power of two…

so click on your image, go to your inspector and then change ‘Texture Type’ to ‘GUI’ .

and now give that texture to your button like this and it works…

GUI.Button(new Rect(Screen.width/2-100, Screen.height/2, 200, 50), texture, btnStyle);

btnStyle is a custom GUI style… just check ‘Stretch Width’ and ‘Stretch Height’