Using a Texture as a Button

Unity Engine
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I just spent the last two hours searching for different ways to implement textures as buttons. There are many, many different ways of doing it. The solution I choose is not on these forums (or at least I couldn’t find it), so I’m posting it here:

Summary:
Create a GUI.Button that will appear as just a texture. This is accomplished by stripping the clear border that normally appears around buttons.

Steps to implement:

  • Create a GUISkin, then find the Button section. Set all values in the following sections to zero: Border, Padding, and Margin.
  • In OnGUI(), set the GUI.skin as the skin you created. ((OR, if needed, you can set the style in the individual buttons.))
  • Create a GUI.Button with this definition from the GUI.Button Scripting Reference:
    static function Button (position : Rect, image : Texture, style : GUIStyle) : bool
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Thanks, this helped me!

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But how do you reference an image in your library as a texture in the button command? If I type the name of the image it treats it as a string.

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textures are not referenced by strings but by Texture2D objects.

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I know a string doesn’t work, I just said that.

The question is how to reference my texture.

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Create a public GUIStyle object in your class.

In your Button code, use the call that lets you specify a GUIStyle.

Then, in the inspector, open up your object, your GUIStyle object should be there. Open it up and in Normal and Hover there will be slots to drag your textures into.

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Awesome. Thanks!