weird color or lighting bug in Unity?

[jortd]

Hi everyone!

There’s something going on with an image on my canvas, it has a different color than it should be.

This image has an material that is set to the color White, but as you can see, it isn’t. its a full dark image and I’ve been pulling my hair out that I couldn’t fix it. is it a bug or did I do something wrong? In other scenes, the same thing happens with images, if the material is attached to for instance, a cube, it works as it should.

This image and this cube(background) both have the same material, but the image is fully dark. How can I fix this? Thanks!

[Garazbolg]

You shouldn’t be using the standard shader for UI elements. The standard shader use lighting, so without lights you object will be black.

For UI elements use a UI shader unless you know what you’re doing with those shaders. Or even better stick to the default one, and just modify the color value in the Image component.