Spritesheet as a GUI element

i' like to have a spritesheet (a flipping coin pixel graphic) to be part of the gui. when i use the sprite on a simple polygon model i can animate the coin flipping by changing the tileset.. this does not work for GUI elements.

is there a way to change the tiling of GUI elements OR is there a way to get another object in front the GUI layer in order to have it visible in front of the GUI?

thanks in advance

 

You can crop or tile a texture using GUI.DrawTextureWithTexCoords

Parameters

position: Represent position and "total" size of texture.
texCoords: Use percentage per unit. Relative Left-Lower corner, and relative scale.

Axes Origin

OnGUI origin is Left-Upper corner: position parameter use this origin.
But, DrawTextureWithTexCoords origin is Left-Lower corner: texCoords use this origin.

With texCoords parameter you can crop(percentage between 0-1) or tile image (width or height upper to 1).

To maintain aspect, also you must change "total" size of texture(position parameter).

Before this, you need save texture initial size(width,height).

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using System.Collections;
3. [ExecuteInEditMode]
4. public class NewBehaviourScript : MonoBehaviour {
5.     public Texture image;
6.     [Range(0f,1f)]
7.     public float x=0f;
8.     [Range(0f,1f)]
9.     public float y=0f;
10.     [Range(0f,1f)]
11.     public float width=1f;
12.     [Range(0f,1f)]
13.     public float height=1f;
14.     float initialWidth,initialHeight;
15.     bool imageEnabled=false;
16.     void Update(){
17.         if(!this.imageEnabled) if(this.image!=null){
18.             this.initialWidth = this.image.width;
19.             this.initialHeight = this.image.height;
20.             this.imageEnabled=true;
21.         }
22.     }
23.     void OnGUI(){
24.         if(imageEnabled){
25.             Rect position = new Rect(0f,0f,this.initialWidth*this.width,this.initialHeight*this.height);
26.             Rect coords = new Rect(this.x,this.y,this.width,this.height);
27.             GUI.DrawTextureWithTexCoords(position,this.image,coords);
28.         }
29.     }
30. }

 

thanks alot!!!!

 

actually this works for me to get the sprite displays but it overrides the properties of the GUI component, so the positioning of the transform and the pixel inset does work anymore. how can i get this properties working again in order to set the position of the sprite.

also i'd like to have an animated sprite. i used to change the tiling of the sprite on normal meshes.

but this way i just can't get around how to do it.