Only use part of a sliced sprite

[wbronchart]

Hi all,

I'm trying to make a horizontal menu bar similar to the one on this forum. I have one rounded corner sprite with borders setup in unity.

Now, I want to setup the buttons for the horizontal menu. The outer buttons will be rounded, the inner buttons will just be blocks.

So what I want to do is get the slicedsprite to just use a part of the original sprite in the atlas:


Is this possible with the current release? If not, how can I best approach this?

Thanks
Waldo

[ArenMook]

http://www.tasharen.com/forum/index.php?topic=857.msg7373#msg7373

[wbronchart]

Thanks for your response Aren

I don't think you understood my question. My atlassed sprite doesn't need to tile. I want to reuse the same texture in the atlas, but only part of it.

I set up 3 sliced sprites:
- The left button uses: TopLeft, TopCenter, CenterLeft, CenterCenter, BottomLeft and BottomCenter
- The middle button uses: TopCenter, CenterCenter, BottomCenter
- the right button uses: TopCenter, TopRight, CenterCenter, CenterRight, BottomCenter and BottomRight

To get this functionality, I basically need to put 3 different textures into the atlas. But they could actually be sharing the same texture space.

I may also use all of the parts of the sliced sprite if there's only one button in the horizontal menu, if you know what I mean

[ArenMook]

Ah. All sprites are individually added to the atlas, so you can't do what you want without duplicating texture data.

On the bright side, the Unity's UI I am working on will let you specify the sliced border on each sprite individually. I don't know if it's any consolation or not though.

[wbronchart]

No worries, I just wanted to check if that functionality was already in there somewhere.

I wrote a SlicedSpritePart script that does what I need: