HUD window transparency issue

Author: Aaronn Solomon

12/1/2023

The Problem

I had noticed that the stylish window as a part of the HUD was mostly translucent, making some things a bit hard to see. For the longest time, I couldn't find a way to make only a certain part of the window transparent. I looked in the sprite editor, the inspector, and the properties, but nothing was working.

The Solution

After much research, I discovered that Unity has no way to do the thing I specifically wanted it to do. To do that, I had to export the window sprite to an image editing software. I ended up using GIMP, edited the picture in that program, and then re-imported the picture in Unity and used that modified picture as the new window sprite. After all that, the window looked a little different but was perfectly transparent in the places I wanted.