Custom GUI Style / GUI scaling

[4Magma]

How can i change font size, color and background color?
BCM appears in white on grey in small font size.

[ManlyMarco]

You have to compile your own build with a custom gui skin, or make a plugin that hooks config manager and change the gui skin from there. Something like this https://github.com/ManlyMarco/RuntimeUnityEditor/blob/master/RuntimeUnityEditor/UI/InterfaceMaker.cs#L43

[4Magma]

Isn't there a easier way?
I use BCM with Valheim, but the small white text on gray is bad to read.
The Pic on the intro page shows BCM in white on black.

[ManlyMarco]

At the moment the game's own skin is used, there's no built in way to change this. The only way would be to change the code to use a custom skin like in runtime editor.

[Baccanno]

I'm interested in this too, every UI is very small on my QHD panel.
I got the source code, now I'm just wondering how I should override the GUISkin.

[ManlyMarco]

You would have to recalculate sizes of at least fonts for all the different gui styles based on resolution. Create a copy of GUI.skin, make your changes, and then set your copy as the skin to use on every ongui call.

[Baccanno]

I would also have to do it for all plugins additional UI calls? It does not seem manageable. Maybe going with dnSpy and changing some values ?
Also, any idea of the base police size on Unity ?

[ManlyMarco]

Yes, this would have to be done in every plugin separately. Some plugins would work fine with just a copy of the code, but others would require major rewrites if they use GUI instead of GUILayout and autoscaling windows. A custom skin like this could be exposed from some API library to make it easier to add it to plugins, like what RuntimeUnityEditor does with its own custom skin.

[Faithfinder]

Yes please?

[shaojiaxu]

You have to compile your own build with a custom gui skin, or make a plugin that hooks config manager and change the gui skin from there. Something like this https://github.com/ManlyMarco/RuntimeUnityEditor/blob/master/RuntimeUnityEditor/UI/InterfaceMaker.cs#L43

The link is 404 now :(

[ManlyMarco]

@shaojiaxu https://github.com/ManlyMarco/RuntimeUnityEditor/blob/093c859332fc02dbab87428090b522b0e5ca515b/RuntimeUnityEditor/UI/InterfaceMaker.cs

[JoewAlabel]

I found a good solution for this problem:

1- Find the exe file of your game, and RMB click it.
2- Click at > Properties
3- Click at Compatibility tab.
4- Click the button: Change high DPI settings
5- Check (enable) the first option below Program DPI
6- Check (enable) the last option below High DPI scaling override
7- At this drop-down list, select > System

Screen Shot

[Stroichik]

I can add, that if i run Valheim with Vulkan from Steam - i get whitewashed GUI from Config Menu. If i run it from exe or without Vulkan - GUI looks normal colored.

[ManlyMarco]

@JoewAlabel @Stroichik Can you check if the latest version of RuntimeUnityEditor also has this GUI issue?

[Stroichik]

@ManlyMarco If i run with Vulkan - it looks same whitewashed

And this is how it both looks without Vulkan

Its not something very critical, but a fix would be appreciated

[ManlyMarco]

The second screenshot is how it should always look like, I have no idea how Vulkan can affect this outside of it being an Unity bug. I guess it could be partially resolved by having a darker version of the skin but there's no way to fix it automatically.

[Stroichik]

Well, as i said, its not really that critical.

[y0soro]

I have wrote the https://github.com/y0soro/Unity.IMGUI.HiDPI.Patcher to adrress the scaling issue.

Also it's possible to apply method described in https://github.com/y0soro/Unity.IMGUI.HiDPI.Patcher#implement-hidpi-scaling-for-your-imgui-application so BepInEx.ConfigurationManager or any other IMGUI application can have native scaling support.