Time for action – create and link a custom GUI skin

Custom styling your UI controls is definitely more work than sticking to the Unity default, but the results are worth it! If you've ever worked with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), you'll have a better idea of what's going on here. CSS enables you to define the way a website looks; how the images are displayed, the font and size of the text, and the spacing of elements. All of the website's pages use that stylesheet to display their elements the same way. So you've got the thing, and then you've got the way the thing looks. It's like putting a costume on a kid at a birthday party. You can make the kid look like a pirate, a princess, a superhero, or a giant walking cupcake, but the foundation of the kid doesn't change. It's still little Billy under that foam cupcake suit. Two different websites can have the exact same content, but their stylesheets could make them appear radically different.

When you custom style your UI, you create a new ...