button customization

hello TD folks,
I was wondering if it is somehow possible to create custom buttons in TD, for example using a picture instead of a solid background. I did some googling and found nothing, so it might be either completely obvious or not even conceivable, or they might be some workaround that I cannot see.
Thank you for any hint :smiley:

You certainly can.
If you place a Button COMP and zoom in to it, you’ll find in there a Text TOP called ‘bg’.
This TOP is by default used as the button background image, and you can change this to anything.

See this very ugly 5-seconds example where I added a banana. But you can composite anything to fill in the background of a button, for instance you can also use movies as the background for a button, or a 3d animation if you want to.
bananabutton.tox (1.03 KB)

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also see a tutorial here how to play with colors for all states of a button
matthewragan.com/2013/11/02/tou … nterfaces/

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and for some more inspiration drag a few buttons&knobs from the Palette (category:UI) into your network and see how the the background of each button is composited in each of them and how fully customizable they are.

ok, so this was completely obvious :smiley:
thank you for your patience sir!