Can you load images from outside the resources folder?

Questions & Answers
1

I’m developing my game-editor as a windows forms project, and my game-player as a Unity Project.
Both of these applications Load the same Game Data, either for editing or for testing.
Therefore, I find it conceptually irritating to have to locate the game-data inside of the Unity Project resources folder.
I’ve located my game-data folder outside of both of the project folders.
I can load all of my data files using the C# file framework.
The only files I can’t load are the image files because (as far as I know) they have to be loaded using the unity resources.load method if you want to use the images in a unity application.

Is there a way I can load images from my hard drive to use as textures in unity, without placing them inside of the resources folder?

I’ve been thinking about this… Could I make it automatically copy the images into the resources folder first?

2

You can load local file is outside assets folder. Use www.

WWW www = new WWW("file:///User/MyTexture.png");
yield return www;

Additionally, if you want to load aresource inside assets folder but not resources, this case you can use LoadAssetAtPath. Carefully, LoadAssetAtPath only work in UnityEditor.