Dynamically load textures from project into script

Unity Engine
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I understand you can assign a texture(s) to public vars in a script, but I will not know what textures to load (into the gui) until runtime. Is there a way to do this in C#? I have looked everywhere…

2

yes, put them into the resources subfolder of your project and use Instantiate( Resources.Load( … ), … )

3

Perfect, that worked.

4

FYI, if you’re dealing with JPG or PNG files you can also have them externally stored on a server, then load them on demand via the WWW class. Just thought I’d offer that as extra information for you to consider.

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Also on the additional information train, you can load up textures from any data stream (like an external file for instance or a network stream) by reading the data into a byte array and using Texture2D.LoadImage: http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/ScriptReference/Texture2D.LoadImage.html . For instance I’m using this to load images stored in the resource fork of .net assemblies.