How can I load texture files that are outside of my project folders?

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What I am trying to is be able to let a player drop custom texture files into a folder and be able to read those texture into my game. The folder sits in the same directory as the game executable, but I can’t seem to get the WWW class to work on relative folders and Resources.Load only works on files within the project. Can anyone help me out here?

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You can use

Directory.GetCurrentDirectory();

to find the local path, and then you can append the path of your external images and use a WWW with the file:// protocol to load them.

Or, you can use .net IO stuff to load the bytes of a file directly, but that doesn’t have quite as much functionality as Unity’s WWW class.