how do you apply a project texture to a texture2D var

Unity Engine
1

i’m doing some stuff with GUIStyles and the one roadblock for me is trying to find textures in my Assets folder to apply into a texture2D var so that I can hand it off to the GUIStyle. any help would be most appreciated.

cheers,
malcolm.

2

simply declare a variable of type Texture2D

var myTexture: Texture2D;

in your script, and when you save it, a slot wil pop up in the inspector when you choose the script. This new slot will accept any texture that you drag and drop onto it.

3

i’m wondering more if there’s a way through script to find the actual texture so you don’t have to apply it through the inspector.

because with normal gameobjects you can just do:

var myObj : GameObject;
myObj = GameObject.Find("objectName");

and this will make the variable have that gameObject. I’m looking for something like that but with textures that aren’t applied currently anywhere. so i’m looking for something like this:

var myTexture : Texture2d;
myTexture = findTexture("textureName");

there’s something similar in the EditorGUIUtility class but I couldn’t figure out how to get that to work from the editor script back into my main script.

cheers,
malcolm.[/code]

4

Resources.Load

–Eric

5

i’d briefly seen that one, but i didn’t know if that was the preferred method. thanks for the advice.

cheers,
malcolm.

6

Assigning via the inspector is generally preferred, unless you have a good reason otherwise (like 5000 textures or something, which would be really tedious to do manually).

–Eric

7

I am having a similar issue.

I am trying to create a command that can create a list of prefabs from a given set of commands. My only issue is I cannot grab a texture from file.

I am hoping to assign the texture via code, because I create my materials per object.

I have tried EditorGUIUtility.Load(), Resources.Load(), and EditorGUIUtility.FindTexture(). They all return null. I have tried using many different asset pathname styles (Assets/theAsset, Assets/theAsset.png, theAsset, theAsset.png, Assets//theAsset, Assets//theAsset.png) and those do not seem to fix the issue.

I’m curious if there is any syntax issues, or my misunderstanding how to get a particular asset.

Here is what I have:

			Texture tex = (Resources.Load(mydata.data.prefabList[i].texture))as Texture;
			
			Material mat = new Material(Shader.Find ("Transparent/Diffuse"));
			mat.mainTexture = tex;

texture is a string containing the path.