How to use Resources.Load within Dictionary?

Questions & Answers
1

Hi, I’ve a bunch of prefabs (meshes) I’m trying to load from a dictionary.

Here’s an add from one of the dictionaries:

    public static Dictionary<GripParts, GripPartValues> gripParts = new Dictionary<GripParts, GripPartValues>()
    {
        {GripParts.Grip1, new GripPartValues(Resources.Load("Prefabs/Items/Weapons/Grips/Grip1") as GameObject, 150f, 40f, "Twohanded", "Zweihander")},
    };

When trying to instantiate whichever prefab I try it always comes out as null, “the object you want to insantiate is null”-error.

Custom class called by the dictionary add:

public class GripPartValues
    {
        GameObject _gripPrefab;

        float _gripValue;
        float _gripDurability;
        string _gripStyle;
        string _gripName;

        public GameObject GripPrefab
        {
            get{return _gripPrefab;}
            set{_gripPrefab = value;}
        }

        public float GripValue
        {
            get{return _gripValue;}
            set{_gripValue = value;}
        }

        public float GripDurability
        {
            get{return _gripDurability;}
            set {_gripDurability = value;}
        }

        public string GripStyle
        {
            get{return _gripStyle;}
            set{_gripStyle = value;}
        }

        public string GripName
        {
            get{return _gripName;}
            set{_gripName = value;}
        }

        public GripPartValues(GameObject gripPrefab, float gripValue, float gripDurability, string gripStyle, string gripName)
        {
            gripPrefab = _gripPrefab;
            gripValue = _gripValue;
            gripDurability = _gripDurability;
            gripStyle = _gripStyle;
        }
    }

Resources.Load(“Prefabs/Items/Weapons/Grips/Grip1”)
Folderpath: Assets>Resources>Prefabs>Items>Weapons>Grips>Grip1, Grip2, etc, etc

2

You should also show us the instantiate code but… I found this gem.

public GripPartValues(GameObject gripPrefab, float gripValue, float gripDurability, string gripStyle, string gripName)
{
  gripPrefab = _gripPrefab;
  gripValue = _gripValue;
  gripDurability = _gripDurability;
  gripStyle = _gripStyle;
}

should be

public GripPartValues(GameObject gripPrefab, 
                      float gripValue, 
                      float gripDurability, 
                      string gripStyle, 
                      string gripName)
{
  _gripPrefab     = gripPrefab;
  _gripValue      = gripValue;
  _gripDurability = gripDurability;
  _gripStyle      = gripStyle;
  _gripName       = gripName
}