Load binary files from Resources

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1

I am trying to load some binary files from my Resources folder as TextAsset.

Currently I am doing this:

TextAsset ta = Resources.Load("myAsset.bytes", typeof(TextAsset)) as TextAsset;
byte[] bytes = ta.bytes;

However this doesn't seem to work correctly. I have a file that is supposed to be 176kb long, but bytes.Length reports it's only 85524 bytes long. Also I found out using a hex editor, that when parsing the file the first byte of the file is not read. Instead it starts with the second byte. I have another file that is a lot shorter (~36kb), which is read correctly with the same code.

So I’m wondering what might cause this behaviour. Is there a limit on how big a TextAsset can be? Or is there maybe an error because of non-ASCII character stripping of the importer? I thought I dealt with that problem by naming the file myAsset.bytes.

2

Unity 2.6 cannot use TextAsset.bytes correctly; you need to use Unity 3. (It works fine in Unity iPhone 1.7 though.)