Loading Mesh assets for MeshFilter assignment

Unity Engine
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Hi all,

I am having trouble using “AssetDatabase.LoadAssetAtPath” and even using “Resources.Load” to load a .mesh file in the editor hierarchy and assign it to a prefab’s MeshFilter.

I am doing this as an editor function, not application runtime. I am trying to use the following code:

Mesh referenceMesh = (Mesh)AssetDatabase.LoadAssetAtPath(newMeshRefPath, typeof(Mesh)) as Mesh;

The path is correct, I have triple checked it in debug and it is returning null. Can .mesh files be loaded like this? Does anyone have an alternative if not?

Thanks!

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For anybody else that might be having this trouble…

I was perusing the Unity documentation for other reasons a few days ago and noticed a mention of Unity’s ‘supported file extensions’ and it got me to thinking. I believe .mesh is not actually a supported extension in Unity.

If you are saving meshes that you want to assign later, rather than ‘.mesh’, use ‘.asset’ and it will solve the issues I describe above.