Problem with getting resources and adding to list. (c#)

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Hello, I’m having some trouble with what I hoped to be a reasonably easy piece of code. My intention is for it set a GameObject variable to be a file ending in .prefab from a resources folder and then changing the name to be a number before adding it to a list and increasing said number until there’s no remaining GameObjects in the folder.

For some reason, it doesn’t want to work properly - but I’m getting no errors, so I have no clue what’s gone wrong.

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public class PrefabSetup : MonoBehaviour {

	public static List<GameObject> prefabRooms = new List<GameObject>();
	public static int prefabCount = 0;

	void Start () {

		int objectNumber = 0;
		string objectNumberAsString;
		bool prefabsLoaded = false;

		while (prefabsLoaded == false) {
			GameObject currentObject = Resources.Load("*.prefab") as GameObject;

			System.Threading.Thread.Sleep (50);

			if (currentObject == null) {
				Debug.Log ("currentObject = null");
				prefabsLoaded = true;
			} else {
				Debug.Log (currentObject.ToString ());
				objectNumberAsString = objectNumber.ToString ();
				currentObject.name = objectNumberAsString;

				Debug.Log ("Set To: " + currentObject.ToString ());
				prefabRooms.Add (currentObject);

				objectNumber++;
				prefabCount++;
			}
		}
	}
	
	void Update () {
	
	}
}

Any help would be appreciated. The reason I’m doing it this way and not simply doing a GameObject array with a Resources.LoadAll is I eventually want to have a progress bar or loading percentage and I want it to visibly go through every file and load it one after the other.

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So I’m pretty sure this:

Resources.Load("*.prefab")

can’t possibly work the way you intend. That’ll return null right off the bat. You’ll get “currentObject = null” in your console, and then the loop is over.