Resources.Load question

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did a little digging and haven’t figure out the issue… but basically i’m looking at setting up some localization texture swaps using Resources.Load but i have immediately ran into a road block.

Just a simple test as follows…

		GameObject go = GameObject.Find("story01BG");
		go.renderer.material.mainTexture = Resources.Load("de_notes_1");

nets this error…

Assets/scripts/helpers/LocalizedTextures.cs(15,38): error CS0266: Cannot implicitly convert type UnityEngine.Object' to UnityEngine.Texture’. An explicit conversion exists (are you missing a cast?)

Not really sure what i’m missing but that is verbatim from the unity docs. Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

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Provided it’s C#:

		GameObject go = GameObject.Find("story01BG");
		go.renderer.material.mainTexture = Resources.Load("de_notes_1") as Texture2D;

Resources.Load() casts it up as a base Object, so you have to specify what it is before passing it to mainTexture.

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Thanks for the quick reply Ntero. Now to my next, and hopefully final q. :slight_smile:

		Texture currentTexture = SourceObjects[0].renderer.material.mainTexture;
		SourceObjects[0].renderer.material.mainTexture = Resources.Load("de/" + currentTexture) as Texture2D;

Basically i want to reference the same exact texture that is currently being used (aka currentTexture) and then reapply that using a texture of the same name from the resources folder (in this instance the one located in de/.

The problem i’m having is that i can’t seem to get the captured name from my texture converted to a string. If it replace (“de/” + currentTexture) with (“de/notes_01”) it loads fine. I’ve tried converting the texture name to a string using toString() but it doesn’t seem to want to convert (saying that Texture doesn’t support toString).

Cheers!

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currentTexture is a texture, not a string. You might want to test with currentTexture.name instead

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@Dremora,

Thanks a ton. I knew was missing something.

Appreciate the help everyone.