Sprite Rendering

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(I’m using Unity 5.5)

Hi everyone,

I am writing a mobile game that uses many different icons at any given time, so I’m loading all my images at runtime to reduce size and compilation time loading. I can’t seem to get my sprites to load currently, can anyone tell me what is wrong with my code?

Thanks! Here’s the necessary portions:

	public GameObject _enchantment1icon;
	public GameObject _enchantment2icon;
	public GameObject _gem1icon;
	public GameObject _gem2icon;
	public GameObject _mog1icon;
	public GameObject _mog2icon;

public void loadCharacter(Text character){
		_statsName.text = character.text;
		_characterStats.gameObject.SetActive (true);
		_playButton.gameObject.SetActive (true);

		switch (character.text) {
		default:
			_enchantment1icon.GetComponent<Image> ().sprite = Resources.Load<Sprite> ("images/enchantment1icon.png") as Sprite;
			_enchantment2icon.GetComponent<Image> ().sprite = Resources.Load<Sprite> ("images/enchantment2icon.png") as Sprite;
			_gem1icon.GetComponent<Image> ().sprite = Resources.Load<Sprite> ("images/gem1icon.png") as Sprite;
			_gem2icon.GetComponent<Image> ().sprite = Resources.Load<Sprite> ("images/gem2icon.png") as Sprite;
			_mog1icon.GetComponent<Image> ().sprite = Resources.Load<Sprite> ("images/pawn1default.png") as Sprite;
			_mog2icon.GetComponent<Image> ().sprite = Resources.Load<Sprite> ("images/pawn2default.png") as Sprite;
			break;
		}

	}

As a note: I am pulling images in other parts of my code for buttons, and that is working. So the pathways are certainly correct, my confusion just comes from loading sprites from resources.

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File extensions must be omitted from assets specified to Resources.Load: Unity - Scripting API: Resources.Load

_gem1icon.GetComponent<Image> ().sprite = Resources.Load<Sprite> ("images/gem1icon") as Sprite;

etc.