What stuff would one use to create a custom texture importer?

Unity Engine
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So… I’ve always thought it would be a cool idea for a game to allow the player to import their own custom textures and use them to say paint a car. What namespaces / methods would be used to pull these custom textures into the resources folder via code so I can make this happen?

Thanks for your time!

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You’d use standard C# file I/O to read the file, and then Texture2D.LoadImage to turn that data into a texture.

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Cool, but what kind of reader would that be? (System.IO.“???”) … Assuming I’m understanding this correctly.

(needs to set a byte array it looks like)
Sorry I haven’t been coding for long :slight_smile:

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Yes, you need to use the standard IO to load a byte array. The easiest way is using File.ReadAllBytes(filePath). Here’s some code to get you started:

byte[] data = File.ReadAllBytes("test.png");
Texture2D texture = new Texture2D(0, 0, TextureFormat.RGBA32, false);
texture.LoadImage(data);
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Awesome thanks so much!!!

and while I’m here is there a conversion to turn Texture2D to Sprite? (For Icons)

thanks again.

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Yeah, you can use Sprite.Create.

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Thank you all for your help!

I’m super exited to implement these new lessons, you guys rock! :slight_smile:

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