What's the new intended way of setting platform-specific Texture Import settings (overrides)?

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UPDATE: I ended up figuring this out… I was making a really dumb mistake. I’m editing this rather than bumping my own thread up with my own comment.

My primary mistake is that I didn’t realize that only some of the overload signatures for the SetPlatformTextureSettings method were marked obsolete: namely, including the one that appears first in Visual Studio’s Intellisense. And then when I went to the manual to read the documentation, this was confirmed to me with obsolete signatures being at the top of the page (simply put: I did not realize there were additional, non-obsoleted signatures for this method at first glance)

Here’s the actual answer to my question (this is not clear at all, actually - it’s actually kind of weird)
You have to first GET the platform settings, then set the values to the properties you’re tweaking, and then SET the platform settings…

var androidOverrides = textureImporter.GetPlatformTextureSettings("Android");
androidOverrides.overridden = true;
androidOverrides.format = TextureImporterFormat.ETC2_RGB4;
textureImporter.SetPlatformTextureSettings(androidOverrides);

Not sure why you have to do it like this, but this seems like something that should be documented more clearly!

My original post:

I’m writing a AssetPostProcessor with the goal of automatically applying Android-specific importer settings on textures places in a certain folder (mainly compression).

But the obvious methods I can find for doing this are all marked Obsolete with no hint as to what the new “correct” method should be!

What’s the scripting API I should be using to:

  • Set “override for ” to true
  • Set “Format” (which is a type “TextureImporterFormat” enum)

I’d rather not use obsolete APIs if I can help it, if I’m just going to need to go change em later.

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Imagine this still being the case in 2020 - thanks dude!

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Now, this is 2024 and it can be works!!!

Thanks!!!

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This unblocked me from weeks of work… thank you so much!!

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Thank you so much!
It’s mid 2024 and nothing has changed. I was ready to give up on this when I found this thread.