Get Texture2DArray from material?

Is it possible to retrieve a Texture2DArray from a material i C#?

we can get ColorArray, FloatArray, MatrixArray and VectorArray, any reason why not Texture2DArray?

Is there any know work around for this?

thanks.

 

Are you asking why there's no

GetTexture2DArray

function? Because GPUs don't support arrays of textures. A

Texture2DArray

is a "single texture object" that just happens to have a third dimension, like a

Texture3D

. Both of those and

Texture2D

use the

Texture

class as their parent, and that's what the

SetTexture

/

GetTexture

functions take. So to get a

Texture2DArray

from a material, you just need to call

GetTexture

with the appropriate property name.

 

@bgolus you are a hero sir!
for anyone looking to do this here's a small snippet example:

Code (CSharp):

1. private void Start()
2.     {
3.         Material mat = GetComponent<MeshRenderer>().material;
4.         texture2DArray = mat.GetTexture("_NameOfArrayInShader") as Texture2DArray;
5.         for (int i = 0; i < texture2DArray.depth; i++)
6.         {
7.             Color32[] pixels = texture2DArray.GetPixels32(i, 0);
8.             Texture2D texture = new Texture2D(texture2DArray.width, texture2DArray.height);
9.             texture.SetPixels32(pixels);
10.             texture.Apply();
11.             textures.Add(texture); //List of Texture2D
12.         }
13.     }