Question How do I use a PNG file in StreamingAssets folder?

Hello,

I'm trying to use a .PNG file from the StreamingAssets folder as a Sprite.
But I have no idea how to do this. I can only find people bringing it to a Texture2D but I need it as a Sprite.
And haven't found anything on converting from Texture2D to Sprite.

I'm also wondering about texture/sprites settings (Texture Type, Filter Mode, Compression, ....) for this file.

Any suggestions?

 

A sprite is a texture.

Essentially, if you mean a sprite in the scene view, then it will be a GameObject that has a SpriteRenderer which references one or more Sprites which references a Texture2D. A texture asset can be set to "sprite" mode which optimizes it for use in the SpriteRenderer and opens up options such as including it in a spritesheet.

Note that whatever you edit in the Inspector of the assets won't be available from StreamingAssets because these files are loaded at runtime, thus there is no asset importer. If you HAVE to load sprites from StreamingAssets at runtime they need to be textures and they should be loaded as Texture2D and then you create a Sprite instance and assign the texture to it.

 

It gives me a: Cannot implicitly convert type 'UnityEngine.Texture2D' to 'UnityEngine.Sprite'

 

don't convert/cast, assign
more or less like so:

Texture2D tex = (load from streaming assets);
Sprite spr = new Sprite();
spr.texture = tex;

 

it won't let me do: spr.texture = tex;
it's a {get} / read-only...

 

Sorry, haven't been using Sprite for a while. You have to Create(..) a sprite and pass in the texture.

 

Aaah! Awesome! It's working now! : )
Thank you very much for the help!