Question How to Use Sprite Assets Loaded From Addressables?

Hello Unity Chums,

For our game, we'll be displaying various glyphs in text with UI Toolkit. According to the documentation: https://docs.unity3d.com/2021.3/Documentation/Manual/UIE-sprite.html, this requires loading Sprite Assets from the Resources folder. However, we need to load these Sprite Assets using the Addressables system instead.

When using TextMeshPro with UGUI, you can do this by adding the Sprite Asset to the MaterialReferenceManager after loading it from Addressables. Unfortunately it doesn't seem like this option is available in TextCore currently. There's also the Sprite Asset Fallback List in the Text Settings, although it looks like this isn't currently implemented.

Are there any other aproaches I'm missing to using Sprites in UITK Labels after loading them from Addressables?

Thanks,
aurochFreddie

Update:
TextMeshPro 4.0.0-pre.2 includes updates to help with UITK integration, but still does not solve this issue.

 

BUMP?

 

Hi, you can use built-in function in Addressables - LoadAssetAsync.

 

Thanks for the reply!

We can load the Sprite Assets just fine with LoadAssetAsync. The problem is then how to use those assets with TextCore in UITK at runtime.

 

Thanks Hugo!

Using the Sprite Asset Fallback List works, but you aren't able to specify the Sprite Asset name, only the Sprite name. Makes it awkward if you have two Sprites with the same name in different Sprite Assets, but we can work around that by managing which Sprite Assets are loaded into the Fallback List.

Thanks again!