import a single PNG with 2 different settings?

Hello all,
Suppose I have a single PNG that I want to use in two different ways. For example, I want in one material to use it point-sampled, but in another material use it bilinear-filtered. The only solution is to literally have two copies of the PNG in my project, one for each import setting. This seems less than ideal - any other way?

Thanks!

 

You can use a custom shader that does point sampling, and another that does bilinear filtering (or just samples the texture normally).

If you're targeting desktop, you can use inline samplers:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/SL-SamplerStates.html

Otherwise you can use something like the code in the post below which will work on any platform to point sample a bilinear texture.
https://forum.unity.com/threads/sampling-a-pixel-with-accuracy-in-vertex-shader.590044/#post-3939493