Load image from file and apply to material.

With a beginner C# level, I'm developping an application for Oculus Go. the goal here is to externalize the big 360 images and video from the apk, and to manually place them on the Headset Storage. it works for the videos, and I'm now trying to do it with the images. the image will be applied as a texture to a skybox material set as environnement. Here's the Script I came up with. Note that Unity doesn't detect any errors, but the image doesn't show up when I run the app on the Oculus Go.

Code (CSharp):

1. public class ImageLoadFromStorage : MonoBehaviour
2. {
3.     public Material BackgroundMaterial; // material set as environnement
4.     private string rootPath;
5.     private string path;
6.     public string fileName; //name of the image on the headset
7.  
8. #if UNITY_ANDROID
9.     void Awake()
10.     {
11.         if (Application.platform == RuntimePlatform.Android)
12.         {
13.             rootPath = Application.persistentDataPath;
14.             path = Path.Combine(rootPath,"Medias/Images/" + fileName);
15.         }
16.  
17.         var bytes = System.IO.File.ReadAllBytes(path);
18.         var myTexture = new Texture2D(1, 1);
19.  
20.         myTexture.LoadImage(bytes);
21.  
22.         BackgroundMaterial.mainTexture = myTexture;
23.  
24.     }
25.  
26.  #endif
27. }

 

Are there any exceptions being thrown in the

adb logcat

? That is always going to be the first place to look whenever you are debugging on device.

 

Nope. No exceptions.

 

Next step is to display onscreen (in the VR unit obviously) the number of bytes read on line 17.

This should also give you insight as to whether this code is even being executed at all in the first place!

 

I haven't tried it myself, but if this is being used as the texture for a skybox, I think you need to create a Cubemap, not a Texture2D. Does this work in editor with just a texture2d?

 

The texture is a spherical 360 photo, and the material I'm trying to assign to is set as Skybox/Panoramic.