Need some advice on placing series of images

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out how to place a bunch of images into the scene. I created an array of sprites. Each sprite has it's own x,y position respectively. They're mainly serve as background (no interaction), but they need to be placed in certain order (Items75, then Items74, then ... and so on). Can anyone give me some advice on how to proceed from here? Thanks.

 

Selecting the whole lot and dragging them into the Hierarchy doesn't do it? What about grabbing the Amusement Park parent object, and dragging that in?

 

Sorry, I wasn't very clear. I am trying to do it through a script. I've been looking at texture2D, image, resources.load, etc and got even more confused.

 

What about a Scriptable Object with a list of images. Your code could load the SO and spit them out in that order.

If you want to be fancy, you can make an editor script to make the list sortable/rearrangable to make it easier to work with.

 

This is what I come up with in the past hour or so:

1. I moved the "Amusement Park" (notice the spelling) folder (or prefab?) under "Assets/Resources" folder.
2. In the scene, I created Empty that called the script (HelloWorld.cs)
3. And HelloWorld.cs looks like this:
   1. Code (CSharp):

      1.     void Start () {
      2.         //Debug.Log("Hello World!");
      3.  
      4.         GameObject go = new GameObject();
      5.         SpriteRenderer renderer = go.AddComponent<SpriteRenderer>();
      6.  
      7.         renderer.sprite = Resources.Load("Amusement Park", typeof(Sprite)) as Sprite;
      8.  
      9.         if (renderer.sprite)
      10.             Debug.Log("Hello World!");
   2. It returns nothing. So I assume I didn't call it correctly.

 

Is there a reason you don't want to try it the way I suggested?

Untested code follows:

Code (CSharp):

1. // SpriteCollection.cs
2. // - - -
3. // Create a new instance of this SO and populate
4. // the images property with your images
5. [CreateAssetMenu(menuName="Image Collection")]
6. public class SpriteCollection : ScriptableObject {
7.     public List<Image> images = new List<Image>();
8. }
9.  
10.  
11. // SpriteUser.cs
12. public class SpriteUser: MonoBehaviour {
13.     // Assign your SO instance to this property
14.     public SpriteCollection imageCollection;
15.  
16.     void Awake() {
17.         foreach (Image img in imageCollection.images) {
18.             GameObject obj = new GameObject();
19.  
20.             // Set position, parent, etc as needed
21.  
22.             obj.AddComponent<SpriteRenderer>().sprite = img;
23.         }
24.     }
25. }

 

I got super-ninja'd because I got called away for about 6 hours in the middle of typing this, but so those electrons don't go to waste, here was my suggestion:

Just make an array of Sprite in your script:

Code (csharp):

1.  
2.     public Sprite spritePrefabs[];
3.  

...attach this script to something in your scene, and then drag all those sprites in and drop them on that property in the Inspector. (Pro tip: hit the little padlock icon on your object so it stays selected, and then you can select ALL the sprites in the Project tab, and drag them onto the array property all at once, rather than doing it one at a time. Just remember to unlock the selected object when done!)

Then all you have to do is iterate over this list in the code and instantiate each one.

 

Thanks everyone for the tips.

I finally got it to work with SpriteRenderer array. In the end, it's sort of a combination between the two of proposed solutions. Now I can move on to other issues