small delay whenever sprite is shown the first time

Whenever a particular sprite is rendered for the first time, there is a small delay.
I know that this is because unity is loading it into memory, but is there a way to load the graphic into memory manually without showing it?

I'd like to avoid showing it on screen just for loading, since that seems a little dirty. Also, sometimes when I put that sprite behind other sprites so it's not visible, it seems like it hasn't actually been loaded into memory since the delay is back when I show it again fully visible.

 

Try running a standalone build and see if it happens, since the editor window sometimes pauses on instantiating anything, let alone sprites. And you also say that hiding it from view does it too?

Again, try making a build and seeing what happens, it's most likely editor lag.

 

It only does happen when you do a built (ios and android)
there's no delay when you hide it.
I'm not actually looking at editor results, since that's inaccurate in general.

 

Is your problem solved? How?

 

no, still trying to figure this out.
Even if I show the sprite before scaled down, there's still a delay when I show it in bigger.

I've been fighting with issues like this for quite a while now, I wonder why I couldn't find much about this online.

 

Make a prefab of this unactive sprite.Then loaded in mem, use gameobject.SetActive(true) function to show it.May be work.If not try a mul thread.If not work too, try other's ideas please.