Sprite.texture field is not working as i want it to

all lays in the following bit of the documentation: "
Sprite.texture
Texture2D texture;
Description
Get the reference to the used texture. If packed this will point to the atlas, if not packed will point to the source sprite."

the underlinet "If packed this will point to the atlas" is the problem i want to get the texture of the sprite not its atlas. is there anyway on witch i can do this?

 

You can get the rectangle the sprite uses on the texture and cut out the "sprite" yourself if you need to, but once it's packed, it's one big texture, so I don't think it has a way to reference the original image.

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Sprite-textureRect.html

 

can i cut it out by code?

 

Yes, but you might want to consider just turning off packing at that point so you can get at the Texture directly, otherwise you'll be writing a lot of VERY fiddly code that may break or violate assumptions of the Unity texture packer.

 

so how can i turn off packing?

 

Google?

 

yeah sorry

 

"The Sprite Packer is disabled by default but you can configure it" (from: "https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/SpritePacker.html") wait what? i haven't turned that on?

 

my sprites are in an "atlas" becuse they a cut out by the sprite editor (right?) am not sure i understand