Converting a string name to a sprite

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To Mods: -- I had to create two topics on t$$anonymous$$s because the first one wasn't going live. Sorry about that.

Hi, I need to convert a string to a sprite.

I tried making an array of 99 sprites, but it causes the scene load time to be slow (t$$anonymous$$s scene is loaded often)

I decided to instead, have an array of 99 strings, pull a string from the array and convert it to sprite.. But can't seem to find anywhere how to do t$$anonymous$$s:

Pseudocode:

String imagename = "Thetestimage";

...

gameObject.Sprite = imagename;

instead of (w$$anonymous$$ch is the way I t$$anonymous$$nk most people will suggest doing t$$anonymous$$s)

public Sprite spritename ;

...

gameObject.Sprite = spritename;

Thanks for you time.

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Answer by ClearRoseOfWar · Jan 07, 2016 at 06:01 AM

If you want to use function Resources.Load(), you have to put the files in a folder named "Resources".

Thank you! That worked perfect :)

 Sprite DaSprite = Resources.Load(StringUsed, typeof(Sprite)) as Sprite;//randomstring converted to sprite

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Answer by toddisarockstar · Jan 07, 2016 at 05:44 AM

are you looking for an image on a hard drive ? on the internet? in your assets folder? peeps can answer here quickly if you give us t$$anonymous$$s info.

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zhzeshu · Dec 19, 2016 at 05:58 PM 0

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Hello, I have the same problem too. I received the images from computer through socket, and I could not change the string to sprite too.

Converting a string name to a sprite

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