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Question by Jinxology · May 29, 2016 at 07:31 PM · 2dsprite sheets

Sprite sheets in Resource folder

Historically, when I have a sprite sheet in my Sprites folder (not in Resources), and I want to swap in sprites at runtime, I have always dragged the sprites one at a time into my scene, then created prefabs in Resources for every single sprite. Cumbersome and feels wrong.

However, is there a way to just put my entire Sprite sheet in Resources, and use them via script without creating individual sprites for every sliced image in the sheet?

Example: I have a figure that I want to change the head sprite for. I have a sprite sheet in Resources that is sliced up into 20 different head images. How can I select out head_12 from the sprite sheet and use it for my head graphic? Javascript if possible please.

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Answer by DiegoSLTS · May 30, 2016 at 12:06 AM

Once you imported your texture as multiple sprites you can load all sprites "inside" that texture using:

 Sprite[] sprites = Resources.LoadAll<Sprite>(pathToTexture);

Then you can get any sprite on that array and check it's .name to select the one you want.

I've searched a lot and can't find a way to load only one sprite by it's name if it's inside a texture.

You can write:

 Sprite sprite = Resources.Load<Sprite>(pathToTexture);

And you'll get the first sprite in the list.

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Thanks, worked like a champ!

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Answer by TranceDreams · May 02, 2020 at 12:32 AM

You can also make a static function so whenever you want a specific sprite from any script, you can call the function

for example, put this in (any) fooScript.js

 static function GetSprite(path : String, spr : String){
 
  sp = Resources.LoadAll.<Sprite>(path);
      for(x in sp)
          if(x.name.Contains(spr))
              return x;
 }


now to get a sprite whenever you want, do this

 fooScript.GetSprite("spriteFolder/spriteSheetFoo", "fooSPrite");
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