{"id":11676,"date":"2024-03-14T14:32:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T14:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-does-unity-access-shared-directory-images\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T15:24:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T15:24:17","slug":"how-does-unity-access-shared-directory-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-does-unity-access-shared-directory-images\/","title":{"rendered":"Access Shared Images in Unity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In order to read images from a shared directory in Unity, you can use Unity&#8217;s AssetDatabase class. Firstly, you need to drag the image folder from the shared directory into the Unity project. Then, you can use the AssetDatabase.GetAssetPathsFromAssetBundleAndAssetName method to retrieve the paths of the images, and finally load these images using Unity&#8217;s Texture2D class.<\/p>\n<p>For example, here is a simple sample code showing how to read images from a shared directory:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code><span class=\"hljs-keyword\">using<\/span> UnityEngine;\r\n<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">using<\/span> UnityEditor;\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">public<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">class<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-title\">ReadSharedImages<\/span> : <span class=\"hljs-title\">MonoBehaviour<\/span>\r\n{\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-function\"><span class=\"hljs-keyword\">void<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-title\">Start<\/span>()<\/span>\r\n    {\r\n        <span class=\"hljs-built_in\">string<\/span> folderPath = <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"Assets\/SharedImages\"<\/span>; <span class=\"hljs-comment\">\/\/ \u5171\u4eab\u76ee\u5f55\u7684\u8def\u5f84<\/span>\r\n        <span class=\"hljs-built_in\">string<\/span>[] imagePaths = AssetDatabase.GetAssetPathsFromAssetBundleAndAssetName(folderPath, <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"*.png\"<\/span>); <span class=\"hljs-comment\">\/\/ \u83b7\u53d6\u6240\u6709png\u56fe\u7247\u7684\u8def\u5f84<\/span>\r\n\r\n        <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">foreach<\/span> (<span class=\"hljs-built_in\">string<\/span> imagePath <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">in<\/span> imagePaths)\r\n        {\r\n            Texture2D texture = AssetDatabase.LoadAssetAtPath&lt;Texture2D&gt;(imagePath); <span class=\"hljs-comment\">\/\/ \u52a0\u8f7d\u56fe\u7247<\/span>\r\n            GameObject imageObject = <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">new<\/span> GameObject(<span class=\"hljs-string\">\"Image\"<\/span>);\r\n            SpriteRenderer spriteRenderer = imageObject.AddComponent&lt;SpriteRenderer&gt;();\r\n            spriteRenderer.sprite = Sprite.Create(texture, <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">new<\/span> Rect(<span class=\"hljs-number\">0<\/span>, <span class=\"hljs-number\">0<\/span>, texture.width, texture.height), <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">new<\/span> Vector2(<span class=\"hljs-number\">0.5f<\/span>, <span class=\"hljs-number\">0.5f<\/span>));\r\n        }\r\n    }\r\n}\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In the example above, the path to the shared directory is defined first. 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