VaM 1.x Plugin Creation -> How to display image (thumbnail) in plugin ui?

[bill_prime]

How to load a preview image / thumbnail from a .png file in to the plugin interface?
Paging @Chokaphi for Decal maker but that code seems a bit more complicated than what I am trying to do

 

[hazmhox]

Standard Unity UI. You need to code a system that selects the image, creates a UI component with that image ( which implies creating a texture 2D etc... ) and add it to the plugin UI.

 

[bill_prime]

Standard Unity UI. You need to code a system that selects the image, creates a UI component with that image ( which implies creating a texture 2D etc... ) and add it to the plugin UI.

I am creating the Texture2D but don't know how to actually display it in a VAM plugin UI
Do I use Image, RawImage, Texture2D?
I have tried CreateUIElement with RawImage.transform but that doesn't display anything.

 

[hazmhox]

You're going blind into this? 'coz you're gonna spend ages if so
You should use Unity to look at the standard UI structure and look at Unity's documentation, everything is documented for such standard things.

What I did when I wanted to create custom components was to fire up Unity, create my components manually with like a "proto" version. Then check what were the components and recreated them through code.

 

[bill_prime]

You're going blind into this? 'coz you're gonna spend ages if so
You should use Unity to look at the standard UI structure and look at Unity's documentation, everything is documented for such standard things.

What I did when I wanted to create custom components was to fire up Unity, create my components manually with like a "proto" version. Then check what were the components and recreated them through code.

That sounds incredibly easier than coding blindly and reloading in VAM to see if it worked lol.

 

[hazmhox]

That sounds incredibly easier than coding blindly and reloading in VAM to see if it worked lol.

First rule of coding, be lazy, be smart... be smart to keep being lazy