How do I load a texture (no Unity)

rwblodgett

How do I load a texture from the "file system" (not sure I can access the file system) for hololens. Not using Unity.

Ie, when I'm deploying my application from Visual Studio, where would I put the texture file or any file for that matter, and how would I reference / access / load that texture? What does the "deploy" functionality copy over to the device?

I need to load text files too.

Thanks.

neerajwadhwa

Does this help?
Quickstart: Local app data (XAML)
In conjunction with the, Supported API list.

Patrick

here's a little snippit, following the same pattern as loading a shader in the DX template:

task<std::vector<byte>> loadTextureTask = DX::ReadDataAsync(L"ms-appx:///moon.jpg");
    loadTextureTask.then([this](const std::vector<byte>& textureData)
    {
        WCHAR msg[255];
        swprintf_s(msg, L"tds: %d\n", textureData.size());
        OutputDebugString(msg);
    });

Obviously I'm not doing anything useful with the texture aside from ensuring that the byte count matched.

Dwight_Goins_EE_MVP

Also don't forget to make sure the texture is included in your project as "Content" in the properties window. Use the relative path to get the correct path, however the above code works just fine.