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Access package assets using scripts

Use the prescribed path scheme to access or refer to assets within a package.
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This section explains how to access or refer to assets that are defined inside a package:
Note
Package Manager doesn't support streaming assets in packages. Use the Addressables package instead.

Referring to package paths

To refer to assets that are defined inside a package, use this path scheme:
"Packages/<package-name>/..."
The path of the asset inside a package begins with 
Packages/
and the package name (not the display name).
By contrast, you access project assets using this scheme:
"Assets/..."
For example, the path for the file 
image.png
in the package subfolder 
/Example/Images
of the com.unity.images-library package is:
"Packages/com.unity.images-library/Example/Images/image.png"
To get the absolute path of an item in your 
Packages
folder, you can use the partial path as a parameter to the Path.GetFullPath() method. For an example, refer to Resolving absolute paths.

Loading a Texture inside a package

To load a Texture stored inside a package, use the LoadAssetAtPath method, which requires the 
using UnityEditor
directive. Specify the path following the 
Packages/<package-name>/
path scheme as demonstrated in this example:
using UnityEditor;// ...Texture2D texture = (Texture2D)AssetDatabase.LoadAssetAtPath("Packages/com.unity.images-library/Example/Images/image.png", typeof(Texture2D));

Resolving absolute paths

To get the absolute path of a packaged asset, use the Path.GetFullPath() method, which requires the 
using System.IO
directive. For example:
using System.IO;// ...string absolute =   Path.GetFullPath("Packages/com.unity.images-library/Example/Images/image.png");

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