2023 support quick info

Advantages

• It allows to use regular sprites generated by unity in SDFImage
• Allows to get some sprites metadata at runtime

Disadvantages

• Don’t work for decoupled pipeline source sprites
• Works only in Unity 2023

Intro

There is another way to set sprite in unity 2023 with the introduction of Scriptable Objects for Sprites API. This way you can extract SDFSpriteMetadataAsset directly from sprite.

SDF generation produces some data that need to be used by SDFImage

• Sprite SDFSprite
• Vector4 BorderOffset
• There might be more data in later versions

SDFSpriteMetadataAsset

All this data is stored in generated SDFSpriteMetadataAsset's, and it unity 2023 its possible to add reference to this asset to sprite directly.

In editor you can see that particular sprite has SDFSpriteMetadataAsset that holds all metadata. This asset is hidden in editor for regular pipeline but visible in decoupled.

Metadata asset can be selected with context menu.

Meta asset associated with sprite

Samples

Sample script is using all the functions from sections mentioned below