How to find all assets of a type?

Question

In my Unity project a have several instanced of the class ArmourType (these are assets, scriptable objects). I'm trying to show these in a dropdown list in the inspector, and this works. However, I use

List<ArmourType> armourTypes = Resources.FindObjectsOfTypeAll<ArmourType>();

to find all these instances. This only finds the objects that are loaded into memory, so occasionally it only finds some of the required assets. This is documented, so isn't a bug, but very annoying at times.

So my question is, is there a different way of getting all these assets that does return those that aren't loaded into memory? Or perhaps is there a way to make Unity load the assets when they are looked for?

Note: I'm using Unity5 and c#.

Answer 1

Is this what you are looking for?

string[] guids = AssetDatabase.FindAssets ("t:ArmourType", null);
foreach (string guid in guids) {
    Debug.Log (AssetDatabase.GUIDToAssetPath(guid));
}

http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AssetDatabase.FindAssets.html

AssetDatabase is an Editor script. If you want to do a similar thing in-game place the relevant scripts in a Resources folder (this ensures they will be included in the build even if not linked in the scene) and use:

Resources.LoadAll<ArmourType>("");