Create materials with require results in `getAssetByID` error

[SomnathChW]

Having trouble loading textures/materials using ViroMaterials.createMaterials like in the old examples:

ViroMaterials.createMaterials({
  white: {
    lightingModel: "PBR",
    diffuseTexture: require(.......),
    metalnessTexture: require(......),
    roughnessTexture: require(......),
  }
});

On Android, this gives a getAssetByID error. (I haven’t checked iOS.)

I tried working around it with expo-asset, but then the materials sometimes don’t load properly — some textures just don’t show up. Even if I use require directly in Viro3DObject, I still see assets not loading every now and then.

[creimers]

On Android, this gives a getAssetByID error. (I haven’t checked iOS.)

This is also happening on iOS (expo 54, react native 0.81, viro 2.43.6).

[creimers]

What is undefined here seems to be assetRegistry, which is imported like this:

// @ts-ignore
import assetRegistry from "react-native/Libraries/Image/AssetRegistry";

AssetRegistry, however, does not have a default export (source).