I’m making a game where the dialogue box can pull each character sprite through an enum based on what the emotion I want is.

The current enum is this:

DialogueManager:
    public enum AylaSprites
    {
        Base,
        Confused,
        Happy,
        Point,
        Sad
    }

And in another file I want to be able to access them on the fly using a string list I can add in Unity’s timeline inspector. A list of sprites won’t allow me to select the function and I already have the enums for a different script, so I’d like to use them if possible.

I was hoping I could just go about it similar to concat-ing strings, like

TutorialTimeline:
    (dManager is this scripts reference to the Dialogue Manager, and spriteOptions is a
    list in that manager)

    List<Sprite> spriteList = new List<Sprite>();
    foreach (var sprite in newSprites)
    {
        spriteList.Add(dManager.spriteOptions[(int)DialogueManager.AylaSprites.**(sprite)**]);

    }

but obviously that’s not possible. Is there any way I could somehow do something similar?

Is there a way for me to just stick the string onto the end there? Or do I need to take a different approach?