Difference between .texture and new PIXI.Texture?

[Jambutters]

What are the things that differentiate the two ? 

Example: 

let texture = PIXI.loader.resources("player.png).texture; 

let otherTexture = new PIXI.Texture(PIXI.loader.resources("player.png).texture);

 

I assumed they were the same thing and I don't understand the mechanisms behind the two. 

[xerver]

The texture you are reading from the loader's resource is a PIXI.Texture instance. When you do new PIXI.Texture and pass in the other texture, it is just creating a new texture instance that uses the same base texture of the first one you passed in.

The end result of your code above is two texture instances with the same baseTexture. Not super useful unless you want the same image but different frame values (like in a spritesheet).