Hi Braus,
you can request external file contents with ajax from an URL (i think that is what you mean with external?)
Take a look at the ajax object https://www.scirra.com/manual/107/ajax request from URL.
[quote:w0w1sf2b]Request URL
Send a GET request to retrieve the contents of a URL. A tag is provided to match it up with the On completed, On progress and On error triggers.
The contents could also be a link to an image.
You can then set the AJax.lastData to the sprite you want to load the image to.
[quote:w0w1sf2b]Load image from URL
Load an image from a given URL. The current animation frame will be replaced with the image. It is not shown until the image has finished downloading, and On image URL loaded triggers. Images loaded from different domains are subject to the same cross-domain restrictions as AJAX requests - for more information see the section on cross-domain in the AJAX object. Data URIs can also be passed as an image, e.g. from a canvas snapshot or webcam image. The Size parameter sets whether the Sprite object will be set to the image size when it loads, or whether to keep its current size and stretch the image.
If you want to test locally dont forget to enable ajax requests from all sources in your hosting
[quote:w0w1sf2b]If you want AJAX requests to your server to work from any domain, or in preview, you can configure it to send the following HTTP header:
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
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