Enum and texture

Newbie & Debugging Questions
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Hello everyone,
I’m new on this forum and very glad i found it because i’m developing a java game with LWJGL for my own enjoyment and i didn’t know about this community :slight_smile: The game i develop is a mix between a card game and a tower defense, somewhat basic in the programming but i’m a beginner (and french so excuse me if my english is weird).
I have a question to which i didn’t find any answer. here goes :
In my game, the player can choose between multiple clans and i wondered where i can load the texture for the different clans ? Can i take my textures in an enum without loading them ? But the problem is I don’t want to load the texture of the other clans if they’re not being used. Here the code :

public enum Clan {
	
	HUMAN("human.png"), ORC("orc.png");
	
	private Texture texture = null;
	
	private int texIdCards = 0;
	
	private Clan(String texCard){
		try{
			texture = TextureLoader.getTexture("PNG" , ResourceLoader.getResourceAsStream(texCard));
         texIdCards = texture.getTextureID();
		} catch (Exception e){
			System.out.println("Can't load Textures : " + texture);
		}
	}
   public int getTexIdCards(){
		return texIdCards;
	}
}

Will the program load all the texture right when i’ll run it ? If the battle is Human versus Human, I don’t want the Orc texture to take any space in computer’s memory, so is it a good idea to put the loader Texture in an enum ?

Thank you very much!