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lost marten
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Hello !
Is it possible to get the addressables catalog and bundles to be automatically loaded from the local cache when the app is offline or the remotepath not responding ?

fresh stratus
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I've been pondering this as well. Here's kinda the rundown of my personal thoughts. Addressables have potential to store certain assets in a separate location outside of a project (to be fetched at runtime) - it would exist on a webserver hosted on premise - you'd need to maintain code that connects your projects to those assets at runtime - runtimes would differ based on platform -- production releases would ship with everything - unless you wanted to host a webserver on localhost

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For my purposes, I have some projects that are common to all games being worked on. So instead of storing these common things inside every single project, maybe use addressables to only fetch those things at runtime. This would save space and if you made a change to the common assets it would propagate to all other projects instead of having to update every single one

fresh stratus
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It kinda seems like a lot of work at the moment not worth pursuing

indigo notch
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hey guys! I've been trying to get CCD working with remote addressables in my project, and I'm running into some really weird issues.
Are addressables really only compatible with a specific old version of it (1.0.0-pre.2) even though the latest version of CCD's Management API is showing to be 2.1.0?

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when i install latest (2.1.0) i get told it's not even there:

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hoary stratus
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How you guys managing shader variant with addressables? it creates all possible variants of URP lit... Which is crazy load to memory size. Stripping manually is quite complicated. what I am doing wrong that it makes that happen. I tried to add all materials in use to addressables, but that just increased the amount of shader variants generated.

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Did you get answer somewhere for this?

lethal tundra
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Hi. I got a question about addresable scenes. Do they need to be included in Build Settings ?

violet flume
lean mantle
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I highly recommend making a custom build script that performs this step for you whenever you make a game build, otherwise you'll forget plenty of times.

muted plume
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Dumb question, if you can is there a way to connect your game to discord if as a multiplayer game to apply a role if you use get lets say verify your discord from in your game through commands and what not so now your discord is paired with your game, lets say in the game you get banned. Is there a way get a automated role if you achieved said role in game?. Worded that poorly haha

lean mantle
muted plume
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understood, was confused as of where to put the question

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was expecting a "help" area my abd

lost marten
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Hi !
I have a new problem 🙂

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I am building asset bundles within two projects

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project A is the main project, project B only contains scenes and assets

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in project A, I have a scene with a canvas and some buttons

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which is loaded at the beginning

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then I load the catalog from project B

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load the test scene from this asset bundle

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this scene also contains a canvas with a button

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as soon as this scene is loaded then buttons on the initial canvas (which is permanent using DontDestroyOnLoad) are losing their images and the text elements inside the buttons are losing their fonts

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the buttons are still here and interactable... but completely invisible since any graphic asset has been lost

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any idea on what could cause this ?

violet flume
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the scene in project A, is it part of the build scenes or is it part of an asset bundle or addressables?

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do you load the scene in project B with LoadSceneMode.Additive or .Single with the canvas in scene A being DontDestroy?

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i'm asking because a scene is like an asset bundle. when the scene gets unloaded, all its assets get unloaded as well, in this case the font.

lost marten
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the scene from project A is part of an asset bundle
scene B is loaded in .Single mode with the canvas being DontDestroy
so your explanation about assets unloading makes sense

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@violet flume in my situation, what would be the right way to follow ?
Using additive mode and unloading unwanted scenes by hand ?

warm wagon
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Hi all, is there a way to prioritize which asset I'm loading if 2 exist with the same name? I'm using this as a modding system.

E.G bundle #1 has stone.jpg and bundle #2 has stone.jpg

I was under the impression that the most recently loaded one took priority, but that doesn't seem to be consistent

late fractal
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Hi guys, I have a unity application that loads different addressables based on which user that logs in. I want to know if it is possible to build out addressable groups individually rather all at the same time?

For when I make a change for one group I would rather update the build for that group rather than having to process all the groups i have created.

graceful yoke
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currently trying to use GetDownloadSizeAsync in a project, but always return 0 everytime I run it in Editor, but return the expected download size after the project was built. Is that intentional? Is there any way to simulate the download process when I'm at the Editor?

AsyncOperationHandle<long> downloadSizeHandle = Addressables.GetDownloadSizeAsync(key);
await downloadSizeHandle.Task;
size += downloadSizeHandle.Result;
mild flax
late fractal
agile raptor
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How can I make asset path for asset bundle

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For arranging level folders according to missions

graceful yoke
graceful yoke
late fractal
mild flax
# late fractal Is my request possible?

It is possible but you will have to create your own editor tooling to track and handle it. We do this but it is quite a lot of work. Also if you want a user to download a combination then you need server side stuff to track that too.

mild flax
late fractal
sour rivet
# hoary stratus Did you get answer somewhere for this?

Yes I did ! Ended up doing my own shader stripping solution. Been working perfectly for our production for the past 6-8 months on mobile.

Some posts where I explain my process but I feel you stumbled upon them if you found my message here.

https://forum.unity.com/threads/memory-and-performance-issues-related-to-shaders.1155863/#post-7555222

https://forum.unity.com/threads/urp-simple-lit-shader-variants-missing-in-build-alpha-clip.1182385/#post-7780836

I must say, I do believe there must be a way in some addressables package version to completely dodge this problem, but I have tried about every "solution" on forums and they never fixed this problem. And seeing that you have this problem now tells me this has not been fixed. But honestly, stripping the shader yourself saves a lot of memory footprint even if you were not to have this addressables-related issue. We got used to it real fast. If you want more details don't hesitate to DM me.

Unity Forum
Bug - Memory and performance issues related to shaders

Hi,

we are facing performance issues with addressables that are linked to the shaders. We have custom hierarchical structure of models in our scene....

Unity Forum
URP Simple Lit - Shader Variants missing in build (Alpha Clip)

Important note : I use Addressables. It only happens in Addressables build. Very hard to know where to post about issues overlapping 2 forums :D

I...

uneven dagger
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Hello, I am checking if a list contains SO(ScriptableObject). It works fine in editor but returns false in build. SOs are addressable. I am new to addressables, can anyone help?

late ruin
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have you built your addressable content?

uneven dagger
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yes

chilly lava
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Hello everyone. Do you know if it is possible to discharge the assets of a specific object downloaded via addressable from memory scene when this object is destroyed?

If i use Destroy(gameObject); Texture and Mesh attached to the object remain in memory. While if I use also Destroy(myTexture); and Destroy(myMesh); the memory scene memory is cleaned up. Is there anything that makes this process automatic (and most important works in WebGL)?
Thank you.

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The goal of the automation process is that I I no longer have to check which and how many textures exist before deleting them and son on.

mild flax
uneven dagger
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Thanks, I realized same SO is used by different scenes, so when I load a scene it creates another instance. Do you have a suggestion for fix? I am going create a class like SOAssetDatabase so they will be created only once and other classes will ask to this db instead of using SOs directly.

simple geyser
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Okay, I started working on Addressable for a job requirement,
I have too many problems with remote packaging, I want to know first,
Addressable can automatically search for resources by name instead of giving long urls,
For example Addressables.InstantiateAsync("AssetName")
But can this apply to remote search?
I can successfully search for resources using local, and I have not made any changes,
Just uploading the same package to the server, everything messed up, I can't find the resource at all

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This is my Addressable Setting

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And this is code

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When I do this locally, the resource can be successfully searched and loaded,
The remote always gets nothing, g always gets Null

rancid crystal
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Is this okay? (Performance or potential bugs) It will only load once in the scene and I couldn't really wrap my head around preloading adressables in bulk

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mild flax
iron crypt
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@rancid crystal there's no point making load assets to coroutine. otherwise it looks fine.

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and probably you need to wait for loading for those probably, you doing just unnecessary work with subscribing with event. just load assets sync with handle.waitforcompletion()

runic tulip
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can Addressables be used to convert a whole scene/level into an addressable?

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For example, I would like to allow users to create their own levels in Unity, then export them to a mods folder, and load the mod from the main game. Is Addressables what I should be using for this?

urban river
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Can addressable use to download scripts update and then after update restart the game?

indigo willow
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Exception encountered in operation Resource<IAssetBundleResource>(xxxxxxx.bundle), status=Failed, result= : RemoteAssetBundleProvider unable to load from url https://xxxxx.amazonaws.com/Android/xxxxxxx.bundle, result='HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
I need help with this error, the AWS bucket is Public

indigo willow
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Trying with the google cloud service it works well 🤔

vestal pilot
proper badger
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Is there a manual way to trigger Remote Asset Bundles to be generated outside of Include In Build within the Packed Asset group being enabled? This setting, to my understanding, kind of defeats the purpose of having a remote catalog of assets that can be requested outside of the main data file.

proper badger
# indigo willow

This is likely an object permissions error. It's hard to tell precisely what options you need to account for here. Looks like you're using an AWS service. If publicly accessible objects are possible, ensure you're setting read/read permissions on the object's ACL permissions when you're uploading them.

indigo willow
graceful yoke
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hiya, it seems that catching an exception in Addressables is kinda different? I've tried to surround the statement in try catch and still got no catch exception

try {
  await AddressablesManager.CatalogUpdateCheck();
} catch (Exception) {
  throw;
}
hexed shell
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What does "no catch exception" mean?

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What you've written there with the catch and throw is useless code that does nothing that wasn't happening by default

graceful yoke
# hexed shell What does "no catch exception" mean?

whoops sorry, I mean that the try-catch doesn't catch any exception, even though it gives this OperationException when I run the editor.

The case is, I tried to disable the built-in Editor Host to simulate when player fail to check the catalog from Host, but it seems that simply surround that statement with try-catch is not working

hexed shell
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If your code is as you've written above, you just immediately throw the exception you just caught, so nothing is changed

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You're not performing any handling with it. Surely you want to do something like log the exception and perhaps return a state that says you've failed, and not re-throw the exception

graceful yoke
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i tried to replace the throw with Debug.Log and it still gives OperationException 🤔

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heck, even it doesn't log anything

hexed shell
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Is the exception coming from that code, and do you properly await your tasks all the way to the root of the async call?

graceful yoke
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I also tried to add custom exception handler to ResourceManager.ExceptionHandler, it print something on console, but the exception persist

graceful yoke
hexed shell
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your try block isn't wrapping that code afaik?

graceful yoke
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yeah but it is inside AddressablesManager.CatalogUpdateCheck() function
should I move the try block then?

hexed shell
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The try block needs to wrap whatever is throwing the exception, I haven't seen enough code/callstacks to really give more guidance than that

graceful yoke
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this is what i wrote

try
{
    AsyncOperationHandle<List<string>> catalogUpdateCheckHandle = Addressables.CheckForCatalogUpdates(false);
    await catalogUpdateCheckHandle.Task;
}
catch (Exception e)
{
    Debug.Log(e);
}

and this is what I get

OperationException : CheckCatalogsOperation failed with the following errors: 
RemoteProviderException : TextDataProvider : unable to load from url : http://192.168.43.70:8345/catalog_addressable-sandbox.hash
UnityWebRequest result : ConnectionError : Cannot connect to destination host
url : http://192.168.43.70:8345/catalog_addressable-sandbox.hash
hexed shell
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What's the stack trace for that exception?

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and presumably it's an actual error in the console still and not a log

graceful yoke
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yeah i think it is an actual error. I replace the e in debug.log with some string at it still appear

UnityEngine.ResourceManagement.AsyncOperations.AsyncOperationBase`1/<>c__DisplayClass57_0<System.Collections.Generic.IList`1<UnityEngine.ResourceManagement.AsyncOperations.AsyncOperationHandle>>:<add_CompletedTypeless>b__0 (UnityEngine.ResourceManagement.AsyncOperations.AsyncOperationHandle`1<System.Collections.Generic.IList`1<UnityEngine.ResourceManagement.AsyncOperations.AsyncOperationHandle>>)
DelegateList`1<UnityEngine.ResourceManagement.AsyncOperations.AsyncOperationHandle`1<System.Collections.Generic.IList`1<UnityEngine.ResourceManagement.AsyncOperations.AsyncOperationHandle>>>:Invoke (UnityEngine.ResourceManagement.AsyncOperations.AsyncOperationHandle`1<System.Collections.Generic.IList`1<UnityEngine.ResourceManagement.AsyncOperations.AsyncOperationHandle>>) (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.addressables@1.19.19/Runtime/ResourceManager/Util/DelegateList.cs:69)
UnityEngine.ResourceManagement.AsyncOperations.AsyncOperationBase`1/<>c__DisplayClass57_0<string>:<add_CompletedTypeless>b__0 (UnityEngine.ResourceManagement.AsyncOperations.AsyncOperationHandle`1<string>)
DelegateList`1<UnityEngine.ResourceManagement.AsyncOperations.AsyncOperationHandle`1<string>>:Invoke (UnityEngine.ResourceManagement.AsyncOperations.AsyncOperationHandle`1<string>) (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.addressables@1.19.19/Runtime/ResourceManager/Util/DelegateList.cs:69)
UnityEngine.AsyncOperation:InvokeCompletionEvent ()
hexed shell
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That exception is hard to read, but I can't see CheckForCatalogUpdates mentioned in it?
Is that the whole stack trace?

graceful yoke
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yess that's all of it

hexed shell
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Well, I have no idea how you're meant to catch that, but I'm kinda feeling like either you're not awaiting the whole async callstack—basically just starting an async Task method without awaiting it—or yeah, something about the way AsyncOperationHandle handles exceptions is a bit junk

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Try to check catalogUpdateCheckHandle.Status after you've awaited it

graceful yoke
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okay so I tried to create custom exception handler and add that function to ResourceManager.ExceptionHandler and check the status after await

this is what i got

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the game is still running tho, but i'm a bit concerned about that exception. Is it okay to let that exception unhandled?

hexed shell
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well, at least the exception isn't halting your code and you can detect whether it happens

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so it seems fine to let it happen 🤷

graceful yoke
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haha okay then UnityChanSalute

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thank you very muchhh for helping me

runic tulip
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is it possible to Open up bundle files in the editor and use the game assets inside?

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I want to allow modding for my game, so I was thinking: make bundles for my game, then modders can open the bundles inside the Unity editor and mess around with the assets packed in the bundles

graceful yoke
runic tulip
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Hmm that could work... I would need to restructure my assets though

gloomy oracle
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Trying to make a build for android with local addressables but they don't appear to show up in the build. I've built the addressables (many times) and I've tried setting the 'Play Mode Script' to 'Use Existing Build' but it keeps crashing in the form of some Invalid Cast Exception with the operation handle.

gloomy oracle
# gloomy oracle Trying to make a build for android with local addressables but they don't appear...

Anyone else having this problem, I found a solution in the Unity forums. Apparently there's an attribute that is causing the built Addressable bundles not to make it into the build: https://forum.unity.com/threads/addressables-missing-in-build.1135357/#post-7898458

Unity Forum
Addressables missing in build

Hi all,

I'm using the latest Addressables version (as of this post, that is 1.18.11), and I am having a problem where I am using this code:...

runic tulip
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does anyone know how to rename Instantiated addressables?

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here's my code:

    IEnumerator test(){
        AsyncOperationHandle<GameObject> testhandle= Addressables.LoadAssetAsync<GameObject>("test");
        yield return testhandle;
        GameObject testgo = testhandle.Result;
        Instantiate(testgo,Vector3.zero,Quaternion.identity);
        testgo.name="lalala";
    }

but my hierarchy shows differently:

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late ruin
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in your code, you renaming the template you Instantiating from, not the new instance

gloomy oracle
runic tulip
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ohhhh ok, thanks!

ancient wagon
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i'm currently trying to set up remote content delivery in my game, and i've got the basics working, but i've got one issue.

if i designate a group's build/load paths to be remote, that group isn't included in the build, so it always needs to be downloaded when the game first starts.

instead of this, i'd like to include that group in the build, so you could theoretically start the game with no network access and be able to use it, however, i'd like the game to still check for remote updates to that group and download them if available.

anyone know how to do this? i assume it must be pretty easy since it's such a common use case, but i'm not sure how to get it to do it that way.

young cipher
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Hey I'm having a weird issue when loading scenes with the Addressable system

I'm using this code to unload and then load scenes

    private IEnumerator Load(AssetReference _scene_reference)
    {
        yield return Addressables.UnloadSceneAsync(scene_Load_Handle.Result, true);

        yield return new WaitForSeconds(5f);

        scene_Load_Handle = SceneHelper.LoadScene(_scene_reference, true);
        yield return scene_Load_Handle.WaitForCompletion();

        yield return new WaitForEndOfFrame();

        SceneInstance scene = scene_Load_Handle.Result;
        while (!scene.Scene.isLoaded)
        {
            yield return null;
        }

        SceneHelper.SetActiveScene(scene);

        yield return null;
    }

When I run this coroutine the first and second time it works fine. But when I run it the third time I get an error saying the scene has already been loaded.

torpid mantle
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So I opened a unity project where everything worked the last time i opened it and now all this stuff popped up.
It all says the assets are or do have a(n) problem.. I didnt update Unity , any Asset or Visual studio(IDE i use)
In my Project are Fishnet, Probuilder and Textmeshpro and all the default assets for URP, I already tried to remove them but this all only caused even more error Messages and none dissapeared.

What should I do? Or what could have caused this?

the first error Message:
"GetLoadedImportedAssetsAndArtifactIDs called with invalid artifactID
UnityEditor.AssetDatabase:Refresh ()
Microsoft.Unity.VisualStudio.Editor.VisualStudioEditor:SyncAll () (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.ide.visualstudio@2.0.15/Editor/VisualStudioEditor.cs:178)
UnityEditor.CodeEditorProjectSync:SyncEditorProject ()
"

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young cipher
young cipher
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Figured out my problem after a proper debugging of my code. Actually had nothing to do with the Addressables at. It was caused by me not unsubscribing from the events that I subscribed to 🤦‍♂️

somber socket
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Been having these errors every time I inspect some assets, if it's a scene it's guaranteed they'll popup and unity just stay there locked in the loop

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is it a known issue?

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Using 2022.1.13f1

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And addressables 1.20.5

indigo willow
upper salmon
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noob question; can addressables help with getting more frames for a open-world vr project that's also using HDRP?

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I don't fully understand what addressables are meant for, other than getting the install base of your game to be smaller

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indigo willow
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To be clear

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indigo willow
quaint gorge
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Resources.Unload

indigo willow
quaint gorge
indigo willow
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indigo willow
fossil yacht
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I'm getting an InvalidKeyException thrown when GetDownloadSizeAsync() gets called. I'm passing in the name of a label that should be valid so I'm not sure what's going on. It only seems to be happening in iOS builds.

unkempt tartan
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I have been getting "OperationException : GroupOperation failed because one of its dependencies failed" when I run my game as a Standalone OSX build.

I'm using Addressables version the lastest version (1.9.x). I've got 6 addressable groups, each containing: 1x texture, 3 prefabs, 1x scene. I build them and uploaded it to my hosting (DreamHost) via SFTP, run it behind CloudFlare, I can access those packs via SFTP and HTTPS with no issues. I can run the game and load the scene from the editor with no issues from both Asset Database or Simulation (throughout all this, I've set the hosting profile to be pointing to the remote path). However if I "Build and Run", I'm getting the above error.

Has anyone been experiencing this?

graceful yoke
unkempt tartan
fossil yacht
unkempt tartan
unkempt tartan
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UPDATE: I've solved my problem.

I installed "Log Viewer" from the Unity Asset Store, that allows me to inspect the debug log on standalone build, which reported that it couldn't find the unitybuiltinshaders bundle, which did not get generated by the asset build. This was because none of my scenes were in the Default addressable group. As soon as I set one of the addressable groups to be the Default group, the unitybuiltinshaders bundle is generated, which solves the problem 🙂

Hope this finding helps anyone here who might be experiencing similar issue.

upper salmon
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Should a method like Addressable.ReleaseInstance be done in an IEnumerator?

graceful yoke
ionic girder
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Is there a close approximation to the Resources.LoadAll?

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I'm trying to move from Resources to Addressable objects, but I'm having issues with automating my spritesheet

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Or should I just import the sprites one by one?

slate timber
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Hi. I'm using addressables to load and unload game scenes. But when I build it for Android, the colliders aren't working while there was no problem in editor. Can someone help me please. I'm using 2D

upper salmon
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Hello, I can't build addressable because I keep getting a "AssetDatabase does not exists in the current context error" even though the script is importing from UnityEditor namespace

low halo
upper salmon
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It's on an scriptable object script 🤔

low halo
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if they're in your game

upper salmon
late ruin
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you can wrap your editor only parts with this, those parts won't be in the build, (you also have to wrap your using UnityEditor; ) ```cs
#if UNITY_EDITOR

#endif```

marsh tiger
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or how to find that chinese package

marsh tiger
pale narwhal
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Is it worth it to batch Adressable loading into a single call (list) or having many LoadAsset at same tick is ok?

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like this

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pale narwhal
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How does a single LoadAssetsAsync with a list of 10 keys compare to 10 calls to LoadAssetAsync?

mild flax
shrewd geyser
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The advantage of loading objects in a separate calls is that you can also release the assets individually if you require this.
If you load them all at once you can only release the single handle, losing granularity over what you need and don't.
This of course heavily depends on the application of the assets you're using this in.

pale narwhal
shrewd geyser
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What Timboc said. I guess only really that you have to manage a single handle, instead of multiple, which can generate a little more garbage since you probably need to keep track of them in a list.
And also depends on your use case. There's no right answer really.
If you require to everything be loaded and then continue, then loading all at once is the easiest to work with and clean up. You can be sure that everything is available to instantiate, set up, etc.
If you want to develop a system where it can already do stuff when asset X and Z are loaded, but don't need Y yet, you can do so using the multiple handle approach. It just gives more overhead for you to manage these kinds of more sophisticated systems. Or, if asset A won't be needed anymore because the player has passed a certain point in the game, you can release the handle already, and Unity may free up the memory if a garbage collection is triggered.

graceful yoke
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is there a way to choose a specific catalog to load?
For instance, if I have catalog_0.0.1 and then build the apps, the apps will recognize catalog_0.0.1 as its catalog target. But if I update the bundle and increase the version to catalog_0.0.2 without build the apps, the apps still recognize the previous catalog as its latest catalog.
I have a database that contains the latest string of catalog version that unity should load. Is it possible to tell the Addressables to load my newest catalog based on a string retrieved from my database?

dusky kernel
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If your updated bundles and catalog are uploaded to the remoteLoadPath and the parameter 'Disable Catalog Update on startup' is unchecked, Addressable will automatically detect an update as soon as you call CheckDownloadSize/DownloadDependencies/LoadAsset.

But if the parameter is checked,
You will have to manually update catalogs by calling Addressables.UpdateCatalogs which upon completion will provide you will List<IResourceLocations>, basically your list of updates.

sour rivet
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Can we deliver a completely new shader to our user via Addressables only ? Without redoing a build ? Example : Via In app purchases, user buys a sword with a brand new shader on it. Can that user download the new shader and expect it to be working properly

dusky kernel
# sour rivet Can we deliver a completely new shader to our user via Addressables only ? Witho...

You can supply a material (basically an instance of that shader) but not the shader itself since it needs to be ‘compiled’.

Anything that needs to be ‘compiled’ cannot be supplied with Addressables unless you supply the class code in any text format with the downloadable. Compile the class everytime that asset is loaded at runtime then create/instantiate object/component of that compiled class and add it to required behaviours.
With mono this is doable but am uncertain about shaders.

Though it is not recommended,specially on mobile as it takes huge amount of load.

You may find more literature here:

Though this doc is for assetbundles, But is also applicable to scriptable build pipeline upon which addressables is built.

https://docs.unity3d.com/540/Documentation/Manual/scriptsinassetbundles.html

Unity - Manual: Including scripts in AssetBundles

The Unity Manual helps you learn and use the Unity engine. With the Unity engine you can create 2D and 3D games, apps and experiences.

sour rivet
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@dusky kernel thank you for your answer. It is weird because that was exactly my assumption, that they needed to be compiled. But doesn't the addressable build compile the shaders too ? It gets through my shader preprocessor.

I also tested this after making my post :

  1. Make addressables build of my game
  2. Make the actual build of my game
  3. Play the game and get to scene X
  4. In unity, add a new gameobject with a NEW shader into scene X
  5. Rebuild addressables
  6. Go back to the player build and go to scene X
  7. Notice the new shader is working correctly.

It hints me that the shader variants are already compiled with the addressables and supplied in some way with the asset bundles.

What do you think about this?

steel hearth
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Hey my fellow friends,

Is an AssetBundle built using Unity 2020.3.XX supported by Unity 2020.3.YY? Where YY > XX.

PS: I'm not updating a Major version, only a Patch version.

mild flax
# sour rivet <@532764378894958593> thank you for your answer. It is weird because that was ex...

Non-exhaustively. An asset bundle (addressable) can contain:
Materials/Shaders/Meshes/Textures & VFX effects - these must all be compiled per platform (and in the case of vfx graph & shader graph) may need to be compiled per unity & package version too. The short version is yes, you can have a sword material as an addressable/asset bundle.*

Asset bundles cannot contain monobehaviours or c#, however they can contain 'headers' (my terminology) - a reference to a c# class that is later resolved provided that code exists in the app loading the addressable and has the same class name and possible file id too.

  • as to how, that's a much longer answer but I just wanted to reassure that it is possible
mild flax
dusky kernel
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steel hearth
sour rivet
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@mild flax Thank you for your answer ! Just to be sure, Unity compiles variant of my shaders when I build addressables and store them somewhere in the addressables build, right ? This is how a new shader can possibly work without redoing a player build. Because variant are 100% independant of any others files, iirc, as they do not reference any other files, but copy the required code when compiling

ETA : Found answer to my own question, https://forum.unity.com/threads/understanding-shaders-and-addressables.1293390/

Unmity does compile variant and store them in bundles

Unity Forum
Understanding Shaders and Addressables

Hi!

I've setup the Addressables groups for our project and run many Addressables builds. When checking the generated BuildLayout.txt file I can see...

dusky kernel
mild flax
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Guids (as in associated Unity .meta files) should not change or get rebuilt unless they're eg not checked in to source control or deleted or something.

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What does change (depending on your addressable settings) is what addressables calls the 'hash' file which relates to a catalogue but depending on your settings can also relate to the name of the asset

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Unique bundle id's is also a setting that can affect things

verbal harness
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I'm looking at the technical/UI design of addressables scratching my head why it is made out to be so complex. In a world aiming for less unnecessary complexity: I think I could improve it dramatically, can we discuss?: https://forum.unity.com/threads/addressables-could-be-much-more-user-friendly-i-have-a-question-on-why-wasnt-it-designed-likethis.1330005/

Unity Forum
Feedback - Addressables could be much more user friendly, I have a ...

Yo,

I'm That UI Guy from Youtube who pans out badly designed UIs across corporate ville, normally shot called by some clueless executive instead of a...

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Such a system would also eliminate a ton of bugs, streamline workflow to avoid user bugs... And it should be plainly obvious.

somber socket
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Im having some trouble trying to load some assets using addressables... the assets are there on the groups window, the type I'm trying to load is correct and yet the InvalidKeyException is "thrown". Anyone know a fix for this?

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var nameWithoutExtension = Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(textureName);
        var directory = Path.GetDirectoryName(textureName);
        var path = Path.Combine("data", "texture", directory, $"{nameWithoutExtension}.png").SanitizeForAddressables();
        var texture = await Addressables.LoadAssetAsync<Texture2D>(path).Task;
indigo onyx
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what on earth is that folder name

charred briar
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does steam support a whole as a addressable for DLC

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like a whole scene

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I want to make DLC for 1 season which have 6 levels and challanges

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does steam support it

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how can I include it in my game that this season is get downloaded now show it

somber socket
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It works on windows tho

graceful yoke
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how to properly load a scene? I'm currently set my scene as an Addressables and using LoadSceneAsync to load, but it seems any content in that particular scene is not loaded. UI is not showing and all of the object missing all of the shader and only showing pink colour. Any Navmesh is also not working.

Am i suppose to load all of the object manually using LoadAssetAsync after the scene loaded?

pearl sable
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Hey guys is there a way to create AssetBundles at runtime. Like putting some objects together in the game and then creating an asset bundle out of that?

mild flax
pearl sable
slate timber
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How do I download assets from Google drive using addressables? Someone help me

lime mist
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Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but how do I see if i'm running AssetDatabase 1 or 2? The project is several years old, but has been upgraded to use Unity 2020.3.14f1 which should be using v2, but I'd like to be certain, as I'm seeing problems that make me think I'm using v1. 🤔

bold igloo
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Is Unity Cloud Content Delivery compatible with Android App Bundle? I cant seem to make them work.

umbral locust
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My code allocates a lot of memory due to closures...

                prefab.InstantiateAsync(pos, rotation.value).Completed += handle => {
                    
                    // Assign MonoEntity and the go itself to the entity :)
                    var manager = World.DefaultGameObjectInjectionWorld.EntityManager;
                    var go = handle.Result;
                    
                    var monoEntity = go.GetComponent<ECSEntity>() ?? go.AddComponent<ECSEntity>();
                    monoEntity.Index = entity.Index;
                    monoEntity.EntityReference = entity;
                    manager.AddComponentObject(entity, go);
                };

Anyway to instantiate a adressable and passing values to it WITHOUT them being allocated on the heap ?
In this case the passed "entity" gets allocated which results in a lot of gc when executed frequently...

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Any help appreciated

kind umbra
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Hi all! Has anyone faced this issue - I have been making content builds successfully in my project several times, and now suddenly today when trying to make a new content build it is getting stuck at a certain point. The content build usually takes about a minute, but now I have waited for 20 minutes, cancelled the build, cleaned the cache and retried and it's still not completing the build.

slate timber
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Can I use Firebase storage link to get addressables from cloud? Please help me

vague oar
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Hey devs, I am using addressables for my project. I want to have the game project seperate from the master project so I am using Addressables content catalog to load my game. However, I cannot add scripts to the bundle. Is there any solution for this? I want to build the project for both Android and IOS

languid sable
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Hey y'all!!
Anyone was ever, in history of Addressables, able to update remote content?

I'm able to generate new build, change the content and generate update build and works perfectly on the Editor

But my Android build NEVER updates it's content.
Even if I delete the content from the server, it will always "download" content from internal memory.
I tried deleting cache and data from my mobile, yet the remote content is there some where hidding in the shadows like a stalker.

I'm using Unity 2020.3.0f1
Addressables is 1.20.3

Here are my Addressables Settings:

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vague oar
languid sable
# vague oar How can I add references if I have some script attached to the game object. Do y...

The object that you are downloading through Addressables can have the script attached without an issue, but the script must exist in the app build.
What I meant is that you can't add new scripts throught Addressables without them existing in the pre-compiled build.

You said you want to have to separated projects, the main and the addressables one
Your main project must have all scripts, even if no gameobject have it as component
But they have to be pre-compiled on the main, while your second project can have references using "partial classes":

https://forum.unity.com/threads/how-to-use-partial-classes-in-unity.606529/

Unity Forum
How to use partial classes in Unity

Hello,

I have a class that is constantly getting bigger and bigger, so i want to split it into several files, so then it seems i have to use partial...

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Check your remote load path on Editor

acoustic sable
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Can you make a scene addressable?

languid sable
acoustic sable
grim copper
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definitely going to need some help here, so ive got addressables functioning from the editor with the playmode script set to use assetdatabase.

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problem is that once i switch it over to use existing build/build webgl, for some reason assets are duplicated

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for example, i should only have 8 assets loaded under 2 different asset label references like so (this is when using `Use AssetDatabase')

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but then when i switch it over to Use Existing Build or in a webgl build this happens:

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this is how the addressable addresses themselves are fetched

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and this is how the addressable group looks like, i also do a default build script before running it under "use existing build"

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any clue what can be causing this?

grim copper
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actually looks like i found something on it? looks like its specific to to LoadResourceLocations func, i specified a type and it fixed the duplicate entries issue but Ive got something else ill post shortly

grim copper
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figured out all of the above:

  • unloading the asset and instantiating the obj while using 'use assetdatrabase' would still let the prefab function as normal and keep the references, but unloading the asset while using 'use existing build' would cause issues
  • broken textures/sounds that i was getting was due to the fact that the bundle was made for webgl
jovial cliff
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I'm trying to write some tests for a system that uses addressables. I have an array of some abstract classes that can load and release arbitrary assets. I'd like to load all of them and then release all of them and then somehow assert than there aren't any leaked addressables. Is there a way to test this?

dry niche
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Can anyone tell me how to set the LoadPath of a BundledAssetGroupSchema created via C# using?
CreateGroup(groupName, false, false, true, null, typeof(ContentUpdateGroupSchema), typeof(BundledAssetGroupSchema));
Afaik the paths on my default object are correct (set to Remote) but when I create new Schemas this way they are set to Local.

harsh spoke
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Hi All,
Did anyone faced this problem before?
"Addressable not working in quest 2? "
And working in the editor?

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for the apk size more than 1gb. or loading it from obb?

upper salmon
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Hello all. I need some help clarifying with how to use addressables. Still new to using it so chances are I've messed up somewhere. I scripted a basic tile loading system where depending on what direction the camera is viewing, the script will call a InstantiateAsync method for a prefab of the tile to load. It will also release these instances if the camera's view direction isn't facing wherever those prefabs are instantiated.

The thing is, I'm not sure if the memory is being released. I'm looking at the profiler and noticing that when I first load the scene where only 2 of the 4 prefabs are loaded, the tracked memory 88.6/196.6MB. When I then move around a bit, load all 4 prefab tiles once and then reposition the player, such that it releases all 4 instances, I'm seeing the tracked memory increases to 131.3/258.6MB

My understanding is that if I release the memory, it should free up the memory space shouldn't it? What am I missing?

Edit: Also wanted to ask, when marking a prefab as addressable, do I need to manually set the dependencies that make up the prefab as addressable as well? i.e. the mesh, textures, materials etc

vague oar
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Hello there, I need to load a addressable scene with unity netcode so that it is synchronized to all clients but , I am not sure how to implement it with netcode

sharp drift
indigo notch
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is the unity addressables and CCD integration supposed to work with UCB? we keep getting errors on our side, and we can't figure it out...

vague oar
acoustic sable
sharp drift
sharp drift
acoustic sable
vocal wind
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Put each level in its own pack; that seems logical

sharp drift
upper salmon
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Is it better to use addressable to load/release prefabs or scene files? I have a basic tile loading system where my tiles are prefabs. I'm not sure if it's the appropriate thing to use but it works. Just thinking what I would use a scene file for now

warm wagon
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does anyone know if reading .json files are supported?

I'm trying to load a json file as a TextAsset and it's not seemingly finding it or even loading the key from the catalogue

languid widget
acoustic sable
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Sorry for being lazy are addressables stored to the device /local storage or in memory on webgl on every bundle download?

In other words. Do I have to pull from the server every time a client loads the game?

vague oar
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Hello there, addressables re-downloads everything again on updating content on remote location. Can I make it to download only the changed data. Is that possible?

hardy mist
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Hey guys, looking for some clarity on this. I am building meshfilters in an addressable group. This is loading fine but the materials and shadergraphs are being included in the build. I want all dependencies for the mesh filter to be included in the addressable group. I've the assets as addressable and included them in the group and have uploaded the bundle to CDN and included my host URL. Still being included in the build

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What I doing wroooong

woven oracle
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Hey guys, I'm working on a city builder game which most assets will be used in the late game. Do I get any benefit using addressable?

acoustic sable
jade ridge
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hi, i'm working on a bit of code that lets you switch between loading assets from resources and via addressables and have it be as easy as possible to do the switch.

i have one issue: it looks like i have to add the file extension when loading via addressables, e.g.,
Addressables.LoadAssetAsync<AudioClip>("Assets/Audio/my-clip.mp3"). This is different from how you'd load if using Resources, e.g., Resources.Load<AudioClip("Audio/my-clip").

i know this is because Assets/Audio/my-clip.mp3 is the actual addressable asset key, and an easy solution would be to just make sure my asset keys don't contain extensions, but that solution doesn't work when i make folders addressable (instead of individual files), because then the individual file keys can't be edited anymore.

does anyone have any suggestions, or will i have to just live with it?

shy frost
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Morning, I have 2 dumb questions:

  1. Should I be loading single scenes using Addressables.LoadSceneAsync or SceneManager.LoadSceneAsync? (i don't understand why i would use one or the other.. are the cons or pros? for each?
  2. In the docs, for using Addressables.LoadSceneAsync, it shows for an Additive scene and it's releasing it with UnloadSceneAsync, should I release scenes when changing single scenes?
bitter mantle
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Hi, I've written a helper class to handle loading and unloading of addressables, but I'm not sure if it is working correctly, as I don't see the results that I would expect (i.e. Memory goes down to the same amount after unloading than before anything was loaded). I profiled with the Memory Profiler and got the results you can see in the attached screenshot, the Event Viewer is also unloading everything correctly (i.e. the resources or any other operations are not present anymore, except for an InitializationObjectsOperation that I don't know how to get rid of, what it means or where it comes from, I'm not using Addressables.InstantiateAsync). Any idea on what I could do to figure out what's wrong? (if you need some additional information to help, let me know).

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hexed sparrow
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Can anyone help me figure out how to prepare addressables for a build, or what I need to do so the addressables are available locally?

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We don't want to host them remotely atm.

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Just have them loaded when our build runs.

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At the moment when I build my application, the addressables don't seem to be part of the build.

true heron
hexed sparrow
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Yeah

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Through the groups window

oblique reef
bitter mantle
slate timber
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Just came to say how absolute dogshit the Addressables system is, at least the documentation 💀

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Loading 1 asset is like, 10 lines of code

true heron
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Addressables.LoadAssetAsync<Material>("MyMaterial");

slate timber
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doesn't return a Material

true heron
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That's kind of the point of an asynchronous system

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You can still immediately load an object in 1 line

oblique reef
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Unity has internal allocations all over the place

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And unity may clean up destroyed objects over a period of frames

bitter mantle
# oblique reef Keep in mind the extra memory could be from unity internals do your little test ...

This is with just the regular instantiate and it makes sense, seeing as I have to reference the prefab the normal way it's immediately loaded into memory upon application start. The remaining snapshots make sense to me as well as I'm just creating a pool and deleting it in the load and unload steps, so memory always stays the same.

I also just remembered the following from the Addressables documentation:

The Addressables system initializes itself at runtime the first time you load an Addressable or make another call to an Addressable API. Call Addressables.InitializeAsync to initialize Addressables earlier (this function does nothing if initialization has already occurred).

So the 0.3 GB that appears after loading addressables for the first time might very well be from the quote above, I'll test it out but it would make sense in conjunction with your statement about internal allocations. Thanks for your help! 🙂

€: Ok this is probably what the remaining memory that did not disappear when being loaded and unloaded is about, it was simply the addressable system being initialized. I testet it by manually initializing it before loading anything and check the memory snap shots.

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hoary stratus
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Dear colleagues, I wonder if anyone heard anything new about well know issue with addressables, when they pack all shaders instead on only ones that are used, and put everything in memory on play time. I have workaround with shader scripping, but now that I added Terrain to list, the stripping dont really work correctly. maybe there is new woraround or new update that solves this problem?

plush minnow
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Is there any method to find AddressableAssetEntry by address, for Editor extension?

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Huh they don't even have a feature to prevent input duplicated addresses, really? 😅

bold spruce
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Hey everyone. Is there a way of loading asset by GUID? I mean, instead of storing the text address us the GUID?

plush minnow
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or use AssetReference

true heron
acoustic sable
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I have multiple maps that I will only load into a client once so I need to make multiple asset bundles. Is there any negative factors of having 20+ bundles (but downloading only 5)?

plush minnow
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And cannot use AssetReference for it because the string is not from Unity

plush minnow
eager nymph
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Hi, I am loading asset using Addressables.LoadAssetAsync<GameObject> then Instantiate (not Addressable.InstantiateAsync). Should I use Addressable.ReleaseInstance(instance) method to remove instance when I need? Or Should I use Addressable.Instantiate? Can anyone describe the differences between these two instantiate methods?

hoary stratus
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Please teach me how to make not load all ***** shaders to memory when using addressables. Tried shaders collection, all documentations... tutorials.. wrote stripping code. but it is just unfair I cant handle this...

jolly adder
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how do I specify which platforms addressables I'm building when running unity in batch mode? There doesn't seem to be a way to pass in the platform

indigo willow
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How can I solve this? I'm trying to update from Addressables 1.20.0 to 1.20.5 (Unity 2020.3.0f1)

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pine coral
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from the docu it should be

glass dock
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So what is the best practice for sprite atlases? Should we be using the unity sprite atlas or is it better to just have a sheet we have created on our own? The issue I am having is the annoyance of referencing sprites that should be in an atlas (that is addressable) but the sprites are referenced all over. Mostly UI related

hoary stratus
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Dear people, there are good projects to learn UItoolkit, networking and etc on Unity learn. Is there a project which shows example of addressables? Documentation I read, understood and used in a project. But I want to compare other approaches, the approaches that were intended, real life examples in a project.

Is there project and content like that available?

hoary stratus
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Besides pined examples

lofty iron
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Hey guys need some help, we're using unity UGS using ccd along with addressables package. How can we tell our cloud builds which addressables build script to use? For some reason I keep getting this error on my local builds: Unity UnityEngine.AddressableAssets.InvalidKeyException: Exception of type 'UnityEngine.AddressableAssets.InvalidKeyException' was thrown. No Location found for Key=a0f7d3d49b0e6a74484db341d269bd6e I think its that our android build is trying to use the IOS build script. not entirely sure but any help is appreciated thank you.

slate timber
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I understand addressable at a very high level and have limited experience with Unity. From use in code it's really easy to load addressable resource. But why, if at all, would I want to use addressables if not loading resources from code? Are there other advantages?

hexed sparrow
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Anyone know how to get unity to restore the AddressablesRuntimeDataPath key which is stored in playerprefs?

hoary stratus
# slate timber I understand addressable at a very high level and have limited experience with U...

If you can load recources from directory and not reference and you will not forget to unload everything, you wont get anything different pretty much.

But if you use reference directly to resources, guess what, it will be loaded to memory even if you havent loaded it on your scene. Addressables in other side will load only when you ask them to load it to memory. And furthermore the managment is way easier that doing everything manually.

cedar trail
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How do I load a scene? I followed the tutorial and got ```cs
var sceneHandle = Addressables.LoadSceneAsync("Scenes/" + sceneName);

but it gives me the error of

UnityEngine.AddressableAssets.InvalidKeyException: Exception of type 'UnityEngine.AddressableAssets.InvalidKeyException' was thrown. No Asset found with for Key=Scenes/working_isles. Key exists as Type=UnityEditor.DefaultAsset, which is not assignable from the requested Type=UnityEngine.ResourceManagement.ResourceProviders.SceneInstance

glass dock
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is the "working_isles" scene marked as addressable? Also if it is, is the actual addressable name of the scene "Scenes/working_isles" ?

rapid beacon
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I have set up an AWS S3 Bucket and have set up my code to pull correctly from the server but the OBB still contains the assets im trying to pull remotely with addressables so im not actually saving any space...
I needed to use addressables to reduce the OBB size but even with the set up the OBB size is the same, not sure what im doing wrong

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any help would be appreciated! : )

rapid beacon
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solved! I was still locally loading the assets which contained references to the other assets inside of them so they in turn were being loaded locally, made the parent assets a prefab and added to the addressables instead which removed them from OBB and local loading.

rapid beacon
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I think, im quite new aswell

cedar trail
distant sleet
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if things are addressable, the mods people can make are capable of digging deeper into the game systems, could be wrong, pretty sure there was some videos covering the topic on the unity YT account

cedar trail
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Oh yeah, speaking of, can one addressables pack's asset override another? like for modding a scene and replacing it with another

cedar trail
abstract fractal
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Hey guys. Have a simple question. Searched it but couldnt find a clear answer here.
Can i use addressables without bundling them. Cause i dont want to download all the bundle only for one asset. All of my players will need different assets according to their in-game card collections. Is this an option for CCD? Or im just gonna move on with a simple CDN..

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Asking this everywhere. Any help appreciated. Thanks a lot!

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To be clear. All unity tutorials are forcing me to create bundles of assets. I just wanna download images one by one if needed. Not the entire bundle for sake.

lost hill
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Hello I am trying to edit a asset bundle, I am adding 2 new objects into the asset bundles
A transform and a gameobject Upon trying to load it in the game it crashes without any errors so I tried loading this asset bundle in unity editor and this is the error it outputs:
https://pastebin.com/bFc1xPhn

Do you guys know what is wrong or what should I look into I spent weeks trying to get this working without any success...

Pastebin
CheckConsistency: Transform child can't be loaded0x00007FF6E8E519FC...

Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time.

glass dock
cedar trail
shrewd lagoon
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Hi guys, i'm new to addressables i have a question.. I have to export my unity app as a a library ready to be implemented in a native app. When the unity player gets launched i need the native app to send me some information on what asset to load from addressable system ( hosted on remote cloud service) How can I achieve this?

low halo
shrewd lagoon
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android

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and ios too

acoustic sable
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Once pulled do packages save to the device? Or do they do a fetch every instance?

acoustic sable
shrewd lagoon
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i don't need them to cache on my local device, i just need a specified asset to be loaded everytime my unityplayer activity gets launched from native. The native btw should have a way of referencing the corresponding addressable to load cause i'm making a AR catalog, from the product page in native app i need to know which 3d model to load based on product the user opened

acoustic sable
shrewd lagoon
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i had to use Trilib package from asset store. i'm gonna read the message (string url) coming from the intent that launches my unity app and then it will download the asset from a remote cloud service

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but, once downloaded, does my 3d asset get destroyed and unloaded from memory when i go back to the native app closing my unityPlayer?

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i don't want to put garbage on user device since the user can open different products, i just want the product to be downloaded whenever unity player (AR) gets launched from native and then delete the downloaded asset

acoustic sable
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You have access to webgl.

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Also I wrote an ar app for mobile. Unity isn't the best for this unless you're dependent on libs.

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Webgl. Babylon js.

shrewd lagoon
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yea but i need to use hand tracking

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with manomotion :/

acoustic sable
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*tracking is supported. With Bab.

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Don't know what Mano motion is.

shrewd lagoon
acoustic sable
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Native qr code scanning as well. See if its your solution.

shrewd lagoon
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hand tracking using what? Opencv or mediapipe?

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btw ty for your answers @acoustic sable 😄

acoustic sable
shrewd lagoon
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ty mate

acoustic sable
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I really suggest doing this in native Web. Unless you really do need unity.

shrewd lagoon
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yeh, it would be much easier to retrieve assets

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from native i just have to opena web browser with a specified link

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and then load a certain asset from a server, like a glb

acoustic sable
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Web in general will be better for your end user. As well iOS doesn't support webgl 3.0

shrewd lagoon
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maybe compressed with draco and KTX

acoustic sable
frozen hill
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Hey guys,
I am trying to learn addressable looking at the documentation.
Here is my code. It spawns a Dragon when I press a button.
But for some reason "Addressables.ReleaseInstance()" does not seems to work for me. The objects don't get destroyed. Can anyone tell me what's wrong?

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magic escarp
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I hate addressables agh I have spent 3 days working on an AssetManager!!!

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GRAAHH

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(That is all)

sharp grail
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Do you know if it is possible to create an AssetReference from Addressable path ( string ) ?

olive sundial
#

I'm having a similar issue right now, I think. Or at least the error 😄

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What I'm experiencing is that no matter how, what, who I build, I always get No Location found for Key=xxx when trying to load it. Even though it is properly released and built...

magic escarp
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ok so, I have been having some issues figuring out a good system for loading assets with a single controlled point for managing remote assets and have came here for assistance.

Below I have a diagram with the workflow I desire. I want to use the generated catalog file and read every asset to load and cache into a bunch of asset lists that can be loaded on runtime, or even cache it on the device. I have had multiple attempts, including assetbundles, but haven't had a good way of loading from a generated catalog of items. I originally had an AssetList.txt that I manually loaded, but that would be so hard to edit in later updates. If anyone can help explain remote loading a bit better or have any good resources please let me know.

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The main goal of this system is to load all the assets from the server on the start of the game if they have not yet been cached, or have been updated

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I just haven't found any good resources for Remote Addressables

crisp haven
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Hey all, any addressables pros online?

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I'm trying to release an individual asset when loaded from LoadAssetsAsync

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and passing the asset back to the Release method doesnt work

little viper
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Hey, How can i get asset reference from asset path?

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I need it to assign reference from editor script

round dust
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installed the addressables package and got this, any idea what's going on?

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disappeared when i hit clear and it runs so idk 🤷‍♂️

untold jewel
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I need some legitimate insight into the use of addressables. For say a desktop game, not a distributed or resource bound mobile game, what benefit does the addressables system have over resources folder approach? Frankly it seems a lot more development overhead for not needing the benefits it provides for only downloading certain assets to save space.

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Articles and references are welcome here, I would just like to know why I should move to addressables for a desktop game other than unity telling me I should for reasons that don't apply.

hoary rampart
untold jewel
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@hoary rampart is that how steam works? You write scripts to download bundles when steam asks if your game has updates? Assets don't get bundles with an exe do they?

hoary rampart
hoary stratus
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Should I include FBX file into addressables? or it is enough to include Prefab that is made out of that FBX.

What is best practice?

To explain this question, I am not 100 % how it handles on build. Example:
I have house.FBX it have blue roof.
In my scene I create prefab of house. use mesh from house.fbx but change material to red roof instead.

In short I need only house with red roof, and I dont need everything that is inside the FBX file.

What is correct way to put this in addressables? just Prefab, and let Unity take what is needed to build asset? Or I need to add FBX as well, or it will automatically add full FBX into addressables anyways?

Main reason is I have FBX with tons of textures inside, but in my project I used simplified materials to save memory so I am afraid if I include FBX into addressables it will put all that data into package.

unkempt tartan
# untold jewel Articles and references are welcome here, I would just like to know why I should...

I think addressables is not the answer to everything, as we know. From talking to a number of other devs who launched on Steam, the sentiment was that Steam manages game updates behind the scene (if auto-update is on??) and so it's more of a seamless experience for the players because once they start the latest updated game, there is no more waiting inside the game. On the other hand, with addressables, when there is an update, when a player start the game, they'd still need to wait for the update inside the game?

unkempt tartan
# hoary stratus Should I include FBX file into addressables? or it is enough to include Prefab t...

I'm still learning the ropes too, but as per my current understanding:

  1. Including the prefab, but NOT the FBX is ok as long as you don't need to update the FBX. Essentially you can update the prefab and release an updated bundle, but it would reference to the existing FBX.
  2. On the other hand, including both the prefab AND the FBX gives you the ability to update both the prefab AND the FBX. Essentially you can change the house model itself, not just the material.

So if you're 100% sure that you're dead set and happy with the model (and you don't care about the textures inside), and you only rely on the material (which you probably need to make as addressable as well) and the prefab, then this might be a good way to put the FBX in the main binary, and make the addressable bundle smaller by excluding the FBX out of it.

hoary stratus
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The core question in my case is Size and Memory load. As what I need as minimum Memory usage as possible. Convenience is secondary.

unkempt tartan
iron lake
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Can any one help me understand why some of my Addressable groups wont work when the device is offline. Everything works fine the first time when i start the game. Addressables download and work fine from server. But when I restart game with no internet the Some Addressables wont load and simply pause the game for ever. #📦┃addressables

unkempt tartan
iron lake
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Yes I have hosted on remote

unkempt tartan
iron lake
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Actually it says it cant find the bundle. And only happens with few groups. If the groups are small it doesnt happen. I have tested it. Generally if game has downloaded the bundle once, it will not mandatorily look for it again unless its connected to internet.

unkempt tartan
iron lake
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I have already commented on this forum link.

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Yes i think there might be dependencies in some prefabs which are in the group..

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DownloadDependencies do not catch this issue. That is the strange thing.

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Only when we try to load it gives error.

hoary stratus
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While using addressables, on scene load my Scriptable object data gets reseted (by default it is emty, script in first scene updates values to it.). The Scriptable objects is not in addressables list, but referenced in Scene which is addressable. If play mode is Use asset database (fastest) if does not reset Scriptable object. If I use Existing build OR StandAlone, it does reset scriptable object data.

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However different scriptobject does not get reseted..... Only difference that that scriptable object is on DontDestroyOnLoad object. But If I understand correctly it should not matter for scriptable objects right? as they are not destoyed on scene change anyways?

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it seems it creates new instance for some reason.

modest leaf
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For example I have a perfab with meshes from bfx, and materials from asset. I make that prefab addressable, do i need to make all the meshes and materials addressable too?

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Or its smart enough to create its own instance of that mesh / material within that group

hoary stratus
# modest leaf For example I have a perfab with meshes from bfx, and materials from asset. I ma...

Oh you asked exactly same question I did 😄 But in short yes, it is smart enough. But it will add it in seperate group which is created automaticly. So you will not have too much control about it. It will work as intended, but not as pretty.

I personally now moving everything in groups manually and add all things I need into addressables manually. As then The "Addressables" tests will be more usefull I think.

modest leaf
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But it's smart enough to know whats inside is quite reassuring

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That means even if i miss one or two it's not the end of the world

iron lake
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I really have a major problem where my Addressable groups coming from remote server are not getting cached permanently. As soon as I restart the game some groups show up corrupt and redownloads. Anyone here faced this issue?

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So my game has to be online every time. Else it just stops the game.

hoary stratus
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what platform it is?

hoary stratus
iron lake
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IOS and Android

hoary stratus
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which setting is on on your bundle you are donwloading?

iron lake
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If a group contains Video file or Audio files or its a small prefab it would work perfectly without internet. But i feel when the prefabs are bigger like a whole level. It will fail when the game restarts.

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Checking

hoary stratus
iron lake
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These are the settings.

hoary stratus
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you might want to check this

iron lake
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Yes i did this, So the problem is that Unity does not give me any error untill i try to load it. DownloadDependencies also doesnt show any issue.

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I think I will try to show the error which I get in Build process

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Like when running.

hoary stratus
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That would help a lot. also when you do that check Unity Editor logs for more precise data than just Unity console. You can do this test in Editor if you choose addresables to be loaded not the fastest way

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aka simulating what will happen on device. (sorry mine is WebGL build so it is written webgl)

iron lake
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You mean i will get similar result in Editor if i use Use Existing Build?

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GameController:Start()

System.Exception: Unable to load dependent bundle from location Assets/Resources_moved/The Castle.prefab
UnityEngine.ResourceManagement.AsyncOperations.AsyncOperationBase1:set_OperationException(Exception) UnityEngine.ResourceManagement.AsyncOperations.AsyncOperationBase1:Complete(TObject, Boolean, Exception, Boolean)
UnityEngine.ResourceManagement.ResourceProviders.ProvideHandle:Complete(T, Boolean, Exception)
UnityEngine.ResourceManagement.ResourceProviders.BundledAssetProvider:Provide(ProvideHandle)
UnityEngine.ResourceManagement.AsyncOperations.ProviderOperation1:Execute() UnityEngine.ResourceManagement.AsyncOperations.AsyncOperationBase1:InvokeExecute()
UnityEngine.ResourceManagement.AsyncOperations.<>c__DisplayClass57_0:<add_CompletedTypeless>b__0(AsyncOperationHandle1) System.Action1:Invoke(T)
DelegateList1:Invoke(T) UnityEngine.ResourceManagement.AsyncOperations.AsyncOperationBase1:InvokeCompletionEvent()
UnityEngine.ResourceManagement.AsyncOperations.AsyncOperationBase1:Complete(TObject, Boolean, Exception, Boolean) UnityEngine.ResourceManagement.AsyncOperations.GroupOperation:CompleteIfDependenciesComplete() UnityEngine.ResourceManagement.AsyncOperations.<>c__DisplayClass57_0:<add_CompletedTypeless>b__0(AsyncOperationHandle1)
System.Action1:Invoke(T) DelegateList1:Invoke(T)
UnityEngine.ResourceManagement.AsyncOperations.AsyncOperationBase`1:InvokeCompletionEvent()

iron lake
hoary stratus
#

So now you can play with settings more actively and try to see what is the cause 🙂 sorry I cant help more than this at this moment

iron lake
#

Thanks for showing this. I think i will soon be forced to manually download the groups in streaming assets and then let unity load it. It works 1 time and doesnt 2nd time but works 3rd time. I have made a bug report and it's pending since month now. I will see if anything fixes the issue.

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Thanks again for help buddy.

jolly adder
#

So I'm using LoadAssetsAsync to load a bunch of assets, but all I get is the Unity.Object, how do I figure out the addressable name that was used to load it?

trim bay
#

hey guys, i am kind of stuck and i am not sure what i am doing wrong. I am trying to download the updated bundles from azure but the game keeps trying to download outdated addressables instead. here's my code any help would be appreciated ```private async void Start()
{
if (clearCache)
{
Caching.ClearCache();
}

        await Addressables.InitializeAsync();

        List<IResourceLocator> updatedResourceLocators = await Addressables.UpdateCatalogs();

        if(updatedResourceLocators != null)
        {
            var allKeys = updatedResourceLocators[0].Keys;

            for (int i = 1; i < updatedResourceLocators.Count; i++)
            {
                allKeys.Append(updatedResourceLocators[i].Keys);
            }

            numAssetBundlesToDownload = allKeys.ToList().Count;
            numDownloaded = 0;

            foreach (var key in allKeys)
            {
                numDownloaded++;

                if(ui != null)
                {
                    ui.UpdateDownloadsText($"downloading ... {numDownloaded}/{numAssetBundlesToDownload}");
                }
                

                var keyDownloadSizeKB = BytesToKiloBytes(await Addressables.GetDownloadSizeAsync(key).Task);
                if (keyDownloadSizeKB <= 0)
                {
                    continue;
                }

                var keyDownloadOperation = Addressables.DownloadDependenciesAsync(key);
                while (!keyDownloadOperation.IsDone)
                {
                    await Task.Yield();
                    var status = keyDownloadOperation.GetDownloadStatus();
                    var percent = status.Percent * 100.0f;

                    if (ui != null)
                    {
                        ui.UpdateProgressText(percent);
                    }
                }
            }
        }

        SceneManager.LoadScene("Login");
    }```
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trim bay
#

yeah but shouldnt the updated catalog, tell the code to look for 46.46?

trim bay
# 
RemoteProviderException : TextDataProvider : unable to load from url : https://stemuligamestorage.blob.core.windows.net/ios/catalog_2022.11.04.23.22.29.hash
UnityWebRequest result : ProtocolError : HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
ResponseCode : 404, Method : GET
url : https://stemuligamestorage.blob.core.windows.net/ios/catalog_2022.11.04.23.22.29.hash```
#

tried to clear the cache, tried checking for updates nothing works

#

it still keeps trying to look for the older catalog

mild crystal
#

hi there im having problem with WEBGL and addressables and caching, im since hours trying to fix it and all stuff i try so far dosnt seems to fix anything. in the player settings i disabled Data caching bool and still giving the error so its make me nuts.

the error its
Error while downloading Asset Bundle: CRC Mismatch. Provided 6b2caf2, calculated 477d6e31 from data. Will not load AssetBundle

i have try to parse the OperationException.message if contains the CRC mismatch for then call Caching.ClearCache();
but it results that you cant build webgl build with that line even if dont give error on visual studio, coz webgl now use other caching magic and there is no documentation on how to force to clear this cache...

any help please

trim bay
#

to maybe save even 1 person from madness. here's the code i used to solve my issue

# 
private void ClearPreviousCatalog()
        {
            string path = Application.persistentDataPath + "/com.unity.addressables/";

            System.IO.DirectoryInfo di = new DirectoryInfo(path);

            foreach (FileInfo file in di.GetFiles())
            {
                file.Delete();
            }
        }
tame torrent
#

Addressables-Localization-WebGL

stable parcel
#

Does Unity refrain from re-compiling a particular addressable group if it wasn't changed since the last time it was compiled?

untold jewel
#

Does anyone have some references to practical approaches to hybrid approaches to asset bundles? ie using bundles for scriptable object libraries.

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I want to use them mainly for library or database uses and have data elements reference them since they are dynamic constructs. More of a data oriented approach.

hoary stratus
# untold jewel I want to use them mainly for library or database uses and have data elements re...

For all scriptable I suggest reading this:
https://forum.unity.com/threads/scriptableobject-references-in-addressables.777155/#post-8280294

But in general you want all SO to be in anddressables system. You can load it at start so it would work as normally, but if they are not in the addressables you will get duplicates and etc.

Unity Forum
ScriptableObject References in Addressables

Hi there!

I have some UI assets that aren't used all the time, so I would like to dynamically load and unload them using Addressables.

These UI...

untold jewel
#

@hoary stratus thanks man, I'll give it a read

hoary stratus
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The solution and even example project works fine. But I find it a bit too complicated for my taste. So I am trying to find simplier solution. If you will have good ideas drop it here. But in general everything is addressables is best solution

untold jewel
#

Regarding bundles, should the assets be organized in their addressable bundles structure? or is that more an organizational choice?

untold jewel
#

Essentially do you keep your assets organized by type (images, prefabs, scenes, etc) or by the bundle (orc battle, equipment definitions, etc) where each bundle folder has the assets for a complete prefab or logically grouped assets.

untold jewel
#

Another question I have is how granular are bundles supposed to be for them to be considered optimal, if there is such a thing?

untold jewel
#

What is the difference between Addressable Group and Asset Bundle?

hoary stratus
hoary stratus
# untold jewel Another question I have is how granular are bundles supposed to be for them to b...

You need to understand one thing, If you make addressable scene, all assets used will be put into that asset as well. So you Dont really need to put every single object into asset bundle. BUT! You need to plan it smartly, for example if House with specific materials is in each scene, maybe it is smart to put it into new group, so it would be loaded together with scene but separately, which will reduce loading times and download data if using remote download.

Also dont forget you can put Folders in addressables as well, for faster and easier managment. Everything in folder will be included in addressables, so if you dont need the references dirrectly you dont need to make each file addressable.

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Offcourse you can make everything addressable manually, and that will be even better sometimes, as you will have full control over everything, but dont make too many groups or separate bundles, as it will give you quite big overhead in memory later on 🙂

chilly lava
#

Hello. If I import a prefab of an environment via addressable, how can I also import the baked of an occulusion area generated by the environment? Thank you.

hoary stratus
modest leaf
#

If i would instantiate a house with addressable and destroy lets say a chair inside with Destroy(). Will it be a problem when I call release on the house?

hoary stratus
modest leaf
#

You can't really just release that chair if it's in one single prefab though

hoary stratus
#

Unless the chair is in seperate bundle you cannot release just chair. (it depends if in your group it packed together or seperate).

modest leaf
#

As long as it doesn't say: "oh i don't see that chair in the prefab anymore i will not release it" it will ve fine

#

Yeah as long as it can release everything then its good enough, thanks for the clarification

hoary stratus
#

In short: If things are packed together into one package, you can load one by one. But you will only can unload all package.
If it packaged separately: you can load and unload one by one. It looks better, but this will increase your Addressables management memory usage, so use it only when needed.

modest leaf
#

What i have is similar to a house, i put that as a large prefab and have a addressable group assigned to that house

#

Lets say it got a couple destroyable barrels in there

#

Once destroyed, it doesn't need to be there anymore, so i can delete it by doing destroy(gameobject), releasing scene memory

#

And when the player leaves the house, i will release the house prefab, this should release the addressable memory

#

All i had to make sure is that it can still release a modified prefab when some of the objects are missing

hoary stratus
modest leaf
#

Really? Destroyed gameobject still remains in active scene memory?

hoary stratus
#

Well it is simple to check with memory inspector.

modest leaf
#

I know the prefab is still loaded in memory, but the instantiated objects will use active scene memory too

hoary stratus
#

Emmmm? are you talking about handle? or about inniated object?

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because if you talking about inniated object it just is in your memory, it does not duplicate to your memory again. It does not render but it have nothing to do with memory.

modest leaf
#

So basically i instantiate the house in my scene as a prefab. And it got 10000 barrels in it to start with

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Deleting the 10000 barrel will for sure release some memory right?

#

I know the addressable memory wont be released before i call release on the house

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But doesn't all gameobject require some bit of memory if they are present in the scene?

hoary stratus
#

It will use one copy of the model; that's why sharedMesh exists.

modest leaf
#

Doesn't that only apply if static batching is enabled?

hoary stratus
#

It will just remove instance data I suppose. that will reduce memory usage, but most likely you dont have 10 000 objects, and the impact of it will be quite small compared with main asset size in memory.

modest leaf
#

I mean if its the case of barrel, breaking it would mean never having to see it again, why not just destroy it instead of setting it to inactive

hoary stratus
#

But each case is different. so for you destroying is better. As long you will never need to regenerate the objects.

modest leaf
#

I can pool it if i need a lot of them all the time, but once they are gone, they are gone

hoary stratus
#

But if you have a lot of barrels in the house, more correct approach would have pool of them, and enable disable them from pool where character sees or by location he is. But once again, it depends on amount of barrels you have.

#

Does your core prefab have all barrels in it spawned already when you spawn it?

modest leaf
#

Most likely, since there will be only a handful of them

#

They are just decors

hoary stratus
#

To be honest then I am not 100% sure how it will handle the memory unload when you destroy them. But one thing for sure, when you unload house reference it will be all cleaned up.

modest leaf
#

Ill do some testing now and see if it free up the memory

hoary stratus
#

I think adressables is smart enough to create dependable addressable for single barrel and just duplicate it in your house as many times as you need as a profab without duplicating memory for each.

modest leaf
#

But the profiler is kinda sketch and always produce weird results especially with addressables

hoary stratus
hoary stratus
#

In editor it is always hard to say for sure with memory, as it load mroe stuff than needed. however if you connect built version to profiler it can be seen quite easily.

modest leaf
#

The windows analysis one right?

hoary stratus
# modest leaf The windows analysis one right?

This memory profiler is not directly accesable from packages folder, you will need to add it manually. But yea, if you game is on Windows platform, you build windows with autoconnect profiler function on and you will be able to capture data from actual run time.

#

for me addressables or not it provides precise data.

modest leaf
#

Good to know! Because in editor it's not correct at all for me

#

I will see how to add that with a build

hoary stratus
modest leaf
#

Thanks again

lethal tundra
#

Are asset bundles encrypted ? If someone has access to the server and downloads them, will be able to unpack them and see the models and scripts ?

full bison
#

Hi, it's all the week I'm tracking a strange problem that make crash my build. In the end I realized that the problem is due a GameObject that reference (even indirectly) a LocalizedString. If I set the LocalizedString reference to None, build works. It crash only if I set some string (from the inspectory btw)

#

Is there some way to fix this? I have read that addressables suffered some problems in previous versions.

#

I run the Analyzer as suggested somewhere (never used it before), but no problem has been detected

hoary stratus
#

Quick question:
How should I approach this: Load asset to memory if not loaded yet?
As in one scene I might want to spawn character, and in another additive scene i want to spawn copy of it, but that is not always the case, so I want it to check if it is already in memory, if yes, then just inniate

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i dont want duplications to happen.

hoary stratus
# 
Note: If you mark a GameObject in an Addressable loaded scene as DontDestroyOnLoad or move it to another loaded Scene and then unload your original Scene, all dependencies for your GameObject are still unloaded.
If you find yourself in that scenario there are a couple options at your disposal.

-Make the GameObject you want to be DontDestroyOnLoad a single Addressable prefab. Instantiate the prefab when you need it and then mark it as DontDestroyOnLoad.
-Before unloading the Scene that contained the GameObject you mark as DontDestroyOnLoad, call AsyncOperationHandle.Acquire() on the Scene load handle. This increases the reference count on the Scene, and keeps it and its dependencies loaded until Release is called on the acquired handle.

Could anyone give me code examplle for any of these. It seems I cant figure it out only by docs.

hoary stratus
#

The first one is pretty clear, but what if I have references I made in that scene on that prefab? I would assume that scene references will not be saved in this ways, so I should copy all references, then spawn the prefab as addressable and paste all references. uff

modest leaf
#

Isn't there like callback.state or iscompleted for each of the assetreference. Also, as long as there is one thing with reference count of 1 in that entire package, the addressable group is not released. Since you want to keep it across scenes, why not just have them always loaded?

tame torrent
hoary stratus
# tame torrent https://forum.unity.com/threads/analyse-rules-localization-asset-is-missing.1359...

https://github.com/UnityTechnologies/open-project-1/tree/devlogs/4-addressable-assets

All i can suggest you to check this and how they do localization wtih addressables and scriptable objects. Sorry Can help more

GitHub
GitHub - UnityTechnologies/open-project-1 at devlogs/4-addressable-...

Unity Open Project #1: Chop Chop. Contribute to UnityTechnologies/open-project-1 development by creating an account on GitHub.

#

And have in mind, that Analysis Errors not always needs to be fixed. This is quite weirds but it very common. I suggest clear all cache you can if it gives you problems. Also try changing this and test on editor (everything will be pink but dont mind that :D)

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untold jewel
#

Is there a way to get the name/path of an AssetReference?

full bison
#

does exists a safe way to rebuild completely localization assets? I have an annoing error I don't know how to get rid of

#

when I change the locale I get this error: ArgumentException: Empty Table Reference. Must contain a Guid or Table Collection Name

#

it seems analyzer does not recognize this error

hoary stratus
untold jewel
#

I am trying to prevent hardcoding by all means possible.

hoary stratus
# untold jewel Well I have an AddressableReference and want to know the name/path of it

Emmmm,
Here you can see the name and path, you can name it in what ever way you want. I would personally just use
https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/addressables-basic-assetreference#:~:text=public AssetReference objectToLoad%3B

Aka dirrect refernce rather than any type of string.

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Addressables: Basic AssetReference - Unity Learn

In this tutorial, we’ll explore the AssetReference and how to use it.

#

and just drag and drop it from editor if needed.

untold jewel
#

Lol yes I know how the inspector works with this regard. I am talking purely in code and not the editor

hoary stratus
#

Addressables.LoadResourceLocationsAsync(assetReference).WaitForCompletion().First()?.PrimaryKey

#

Not sure why you would need it, unless you are sending it over network as string.

hoary stratus
# 
  private async void SceneLoadComplete(AsyncOperationHandle<UnityEngine.ResourceManagement.ResourceProviders.SceneInstance> obj) {
        if (obj.Status == AsyncOperationStatus.Succeeded) {
          SceneManager.SetActiveScene(SceneManager.GetSceneByName(obj.Result.Scene.name));

On webgl I am having this error

ArgumentException: SceneManager.SetActiveScene failed; scene 'MySceneName1' is not loaded and therefore cannot be set active

This happens only if I unload and load same scene. If I change from MySceneName1 to MySceneName2 it works correctly. On editor it works correctly. Anyideas? Should I add extra await or something?

untold jewel
#

I have my reasons

chilly lava
# hoary stratus make the scene addressable as well

Sorry for the delay. I saw that it is actually the scene that is addressable. But when it is added as an additive scene, it does not take the occlusion map bake with it. Do you need to set any parameters? Thank you.

hoary stratus
hoary stratus
hoary stratus
#

Just make all possible variant of your main scene and additive scenes and then bake it. And in the end load it it will work. Just tested.

cinder hinge
#

any ideas why while building addressable assets this error shows up?

#

Library\PackageCache\com.unity.collections@2.1.0-pre.2\Unity.Collections\NativeList.cs(799,24): error CS7036: There is no argument given that corresponds to the required formal parameter 'safety' of 'NativeArray<T>.ReadOnly.ReadOnly(void*, int, ref AtomicSafetyHandle)'

#

using 2022.2.0b14

dull junco
#

Hi there, not sure what cause this, i'm new to the addressables and loading my asset and spawning it works like a charm but after the spawn the object isn't clickable anymore, if i drag and drop it to scene, my raycast works on the scene object. Any idea what could cause this?

chilly lava
hoary stratus
# dull junco Hi there, not sure what cause this, i'm new to the addressables and loading my a...

First of all, I can confirm that spawning via addressables does not effect raycast. It works correctly at least in my project.

  1. have you have any red errors on console, not nessarasy connected with this. ? AS it could interrupt spawning order and colliders are not registered.

  2. When you spawn via addressables, in editor open the gameobject and try enabling dissabling colliders and check if that have any effect.

  3. Check the layers your colliders are on? Maybe you have some kind of script on start which change layers?

  4. Spawn via addressables and then drag and drop same prefab, check if all components are totally the same?

dull junco
# hoary stratus First of all, I can confirm that spawning via addressables does not effect rayca...

Thanks I will try when I’m at home this evening, but I can answer following things:

1.) No error or warning in console

3.) it’s on the default layer as the prefab and the scene objects, no script is interfering with this (just one component which holds the offsets for spawn and identify for ray)
4.) yes there are identical, it’s the same prefab/addressable, also when I drag and drop the prefab into scene when playing (so it’s get spawned, got (clone) in name) the ray cast also didn’t hit

hoary stratus
dull junco
#

Yea it’s in update, I will try to draw a debug line but it should hit as I hit also the scene object (same prefab) then destroy it and spawn it again on the same position, i will post a vid or something when I’m at home

hoary stratus
weary hinge
#

Hi everyone. I am trying to hook up Addressables and CloudBuild. I want it to still work for manual builds I do on my PC as well. I am reading through https://docs.unity.com/ccd/UnityCCDFAQ.html and this section confuses me:

How do I get my CloudBuild builds to work with Addressables?#
Add a profile specifically for Addressables. The URL needs to include “...content/?path=ServerData/[BuildTarget]”.

#

Are they talking about Addressable profiles here? But why does it need to include ServerData/BuildTarget (or better: Why is this not always needed?)

#

So, do I need a profile for manual builds and one for Cloudbuild?

dull junco
# hoary stratus Okay. Maybe the destruction of the object does not work rather than Raycast. I w...

hmm its a simple Destroy(GameObject), also if i don't use my code to spawn and just drag and drop the prefab while editor is running the raycast goes though https://streamable.com/fxj4d9 i made a vid here, i thought may i have to rebuild the physical scene or something when i use addressables...
this code is running in update for the raycast (sorry for the bad coding its more a prototype 😛 )

 if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
        {
            Debug.Log("Mouse is down");
            RaycastHit hitInfo = new RaycastHit();
            bool hit = Physics.Raycast(_camera.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition), out hitInfo);
            if (hit)
            {
                if (hitInfo.transform.TryGetComponent(out VehiclePart part))
                {
                    //Vehicle Part hitted by raycast 
                    currentPart = part;
                    ColorPickerHandler.currentEditIndex = currentPart.ReturnFirstMaterial();
                    ColorPickerHandler.Show(currentPart);
                    PartsPickerHandler.ShowWindow(currentPart);
                }

                Debug.Log("Hit " + hitInfo.transform.gameObject.name);
            }
            else
            {
                Debug.Log("No hit");
            }
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hoary stratus
#

turn on gizmos and check if there is all colliders active

meager berry
#

Hello.

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How do I load Addressables from a MemoryStream ?

dull junco
vestal gazelle
#

Does Addressables loads scenes faster and smoother (without stutter) than regular built-in one?

chilly lava
# hoary stratus Just make all possible variant of your main scene and additive scenes and then b...

It's not clear to me why it doesn't work. Initially I have an empty scene with no occlusion area. Then I add additively a scene with the environment and its occlusion area. If I do this, I am told that the map has not been baked and therefore does not work. If, on the other hand, I create a baked map of the first scene and then add the second scene additively, the second map is not added in the baked and therefore it does not work. I can't swap the loading order of the scenes.

hoary stratus
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hoary stratus
vestal gazelle
hoary stratus
vestal gazelle
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You can kinda preload with built in too, by disabling sceneActivation of additive scene and enabling when you need to activate the scene.

hoary stratus
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That is correct. Thats why I am saysing it uses same logic on that so you wont be winning anything there.

grim copper
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so ive currently got a scriptableobject which has an associated unique id, and im currently trying to load its contents via the addressables system

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i want to load some addressable via this associated unique id, but to do so im finding that I first have to load all of these scriptableobjects at runtime, assign each id an addressable resourcelocation primary key, then unload them all at game start so i dont have to load and iterate all of these scriptableobjects when i attempt to load it later on via the unique id

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is there a better way that I can achieve this?

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the reason im using a unique id per scriptableobject atm is because we store this id on a server atm to determine whether youve unlocked something or not

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so we dont really have the option of caching the addresable load path or anything (on the server i mean)

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my current solution is something like this:

grim copper
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also another question regarding addressables, that same scriptableobject i was talking about earlier actually contains a sprite, and i presumed that once i unloaded the addressable itd unload the sprite too, but surprisingly the sprite is still loaded afterwards. is this intended behavior? i know for sure that the loaded scriptableobject is being unloaded since the event viewer shows that it is being unloaded, but the sprite that the SO had in one of its serialized fields seems to be fine

gleaming whale
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Hey at all, we are facing some serious Addressables and Shader problems and are not able to get it solved by ourself. In our opinion it seems to be a unity bug.

Short explanation to our app: It’s a property/house configurator. The app ships without any content and the user can download a house by a code. This house was set up as a scene in unity and build into an addressable. This addressable will be download and the containing scene will be opened by our app. At the moment we are working with Unity 2020.3.16f1. All our house-addressables were built in this version, too. At the moment we are hosting around 1k houses.

Now we would like to update the unity version without losing backwards compatibility to our already build houses.
We tried some Unity 2022.1 Versions which kind of works well with “just” some problems with transparent textures on iOS (build only, not in editor):
Left side: Both App and Addressables build in 2020.1.16f1
Right side: Addressables build in 2020.1.16f1, App build in 2022.1

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To track this bug down, I made a simple test scene with just two of these broken materials. I build it as an addressable in 2020.3 and load it in our app. And… It worked… no problems with transparency… So I tried a normal house addressable and it worked, too. So when I first load the small test scene and the open a realistic bigger scene in one session, we don’t have any issues in both scenes. Its also possible to load the big scene twice, to fix the problem. Just if it is the first scene which is loaded we have the shader problems.

For me it looks like that the shaders are not loaded completely in the big addressable, and some passes are missing. But when it once loaded completely it will work for every addressable in this session.
For this post I made a small test project which just can load the small test addressable and a bigger house addressable. Unfortunately with this test project both addressables are working fine in Unity 2022.1. So it possible that we have some more overhead in our app which blocks the loading of the shaders. But we don’t touch the materials at all in the loading process.
Since I wasn’t able to track the bug further down and I spend way too much time, I just tried our app in Unity 2023.1. And… same bug as in Unity 2022.1, but it is way better reproducable, since the small testing scene also don’t work anymore, even in my small test project.
For us it would be totally fine If we get it running in Unity 2023.1, but I think it might be the same bug in both versions.

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We can send out a test project with the small test scene, where you should be able to reproduce the bug in 2023.1 on iOS (on device).
It just got one button “Small Test Scene”. On pressing one of the buttons the app will start downloading the addressable and the load the containing scene. The small scene is less than 2mb and should load in less than 10 seconds.
Top, right appearance in 2020.3. Bottom, wrong appearance in 2023.1.

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We also already made a bug report: CASE IN-23881. Any Help or possible short term solutions would be greatly appreciated!

sharp drift
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The fact that the problem disappears if you load the scene twice points either at a bug in addressable (if so, don't update :/), a racing condition or resources not being entirely packed in the same addressable group than the scene. It's possible some dependant resources only start downloading when the scene is open if they are in another group and when you reload the scene unity can find them already cached from the previous load and the shader work correctly.
Just where I would look

gleaming whale
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Thanks for the advice. Not updating unity or updating the addressables is not an option for us. This is about the same direction we were thinking. Do you think there is any way we could reload the shaders once we are in the scene. That would work as a temporary fix in 2022.1 but not in 2023.1.

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To add to the above this diagram shows the sequence of opening addressables/scenes for 2022.1. This does not work at all in 2023.1. There the shader problems stay consistent all the time on all kind of addressables

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mild flax
# gleaming whale

I wonder if it's something like e.g. the standard shader has changed in Unity versions. In your main app, it's shipping with these shaders (whereas in your simple test, there aren't any other scenes using it). Then when it attempts to resolve the shaders downloaded with the addressable asset, it finds the existing ones in the app and uses that but the settings fail to deserialize properly. Just an idea. If that was the case, not sure what could be done about it other than avoiding eg using the same shaders in the rest of the project. Completely guessing - might not be to do with that at all.

pure quail
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Hey! Is there a way to add new "Scenes" to addressables saved on a cdn and have them show up and be loadable at runtime without updating the build?

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So not just for updating existing assets but adding new assets

ancient ice
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does anyone know how i extract addressables to each seperate bundle?

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when i export these to an asset bundle, the container stays as "/assets/data..." when it should be the addressables

ancient ice
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anyone?

mild flax
# ancient ice anyone?

If you select Default Local Group I think you want to look for the setting that says something like 'Pack individual assets separately'

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This setting

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ancient ice
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ohh thank you

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but the thing is how do i actually create the bundles? like have them as a file

mild flax
ancient ice
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like, i want the asset bundles as file

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like how you extract assetbundles?

mild flax
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I think by default they're placed in a ServerData folder next to your Assets folder but this also depends on your build path in your addressable settings

ancient ice
mild flax
ancient ice
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still nothnig

mild flax
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what is your Profiles->LocalBuildPath set to?

ancient ice
somber socket
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Is there a way of using the addressables api from outside unity? for a custom patcher specifically

ancient ice
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why isn't there an option to name assetbundle containers after addressable names?

hoary wraith
night ruin
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is it ok to use adressables inside a package?
I got SciptTemplates inside my package that i reference with adressables. how would i distribute that package like this?

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i think what i am asking is how i get an adressable group asset inside my package?

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sorry very new to this...

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seems like there is not really a good solution right now... i should probably get rid of the use of Adressables in my Package

pure quail
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Is there a third option here. Trying to make it so my project detects new scenes added to the server and downloads them as needed.

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(1) One Big Bundle, loaded when app first starts in scene, dynamic list populated with name of each scene in bundle, and you can load whatever scene you pick
Pros: Easier to manage, whenever a scene is added to the bundle, the list will update dynamically.
Cons: BIG download on application start, you are downloading everything vs what you need
(2) A text filed containing the file paths of the bundles in question on the server, populate the ui dynamic list with the scene names, and download them dynamically when selected.
Pros: Smaller file size
Cons: Have to manually put in scene names in a text file on your server.

Is there a middle ground method I’m missing?

ancient ice
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like i asked this in dozens of different servers

low halo
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you could also make it a little smarter - by having the client provide a date from which it had last seen the information and the server only providing new data to the client based on that date.

pure quail
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Thanks btw!

crystal falcon
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There is a way to Unload the Addressables in a different script?
I'm loading the addressables in the first script (First Image)
And I want to unload in a different (Second Image)
Is it possible?

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karmic crater
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Hope it works

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Or do you mean the instantiate? Then u could always use Gameobject.Destroy() i think

glossy nymph
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I have a json based representation of my game's levels (grid based, local single player game). I'm considering loading all prefabs in an asset bundle, and instantiating them at runtime. Is this a bad idea? The other option would be to somehow automatically make a unity scene or prefab for each level I guess

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Maybe I should put everything in Resources instead?

glossy nymph
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Nm I got some help elsewhere

meager berry
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hello. I have this strange issue - I am loading from my server an asset bundle, and on Windows it works, but it doesnt on Android.

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bundle = AssetBundle.LoadFromMemory( archedFile );

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on Windows return the bundle, while on Android returns null

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what is the issue ?

quaint gorge
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obviously your archedFile is null or byte[0]. perhaps you can show how you fill archedFile

cold goblet
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Hello everyone. Is it possible to cache "play mode loaded scene" into SceneInstance (UnloadAsync can work with ScenInstance or handle of SceneInstance) somehow? Trying to make additive scene workflow and I need to unload playmode scene somehow, but feels like i will need to use SceneManager class

There is a way to load via addressables.LoadSceneAsync after play mode entered but I don't like this duplication process XD

fickle drum
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please, help! any idea if it is possible to combine multiple PhysicsScene into a single one?

still fiber
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hi i'm working on a project that i need to get list of all resouces with any of 2 or 3 labels
so i use LoadResourceLocationsAsync to get a list of locations and it works exactly as it should in the editor
but when i build the game as an apk it randomly skips 1 or 2 labels sometimes
i'm using unity 2021.3.8f1 and addressables 1.19.19

lunar garnet
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I am still having trouble how addressable works. How can I get my clients download the content of addressable from the internet?

hoary rampart
lunar garnet
storm condor
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Unity's addressable system keeps giving me an invalid key error, saying that the key/address doesn't exist when I try to load something despite me already marking the target's folder as addressable and giving it the correct address. Is there something I'm doing wrong? I'm also loading synchronously (I know it's bad but I need to load this thing immediately) UnityChanThink

storm condor
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I just tried it with async loading but that also seems to have given me an invalid key error, so I don't think it's due to using the obsolete tagged synchronous API

verbal harness
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If I reload a Addressables.LoadAssetAsync.... Will it auto load and not take up 2 memory places?

hoary rampart
novel aurora
storm condor
storm condor
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when try using an AssetReference that's been assigned in the editor, it still gives me a invalid key error but it says the invalid key was some kind of long ID rather then the string address I was using before

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wait, I just tried loading a sprite with the same string address method and it didn't give me an error. I've been trying to load a scriptableobject in the previous attempts, are you unable to load those with addressables?

storm condor
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just tested actually using the loaded sprite and it doesn't seem to work when using the obsolete tagged synchronous API, although it did work when I tried using the async API.

Is there a way to make async more code 'clean'? One thing I like to do for loading stuff is making all calls have to go through one static class script but that seems much messier with async, is there a way I can pass whole onComplete and OnFail functions to these other functions? Sorry for being a C# noob just not used to having to deal with this async stuff

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still can't load my scriptableobject but figured I should probably deal with this in the mean time

storm condor
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hmmm, I'm reading on forum posts and stuff that addressables really don't play nice with scriptableobjects, should I just use a different asset loading system if I want to load scriptable objects?
The system I used for some of my other projects seemed to work fine.

hoary stratus
# storm condor hmmm, I'm reading on forum posts and stuff that addressables really don't play n...

It play perfectly nice with Scriptable objects. And even give you more control over how to use them. BUT you need to make preparations with it. If you want to use scriptable objects with addressables EVERYTHING needs to be from addressable systems. Reason is instances.
Example: there is reference scriptable object in scene A. Scene A is in SceneManager and in scene list of unity. Then there is Scene B, which is fully in adrressables list. Scene B uses same scriptable object. But when you will load Scene A and then Scene B, you will notice that scriptable object have two instances that share only default settings. Solution for this, load scripable objects from addressables or make all scenes to load from addressables.

In my case I needed rework quite a lot of project to load everything from addressables, but after that there is no problems and I can continue working as I used to.

mental turtle
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Hey, I'm using addressables to load an image asset when selected in a list. The problem I'm having (and I could be using addressables completely wrong here) is that when I load the first image and then load the second image, I release the first one but then if the user goes back to the previous one, I get an error saying that the asset was already previously loaded. How could I solve this?

hoary stratus
# mental turtle Hey, I'm using addressables to load an image asset when selected in a list. The ...

Depends on your asset group. If your asset group is "packed together" then you can load in memory one by one, but unloading can be done of all asset group. For that you can use "packed separately" or "packed by label", then you will be able unload one by one or by label. But this will leave bigger memory trace of addressable.

Next thing is to keep the list of handles when you load image. And before going back just check if handle is ready and completed, and then if not load again. If it completed just use the result of the handle.

So in short: make a list of handles or check if the reference is not null before using it.

lunar garnet
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Unity example doesn't provide me a better way to use Addressables.LoadSceneAsync without a string... How could I make a Scene addressable?

hoary rampart
lunar garnet
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AssetReference? Trying this out.

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Ok so... AssetReference works, but how could I safeguard to use only Scene type?

hoary rampart
lunar garnet
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Well I thought I could just .SetActive(true) on scene object, but that doesn't seem possible...

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Would I just cheat this by rendering the entire scene from a different camera mask?

hoary rampart
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what are you actually trying to do

lunar garnet
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From main menu, load a scene async in the background until the scene complete, the jump into the level like there's no loading bar.

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Wanted to just "disable" main menu scene, and use that in case the player decided to quit the game.

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Also is it possible to retrieve the progress of scene loading?

hoary rampart
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AsyncOperationHandle has a PercentComplete property

lunar garnet
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Not sure if what I've explain helps illustrate what I'm trying to do?

hoary rampart
stoic galleon
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Hello, I'm trying to get my WebGL build to work, but I'm getting this error:

Error while downloading Asset Bundle: Failed to decompress data for the AssetBundle

The code how I load them:

// Awake
Addressables.UpdateCatalogs(true, null, true);

// During the game
AsyncOperationHandle<SceneInstance> handle = Addressables.LoadSceneAsync(path, loadSceneMode, activateOnLoad);
// Wait for assets to load before using them
stoic galleon
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Hello I m trying to get my WebGL build

dusky kernel
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Anyone have any insights on delivering scripts (compiled .net binaries or lua code) via addresables ?
Im currently looking into it and either option is valid but requires extreme care in designing the deliverable codebase as the binaries should not depend on build code in anyway (as far as my assumption is concerned) but enlighten if im incorrect.
lua kinda solves this problem as it is seen as seperate layer and its expected by programmer for boundary maintenance via moonsharp but im not sure if addressables go hand in had with lua (moonsharp api preferrably). Any insights into this is welcome.

Goal is to supply code via addressable package along with assets.

true heron
dusky kernel
quaint gorge
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and, btw, your assumption is incorrect

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RemoteProviderException : Unable to load asset bundle from : http://127.0.0.1:57808/WebGL/game_assets_campaign_157d847fb79ddc23a96b9c2bbd0ee55e.bundle
UnityWebRequest result : DataProcessingError : Data Processing Error, see Download Handler error : Failed to decompress data for the AssetBundle 'http://127.0.0.1:57808/WebGL/game_assets_campaign_157d847fb79ddc23a96b9c2bbd0ee55e.bundle'.
ResponseCode : 200, Method : GET
url : http://127.0.0.1:57808/WebGL/game_assets_campaign_157d847fb79ddc23a96b9c2bbd0ee55e.bundle

my bundle had been downloaded but addressable couldn't load it in Webgl. i've been search but no result for this issue. Need help

dusky kernel
# quaint gorge not a problem. a .Net dll is just a byte[], a runtime dll can be created from a ...

Tried that and got it working partially. Still there are few things I wanna know are doable or not.
Prefab 'A' has Script 'A' and 'A' is also in .net dll. Prefab 'A' is marked as Addressable asset. and the .net dll is packed as TextAsset in Addressable too, making it deliverable.

Now Script 'A' will be present in built apk, and will be present in binary too.
Any idea how to 'prevent' it from being included in APK ?

quaint gorge
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lucid mulch
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this is my current config for each package assets

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misty badger
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Is the addressables GUID equal to the AssetDatabase GUID of an asset?

true heron
misty badger
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Yeah, I figured it out. I had the GUID, needed to get the path

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Which works

urban river
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Hello , I am new to addressable is there a to check if the complete group is downloaded or not?

pearl sable
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Hey guys, I need some help please. I'm downloading an AssetBundle from AWS but when I use
AssetBundle.LoadFromMemery(byteArray) I get the error - 'Failed to decompress data from Asset Bundle 'Memory'.
Please help I've been stuck with this for a while.

celest rivet
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Are there any obvious reasons as to why the aa/settings.json file isn't being built?

It works fine locally but when building via TeamCity it doesn't seem to build.

I have settings.json in com.unity.addressables\aa\Windows but not in my final output build _DATA files.

@me if you have any info

lunar garnet
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I'm still confused, how can I reference the object after I called .ActivateAsync()? Using Addressables.LoadSceneAsync() method.

hoary rampart
lunar garnet
hoary rampart
lunar garnet
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E.g. I want to destroy the main menu scene because I should be playing in a level scene.

hoary rampart
lunar garnet
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What about reloading the same scene? I.e. user wants to restart the level?

hoary rampart
chilly lava
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Hi! Is it possible to load an additive scene with some scripts attached to objects? Is there a way to simulate this functionality? Maybe using a dll or reflection? Thank you.

trail flax
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Hello addressable wizards, I'm looking for help with a seemingly simple setup..!

It seems once addressables are initialised and remote catalogs are updated there is no way to fetch further updates without restarting the game.

Looking through the logs, the culprit seems to be that the addressable system thinks the remote hash (cached after initialisation/initial uodate?) Matches the local hash, so it doesn't attempt to update the data .

There seems to be no way to clear this (in memory) caching of the hashes and forcing the system to check again.

The setup is simple. Here is my initialisation process:

  • Initialise addressables (remote Catalog update disabled)
  • check for Catalog updates
  • if there is an update, download it
  • check download size for all keys
  • download all missing keys after prompting user ("15mb update available")
  • good to go!

The problem arises if I try to run this process twice in one session.

  1. Initialise process
  2. remote Catalog and bundles updates
  3. custom logic to detect change while game is running..
  4. in response, my app flow returns user to start screen
  5. execute initialise process again..
  6. no Catalog updates found. Nothing to download...!!

If we restart the application...

All works well. New update is detected, changes downloaded

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This feels like a pretty typical setup for ie mobile games. I'm sure im missing something simple!

cerulean vault
trail flax
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Hey thanks for response!

Ok so brace yourself: this is where it gets fun...!

That setting only happens on Init, which has internal checks to make sure it won't run again..! (This is the Update Remote Catalogs On Startup checkbox)

The UpdateCatalog method has a similar problem. It caches the remote hash of that Catalog in-memory for the duration of the session. Consecutive calls to UpdateCatalog do nothing.

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So to elaborate further...

  1. Disable UpdateRemoteCatalog checkbox so we can control the entire update process...

  2. Launch game. On launch, after init, call UpdateCatalog.

  3. Catalogs will update if there is an update

  4. Some time later, we update the remote bundles

  5. Call UodateCatalogs again and it will do nothing.

Enabling addressables logs (precompiler directive; I think ADDRESSABLE_LOGS) hints at the problem: the remote hash value supposedly matches the local one. It doesn't even attempt to ping the remote hash file to see if it has changed. It only pings for it on UpdateCatalogs if the RemoteHash is not yet known, and then it caches it for the rest of the session...! This blocks all future UpdateCatalog calls from actually checking if the bundle has changed. 😵‍💫

honest hearth
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how can i fix a error in addressables that shouldnt exist, but unity seems to keep complaining about a build option that isnt there

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shes in 2019 with default build to pc, but the addressables is complainging about xbox

hoary rampart
marble fog
desert inlet
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Hello, i'm quite interested to learn about game development and i wish to download Unity to find out if i like being a programmer, but i have an issue that doesn't let me open unity hub, and appears this on my screen, it is in spanish though, but it says: "The "Unity Hub.exe" item referenced by this shortcut was changed or moved, so the shortcut will not work correctly."

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What should i do?

hoary rampart
desert inlet
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Wait, was i supposed not to ?

hoary rampart
desert inlet
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Oh... Well, where am I supposed to?

hoary rampart
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go to #💻┃unity-talk, but otherwise just open the hub using the start menu or something, you don't need the shortcut

lament ivy
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can you create an addressable at runtime to store mesh? as a save/load mechanism for user content made in the game

hoary rampart
eternal tundra
pine coral
eternal tundra
# pine coral what kind of content do the user create is it more of customization so its some ...

It's supposed to be a level editor that allows for users to create a level and for other players to play them (think Mario maker on a much, much more basic level). One thing I've been considering is storing the 3D models in assetbundles or whatever is viable on a webserver, then use a JSON serialized EditorObjects class containing variables for type of object, as well as data for position, rotation and scale. Other than that, might have some boxes to show text from a narrative tree but nothing spectacular gameplay wise.

Saving content is one thing too, but I haven't been able to find many resources that could help me out with making the level editor.

hard gale
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I'd love to find out more here as well. I created an editor for my game which is a plugin for Unity. This way I can easily create addressables out of what the user creates and upload them to my server. At runtime this is a totally different endeavour. I have not even brainstormed it yet but maybe it's something along the lines of exporting the model as an FBX and the components through some custom serialization/save system. Ideas welcome!

marble bay
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Hey, is anyone else getting this error when trying to build with addressables? "NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
UnityEditor.AddressableAssets.GUI.AddressableAssetsSettingsGroupEditor.TopToolbar (UnityEngine.Rect toolbarPos)"

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It stops from doing any type of Addressables builds...

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Seems some default schemas had no script attached to them and I don't know why...I deleted them and it seems to work now...

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I went on and deleted the entire addressables settings folder to start new and received a WHOLE bunch of these warnings!

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Here is one missing the script:

wispy coral
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Heya! So, this might actually have more to do with UnityWebRequest, but has anyone else had issues downloading remote bundles in WebGL with the latest 2021 LTS versions (specifically 2021.3.15/16)? I upgraded from 2021.3.14 because there was a WebGL specific fix to UnityWebRequest, but after upgrading, bundles almost always fail to decompress when using DownloadDependenciesAsync or UnityWebRequestAssetBundle. Although Addressables.LoadSceneAsync seems to still work, for whatever reason, and they download fine in the editor.

neat crag
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Hello, I am relatively new to Addressables, is it possible to get a collection of instances?

[SerializeField] AssetRefrenceT<GameObject> Refrence;
async void Start() {
  for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
     await Refrence.InstantiateAsync(Vector3.up * i, Quaternion.identity).Task;
  Debug.Log("Done");
  // Is it possible to do something similiar to the code below
  foreach (GameObject go in Refrence.Instances) // AssetRefrence does not have Instances field
    Debug.Log(go.name);
}
slate timber
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will doing Addressables.LoadAssetAsync second time with a same asset but in a different script, skip the loading and use already loaded asset instead?

novel aurora
hot prawn
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Hey guys, I have an issue with Addressable Bundles and it's driving me nuts 🥜
I have an addressable folder containing 2000 images for one of my scenes. But it's included (sometimes multiple times) in builds for my other scenes (which do not use these images anywhere)

How do I stop it from including all my adressables? I started using these instead of the resource folder for this reason 🥹 Please help 🙏

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My images are all under the "default" group. I'm sensing this group might be loaded all the time no matter if the asset is used or not or something.

novel aurora
hot prawn
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I understand it's not super common but in my case all "games" share many of the scripts and resources needed (museum workshops) so it was a lot simpler for me to use scenes rather than entire projects (also easier for version control)
I was hoping that unity would look at what assets are used in which scene and only import the required assets for this scene (like any other assets do) with the exception of the resources folder always being included.

But I understand now that Unity doesn't read my code of course and thus cannot tell where in which script (and thus scene) I call the load method for those assets so you have to manually "include" or not in the build the addressables. This makes sense to me.

My second question then is, what is the difference between a Addressables.Load (with assets present locally (not remote)) and resources.load ? Is there an advantage to keep using adressables?

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I suppose in my case it' better because I cannot tell unity to not load a specific folder in the resources folder in a tick of a box

novel aurora
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Resources.Load takes in everything from the Folder /Resources/ if you created one. its totally different to Addressables approach

hot prawn
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To explain the issue (but I'm okay with just un-ticking the include in build for scene that don't need it so it doesn't matter anymore):

I have a scene "Pangea" that shows you a slider that flipbooks through 2000 images of the Earth during Pangea
I have other scenes with other minigames about earthquakes etc...

I build Pangea and put it on one computer in the museum, then I build the other one etc...
But I don't want my other minigames to have the addressable assets of the Pangea build

So I thought Unity would realize (but I know now why id wouldn't) that the images assets used in the Pangea scene aren't used in the builds for the other minigame sand thus not include them

novel aurora
hot prawn
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because each game will be running in fullscreen "demo mode" in windows on a different computer each (imagine a bunch of minigames in a museum about earthquakes)

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so a "selection menu" isn't an option

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The games are running on crappy mini computers with very limited hardware

novel aurora
urban river
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When using a Unity using Addressable downloads the data from the remote server where it is downloaded and save on the client side?

alpine peak
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I can't build Addressable assets because my text file has the extension .tmx (the Tiled map editor file format)

I click "ignore unsupported types in the Adressables settings, and it builds, but now a request for loading that file fails even though the key/path is correct, I assume it's still failing because it doesn't like the extension.

Can't I just designate certain extensions as a specific asset type?

hoary rampart
alpine peak
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My whole game is built around using addressables already so it would be trivial to include this into the system but I'm being blocked by an arbitrary restriction of it not liking what 3 letters are on the end of the file name...

lunar perch
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And then Addressables will use that asset

alpine peak
lunar perch
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Create a TextAsset from it, and then you can load the TextAsset through Addressables

alpine peak
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Thank you so much for your help.

fierce wraith
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Why can't this version be installed?

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It keeps texting Failed

hoary rampart
eternal tundra
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Hey all, I just wanted to ask if anyone knows if it's possible to load in assets from a URL without it being an assetbundle/addressable?

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i.e just an .fbx file and have it being added as a mesh in game

hoary rampart
eternal tundra
slate timber
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Hi, I am loading asset bundles of scenes in my game. Now I tried adding translation to english and spanish in that scene using the localization package, but when I load the asset bundle of the scene the texts are missing. Do I need to do a separate asset bundle for the localization tables or what do I need to do?

zealous sinew
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Hi there! I'm creating an editor script that creates addressables automatically from FBX files, the problem is that I cannot reference the textures to the materials so when I try to load the addressable, the model loads without textures.
I have tried using ModelImporter.ExtractTextures and some AssetPostprocessor, such as OnPreprocesMaterialDescription, but none of these seems to work.
Any advice?

novel aurora
zealous sinew
novel aurora
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or do you just get empty materials and textures without context?

vestal hazel
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Hey! Is there a way to limit the time async addressable loading spends on the main thread per frame? Application.backgroundLoadingPriority doesn't affect it, which is something that worked with the old Resources system.

novel aurora
vestal hazel
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i'm not sure if it's directly done by adressables, or is it a side effect, but this is what hogs the main thread:

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which renders the system unusable for loading additional content without fading out player's camera

novel aurora
vestal hazel
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this was just a load, no instantiation

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a large Texture3D

novel aurora
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Hm, weird it does that when not being used. but as I said, I was assuming addressables is doing that. Are you loading async or just loading?

vestal hazel
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i'm using LoadAssetAsync

novel aurora
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Might be a bug tho from forums posts. maybe also a editor thing, because it loads them on the fly without prebuild the bundle

zealous sinew
novel aurora
nimble plume
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Hi I am loading asset bundles of scenes

vestal hazel
zealous sinew
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And I get this, though the textures ares exported, they're not referenced

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vestal hazel
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so, the issue lies not within the addressables system

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addressables load the asset just fine without hitching, and do that very quickly

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the problem starts when unity wants copy the loaded data, that happens entirely on the main thread, and - to my knowledge - there's no option of regulating this process

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so my frames just hit the floor for a moment, which is not very pleasant in a VR game

novel aurora
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do your stuff inside a separate Task.Run() and on Complete, use the built in callback to handle your stuff

vestal hazel
# 
    {
        var sw = Stopwatch.StartNew();
        var op1 = Asset.LoadAssetAsync<Texture3D>();
        var op2 = Asset2.LoadAssetAsync<Texture3D>();
        var op3 = Asset3.LoadAssetAsync<Texture3D>();
        var op4 = Asset4.LoadAssetAsync<Texture3D>();
        var frameTimes = new List<float>(1024);
        
        while (!op1.IsDone || !op2.IsDone || !op3.IsDone || !op4.IsDone)
        {
            yield return null;
            frameTimes.Add(Time.deltaTime);
        }
        PlayerRigs.UI.DisplayMessage($"TOTAL:{sw.Elapsed.TotalMilliseconds:F1}ms / FT:{frameTimes.Average():F1}ms", true);
        _loading = false;
    }```
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that's the entire bit that was profiled

novel aurora
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Can you convert that to a Task instead?

vestal hazel
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i can try, but i'm not sure what that'll accomplish

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maybe i'm missing something

novel aurora
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If you run task.run, it will run on another thread

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if you run a coroutine, it will run async but not on another thread

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But besides that, did you just take out parts to see, if the profiler hits something special. Like generating a 1024 list or so?

vestal hazel
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i'd speculate that won't fly, because completing a load with addressables triggers Application.IntegrateAssets, which is the bulk of the load, and cannot be offloaded onto a thread, being core unity logic - but i'll try, perhaps my gut feeling is wrong

vestal hazel
novel aurora
vestal hazel
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it scales pretty linearly from a single load to the 4 in the above snippet

novel aurora
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hm, I would at least try the task.run() instead of the coroutine to see for any improvements of better thread handling

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Asset1,2,3,4 are asset references, right?

vestal hazel
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correct

novel aurora
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You could try to use Addressables.LoadAssetsAsync to get all at once instead of one by one at the same time?

vestal hazel
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it doesn't really matter

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the huge spike is still there

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and it's not even caused by addressables themselves

novel aurora
#

wait what? What does the profiler say, wher eit comes from?

vestal hazel
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scroll up a bit, i pasted the result

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just under my first message

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from what i've gathered it's unity copying the buffers from completed addressable jobs(?)

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the load that addressables themselves do is near-instant

novel aurora
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When are you loading those assets. on any scene switch or something?

vestal hazel
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with a scene already running, no major load

novel aurora
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And you sure the garbage collection is not getting rid of something old from y previous scene?

vestal hazel
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there's no previous scene

novel aurora
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Okay, dang 😄 getting out of ideas here

vestal hazel
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also GC is not spiking

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i'm afraid it's just unity getting in the way of itself... again

novel aurora
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I guess so too. But, please try the thread approach

vestal hazel
#

trying rn

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won't fly

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unity API stuff cannot be called outside of main thread

grim copper
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when it comes to addressables, between just building the game normally and building the game w/ addressables, when using addressables the game size will always be larger right?

vestal hazel
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this has been my experience

grim copper
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makes sense due to it being unpacked

novel aurora
vestal hazel
#

we have some lightmap files that definitely do not make it into the normal build and are restricted to bundles, and they get way larger than before we had them separated

vestal hazel
# novel aurora how did you call it? 
    {
        var sw = Stopwatch.StartNew();
        var op1 = Asset.LoadAssetAsync<Texture3D>();
        op1.WaitForCompletion();
        var op2 = Asset2.LoadAssetAsync<Texture3D>();
        op2.WaitForCompletion();
        var op3 = Asset3.LoadAssetAsync<Texture3D>();
        op3.WaitForCompletion();
        var op4 = Asset4.LoadAssetAsync<Texture3D>();
        op4.WaitForCompletion();
        sw.Stop();

        time = sw.Elapsed.TotalMilliseconds;

        _loading = false;

        return Task.CompletedTask;
    }```
novel aurora
vestal hazel
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but... the entire thing is mainthread stuff

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i mean the addressable calls

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they require to start from the main thread

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unity can make a job/task out of them later, but the call itself has to stem from main thread

novel aurora
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hm dang it

vestal hazel
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yeah, unity and threading just don't go hand in hand too well

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thank god they at least made the job system

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it's the, erm, thread our projects hangs on

novel aurora
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let me try that thread async loading, that is weird

vestal hazel
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be my guest, i admittedly am not very well versed in task/async stuff

novel aurora
vestal hazel
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yep

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shame

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still, thanks for your time

novel aurora
vestal hazel
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i can't - it's an open world game and i was hoping to load segments of the scene in or out depending on player proximity

novel aurora
vestal hazel
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not with 4 gigs of ram on board

novel aurora
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4 gigs of ram, well, and not with a 4x86 cpu either, but whos gonna use it? 😄 what platform are you targeting?

vestal hazel
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quest 2

novel aurora
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Well to be honest, open world for quest 2, you should know your limits then. You might just have to shrink down your resources, no matter how you load them. And if you only loading one chunk in and out at a time, not sure you really gonna see any blocking by then. But thats a lot about your assets you use and how often you gotta load things in and out

vestal hazel
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i know the dance

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game's already on the store, but i was trying something new for a dlc

novel aurora
vestal hazel
#

thief sim vr for quest

novel aurora
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Ha, this is looking fun!

vestal hazel
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probably way more fun to play than to develop 😛

novel aurora
#

Will tha twork on quest 1, guess not, right? 😄 Might have to hook it on my machine then

vestal hazel
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nah, it pushes Q2 to it's limits

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if you're thinking of playing the steam vr version hooked up via cable, then it's not the same game

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we've had to write our version from scratch to be able to fit it onto the quest

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hence why i'm scrambling for new ways to handle large maps for new content

novel aurora
vestal hazel
#

well, hopefully you find it fun 😁

torpid stream
#

Anyone know if it's possible to detect if a full rebuild is required instead of just a content build?

marble bay
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Anyone help with this error?

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NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
UnityEditor.AddressableAssets.Settings.AddressableAssetGroupSchemaSet.GetSchema (System.Type type) (at ./Library/PackageCache/com.unity.addressables@1.21.2/Editor/Settings/AddressableAssetGroupSchemaSet.cs:186)

novel aurora
slate timber
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What's the best Package for multiplayer in Unity?

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like good for Multiplayer FPS games

novel aurora
scarlet sequoia
#

Is there a way to create Addessable with one remote path, and then change that path by hand later ?
Or have something like a variable or %appdata% in the path that can be set at runtime?

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I want to create addressables in one project and use in another and in first project I am not sure whjere I will be storing them in second, so I need to figure out a way to not hardcode path in first. I am good downloading everything by hand and loading manifest locally, but that manifest is looking for the bundle file in hardcoded address at addressable creation.
In theory it is fine on PC, since I can have relative path, but I need it to work on VR headset/android apk

dense crown
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(maybe, highly untested and unsure)

scarlet sequoia
#

currently my plan is to have an external location (server/dropbox url, does not matter), have a text file with the names of all manifest files at the same location, then load manifest files directly so I can access all elements in the associated addressable. But I must rely on Unity caching method. I would prefer to have option to download everything locally and then store them, but .asset file location is hard-coded somewhere and only mention taht I found inside manifest json file is not fixing that 😦

thorn garnet
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Is there anyway to configure a scriptable object in such a way that whenever we create a new instance of it's type- it's automatically set as Addressable and applied a specific label

muted ocean
#

some good alternatives are fishnet networking, and netick networking

slate timber
#

I tried PUN 2

gritty haven
#

I'm getting mixed results looking up how to handle my terrain, I want to use addressables, not sure if scenes for each one are worth the effort?

shrewd knot
#

perhaps someone here can assist, I'm trying to load an AssetBundle which is located under StreamingAssets folder on Android device but running into some issues.
anyone has experience with it? what's the correct way to do it?

marble bay
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You can't build either without deleting the entire addressables folder and recreating it again...also it happens often...

lament pollen
cedar trail
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How do I achieve a loading order for addressables? if I have 2 asset packs that both contain, say, Models/foo.fbx, how do I make it so that pack 2's foo.fbx overwrites pack 1's foo.fbx?

shrewd knot
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Anyone knows if there's a way to check if a Directory.Exists using Application.streamingAssetsPath on Android?
There's BetterStreamingAssets plugin that helps with some utility methods, but it only has GetFiles and no HasDirectory

novel aurora
grim copper
#

is there any way that I can modify the remote catalog path after the game already was built?

steady quiver
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I'm hosting my bundles in a FTP directory and trying to access it as i did with assetbundles, but it's giving me some errors, mainly "Invalid port specified." anyone know if there is a specific setting that i must pay attention. Btw, I'm able to get download size, but not downloaddependency, neither load the bundle

violet laurel
#

Hey Guys! I am having trouble getting Addressables to work properly and is receiving a lot of errors

2023/02/10 23:09:21.471 27173 29689 Error Unity RemoteProviderException : Unable to load asset bundle from : http://localhost/Android/defaultlocalgroup_assets_all_20331e222bbf3523b41fee06f2e73db7.bundle
2023/02/10 23:09:21.471 27173 29689 Error Unity UnityWebRequest result : ConnectionError : Cannot connect to destination host
2023/02/10 23:09:21.471 27173 29689 Error Unity url : http://localhost/Android/defaultlocalgroup_assets_all_20331e222bbf3523b41fee06f2e73db7.bundle
2023/02/10 23:09:21.471 27173 29689 Error Unity 
2023/02/10 23:09:21.474 27173 29689 Error Unity RemoteProviderException : Unable to load asset bundle from : http://localhost/Android/defaultlocalgroup_unitybuiltinshaders_9c7fe3fee2858f3c569efe25a339af81.bundle
2023/02/10 23:09:21.474 27173 29689 Error Unity UnityWebRequest result : ConnectionError : Cannot connect to destination host
2023/02/10 23:09:21.474 27173 29689 Error Unity url : http://localhost/Android/defaultlocalgroup_unitybuiltinshaders_9c7fe3fee2858f3c569efe25a339af81.bundle
2023/02/10 23:09:21.474 27173 29689 Error Unity 
2023/02/10 23:09:21.477 27173 29689 Error Unity OperationException : GroupOperation failed because one of its dependencies failed
2023/02/10 23:09:21.477 27173 29689 Error Unity RemoteProviderException : Unable to load asset bundle from : http://localhost/Android/defaultlocalgroup_assets_all_20331e222bbf3523b41fee06f2e73db7.bundle
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Can anyone help me out with this issue?

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I have set everything to remote load path and remote build path but still it seems to load from some localhost and I have also changed the url's to the remote load path

grim copper
slate timber
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Question: I am new to using addressable but now I leaned how to use it and also how to use remote addressable but my question is, do remote addressable load the assets from the cloud to the build files or does it exist in the build file already, what I mean is:
for example, my game size after build is 110MB, so the player has to download 110MB but I actually want the player to download only 100MB and start the game and then click a button in the game to download the other 10MB later, so I have a files named "Extra10MB" that is a 10MB of size and I used remote addressable to keep it in the cloud, now when I build project, will it be a 100MB and after loading the "Extra10MB" file it will be 110MB ? or will it be a 110MB always anyway

cedar trail
#

my build broke for no particular reason. it's telling me this, but i cant make sense of it. Looking online did lead me to discovering this, but it doesnt really help me, since I don't have an asset (that I know of) called TestMob.

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lunar perch
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It won't be saved in the build though, but in a cache in Application.persistentDataPath

chilly lava
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If I have a unity scene with scripts attached, how can I loaded as addressable and additively add it to a new scene and keep the scripts from the first scene? Thank you

lunar perch
sharp crow
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We have a content delivery system based on uuids and I'd like to patch that into addressables

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so what I have working is creating a big catalog from json (containing valid bundle urls) into a ResourceLocationMap

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but what I'd rather have is small resource locations that are resolved during requests

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i.e. somehow implementing my own IResourceLocation that is only the uuid, then implementing the right interface that will resolve that uuid into the bundle https url on request

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since the lookup from uuid to https url could take time I want it to be async, but IResourceLocator.Locate is synchronous

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so maybe I could push it further down to the point just before it would issue the web request?

grim copper
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wondering, but is there a addressable asset group profile that I can use? I want certain builds to fetch assets from local/remote depending on which, but from what I see there isnt a way to do it

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so for example, on android builds I want to build content locally instead

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or is it something I should just do through an editor build script?

eager shard
#

Having issues when loading sprites, but other things such as prefabs, audioclips, etc all seem to be working fine. Any hints?

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vestal pilot
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Anyone knows why scene asset dependencies are not showing up in event viewer?

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only scene is labeled as addressable

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but assets that are part of that scene are not shown

hoary stratus
# vestal pilot Anyone knows why scene asset dependencies are not showing up in event viewer?

That is because when you build assets they are all added to your addressables automatically as part of the scene asset. They are not showed separately. So you can imagine it as beeing one big package. To see every single asset loaded you need to add all of them into addressables. You can simply add whole folders and everything that is inside folder will be loaded as one package. So in short, you either need to make it into mode smaller pieces, as when you load scene, you load it as one package (unless it have multiple packages that it shares)

hoary stratus
grim copper
vestal pilot
#

do you know if there is a workaround ?
And also is event manager exstendable ?

hoary stratus
hoary stratus
grim copper
#

Thats true

#

I guess I should treat local/remote as just 2 different options rather than it being strictly load from local/remote?

grave hatch
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I am using unty 2021.3.15f1 to build android games. When I run addressable build script on Jenkins machine, I got bugs then got Addressable content build failure but I still can open editor and build manually. Anyone know about this? I just got this issue 2 days lately.

hoary stratus
grim copper
#

oh yeah thats still the plan, ive got a script to change between profiles on certain builds already

vestal pilot
hoary stratus
vestal pilot
#

Ok

#

no worries, thank you for your help.

#

do you know if there is a doc somewhere explaining different strategies for the content organization?

#

Also in a case of a scene that is marked as addressable - it will automatically load all the scene assets into a bundle.
What would happen if I mark any of the individual scene assets as addressable?

hoary stratus
# vestal pilot Also in a case of a scene that is marked as addressable - it will automatically ...

It will automatically pull ALL assets that are in scene into same bundle. But That is not always what you want. For example there are two Scenes: A and B. You have Table and door in scene A, and Table and Windows in scene B. If you will mark both Scenes as addressables it will create two packages, both including Table in it. So in general you will duplicate your Table data. How ever if you will mark Table asset as addressable and both scenes as addresable, both scenes will be able to include addressable asset of the table, so you wont be duplicating your assets.

So it very depends on your project, sometimes you want assets to be duplicated (kinda cloned), but sometimes you want to use same stuff to save size or memory. Normaly I would suggest to plan your assets well, decide which assets in what packages should be, then put them in pretty way and enjoy performance. Or you can run addressables analizer, which will find all duplicates assets for you, and will create duplicates package, which does the same thing. But it not always what you need, and I strongy suggest use addressables analyze tool as checking data and assets rather than fixing things instead of you.

grave hatch
#

Hi, I have this issue when trying to build addressable by command line (Jenkins)
Anyone know how to fix it?
I still can build addressable without any issue manually through editor.

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hoary rampart
grave hatch
hoary rampart
grave hatch
turbid zephyr
#

Has anyone solved or mitigated having fonts pulled into bundles from them being referenced in UI? I like creating UI and seeing it in the scene view, but don't necessarily want the fonts used to be duplicated in each scene bundle just because it's being used for each scene

next inlet
turbid zephyr
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I think the problem is that the font being directly referenced from a TMP Text component doesn't know to load the font via Addressables so it doesn't even matter if the font is inside a bundle in the first place?

next inlet
#

It could be. It doesn't hurt to run the rule/fix it and see if it creates a new group with the font in it. Or have you tried that already?

turbid zephyr
#

I believe I have, I'll check again

next inlet
#

You could also try creating a new group and placing the font there manually (if possible). If that doesn't work then I would guess there's some kind of issue with the Addressable Dependecy detection code. Try filing a bug report. I'm just spit balling here, I haven't worked with the TMP Text component . . .

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A separate Question:

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The documentation implies you can partially load Assets from an Asset Bundle (i.e., load one Asset without loading the other Assets in the Bundle into memory), but then in other parts of the docs it says when you load an Asset, the entire Asset Bundle is loaded into memory. So which is it? If it's the former (partial loading), how does this work? Is the entire Asset Bundle downloaded to the device but only the Asset that is needed is loaded into the game memory?

turbid zephyr
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It looks like I was right and the fonts (even though they exist in a bundle) are being duplicated in the Scene in which the font is being used. Scene to Addressable Duplicate Dependencies . hmmmm

mellow root
#

Hey all, does anyone know how exactly the asset cache in memory works? I have started studying the code, the cache in memory is just a dictionary so far so good, but I have some questions

mellow root
sudden mesa
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Hi everybody, I've got a small question regarding how I should store instances of my addressables, in particular sounds. Without addressable, if we want to animate a menu with hover and click sounds, we'd have 1 audio source for the click and 1 audio source for the hover sounds. When using addressable, should we try to replicate this behavior by creating as many audio sources as we have sounds or should we reload the addressable repeatedly when required?

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Does keeping the loaded addressable in an audio clip take a lot of memory space? I'd assume since the default way already stores an instance of the clip, creating as many audio sources as needed after addressables are loaded would be the logic way to go? Plus having only one audio source for sound would prevent playing multiple sounds at the same time. Just wondering how others handle such case?

pale narwhal
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How do i update addressable without breaking the project?

prime field
# sudden mesa Does keeping the loaded addressable in an audio clip take a lot of memory space?...

I'm not sure I understand your problem 100%, but ideally - keep all the audio assets loaded as long as you might possibly need them without loading and unloading because it's more trouble than it's worth, unless you have hundreds of those
as for actually playing them, check out AudioSource.PlayOneShot, might be what you're looking for
also, it takes exactly the same amount of memory if you have the one audio clip assigned to zero or one hundred audio sources - as long as its loaded, and the amount of audio sources doesn't change

autumn pasture
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I have an issue where i want to go back to the sprite edit and slice using the mouse but every time i do that and let go the sprite editor selects the latest slice and no new slice been added, any ideas ?

prime field
sudden mesa
vestal pilot
opaque sandal
#

Hi guys, I try Addressable on Webgl and build remote to reduce size. I'm using bucket on Google cloud Storage. But when I run, it got CORS error. Could someone show me how to fix this?

analog citrus
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Can addressables be used to load all assets implementing a given interface?

analog citrus
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Trying to plan my game around what Addressables are capable of

#

...Basically I wanna be able to, at runtime, load all assets of a given type - without knowing where or how many of those assets there are

#

Some assets could come in from Steam Workshop, for example

hoary rampart
analog citrus
#

What do you mean? @hoary rampart

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I'm just completely new to the system

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Never used it before

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So trying to figure out what I'm able to do

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...that being said, my game's a clean slate...there's no asset management system in it whatsoever rn, so I don't need to deal with porting anything

hoary rampart
analog citrus
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Nonono I'm not dealing with online data

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...when I mentioned Steam Workshop earlier, I meant that I'd let Steam download a workshop asset's data locally...and when that's finished (Steam notifies the game when that's done), the game would do whatever magic is necessary to bring that workshop item's content into the game at runtime

hoary rampart
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im not actually sure you can build assetbundles at runtime either

analog citrus
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...That's only if the workshop item is actually built using the addressables system to begin with. Some items might not be, but that was just an example

hoary rampart
#

you need to be able to run an editor instance

analog citrus
#

If you want to build a mod, you clone that, install Unity, and now you have a barebones version of the game + a Unity Editor to use to build the mod with

#

So THAT problem is solved

#

HOWEVER, that also means the game's Career Mode is also a mod

#

...and so is the core, technically

#

So let's assume I already have a bunch of addressable assets and it's all set up properly

#

....how do I load all assets of a given type

#

I don't know how many assets there are, nor do I know WHERE they are, but all of my content packs are fully downloaded and ready to go. I just want to load all assets in all content packs where each asset is of a given type.

hoary rampart
#

you don't

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assets are loaded by key

analog citrus
#

ohhhkay but, is there not a way to get all keys that point to an asset of a given type

hoary rampart
#

not that i recall

#

you could somehow embed the type into the key I guess

analog citrus
#

I'm trying to avoid as much manual work as possible

supple thunder
#

could anyone help me with a problem in animating my character, the animation doesn't stop immediately when I let go of the input button, and also when I hold the input button the animation doesnt fully loop, but skips frames and then loops.

worn thicket
supple thunder
#

oh my bad and thanks

pale narwhal
#

Is it possible to remove addressables with BuildPipeline.BuildPlayer?

#

(for dedicated servrr)

warm imp
#

Does anyone have this weird issue after upgrading addressables from 1.21.2 -> 1.21.8? (error shows after analyze selected rules)
EDIT: Found the issue, my scripting backend was set to IL2CPP but IL2CPP module for windows was not added and this lead to this unclear error.

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bold pike
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@leaden flax Do no crosspost. This question has nothing to do with addressables.

trail bone
#

know somebody, why if an asset has in name # symbol addressables load doesn't work ? One day I am looking for why I can't load asset, because of naming.

hoary rampart
distant yarrow
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Since upgrading to 2022.2.6, some of our machines have issues using AssetReferences, when using the picker it works fine the first time, but trying to re-set it does a null ref

UnityEditor.ProjectBrowser.FrameObject (System.Int32 instanceID, System.Boolean ping) (at <1ef2856add15407ab99fef0e978737e3>:0)
UnityEditor.EditorGUIUtility.PingObject (System.Int32 targetInstanceID) (at <1ef2856add15407ab99fef0e978737e3>:0)
UnityEditor.EditorGUIUtility.PingObject (UnityEngine.Object obj) (at <1ef2856add15407ab99fef0e978737e3>:0)
UnityEditor.AddressableAssets.GUI.AssetReferenceDrawer.DrawControl (UnityEditor.SerializedProperty property, System.String nameToUse, System.Boolean isNotAddressable, System.String guid, System.Boolean isEnterKeyPressed) (at ./Library/PackageCache/com.unity.addressables@1.21.3/Editor/GUI/AssetReferenceDrawer.cs:216)```
Anyone else experiencing this?
opaque sandal
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Has someone have resources to learn deeper about Addresables besides unity documents and unity learn>?