Engineering

Questions

Bases:

• When I should use Addressables?

• What is the pipeline for Addressables?

• What type of assets support the addressables system?

• What types of hosting can I use?

How To?

• How to include the addresables bundles into the app build?

• How to configure the addressables in Unity?

• How to make a Content Build from Unity?

• How to make a Content Build from build machines? (advanced)

• How to download the bundles from Unity?

• How to clear the addressables cache?

• How to display Logs about the downloaded bundles?

• How to test Addressables in an Unity Editor Host?

Glossary:

• Asset Bundles

• Coroutines

• Asynchronous functions

• Threads

• Package

• Unity Package Manager

• Address

• Bundles

• Asset Groups

• Profiles

• Addressables Settings

• AssetReference class

• Asynchronous Loading

• Build Script

• Label

Tutorials

• Unity Manual - Addressables

• Unity Packages - Addressable Asset System

• Best Practices - Async vs Coroutines (Advanced)

• Unity Developer Day 2018 - Improving Development Flow with Addressables

• Getting Started with Addressables | Unite Now 2020

• Dilmer Valecillos - How To Use Unity Addressables For Beginners Part 1 (Setup & Loading Assets)

• Dilmer Valecillos - How To Use Unity Addressables For Beginners Part 2 (Remote Assets)

• Dilmer Valecillos - How To Use Unity Addressables For Beginners Part 3 (Loader Indicator)

• Dilmer Valecillos - How To Use Unity Addressables For Beginners Part 4 (Scene Loading)

• Unity Addressables - ACCURATE Download Progress Indicator

• The Power Ups - First Example

• The Power Ups - Async Functions

Supported Assets: You can add traditional assets like

• Mechanins (.controller)

• Animation clips (.anim)

• Scenes (.scene)

• Fonts (.ttf / )

• Sprites (.tga / .pgn / .jpg)

• Textures (.pgn / .jpg)

• Shaders (.shader)

• Materials

• Prefabs (.prefab)

• NestedPrefab (.prefab)

• Texto (.txt)

• Images (.spriteatlas)

• 3D Models (.fbx)

• scriptableObject (.asset)

Setup System:

• Setup Assets Groups (Setup Package, Groups, Labels, Settings, others)

• Generate First Build Content

• Setup Hosting (Unity Cloud Content Delivery, Custom Hosting, Google Drive, other)

• Setup Host Client (Host Client Tool)

Runtime:

• Handle the first download (Code)

• Handle the Updates (Code)

• Handle assets in game (Code)

• Handle assets references (Data)

• Setup Assets Update (Update Build Content, Replace and No Add New Bundles)

Setup Addressable System

• Design and Create Groups

  • Local

  • Remote Initial

  • Remote

• Configure Groups ()

Setup Addressables

• Mark Assets as Addressables (Hint: You can add folders)

  • Addressable Name

  • Labels

• Create Labels

Runtime

• Donwload

  • Check version control "Assets/AddressableAssetsData"

• Load by Address

• Load by Label

• Load by Group

Build Content

• Paths

• App: StreamingAssets/...

• Editor: Library/com.unity.addressables/StreamingAssetsCopy/aa/...

• Content Update

  • Build Addressables with: Build/Update a Previous Build

Cloud Services:

• Cloud Content Network (CDN)

• Unity - Cloud Content Delivery (CDD)

• Unity - Remote Configs

• Google - Spreadsheet Remote Configs

Packages:

• Handle the first download (Code)

• Handle the Updates (Code)

• Handle assets in game (Code)

• Handle assets references (Data)

• Setup Assets Update (Update Build Content)