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Discussion in 'Getting Started' started by Dymalle42, Oct 30, 2019.

  1. Dymalle42

    Dymalle42

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    Hello,

    I wish to code an app that will need to search and recover data in a database stored online in a NAS Server.
    Is there any tutorial/course/training/lesson/documentation/samples that could help me to learn how to do this?
    I've seen the API AssetDatabase.FindAssets. I suppose that this is the kind of things I should use.
     
    Dymalle42, Oct 30, 2019
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  2. JoeStrout

    JoeStrout

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    No, AssetDatabase won't help you here. You will probably use UnityWebRequest and access your database through some sort of REST API.
     
    JoeStrout, Oct 30, 2019
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  3. Joe-Censored

    Joe-Censored

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    AssetDatabase refers to Unity assets, as in assets within your project. As already mentioned a webserver front end for the database is usually the easiest route. It may also be possible to directly connect to the database from a Unity project, depending on what kind of database you're referring to.
     
    Joe-Censored, Oct 30, 2019
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