Addressables are here!

We got a prototype of it working a long while ago, but haven't had time to look at it again. So it should be possible for you to get it working, but odds are you'd need to jump through some hoops. Having out-of-the-box functionality should be coming next year (hopefully in the first half).

 

Hello I try addressables systems version 0.5.3 but I cannot create new labels.
When I Right Click the labels it only appear the default label, while in most of the video tutorials there was an input text.
I don't know if there is another way to create a new label.

 

Sorry but I still cannot figure out how to use this system I am totally lost. I don't know if anyone can describe for me in simple steps what I am supposed to do, if I have let's say an app that I should deploy once to the app store, and that app, is simply an AR viewer, that can download augmented content (AR scene) for a specific image target.
So I added my augmented scene to a group in the Addressable window. now let's say that I want to update the augmented scene, what I am supposed to do ?? should I build again the 'Player Content' ? and copy the output to the hosting server? and what is that button 'Prepare for the content update? and 'build for the content update? and why they asked me always about the 'addressables_content_state.bin' file?
and when I should tick the 'Static Content' checkbox?
and why I should put my assets into groups? as I know, I can change the active profile to a created one named let's say 'Remote Hosted' where I set the path to a remote location. so what are the benefits of creating a group named 'Remote Contents' for example?

 

Hello everyone, I have a problem with this system ^^
Yeah that's pretty common on a forum.
I downloaded Trash dash project, and made the tutorial with it. But my goal was to test a problem I had on my project, undefined assembly when you use your own asm file. I added AdressableAssets reference, but it's telling me it need Unity.ResourceManager assembly

 

Oh seems like it was there :

Code (CSharp):

1. "com.unity.resourcemanager": "2.4.4-preview"

 

It seems this was moved to the AddressableAssetSettings object instead of the quick text field in the addressables window. It was pretty handy having it there so I hope it comes back.

 

I think that the 'Prepare For Content Update" is not working (even the Build For Content Update). when it asks me about the "addressables_content_state.bin'" file, I select the one created in the project assets folder under the AddressableAssetsData folder (is that correct ?) and it shows me an empty window (that means that there is nothing to update ??) Knowing that I have made some changes in one of the remote prefabs. I also have a local group set to static (just in case, and I really don't know yet why I should mark a group as static)...

 

Its now time to begin working on this.

I have a pooling system in place that pulls all objects into the game.

it appears this would be a good injection point - it sounds like I don't need to manage the pooling any longer - is this correct?

 

How do you work with subfolders and addressables guys?
I mean I have a bunch of fbx and probably some config files inside subfolders of subfolders of... And when I drag and drop my main folder (which correspond to something logic in my game) only the folder become adressable and nothing inside it is.

And this is the start of a larger problem:
I have a program which load a lot of fbx shared across a lot of subfolders which have meanings and correspond to a specific part of the data structure. That's why I was loading part of the data struct knowing which subfolders or fbx I should load and used Ressource.Load on them. I think that loading the whole bunch of fbx async is interresting but I would need it to be loaded into a kind of map which the path as the key to not lose all the informations I need. I can drag and drop my folder and use "Simplify entries" to get key as path starting from my folder, which is nice. So how could I load all my data into a kind of map like I described?

 

The Addressables window doesn't appear to enforce any kind of uniqueness among Addresses. For example, I can set the Address of two assets to "ABC", and the UI doesn't care. If I try to LoadAsset("ABC"), only one of them loads, maybe randomly. This seems like a problem. I would have hoped to get a warning if I was about to duplicate some entries.

I was excited about the "Simplify Entry Names" option when right clicking an address, but this could use a bit more customization to be really useful, such as an option to prefix the simplified address with the name of the group. If I try to simplify things right now, I'll just end up with a ton of dupes between the different groups.

Could someone explain the scope of the behavior of Groups of a completely offline game? If I put two assets in a group, is an Asset Bundle created containing those two assets? And therefore, if I LoadAsset one of those assets, will that loads all of the contents of that group? I'm trying to understand how granular my groups should be.

 

Anyone knows what is that number in the profiler?

 

Any news about the problem with UnityBuiltInShaders?
I am affected from this too.

Cheers

Diego

 

I'm having a shader problem on Android when trying to load an addressable asset. IOS works fine and I rebuilt the assets for each platform. It's set to Packed. Is this a known issue?

 

Which AA version are you using?
I have a similar issue where all the sprites in one of my scenes have gone pink since I updated from 0.4.8 to 0.5.3. I've been trying to isolate the problem for 2 days to provide a repro sample... without success so far.

 

0.5.3

 

Are you running in packet mode?
That error shows only in the editor if you run on a device it should be ok.
Not ideal but it's something. Try to run in fast mode in the editor.

 

That screenshot is from my mobile device.

When I run in Packed mode in the editor it looks the same. Fast mode looks correct.

 

Have you resolved the dependencies?

Click Analyze then Fix All until you have no issue left.

 

There are no dependencies. It's just the Andy Android model with a Mobile/diffuse shader. The same issue occurs when using a cube primitive with standard shader.

I've been testing and moved it to default local group and same thing. I'm thinking this is android specific.

IOS works fine

 

I don't know without seeing the project. It looks ok for what I can see.
I can tell you that I am running the project on a crappy Android and it works (after killing the UnityBuiltInShader, link) but I guess your problem could be different since I got a proper error that crashed the App.

 

I created a new project that just spawns a cube. 'm assigning an AssetReference and instantiating it on Start.

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using UnityEngine.AddressableAssets;
3.  
4. public class SpawnAddressable : MonoBehaviour
5. {
6.     public AssetReference placeableObject;
7.  
8.     private void Start()
9.     {
10.         placeableObject.Instantiate<GameObject>();
11.     }
12. }
13.  

Works on IOS, not on android.

In the editor I'm getting the following errors:

Exception encounterd in operation UnityEngine.ResourceManagement.RawDataProvider+InternalOp`1[System.Object], result='', status='None', valid=True, location=LocalCatalogHash2e5effbde1b5c4ff6833b9119d03e8c4..

UnityEngine.ResourceManagement.DelayedActionManager:LateUpdate()



Exception: Invalid path in RawDataProvider: '/Users/sbuchbinder/Library/Application Support/DefaultCompany/Addressables/com.unity.addressables/catalog_2019.01.16.17.14.39.hash'.

UnityEngine.ResourceManagement.DelayedActionManager:LateUpdate()

 

@xxTheStuFactorx, stupid questions, but in any case: Have you made sure the load path is correct? Have you made sure to build the bundles for android as well?

 

I believe the load path is correct. I'm just using the Packed Asset Group that you create by right clicking in the addressable window. The cube spawns but is magenta (pink). On IOS it looks correct

I would upload the project but file size restrictions do not allow it. I will post a link shortly.

 

File size restrictions do not allow me to upload the project but here's a dropbox link:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/8kq4vgt26fob577/Addressables.zip?dl=0

 

It works using a custom shader!! I just renamed the mobile/diffuse shader and killed the fallback. So it's definitely a shader issue with AA and Android

 

@unity_bill Could we get ANY timetable which is a bit finer grained as "Don't use it before mid 2019", "Use it after mid 2019".

 

I have set up the Hosting server, and followed the steps here:

But it doesn't do any of the things shown in the video. First I cannot get the server running properly and if I do a standalone mac client, none of the assets work. Same with local directories.

I cannot get the "Prepare Content" thing to work. I have the .bin file from the previous build (I had to copy/paste this manually) but it never recognises that any of the prefabs have changed ever.

Also, virtual mode works, but it always updates my assets to the latest one, even if I haven't pushed it to the "CDN" directory.

 

Looks like a couple of the comments here are asking me a question. The problem is that this thread has so many conversations going that I can't tell who has replied to whom about what.

So if you have a question you're hoping I specifically will read and reply to, please make it into a dedicated thread. This one has gotten too convoluted for me to follow.

-Bill

 

Is it possible to retrieve by code the names of all the assets in a group of addressable? If it's possible, how?

 

@D3m0n

Code (CSharp):

1. foreach (var group in AddressableAssetSettingsDefaultObject.Settings.groups)
2. {
3.   if("Blub".Equals(group.name)){
4.     foreach(var entry in group.entries){
5.       Debug.Log(entry);
6.     }
7.   }
8. }

Entry has all the information.

 

Thanks a lot!

 

Actually, this will work only on the editor. if you want to get, let's say, the key at runtime, here is my code that I use:

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Collections.Generic;
2. using System.Linq;
3. using UnityEngine.AddressableAssets;
4.  
5. public static class AddressablesUtilities
6. {
7.     static IEnumerable<string> keys;
8.  
9.     static AddressablesUtilities()
10.     {
11.         keys = Addressables.ResourceLocators.OfType<ResourceLocationMap>().SelectMany(locationMap => locationMap.Locations.Keys.Select(key => key.ToString()));
12.     }
13.  
14.     public static bool IsKeyExist(string key)
15.     {
16.         return keys.Contains(key);
17.     }
18. }

 

Can Addressable assets be used to download variations of assets based on platform? For instance: can a texture deploying to Android device, that does not support ASTC texture compression format, fall back and download ATC or ETC2 versions?

 

Field of AIData not Show in inspector.just show Array indexes

Code (CSharp):

1. public class MissionAIData : ScriptableObject {
2.  
3.     public AssetReferenceGameObject Asset;
4.     public AIData[] AIData;
5. }
6.  
7. [Serializable]
8. public class AIData
9. {
10.     public List<AssetReference> aaa = new List<AssetReference>();
11.     [SerializeField]
12.     public AssetReferenceGameObject uu;
13. }
14.  

 

It's a known bug: https://forum.unity.com/threads/assetreferencedrawer-does-not-dirty-the-serialziedproperty.568894/

 

thank you let me look

 

Yeah, same problem.

 

When do you release Version 1.0.0 ?

 

https://forum.unity.com/threads/assetreferencedrawer-does-not-dirty-the-serialziedproperty.568894/

 

help!!

i want change to [AddressableAssetSettings Profile Entries value] with server value at running App!!

can i this?

 

You can make a static getter for Version like for BuildTarget.

 

I want to change RemoteLoadPath during application execution.
eg)
RemoteLoadPath: http: // localhost / iOS /
URL at Runtime: http: //localhost/iOS/v1.0.0/

v1.0.0 is an assumption of a character string retrieved from the server.

 

something like this...

Code (CSharp):

1. public class GameVersion
2. {
3.     public static string Version { get { return "1.0.0"; } }
4. }

edit: oh now I see.. you can have editor only version getter like this

Code (CSharp):

1.  public static string Version
2.     {
3.         get
4.         {
5. #if UNITY_EDITOR
6.             return "";
7. #else
8.             return "1.0.0";
9. #endif
10.         }
11.     }

this gives you "http://localhost/iOS/" in editor and "http://localhost/iOS/1.0.0" in build

I think you can't change profile paths directly in addressable settings in runtime (well maybe only with reflection - someone correct me if I'm wrong). Just use your custom defined variables like Version in this example to get different paths...

 

tttthx!!!!

i try this!

 

You can, by loading custom settings and/or catalogue files. The way we deal with this is by disabling autoinitialization of the addressables system, initialising it with an empty settings file then loading settings files that we obtained from our server manually.

 

The Addressables need a separate forum entry as fast as possible. Here some very critical issues addressed and also logical important questions and statements, but they are completely lost.

Anther ugly thing is, if you can't decide if its a bug or simply a code logic issue. I download nearly all project files here are posted to see how the stuff should work. Would very efficient for all devs here if ppl upload a tiny project zip on having issues, if possible. I' assured other devs will help as well, and the uploader get help faster then waiting until the unity devs have some time to.

And for the unity devs its also much easier to recognize the importance if a lot ppl apply to a thread.

 

Ehm...

 

This really should be built in. It's absurd for every single project to implement their own manifest/catalogue on top of the addressable system.

 

By custom I do not mean our own ones, I mean different versions of the ones the addressables system produces. In our case, the catalogues are pointing to different servers, versions etc. Agreed though, there should be a nicer way of doing this.