Cannot Load AssetBundle Manifest File

HI,

I try to download and generate a AssetBundleManifest, but when I download it the WWW class doesnt fill the assetbundle field instead it fill www.text with the .manifest file I download.

Code (CSharp):

1. using(WWW www = new WWW(manifelURL))
2. {
3.  yield return www;
4.  if(!string.IsNullOrEmpty(www.error))
5.  {
6.    Debug.LogError(www.error);
7.    yieldbreak;
8.   }
9.    //www.assetBundle is null but www.text contains the .manifest
10.      manifest = (AssetBundleManifest)www.assetBundle.LoadAsset("AssetBundleManifest",typeof(AssetBundleManifest));
11.  yield return null;
12.  www.assetBundle.Unload(false);
13. }

 

same problem here Y_Y

EDIT :
problem solved : it's not unity which bug but IIS which has a bad config .
if you haven't add an extension ( .unity3d / .assetBundle, etc) you need to add in IIS the type mime which follow :
- '.' and (application/octet-stream)

the file manifest you want for the bundle isn't the .manifest but the other one with the same name

 

I have my assetbundle with the proper extension (.unity3d) and then I have the .manifest text file. Both are in separate folders on some server.
I want to download first the .manifest to check the hash and then download the .unity3d only if I need it. But when I try to download the .manifest, Unity saves it to www.text instead of loading to www.assetBundle.

 

@lavz24 you want to to something like :

/// <summary>
/// Loads the manifest. and fill bundlesNames with every assetbundle of the project
/// </summary>
public IEnumerator LoadManifest ()
{
Debug.Log( "Loading Manifest");
using (WWW www = new WWW(pathToBundles + platform ))
{
yield return www;
if(!string.IsNullOrEmpty(www.error))
{
Debug.Log(www.error);
yield break;
}

manifest = (AssetBundleManifest)www.assetBundle.LoadAsset("AssetBundleManifest", typeof(AssetBundleManifest));
yield return null;
// Unload the AssetBundles compressed contents to conserve memory
www.assetBundle.Unload(false);
// Frees the memory from the web stream
www.Dispose();
}

if (!isReady)
Debug.Log ("There was an error loading manifest");
else{
//fill bundlesNames
bundlesNames.AddRange(manifest.GetAllAssetBundles());


then , like i said, you don't want to load PC.manifest , but the PC.unity3d , which contain (as an AssetBundleManifest) the information ( hash , url , etc ) of all your other bundles.

 

Do you know why on Android/iPhone every time AssetBundleManifest.GetAssetBundleHash(bundleName) return different hash for the same bundle?

 

Hey.. and what if I want to use the .manifest text file instead of the AssetBundle file ?

I do prefer to work with the .manifest file so I can append one more asset bundle to the system easily, without having to build all of the asset bundles...