Question How can I load all Addressables below a certain path/of a type/in a group?

I'm currently trying to get familiar with the Addressables system. I have several items that are of different type and should be addressable.

• Stories
• Wearables
• Stackable Items
• Enemy types

Now I would like to load these by their path (e.g. all stories are in a folder named "Stories", so I'd like to load all Addressables which have a path starting with "Stories/*").

Code (CSharp):

1.            
2. // use the path with a wildcard as key name
3. Addressables.LoadAssetsAsync<StoryDescriptor>("Stories/*", null);
4.  

Didn't work. Next I tried if I could load all of them by type and without specifying a key at all:

Code (CSharp):

1.            
2. // use no key name at all , just a type
3. Addressables.LoadAssetsAsync<StoryDescriptor>(null, null);
4.  

Didn't work either. So next I tried to put them into groups also because the documentation said it's a good idea to split your stuff up and I figured maybe one could load stuff with the group name:

• Group: Stories
  • Story 1
  • Story 2
• Group: Wearables
  • Armor 1
  • Weapon 1
• Group: Stackables
  • Food
  • Components
• etc..

I tried with this code:

Code (CSharp):

1.            
2. // use the group name as key
3. Addressables.LoadAssetsAsync<StoryDescriptor>("Stories", null);
4.  

Didn't work either. But I found there is a thing called labels and it would seem one could load stuff by label. So I tried, sticking a label to each of the Addressables:

• Group: Stories
  • Story 1
    • Label: Story
  • Story 2
    • Label: Story
• Group: Wearables
  • Armor 1
    • Label: Wearable
• etc..

Now I was able to load Addressables by label like this:

Code (CSharp):

1.            
2. // use the label name as key
3. Addressables.LoadAssetsAsync<StoryDescriptor>("Story", null);
4.  

But this is a really error prone way of organizing things. I need to remember to put stuff into the right group and also add a label to it. Is there a way I can load addressables that match a certain path in their keys or just all Addressables of a certain type?

 

That is actually a really useful feature request.

For now, though, I think you can implement a script that will attach labels for your needs.