How to accessing specific addressable group

Hello, I have an addressable group where I keep objects, there are many prefabs in it, I want to access them in the game object type with code and change their materials, but I could not do it. I was able to access the group name, but I can't access the game objects in it, can you please help?

 

This question is probably best asked in the Addressables forum:
https://forum.unity.com/forums/addressables.156/

With that said... and take this with a grain of salt as I only recently just started working with Addressables. But I don't think you're able to access them by group at runtime.

You can create labels to associate assets together and retrieve the keys for everything of a given label.

You can create catalogs of assets.

But I don't know of a way to get all the keys of a specific group.

...

You say:

What do you mean?

Can you share with us the code you have?

 

var setting = AddressableAssetSettingsDefaultObject.Settings;
if (setting!=null)
{
var group = setting.FindGroup("Balls");
if (group != null)
{
Debug.Log(group.name);
}
}

Thanks to this code, I can find and print the name of the addressable group, but I don't know how to access the gameobjects in that group.

 

That class, 'AddressableAssetSettingsDefaultObject', is part of UnityEditor.AddressableAssets assembly:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/c...ts.AddressableAssetSettingsDefaultObject.html

This means it's only available at editor time and not at runtime.

Is this something you expect to do only at editor time? Or is this something you expect to do in a build on the client device?

 

Groups are meant to help you keep your assets organized and to set certain settings for the way those groups are compiled when making a build. They're not meant to be used at runtime, and to my knowledge I don't think the groups even exist at runtime. In the manifest I believe all the assets are compiled into a list linking each address to its bundle, so at runtime the group is bypassed entirely.

Apply a label to everything in the group, and load assets via that label.

 

Yeah, that was my general take away too. Just never got a confirmation anywhere. The documentation for Addressables is lacking compared to the main Unity API... IMO.

 

lacking is an understatement

 

5 y.o. Still working. Can it be actieved in less "hacky" way? Questionable.
https://forum.unity.com/threads/fea...ess-unityengine-object-o.561823/#post-3729913