image conversions and platform switch with large & numerous images is frustrating.

This is just a frustration point with Unity I've had for a while now, and I really hope the workflow can be addressed.

When importing many images (1K, 2K, 4K...), as in several hundred, into Unity, and having to do any tweaking.. (especially if they're organized in multiple sub folders) the process is really tedious. Which, is doable; however, on top of that having conversions between platforms can be excruciatingly slow.

Sure, I can deal with the tedious part.. however, I think there could be a better way. What that is, I just don't know, perhaps a tool or process improvement. I don't know, but damn.. this is driving me bananas.

 

Asset server: http://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/SettinguptheAssetServer.html

 

tswalk I share the same issue, if I swap between iOS and tvOS it can take 40 minutes to make that switch as it goes through all the assets and textures 1 by 1 and reimports them or something.

zombiegorilla thanks for sharing - not sure how the asset server gets around this issue though?

 

Sorry, my bad. I meant the cache server not asset server.
http://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/CacheServer.html

 

AAhh! Yeah that looks lovely Will try and set that up, thanks for the link!

 

Unfortunately this doesn't really solve the initial conversion problem...

What is really needed is an option to be able to take that conversion step and push it to the cache server and offload both processing and distribution.

If on the project level, you could specify a 'cache server' option on a folder to say "convert images in here to these platforms and properties".. which when sync'd to the server, it would then generate the cache for those platforms.

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Although, I guess it would certainly help with switching platforms, once the conversions are done....

 

Why not make a copy of the project put it on another machine with unity, setup that machine to use the cache server and do all the conversions there. Then you can get the converted data via the cache server on your main unity instance if you need it.

That is what the cache server is for. (and usage for larger teams so that asset only needs to be imported once per team)