Question Is it possible to store Scenes in a cloud platform?

Hello everyone,

Is it possible to store Scenes in a cloud platform and download them to open locally AND/OR load directly from the cloud?

I have a mobile game with MANY scenes and they are taking up a lot of space. I want to make it light and give the user the possibility to choose what level he wants to play, giving him an option to download the level in order to do so offline or if he is connected to the internet, loading directly from the cloud.

Is this possible? I haven't found anything online... What are the alternatives?

 

Use Addressables, which allow you to bundle assets (including scenes and all their requisite stuff) into downloadable files outside of your executable.

 

Very possible. The old way was Asset Bundles. The new way is "Addressables," which are a more-powerful wrapper around AssetBundles. Hie thee to some Addressables tutorials and give it a look. Making individual scenes into addressables and loading them at runtime off some cloud service is totally a thing.

 

I'm thinking you'll have to go with addressables. Because you're going with scenes and not just assets, I don't know if you could just save them into a folder yourself and load them somehow. So I believe you'll need to use the addressables caching system. The caching system will allow you to load the level while the player is offline.

https://forum.unity.com/threads/download-and-save-external-content-catalog.833023/

An older post, but it might have some good info on how it's used. I only glanced over it.

 

And if none of the above is working for you, you can choose Addressables too! Cool system with automatic download and reference count and async load and stuff. (sorry)

 

Go with this, much better than the other suggestions.

 

Wow, wasn't expecting this many answers so fast. I will study this subject then. Thanks!

Hahahahahah Nice

 

One other note: you can put all kinds of random assets into addressables and pluck them out individually by hand, i.e, have special code to extract and put the assets into their place, like images, prefabs, materials, audio, or whatever. This is suitable for certain applications.

However, it really is like 10,000 times easier if your game is already chopped into scenes, to put the entire scene in the addressable.

When you add a scene to an Asset bundle or Addressable, 100% of everything for that scene is brought into that bundle and the act of loading that one scene just takes care of ALL of it. Nothing could be easier to code.

 

Noted. It makes sense, will keep that in mind. Thanks again!