Is there way to access existing addressable asset setting?

I've been looking at documentation for hours and can't find relevant method that can access existing addressable asset setting object. I'm trying to access it during custom build script so that I can build from specific profile. Anyone know how to access existing addressable asset setting in code? (preferably through addressable system)

 

Thanks, @DavidUnity3d ! But I have another question regarding addressable asset system. I'm trying to build it in custom build script and when I called

Code (CSharp):

1. AddressableAssetSettings.BuildPlayerContent();

, Editor gave me null reference in path. So I'm trying to access existing addressable asset setting object's build path.

How do I access paths under profile setting and pass it through BuildPlayerContent()?

**********EDIT***************

Actually I figured out how to get path. Now I just need to find a way to pass it to somewhere so that BuildPlayerContent() gets working...

 

@DavidUnity3d yeah when I just put following lines of codes I get path error...


or so I thought. Fixed it but now I'm more confused. So on default setting I have 2 profiles: Default and Remote. Each of them have different paths designated. When I build, how does it know which profile I want it to build?

Code (CSharp):

1. var profileSetting = UnityEditor.AddressableAssets.AddressableAssetSettingsDefaultObject.Settings.profileSettings;
2.         var profileID = profileSetting.GetProfileId("Remote");
3.         var names = profileSetting.GetVariableNames();
4.         for (int i = 0; i < names.Count; i++)
5.         {
6.             if (profileID == profileSetting.GetProfileId("Remote"))
7.             {
8.                 AddressableAssetSettings.BuildPlayerContent();
9.             }
10.         }  

I tried above but it builds for both Default and Remote profiles.

 

that was where I was going actually until your replied so nope you were correct on the issue.

Thanks! Is it possible to build without setting anything in that Addressable Groups window but setting things straightly in code only? trying to create automated addresable asset build here.

 

Hmm, that's one way to build it, but I got curious with another way to build - through profile. I was able to changing profile setting in script, but calling BuildPlayerContent() ended up building stuff into several folders outside Assets directory. I assume when BuildPlayerContent() is called, it builds to Local or Remote path based on Build Remote Catalog bool state? What's the best approach to call Build once you change profile setting to something else, then build to that profile's build path?

Or am I back to un-modifiable build path problem again?

 

Code (CSharp):

1. var addressableAssetSettings = AddressableAssetSettingsDefaultObject.Settings;  
2. var desiredProfileSelection = "Remote";
3.         if (desiredProfileSelection == addressableAssetSettings.activeProfileId)
4.         {
5.             Debug.Log("current profileID is " + desiredProfileSelection);
6.         }
7.         else
8.         {
9.             if (addressableAssetSettings.profileSettings.GetAllProfileNames().Contains(desiredProfileSelection))
10.             {
11.                 if (addressableAssetSettings.activeProfileId != desiredProfileSelection)
12.                 {
13.                     addressableAssetSettings.activeProfileId = desiredProfileSelection;
14.                     Debug.Log("changing profileID to " + addressableAssetSettings.activeProfileId);
15.                     EditorUtility.SetDirty(AddressableAssetSettingsDefaultObject.Settings);
16.                     AddressableAssetSettings.BuildPlayerContent();
17.                 }
18.             }
19.         }

@DavidUnity3d I really appreciate all your help on this matter and I'm really sorry to keep bothering you..

So what I'm trying to do is test custom build script using Addressable System. When I build with above code, what I expect is to be built at red circled build path. Instead, it builds outside Assets folder, not to mention it's not building to correct path - red circled one. I think it's building to Profile: Default build path rather than changed profile's build path.

What am I doing wrong? And how can I fix this?

 

Thanks! It finally worked! Built to correct location!

 

@DavidUnity3d Question just popped up regarding changing build path. So it is not possible to change build path automatically with addressable? Say, if there's difference between versions it'll create new folder and build it there. Is such thing possible?

 

@DavidUnity3d Is it also possible to change the name of the build? Currently when you build it is named as "catalog" + version numbers. Is it possible to customize "catalog" part?



Moreover, is there documentation page for "Bundle Asset Provider Types"?



Thanks for help!

 

At least in version 1.2.2 I am able to change the catalog name. You check build remote catalog and then put something in player version override and it appends that to your catalog... so you have like catalog_MyPlayerVersionOverrideString.json

Both of those settings can also be configured via editor scripts as well.

 

thanks but I meant specifically that "catalog" part

 

@DavidUnity3d We're developing using several different environments such as Dev, Test, Live and use a standard CI practice of build once and promote those builds up the environment heirarchy as they pass various stages of testing. The problem is that each environment has a different URL, but the RemoteLoadPath seems to get built into the addressables build as a single URL.
Is there a way to modify that at runtime?
RemoteLoadPath: www.dev.somesite.com/[BuildTarget]
runtime change this to be: www.live.somesite.com/[BuildTarget]

Or is there some sort of variable lookup we could put into a config file using a custom variable?
RemoteLoadPath: www.[Environment].somesite.com/[BuildTarget]
config set Environment variable to be: "live" so it uses: www.live.somesite.com/[BuildTarget]

 

@skwsk8 yes you can set the path at runtime.

You would need to define your loadpath in the profile as something like

{ServerSettings.AddressablesUrl}/[BuildTarget]

The {} is a runtime variable. So we have a class

ServerSettings

with a static variable of

AddressablesUrl

.

Our use case is once the use logs in, the server sends back the proper addressables url for whatever branch they are on, dev/test/prod etc.

The only issue is once the addressables stuff inits, it cant be changed so you have to resolve it with your custom code before you do anything with addressables.

You could also use some DEFINE functionality to set the url at compile time.

For example in our project with our different build paths, dev/test/prod a custom platform define is turned on i.e. BUSINESS_PROD. You could use that method to change the urls based off of your build.

 

I am trying to make my groups compile into their own folder, so that I can have a core bundle, and a bundle per group... to do this, I have been looking for a way to put the group name into the build/load path. any way to do this? I can't find it anywhere online.

 

@Jribs I am facing a similar issue ... our use case is our bundle files are stored on a private S3 bucket and we provide access to that bucket using presigned URL directly pointing to the .bundle file ...the problem is that we have an expiry time for URL and hence every time user hits a web request for bundle a new URL is generated on runtime and it is unique for every bundle file and due to architecture of addressables it cant change the urls once it gets lazy init.

Due to this reason, we are moving back to asset bundle and downloading bundle files individually one by one ... but the maintenance work and content update is kinda hard to do on that basic level as we have over 100 assets, model, textures, etc and their dependencies also the work feels kinda trivial as addressable has already provided the solutions for grouping and content update without any code work.

So is there any way where i can leverage any functionality to change bundle urls at runtime?

 

@davidla_unity Is there a way to load asset of local group to load from remote after app release using Curly brackets in load path or loading remote catalog.

 

Before we switched to addressables, we also used pre-signed urls because our buckets were private.

We had to change and make them public.

AFAIK there is no way to provide specific urls for individual bundles.

I agree it is a pretty big drawback to addressables, but the memory management is so much better it was worth the trade off for us.

 

There is a way, and it is how I will be doing it from now on cause it works very well,
you can use the <custom> setting, in conjunction with the profile variables, so you can set your bundle to build to / load from [BuildRemoteTargetBundle]/<custom Name> and it works just fine! this way our bundles and future bundles can be organized and the addressables asset catalog can be placed wherever it is convenient or necessary.