Problem of assigning a folder as Addressable

Seems like currently when u assigning a folder as Addressable, each item inside the folder needs to put not only file name but also its file format in order to load properly. I would like to see file format is no longer needed anymore in future version.

 

Being able to override the default address and label for those assets would also be quite nice.

 

Another vote for an option to remove the extension!

 

Still and issue. As an alternative, allow the extension when not using the folder path in the key.

Right now, these two things work:

Code (CSharp):

1. string key = “UI/AwesomeMenu.prefab”;
2. string key = “AwesomeMenu”;

But these don’t work:

Code (CSharp):

1. string key = “UI/AwesomeMenu”;
2. string key = “AwesomeMenu.prefab”

Why?

 

This is just a guess, not 100% sure, maybe “UI/AwesomeMenu” read as a folder since there is no extension?

 

It could be. To be honest, I am testing again and the only thing I can get to work is the full path + .prefab at the end. So I am not sure if I was mistaken before and it is simply that just the file name (without .prefab) will not work, or that I changed a setting somewhere that broke things.

Has anyone else found just the file name to work as the key, without .prefab, in cases where the address is a full file path?

 

How I like to think of this is as more of an address (to the local asset within the catalog) than a key. There is also a key and label. If you ever use AssetReference.RuntimeKey you will notice that it is a hash, not a path. So I think those are different things.

What exactly are you trying to accomplish with this, what is the problem with having the extension?

 

The reason is that this is for an asset store product where I need to support different address formats (with folder paths and without), so I was hoping both types would be usable without the file extension. But truly it is not a big deal.

Mostly I was confused about when .prefab and the full path are necessary, because I swear I had things working with just the file name before, but now if my address has a folder path and extension, Unity is throwing an exception if I don’t include them. So I was hoping for clarification on whether the address used to locate an asset needs to match the address on the addressable asset exactly, or if it is possible to get away with just using the file name (and perhaps I have changed some setting that has disabled this functionality.

 

Maybe you had it simplified (right click>simplify addressable names).

What do is have another file (with a specific extension, eg. .parts) with list metadata for each asset (not dependencies). It includes bunch of information including asset type, address, name, title etc... Then I save it at the same location as build location. At runtime, I first find and load all of these (by extension) and create a database.

This allows me to do a lot of things without having to load the assets first, like displaying details of them on a UI. It is an extra step but it eliminates any confusions down the line for me. Also, my scenario is for a game, not a tool...

 

I think you might be right, I probably simplified the names using that option.

 

This problem seems to be related to the link below.
https://forum.unity.com/threads/wrong-address-of-a-addressables-asset-from-a-prefab.1254042/

 

Could be wrong, but they seem like separate issues.