Question Unload Scene without Scene Instance

Hi all,

we have recently switched to Addressables Scene Loading and everything works fine. We have the very first scene of the game in our build settings and everything else is marked as Addressables. We load and unload scenes by AssetReference and SceneInstance respectively.

However, in lots of situations during development, we don't enter play mode through our game start scene but rather in a testing environment scene that will then load all necessary stuff so we can immediately enter the game in any scene we want.
Additionally, we can then still "teleport" into other testing environment scenes, unloading whatever was present before them. And here lies my issue.

Addressables.UnloadSceneAsync() requires a SceneInstance that we don't have when just entering play mode in any testing scene. Is there an Addressables way of unloading that scene or do I have to resort back to the good old SceneManager.UnloadSceneAsync() to unload it via Scene struct?

Thanks!

 

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I ended up adjusting our scene management code to cache Scenes that were already open on Awake and to unload them via SceneManager.UnloadSceneAsync() when needed.