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What's the difference between marking a folder as addressable and a single file?

Discussion in 'Addressables' started by scozirge, May 11, 2022.

  1. scozirge

    scozirge

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    I got many sprites in a "RoleSprite" folder, what is the difference between only marking the "RoleSprite" folder as Addressable and marking every single sprite in the "RoleSprite"?

    Also, if a sprite changes and uploads to the remote address, the player will only need to download that sprite rather than all sprites in the folder. Am I right?

    If there's no difference, Can just mark the root folder including all the assets I need?

    Thanks
     
    scozirge, May 11, 2022
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  2. pillakirsten

    pillakirsten

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    Hi @scozirge marking a folder as Addressable is mainly for organizational purposes. So yes there isn't a difference, assets located in an Addressable folder will behave the same as marking the assets individually.

    The individual Sprite will be loaded, however you will still be downloading the entire AssetBundle that contains the Sprite.

    You could mark the entire root folder as addressable. Just note that there are some consequences to consider if the folder produces an extremely large bundle
    https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.addressables@1.20/manual/PackingGroupsAsBundles.html
     
    pillakirsten, May 23, 2022
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  3. scozirge

    scozirge

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    Thank you, very helpful.
     
    scozirge, May 25, 2022
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