STACK:
- macOS Catalina
- Unity 2020.1.8f1
CONFIGURATION:
I want to load a scene entirely from an AWS S3 bucket. I have followed two tutorials:
- Unity Learn: Learn game development w/ Unity | Courses & tutorials in game design, VR, AR, & Real-time 3D | Unity Learn
- MeowKim guide: Guide for Unity Addressable Asset System. · GitHub
I have a simple scene with a couple of buttons to press. In this case, the user presses “Load Remote Scene”
that will call the function to load the addressable (which uses a string to define the address). The function is trying to load the “Test_scene_2.unity” scene
A new “remote” profile has been created a set as active. Also, the remote AWS path has been configured:
As you can see I have an Addressable group that contains a reference to the scene:
And both global and group settings have been configured for generating a remote catalog:
As a final step, I have built the addressable group generating the .hash .bin .bundle files in the AssetData folder
PROBLEM:
I know that the next step is to load those files to the S3 buckets, but as reported in the MeowKim tutorial:
“Running at this time would cause errors because Unity tries to get remote groups from the server.”
Unfortunately, if I run the game in the editor and push the “Load remote Scene” button the scene gets loaded normally, which shouldn’t happen because the S3 bucket is empty. I should get an error, which should disappear as soon as I upload the files. This means that my addressable assets are still pointing to the local files.
The strange thing is that if I build a standalone app the remote loading works, meaning it fails if the S3 bucket is empty but it loads the scene as soon as I load the addressable data.
In Summary:
- Play in Editor: scene loads correctly with or without addressable data in the S3 bucket (not possible unless is pointing always to local)
- Build and Run standalone app: everything works well (only if addressable data in S3 bucket).
What am I missing?