BuildAssetBundle from commandline?

Unity Engine
1

Is it possible to make an assetbundle from commandline?

So far I have only managed to find information about it being possible as editor scripts on selected models.

2

You can execute the Unity executable and instruct it to run an editor script function:

/Applications/Unity/Unity.app/Contents/MacOS/Unity -batchmode -projectPath /PathToMyProject -executeMethod MyEditorScript.MyStatic Function -quit

3

Thanks but I don’t seem to get the functionality I am aiming for.

All documentation and examples are referring to Selection:

var selection = Selection.GetFiltered(typeof(Object), SelectionMode.DeepAssets);
	BuildPipeline.BuildAssetBundle(Selection.activeObject, selection, path, BuildAssetBundleOptions.CollectDependencies | BuildAssetBundleOptions.CompleteAssets);

… while I am after a solution where the commandline tells the script in Unity what file to “select” and use to build the assetBundle from.

Is there any way of getting a scripted selection happening, or does it always have to be performed by a human operating a mouse? Basically I’d like to replace myself with a shell script. :slight_smile:

4

After some help from NCarter on IRC I found a solution by doing this:

var arr : GameObject[] = new GameObject[1];
arr[0] = EditorUtility.FindAsset("Artwork/Lerpz.fbx",GameObject);
Selection.objects = arr;
5

Is it possible to pass arguments from the commandline to the Unity script? I.e. a string to tell what file to build?

6

I’m interested also to know if I can read a string in Unity passed from command line (like any other console program).
Maybe using Pro version?

7

you can’t read from the command line
but nothing prevents you from having a config file that you read in that contains one or more command line arguments

8

That’s a good idea!
Thank you!