Hi I am developing a mobile game where i use a lot of pictures for materials (more than a thausand planed) and i don’t understand wheather or not they will increase the size of the game after building. What I mean is do the .jpg AND Material saved in the final build or only the Material which is only 3-4kB?
My guess is that they do but i couldn’t find anything about that in the documentation.
I would really appretiate your help.
Thanks!
Yes, textures increase the build size
yes, think about it, if you had 60gb of images do you think your build would store them but stay at 40mb?
Materials need the textures. Keep in mind that Unity has various Texture Compression formats that can further trim down the file size.
The following articles are worth reading:
If you’re aiming for a very small download size (which many people want to achieve for mobile) you can look into using Addressables / Asset Bundles to shrink the initial content down then download extra content as its needed.
Here’s the official tips to minimize build size: Unity - Manual: Reducing the file size of your build