Download a 3D Model and use in real time

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Hi guys

It is possible to download a 3D model (.obj for example) and load it in my app/game in realtime?

Thank you for your time

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This question would be better suited elsewhere, but:

No, Unity does now allow for runtime model loading out of the box. Depending on your use-case you might want to consider using Unity asset bundles, look around the Asset Store for a runtime importer, or roll your own entirrely (I wouldn’t recommend this).

Good luck!

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I understand, I’m basically making an AR app that can download the models and load in real time. I believe these AssetBundles can help me, from what I’ve been reading.

Thank you

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If you’d like to avoid Asset Bundles all together, there are a host of OBJ importer packages on the Unity Asset Store. Download the OBJ, MTL, PNG files from your server and pass them to one of the importers.

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I’ve been looking at some, but it seems like none do this on android. I did not get to test but by the comments everything indicates that it does not work.
But no problem, I put this as a restriction of my term paper.