Download items and best quality texture in game (in C#)

[Sebastien_Euca]

Hello,
my question is “Can I download items as prefab in game (Add in AssetBundle) via distant server in C#? And How ?”,
and it’s possible to download texture (HD to 2K,4K,8K) and apply it permanently?
Merci, d’avance.

[Peter77]

You can download entire asset bundles and then load the prefab. You can’t download individual assets, such as a prefab, directly from a remote asset bundle (at the time of writing).

Unity - Manual: Downloading an AssetBundle from an HTTP server (GET)

Unity Technologies is currently working on a solution to make this a whole lot easier, they call it Addressables:

Addressables are here!

The Addressable Asset System is an 18.2 Package that includes Addressable Assets, Resource Manager, and the Scriptable Build Pipeline. Addressables provide an easy way to load assets by “address”, handling asset management overhead and simplifying content pack creation & deployment. Once an asset is marked "addressable", the addressable asset can be called from anywhere. Whether that addressable asset resides in the local player or on a content delivery network, the system will locate and retu…

Unite Berlin 2018 - New Addressable Asset system for speed and performance