Loading modder's assetbundles

Unity Engine
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I want to setup a way for modders to include assetbundles in their mods and and those assets loaded. As a test I have a script running:

var path = @"mods\myMod\Assets";
var bundle = AssetBundle.LoadFromFile(path);

but bundle is always null. The assetbundle is generated with the same version of unity (2019.4) as the game running the scrips. I tried putting it in the streaming assets dir and using the full path from c with Application.dataPath but nothing works. I confirmed the file exsists with System.IO and I successfully wrote a script to load the bundle in the project that generated it. is there something I’m missing? I just doesn’t work in the mod script.

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Result will be null if bundle is not found or incompatible.
Try placing bundle inside the root dir where player.exe is, give it extension for the posterity’s sake (*.unity3d) and load it
var bundle = AssetBundle.LoadFromFile(“muhbundle.unity3d)”;

If it wont load then you’ve built it wrong. Are you using AssetBundleBrowser or you own custom script workflow?

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I was using the wrong version of unity… once I corrected that the bundles worked