Problems with Addressable Instantiation

Unity Engine
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Edit: The solution I found was discovering that AssetDatabase.LoadAssetAtPath did exactly what I was trying to do.

Here is my code:

public void getChopped(Tree tree)
    {GameObject meter = Addressables.Instantiate("AxeMeter", position: transform.position + new Vector3(1.5f, 1, 0), rotation: transform.rotation).Result;
   meter.GetComponent<AxeMeterManager>().tree = tree;}

Firstly, using this Addressables.Instantiate method tells me it is obsolete. I don’t know if that’s the problem, and if it is, I don’t know how else to do this.
The AxeMeter appears in the scene just fine, but meter returns a null reference when I try to assign tree, or even try Debug.Log. This works fine when I don’t use Addressables. I’ve also tried to use GameObject.Find to no avail. I thought maybe it was taking a while for the meter to instantiate so I put in a loop to continue while meter==null and the game just froze.

Edit: Just learned something new and weird: If I instantiate and then destroy the object and then reinstantiate it, it works fine, just the first time doesn’t work. What gives?

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Pretty sure all the non-async addressables methods have been deprecated. So you either need to us the synchronous workflow methods, or you need to use asynchronous code.

For example, your method could be:

public async void getChopped(Tree tree)
{
    GameObject meter = await Addressables.InstantiateAsync("AxeMeter", position: transform.position + new Vector3(1.5f, 1, 0), rotation: transform.rotation).Result
    meter.GetComponent<AxeMeterManager>().tree = tree;
}