Unity Addressables - do all editor instances / projects need a local copy?

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I’m able to get Unity addressables to load in editor 1 (“project 1”), where it is both generating the .json/hash/bin and loading the prefab asset into scene. This is then placed on AWS (and the link has been tested to download in browser https://bucket.amazonaws.com/[BuildTarget] - replace bucket with bucketname of course).

However, in editor 2 (“project 2”), after setting up the remote_load to be the link above, the prefab does not load.

Maybe I am misunderstanding how this works - does “project 2” also need a local copy of the prefab, or can that itself load from the server?

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As long as project 2 is configured to find the same remote catalog file at the same URL, it should be safe to my understanding. It should only need a local copy of the prefab if you’re using the “Use Asset Database” option or Addressables is configured to find the prefab locally.

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So it doesn’t seem to work even selecting something other than Use Asset Database. Is there a basic test project that has addressables set up to work where all the assets are centralized to one project, and other projects are “sourcing” assets from that project - like described?

I notice all of the github examples do not seem to use a url remote source?

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There very well could be, but not that I’ve come across. I’ve also never personally used this approach myself so I can’t even verify that it works, but a lot of posts and documentation seem to claim that it can work that way… I can only believe.

I’ve had more luck with remote asset access on builds than I have in the editor, so I’ve largely left those other Play script options alone altogether.

Addressables.LoadContentCatalogAsync might be of particular use here, you can just pass in a remote catalog URL path directly that way. As long as that URL points to a location featuring a catalog file .json and .hash, it’s ready to go apparently.

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actually a big issue is that other people who have tried the remote process cannot seem to get it work either

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Oh damn :frowning: Okay, it might be more of a fringe feature than I first thought. I was under the impression this was possible and was even keen to try it myself sometime soon… thanks for researching it!