I’m afraid I’ve never really been able to find the doco for this basic question:
So you have a big project open and in the “Project” pane there are many many files and folders.
You may have many difference scenes, let’s say you are ONLY including “scene A” in the build.
I’m afraid I have absolutely no idea … WHAT gets included in the build?
here are some raw guesses I have made
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unity includes everything in “Project”
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unity includes only things you use explicitly in the scene in “Heirarchy” … and, there’s a little man inside the application who uses his inteligence to guess what other assets you may try to load at runtime!
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unity includes only things you use explicitly in the scene in “Heirarchy” , and, it also loads everythnig in the specially-named folders (resources/, etc)
Many questions arise … for example if you buy an asset store asset, and it has the typical 800 gb of example code … does it include all of those in the build??
What about this one … if you have a huge number of images - textures - in ordinary non-special-name folders, does it load all of those? or only the ones used in materials? or ???
What the hell is the situation here?
I’m sorry to bother people with this, but again, due to my blazing stupidity I cannot for the life of me find the documentation on this. Thanks!
Everything you reference from a scene is included in the build. That could be a script in the scene that has a reference to a prefab which consits of a mesh / material / … , all those things are included as well.