Runtime Asset Importing ?

Hi,

Sorry if this has been asked before :

Let's say I'm creating a Machinima application with Unity, and I would like the user of this application to be able to load contents on the fly ( characters, props, etc.. in *.obj or another format at runtime ).

Is this possible with Unity ?

Or is using the editor the only way to import assets ?

Is there some API usable at runtime to import assets on the fly ?

Thanks.
Guy.

 

First off, welcome to the forums!

Yes, there are different ways to load assets on the fly depending on exactly what type of assets you're talking about:

- You can use the WWW class to load things like data (pull XML, hit a PHP file to query a database, etc.) as well as load images (JPG/PNG only) or stream audio/video on demand (requires Unity Pro).

- If you want to load geometry (meshes) at run-time, and they're in a text based format then you can load those via the WWW class then use the Mesh class to build the geometry at run-time. I do believe that some folks have scripts done and at the ready for this already, I'm just not in possession of URLs at this moment.

- If you want to load geometry (meshes, with textures, sounds, etc.) at run-time then you can also use Asset Bundles, but these are supported in content made with Unity Pro only and the user of your application will need to own Unity Pro in order to create those Asset Bundles.

 

Fortunately, by an amazing coincidence, I just happen to have such an URL, here!

--Eric

 

And I've now saved a bookmark, thanks!

 

Hi there,

Let's say I have 2 Unity applications each running on a PC(both connected by LAN): 1 records live game-play to video files during run-time, the other then loads these video files remotely over the LAN for playback(via Windows file-sharing functionality).
So is this actually doable? (btw I'll be using Unity Pro to develop both applications)


Cheers
Melvin Eng
Workshop Foundry

 

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