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Tutorial: Unity AssetBundles for VaM

Added 2020-03-07 18:53:51 +0000 UTC

After some people essentially begged me to do it, I spend several evenings this week and the this entire Saturday on writing a tutorial on Unity AssetBundles. It ended up to be an 13 page PDF of 2700 words. Lots of pictures, obviously.

This tutorial covers:

Installing the correct Unity version
Setup your Unity project. I have included an almost ready-to-go Unity project.
Getting some Assets. This is not VaM specific and therefore only covered briefly. The project includes a sofa and matching ottoman asset, based on these two free Sketchfab assets by Visja Filip Rumin: Old Sofa and Old Leather Ottoman. Both are under CC-BY-4.0 license, which made it possible to include them in this tutorial.
Adding collision
Creating a material variation
Creating Prefabs
Creating the AssetBundle
Using VaMExporter for faster iteration
Loading in VaM with CustomUnityAsset
Extracting assets from AssetBundles (with uTinyRipper)
License considerations
Quick introduction into tools included in the project

The project ZIP includes a version of ProBuilder and ProGrid! That's a simple modeling tool, mainly it is intended for quick prototyping. However, I build the entire SecretRoom environment with this. It is very easy to learn and especially the auto-stitch feature for texturing is awesome. Here is a link to a nice ProBuilder video tutorial that covers all the essentials in just 5 minutes.

Download

2 week EarlyAccess for Patreons. On March 21 this will become freely available to the community as usual. Download: https://www.patreon.com/posts/34679832

(Edit: It's now free!)