Look into replacing Loadables with the new Unity Addressables System

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Look into replacing Loadables with the new Unity Addressables System #282

Closed james7132 closed 4 years ago

james7132 commented 6 years ago

Addressables is basically Loadables but with better first party support and a much larger breadth of features.

No need for building asset bundles before testing in game. This would dramatically speed up development time.
No longer needing to maintain our own set of APIs for dynamically loading in game data.

As of current, Addressables is available in a preview format, and there's no easy way to build asset bundles with the new system, though it seems like it is coming.

james7132 commented 6 years ago

A preliminary version is being tested on the 2018.2-Addressables branch. Some quick notes:

Building asset bundles works.
Handling dynamically loaded assets is much easier with the new UI.
By default includes hash values in bundle names, this is undesirable for our use case.
The UI for AssetReferences are broken, waiting on this to get fixed before proceeding with a merge.
Scene support for AssetReferences is not there yet.
We still need a wrapper around IAsyncOperation to have it work well with async/await.