Abundables is an editor tool to manage AssetBundles. It aims to strike a balance between Unity's bare AssetBundles and overcomplicated Addressables. You have adequate control over your Bundles with just a few clicks.
Click the Abundables/Open Editor menu item to open the editor.
(You can also import existing AssetBundles here!)
From there you can create/delete Bundles, add/remove Assets from Bundles, set Runtime Addresses, and build your Bundles. (See Diagram)
If for whatever reason you need access to the underlying data, it's located in a ScriptableObject at
Assets/Abundables/Data/AbundableData.
Addresses are the bread and butter of this project. They let you define an alias for assets which you can use to access them at runtime, no libraries needed!
For example, lets say you have lots of audio files in your Bundle, but they're all in different places in your project. Traditionally you'd have to add them one by one to the Bundle, then load them one by one at runtime.
var bundle = AssetBundle.LoadFromFile("../mybundle");
var audio1 = bundle.LoadAsset("path/to/audio1");
var audio2 = bundle.LoadAsset("different/path/to/audio2");
var audio3 = bundle.LoadAsset("another/different/path/to/audio3");
// etcBut by organizing their Addresses, you can avoid this problem alltogether!
var bundle = AssetBundle.LoadFromFile("../mybundle");
var audio1 = bundle.LoadAsset("audio/1");
var audio2 = bundle.LoadAsset("audio/2");
var audio3 = bundle.LoadAsset("audio/3");
// etc
(Note: Bundling folders is not implemented yet)
You'll have to clone the repo in an existing Unity project for Abundables to function properly, which you can do like so:
cd path/to/YourProject/Assets
git clone https://github.com/Parzival-3141/Abundables.git
Then let the scripts compile and you're done!
UnityPackages are a little finnicky, so TBD for now :/
Feel free to fork and make pull requests. You'll have to clone the repo in an existing Unity project for Abundables to function properly. (See Installation)
Making nice UI's with Unity's GUI API is a huge pain, so any help cleaning up the Editor is super appreciated!
Avoid referencing anything that may be project specific. If porting to an earlier version of Unity, try to maintain compatibility with later versions.