Tutorial: Unity AssetBundles for VaM (Patreon)

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!)