Fixed (1.20.1.6) These specific files don't build right via the package manager.

[vamX]

Not sure why but these have never built right. These files are located in a subfolder of Custom/Scripts/resources. Other files build correctly.

These files don't have SELF:/ appended as it should be, even if I manually put SELF:/ into the original file it is removed.

I have many, many other files which all build correctly and add SELF:/ as needed to the json. But every time I build I must manually extract, and fix these files, and put them back in the var package.

 

[vamX]

I end up searching for (with the quote) "Custom/
and changing these items to "SELF:/Custom/
to fix them manually

 

[vamX]

To be clear the items that don't say before build are file I extracted from the .var package after it was built.

 

[meshedvr]

SELF:/ is meant for references to items in the same package, so when you build a package that has a scene that references an asset, and that asset is included, the SELF:/ prefix gets added automatically by the packager. If that asset is not included, the SELF:/ prefix does not get added because it is an external reference.

Are you including the referenced assets in these scene files into the package?

I just tested and it is working for me so I don't know how to replicate what you are seeing.

 

[vamX]

I created a small zip (link sent directly to you) with the files needed to reproduce this error. Just unzip and put in a clean copy of VaM. I then set my creator name to vamX, and configured things as shown in the screenshot. At the end of the build, the Particles 2.json file, for example has an assetUrl of:

"assetUrl": "Custom/Assets/vamX/xstatic/xstatic particle pack#5.assetbundle"

Even though this build includes that assetbundle, it was not changed to reference it as self.

 

[meshedvr]

The problem appears to be because these json files were externally edited or formatted? VaM writes out json files with space after key name before the ':', but these files have no space. I can fix to account for this though. Your file example:

 "assetUrl": "Custom/Assets/vamX/xstatic/blue hand.assetbundle"

 

[meshedvr]

OK - I have this fixed so the reference scan can accommodate variable whitespace better.

 

[vamX]

Thanks