Answered assetbundle to var

[Ghostwalden]

Hi there.

I created an assetbundle with unity and imported it to vam.

Now i would like to make a var file out of it, because most of the assets here come along as var files.

How can i do that?

I tried with the Add-On Package Builder in vam, but it creates still an assetbundle file.

 

[Origin69]

Create a folder with your username in Custom/Assets/ and put your assetbundle files in there. Then in the Add-on Package builder, pack them how you normally would anything else. The packed var containing them will show up in your AddonPackages folder as Ghostwalden.whatyounameit.1.var.

The original assetbundle files will still be in your custom folder, but the packed var containing a copy of them will be in addonpackages.

Guides - How to create a Var File

This is a quick and dirty guide on how to create a .var file in Virt-A-Mate. I created this information for a friend, decided to post it on the hub. Thought It could be helpful for others. Use the red numbers below for locational reference. When...

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[Ghostwalden]

Hi Origin69

Thanks for your reply Origin69.

I dit it exactly the way as you described it.
But in the AddonPackagesBuilder Folder it creates still a assetbundle file.
The Folder name has .var at its end, but the file in it ends with assetbundle.

Do i have to rename the file to var? or did i something wrong?

In the Add-On Package Builder i added for this example the abandoned watchtower.assetbundle

Then it creates this new assetbundle file

 

[atani]

The original assetbundle files will still be in your custom folder, but the packed var containing a copy of them will be in addonpackages.

@Ghostwalden
Read again what Origin69 wrote.

 

[Ghostwalden]

Hi atani

Daaaaaamn... i thought i looked into the AddonPackages folder and didn't find the var file there, now i looked again and found it.
Seems to be, that im a bit blind

So thanks a lot.

A further question i do have.
When i load the asset now, in the select file menu, there is no preview picture for the asset.
How can i add a preview picture to it?

 

[atani]

You need to make one
Easiest is to load the assetbundle, put in a good screenshot position, save it as a scene with the screenshot. You can then get rid of the scene and keep the thumbnail you made. Then open the VAR with the assetbundle, name it as the assetbundle inside, and drag the picture inside to become part of the VAR.

 

[Ghostwalden]

Uff.. i don't really get this.
Ok, load the asset into an empty scene, then save it as scene with a screenshot.
So far so good.

Then open the var with the assetbundle.
Where to open? The var i made doesn't show up to open.
Or do you mean, to load it as asset again?

And where to name it and where to drag the picture inside?

 

[atani]

VARs are zip files. Open the one you made with the assetbundle like you would a zip file.

Guides - anatomy of a VAR

This guide means to show what makes a VAR a VAR A VAR is the prefered way to share content between VaM users, with the Hub hosting thousands of them as I write this guide. Yet, this file only exists from VaM version 1.20, if not mistaken, and...

hub.virtamate.com

 

[Ghostwalden]

Aaaaaahhh.... That was new to me.

Many Thanks atani.
Its super easy if you know how

Strange thing is, i had to restart vam.
Reload Packages didn't make the Preview visible.

 

[atani]

Reload packages only checks for new packages, not the contents of existing. A hard reset would work.

 

[Ghostwalden]

Ok, thanks for the info.
In that case i have to restart vam when i want to show up the preview picture.

 

[atani]

Hard reset is a button in the UI, it's almost the same as a full restart but without having to restart.

 

[Ghostwalden]

Ah ok, thanks, didn't know that.