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Question by Simon Wittber · Dec 26, 2011 at 10:50 AM · assetbundle

When does an AssetBundle load it's contents?

If I load 10000 different asset bundles, would each bundle load it's contents immediately, or is it deferred unti a resource inside the bundle, or the main asset itself is referenced?

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Answer by rabbitfang · Dec 27, 2011 at 01:17 AM

Contents from an AssetBundle are not loaded into memory until one of the load functions is called from `AssetBundle` such as `AssetBundle.Load`. So, a more direct answer to your question is that the contents are not loaded immediately and instead loaded when `AssetBundle.Load` or similar is called.

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That makes sense, however the mainAsset of a bundle does not need a load call in order to access that asset. Does this mean that the mainAsset is loaded into memory as soon as the asset bundle is loaded?

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mainAsset is a property, so behind the scenes there could be a Load call. However AFAI$$anonymous$$ if the bundle is downloaded it will remain in memory in it's downloaded / compressed form. I'm not sure what happens when the bundles are cached on disk.

I only worked a few times with AssetBundles so i can't tell it for sure ;) If you have 10000 bundles, just do some tests :)

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