Cannot build asset bundle with Unity (2017.1.3p1)

[MarcC]

Hi,

I'm trying to get started with mod development. 

So far I installed visual studio 2017, unity tool box and manage to get dll to load and to attach the debugger to hit breakpoints.

After that I started the tutorial to build a simple UI

I imported the ToolPart zip and when I run the build command in the Asset compiler I get the following error:

Assets/Plugins/KSPAssets/TextMeshProResolver.cs(7,7): error CS0246: The type or namespace name `UnityEditor' could not be found. Are you missing an assembly reference?
I run Unity 2017.1.3p1 (64-bit)

Is there a solution to that problem?

Thanks in advance for your help!

[DMagic]

Are you using the right version of Part Tools for Unity 2017?

You don't technically need the Part Tools to build an asset bundle, you can just add a simple script to your Unity project folder that can build any asset bundles you have assigned.

Something like this, you just have to make sure to place the .cs file into a folder called "Editor" somewhere inside you Unity project's Assets folder (you might also need to create the target folder, AssetBundles in this case, placed outside of the Assets folder, before it will let you build).

using UnityEditor;

public class Bundler
{
	const string dir = "AssetBundles";
	const string extension = ".btk";

    [MenuItem("BetterTracking/Build Bundles")]
    static void BuildAllAssetBundles()
    {
		BuildPipeline.BuildAssetBundles(dir, BuildAssetBundleOptions.ChunkBasedCompression | BuildAssetBundleOptions.ForceRebuildAssetBundle, BuildTarget.StandaloneWindows);

		FileUtil.ReplaceFile(dir + "/better_tracking_prefabs", dir + "/better_tracking_prefabs" + extension);

		FileUtil.DeleteFileOrDirectory(dir + "/better_tracking_prefabs");
	}
}

 

[MarcC]

Hi,

Thanks for the answer.

I could create the script, but did not find the way to run the script to create the asset bundle.

How should that been done? Is there a context menu to run the script?

 

Thanks again for the help and reply!

[DMagic]

When the script is placed in a folder called Editor within your Unity project's Assets folder, then it will add a menu item to the top bar of Unity. But it has to be in a folder called Editor, or it won't work at all.

So it should be:

/Unity Project Folder/Assets/Editor/Bundler.cs