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How to reference a file outside a project ?
Hello, and thanks in advance for your time.
I would like to know if is was possible to reference a file which is outside the asset folder of my unity project. I mean, the file would be accessible from the editor, but would be located somewhere else.
The problem is that I have to get some data from Perforce ( = svn) repository, and that i want my files to be updated in unity as i pull them from the server.
I tried an alias but it didn't work ( i didn't really expect it to )
Would someone have a solution please?
Vincent
(PS: sorry if there are some english mistakes)
I do not think you can do it. But why do you like to access files outside your project folder? Any specific reason?
I have a big hierarchy of a project developed by another company. I need to access their resources that i update in my perforce repository. For an iteration matter, I would like that, when their push updated resources on the sever, I will not have to copy/paste them every time. So a link to the folder containing their resources would be great. I manage to do it by a symbolic link but i'm not sure at all that unity will automatically build the actual files ins$$anonymous$$d of the link
As a unity customer who has paid $25,000 in licenses for this tool, I must say that this is completely unacceptable. $$anonymous$$odularity in unity is useless, and the workflow for setting up projects and sharing code among projects and objects among scenes needs to be greatly improved.
As far as I'm aware, the answer is no.
I use rsync to copy files in, trigger by an editor command for stuff like this, but it's annoying; after executing the import, you must do a project sync to make the files available in the editor.
Perhaps you can do a similar sort of thing?
You can invoke your choice of external command (eg. xcopy, git, etc.) like this:
var p = new Process();
p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
p.StartInfo.FileName = "/bin/ls";
p.StartInfo.Arguments = "/tmp";
p.Start();
string output = p.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
p.WaitForExit();
UnityEngine.Debug.Log(output);
