🎮 Blood Asset Manager: An Asset Manager for Video Games 🎮

.\Blood Asset Manager - Contains the Unity Project

.\projects\Bloodmask_Asset_Manager - Contains the DLL

🎯 Introduction

The Blood Asset Manager is a tool developed for Middleware class. This tool is designed to help game developers manage assets for their video games. It provides functionality for browsing files in a directory structure, creating .bloodasset files representing assets, and displaying information about these assets.

💻 Blood Asset Manager DLL Breakdown

📚 AssetManager Class

• Load: Accepts a path, and an optional asset type and asset name. Loads and caches it.
• Get: Retrieves already loaded or caches new assets.
• Unload: Unloads an asset and removes it from the cache.

AssetSerializer Class

• Serialize: Writes the serialized form of the GameAsset to a file.
• Deserialize: Reads the .bloodasset file and returns a GameAsset object.

File Class

• Various file operations and details.

Folder Class

• Methods for folder operations.

GameAsset Class

• Designed specifically for game assets. Methods for compressing, encrypting, and more.

🎮 Command-Line Parameters

Note

Example: <application_executable> -path "D:\Videos"

🖊️ Note: Always include a - before the parameter name.

🎯 Retrieving Parameters in the Application Use CommandLineArgs.GetArg("parameter_name").

Note

🛠️ To Simulate Parameters in Unity Editor Use the EditorCommandLineArgs class.

Functionality

• Browsing Files: Navigate through the filesystem.
• Creating Assets: Represented by .bloodasset JSON files.
• Displaying Asset Information: Metadata can be read and displayed.

Next Steps

• Robust metadata management
• Additional features for asset manipulation
• Further integration with game development workflows