Unity - Manual: Managing assets with the Asset Database

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Unity 6 User Manual
- Documentation versions
- Offline documentation
- Trademarks and terms of use
What's new in Unity
- New in Unity 6
- New in Unity 6 Preview
- New in Unity 2023.2
- New in Unity 2023.1
Install and upgrade
- Install Unity
- Deploy Unity across your enterprise
  - Enable Unity installation by standard users (Windows)
  - Use Unity through web proxies
- Licenses and activation
- Upgrade Unity
Packages and feature sets
- Unity's Package Manager
- Dependencies
- Package Manager window
- Package management with the Package Manager window
- Package management with the scripting API
  - Scripting API for packages
  - Accessing package assets
- Package management with the project manifest file
- Package inspection
  - Package Manifest window
  - Inspecting packages
- Packages
- Feature sets
- Package Manager caches
- Scoped registries
- Package Manager configuration
  - Configuration files
  - Solving network issues
- Creating custom packages
- Troubleshooting
  - Diagnose network issues
Get started with Unity
- 2D or 3D projects
- Quickstart guides
  - 3D game development quickstart guide
    - Creating a 3D game
- Advanced best practice guides
Multiplayer
- Unity multiplayer overview
- Use the Multiplayer Center
The Unity Editor
- Unity's interface
- Save your work
- Editor Features
- Unity Search
Working in Unity
- Assets and media
- Working with GameObjects
- Working with scenes
- Cameras
- 2D in Unity
- Troubleshooting
World building
- Sky
- Terrain
- Terrain Tools package
Input
- Mobile Keyboard
- Unity XR Input
- Legacy Input
  - Input Manager
  - Mobile device input
UI systems
- Comparison of UI systems in Unity
- UI Toolkit
- Unity UI
- IMGUI (Immediate Mode GUI)
Animation
- Mecanim Animation system
- Legacy Animation system
  - Legacy Animation component
Physics
- Built-in 3D Physics
Lighting
- Introduction to lighting
- Lighting configuration workflow
- Light sources
- Direct and indirect lighting
- Shadows
- Reflections
- Lighting in URP
- Lighting in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Optimize lighting in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Lighting reference
Materials and shaders
- Textures
- Shaders
- Materials
Visual effects
- Particle systems
- Decals and projectors
- Lens flares
- Light halos
  - Create and configure a halo light effect
  - Halo component reference
- Lines and trails
  - Rendering lines
  - Rendering trails
- Visual Effect Graph
Rendering
- Render pipelines
- Post-processing and full-screen effects
- Color
  - Color spaces
  - High dynamic range (HDR)
- Graphics performance and profiling
Audio
- Audio overview
- Audio files
- Tracker Modules
- Audio Mixer
- Native audio plug-in SDK
- Audio playlist randomization
- Audio Profiler module
- Ambisonic Audio
  - Develop an ambisonic audio decoder
- Audio Reference
Video and cutscenes
- Video sources
- Video Player
- Video Profiler module
Scripting
- Get started with scripting
- Environment and tools
- Object-oriented development
- Compilation and code reload
- Code optimization
- Debugging and diagnostics
Optimization
- Memory in Unity
- Unity Profiler
- Profiling tools
Platform development
- Cross-platform features and considerations
- Android
- Dedicated Server
- Embedded systems
- iOS
- Linux
- macOS
- tvOS
- Universal Windows Platform
- visionOS
- Web
- Windows
- XR
Unity Services
- Unity IAP
- Unity Distribution Portal
Glossary

Topic	Description
Contents of the Asset Database	Details of what the Asset Database contains and where it’s located.
Refreshing the Asset Database	When and how Unity refreshes the content of the Asset Database.
Programming with the Asset Database	Use the `AssetDatabase` APIs to perform Asset Database operations from your code.

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Managing assets with the Asset Database

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