# About Dynamic Elements

**URL:** <https://community.nianticspatial.com/t/about-dynamic-elements/3018>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [November 21, 2022, 7:20pm UTC](https://community.nianticspatial.com/t/about-dynamic-elements/3018 "2022-11-21T19:20:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![italia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5a626/32.png) [@italia](https://community.nianticspatial.com/u/italia)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2022, 7:20pm UTC](https://community.nianticspatial.com/t/about-dynamic-elements/3018/1 "2022-11-21T19:20:01Z")

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Does lightship support dynamic Ar models? Model files and parameters are obtained from the network

Does lightship support dynamic Ar models? Model files and parameters are obtained from the network

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**Author:** ![rob\_link](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/niantic/user_avatar/community.nianticspatial.com/rob_link/32/1176_2.png) [@rob\_link](https://community.nianticspatial.com/u/rob_link)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2022, 10:10pm UTC](https://community.nianticspatial.com/t/about-dynamic-elements/3018/2 "2022-11-21T22:10:44Z")

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Hello @italia,

Although Lightship does not currently offer any specific functionality for hosting or transmitting remote models, there shouldn’t be any issue with using dynamically allocated models from another service or self-hosted solution in your Lightship Unity project.

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**Author:** ![Merijn\_Kersten](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/niantic/user_avatar/community.nianticspatial.com/merijn_kersten/32/1277_2.png) [@Merijn\_Kersten](https://community.nianticspatial.com/u/Merijn_Kersten)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2022, 9:12am UTC](https://community.nianticspatial.com/t/about-dynamic-elements/3018/3 "2022-11-22T09:12:38Z")

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We tried this with Unity asset bundles (and optionally addressables) and it worked well!  
This way you could have a startscreen where you can download the bundles and load them into the game. Only drawback is you can’t download assets that need to be compiled, so no scripts or shaders.  
I looked at this tutorial to get started (then used Firebase to store the files): [ARFoundation Unity Tutorial: Asset Bundles (Download 3D Models At Runtime) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twzfpuaM-Js)

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**Author:** ![Maverick\_Niantic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8edcca/32.png) [@Maverick\_Niantic](https://community.nianticspatial.com/u/Maverick_Niantic)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 11:47pm UTC](https://community.nianticspatial.com/t/about-dynamic-elements/3018/4 "2026-03-05T23:47:55Z")

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Closed on March 5, 2026, 11:47pm UTC

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