Unity Issue Tracker - Texture 2D asset is created when promoting a generated Cubemap to a new asset

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Texture 2D asset is created when promoting a generated Cubemap to a new asset

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Mar 10, 2026

Steps to reproduce:

Create a Unity project
Click the "AI" button
Click "Agree and install Unity AI"
Go to AI > Generate New > Cubemap
Type in anything into the Prompt (e.g. Sky) and Generate
Once generated, right-click on the generated thumbnail and click "Promote to new asset"
Observe the created asset type in the Inspector

Actual results: The created asset is created as a regular Texture asset with "Texture Shape" set as 2D

Expected results: The created asset is a Cubemap asset with "Texture Shape" set as Cube

Reproducible with versions: 1.6.0-pre.1, 2.0.0-pre.1 (6000.4.0b11, 6000.5.0a8)

Tested on (OS): Windows 11