Contributing

Prerequisites

• GPU capable PC
• A supported OS
  • Windows 10
  • MacOSX
  • Linux (with appimage support)

Clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/RustyRaptor/SolvAR.git

Installing Unity and setup the editor

Install Unity Hub

• Download Unity Hub for your OS
  • https://unity3d.com/get-unity/download
• Run the installer and launch Unity Hub

Install the correct version of unity and the modules

• Go to Installs

• Click add
• Select the recommended LTS version of unity 2019.4

• Click next
• Select the required modules
• Android Build support
  • Android SDK and NDK Tools
  • OpenJDK

• Click next and wait for the unity version to finish downloading

Setup The project and import our packages

• In Unity Hub
  • Go to Projects
  • Click new project
  • Select 3D as the template and put it in a folder of your choice
    • NOT IN THE GIT REPO FOLDER
  • Click Create and wait for unity editor to load

• Once Unity is loaded
  • Make sure the “Projects” tab is selected in the bottom left

Load our packages into the editor

• Find the file in our main git repo called SolvAR_Unity_v0.05.unitypackage
  • This contains the code and assets for our project.
  • As of writing this it is located in SolvAR/Working_Packages/SolvAR_Unity_v0.05.unitypackage
• When you find the file open it in a separate file browser and drag the file from the file browser into the blank space under the Assets folder.

• This will open a dialog to import the package
• Click “Import” and wait till finished.

• Once imported you may encounter errors about missing packages.

• To fix this go Window > Package Manager
• Wait for all the packages to finish loading.
• Select Advanced (top leftish)
• Select “Show Preview Packages” and confirm
• Wait for them to reload

• Look for the ARFoundation and ARSubsystems packages
• Install each of them and wait till finished
• Exit package manager.
• Now the errors should be gone and left with benign warnings in yellow instead of red