Importing the ARToolkit Assets package

Now that the ARToolkit package is downloaded we can import it into our Unity project. In Unity, do the following:

  1. Go to the Main Menu
  2. Click on Assets | Import Package | Custom Package..., find your ARToolkit Unity package file
  3. Import the files into your project.

These steps may be very familiar since they're common any time you import a third-party package into Unity and were detailed previously for Vuforia (please refer to the previous instructions, if you wish).

Some versions of the ARToolkit Unity package for macOS, including 5.3.2, erroneously include Unity system files that should not be imported. In the Import Unity Package dialog, be sure to tick the checkboxes of only ARToolKit5-Unity, Plugins ...

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