The Unity Asset Store
There were once many different companies that offered packages of Unity-ready materials and models that you could license for use in your games. Unity consolidated them under one roof in their online Unity Asset Store. To access the store, open Unity 3D and navigate to Window | Asset Store. Here are a few stand-out innovations that have seen a lot of use in the Unity community:
2DToolkit: Prior to the release of Unity 4.3, creating 2D games in Unity was tough, but not impossible. Packages like 2DToolkit provided sprite sheet and texture packing systems to ease 2D development.
NGUI: Another very popular package is NGUI, which does a great deal of GUI heavy lifting for you, using a more user-friendly system than Unity's built-in ...
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