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Augmented Reality with Unity AR Foundation

You're reading from   Augmented Reality with Unity AR Foundation A practical guide to cross-platform AR development with Unity 2020 and later versions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838982591
Length 382 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jonathan Linowes Jonathan Linowes
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1 – Getting Started with Augmented Reality
2. Chapter 1: Setting Up for AR Development FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Your First AR Scene 4. Chapter 3: Improving the Developer Workflow 5. Section 2 – A Reusable AR User Framework
6. Chapter 4: Creating an AR User Framework 7. Chapter 5: Using the AR User Framework 8. Section 3 – Building More AR Projects
9. Chapter 6: Gallery: Building an AR App 10. Chapter 7: Gallery: Editing Virtual Objects 11. Chapter 8: Planets: Tracking Images 12. Chapter 9: Selfies: Making Funny Faces 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating a prefab for placing

The prefab object we've been placing on the planes in this chapter is the one named AR Placed Cube, which we imported from the AR Foundation Samples project. Let's find a different, more interesting, model to use instead. In the process, we'll learn a bit more about GameObjects, Transforms, and prefabs.

Understanding GameObjects and Transforms

I think a good place to start is by taking a closer look at the AR Placed Cube prefab we've been using. Let's open it in the Editor by performing the following steps:

  1. In the Project window, navigate to the ARF-samples/Prefabs/ folder.
  2. Double-click the AR Placed Cube prefab.

We are now editing the prefab, as shown in the following screenshot (I have rearranged my windows differently from the default layout):

Figure 2.10 – Editing the AR Placed Cube prefab

The Scene window now shows the isolated prefab object, and the Hierarchy window...

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