How to use the Asset Store - Unity Official Tutorials

The unity asset store is your gateway to thousands of

free and purchasable tools, artwork, extensions and services

there's everything from 2D and 3D art assets

to image effects, to shaders, to tutorial projects and much more

to browse the store, you can visit it on the web

or if you are already using Unity

click the Window menu and choose 'Asset store'

to use the store, you will need to login

use the Unity account that you created when you downloaded and installed Unity

or if you did not create an account yet

click the avatar icon in the upper right of our website and choose 'Create Account'

then follow the on-screen instructions.

Once logged in to the store you can click to choose any asset you wish to import into your project

There are two or three steps to the process of getting content into your project

Depending upon whether it is free or purchased content

if the asset is purchasable, the three steps are - paying for the asset

2. downloading it into your asset store library

and 3. Importing it into your project

Meanwhile free assets only need Downloading and Importing

Note that you can purchase assets for your library using the website based store

but you can only download and import them into projects when using the in-editor Store window

if you are browsing the store and wish to download and import

purchase an asset on our website asset store

click the Unity logo icon to open the same asset page on the in-editor store

for free assets, there is no purchase process

so you will be prompted to go directly to the in-editor store with the Open Unity button, instead of a Buy button

Note that in order to use the in-editor asset store

you will need an existing project open

so either create a new empty project from the home screen Projects wizard

or open an existing project that you are working on

if you do not do this, the connection between the web asset store and Unity will halt at the home screen

prompting you to open a project before trying again

once you have chosen an asset that you wish to include

click download, and once the progress bar completes, the asset will be in your library

and the button for download will change to an import button

you can also find these assets by visiting your library of downloads

Note that if you have purchased assets on our web asset store

or previously downloaded free assets on another computer,

they will be listed in your Downloads area, so that you can download or import them again

its important to note that when you import asset store packages

they will arrive at various locations within your project folder's hierarchy

so pay attention to the import window when adding them to your project

to see where they will end up once the import process completes

the asset store also contains complete projects

such as our own complete tutorials

which also come with Project Settings

these may overwrite your own existing project's settings

Unity will warn you about this, and as a general rule

we recommend that you start with a new empty project when working with assets like this

such as the tutorial downloads.