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SolARUnityPlugin

A Unity plugin allowing to load SolAR pipelines.
⚠️ We recommend to use Unity Version 2019.3.3f1 (LTS)

Currently available pipelines are :

Samples	Description
Pipeline Fiducial	The SolAR Fiducial Image Marker sample shows a SolAR pipeline for augmented reality based on a fiducials markers image.
Pipeline Natural Image	The SolAR Natural Image Marker sample shows a SolAR pipeline for augmented reality based on a natural image.
Pipeline SLAM	Show a SolAR pipeline for augmented reality based on a SLAM (Simultaneous Localization And Mapping).

You can find SolAR Unity Sample application built (*.exe/*.app/*.apk) in SolarFramework/SolARUnitySamples.

SolARUnityPlugin offer two mods :

• Novice We give you Pipelines (DLL) directly from our C++ SolAR framework.

• Expert We give you the opportunity to modify and create your pipeline in C# directly in Unity. (Wrapping of our SolAR C++ framework).

More details on http://solarframework.org/use/unity.

How to run

• Import Unity Package from our Github SolarFramework/SolARUnityPlugin.

• In Unity Editor open the Novice scene ./Assets/SolAR/Demos/Scenes/NoviceVersion.unity.

• This scene includes SolARPipelineLoader prefab and a 3D model.

• Your 3D model should be tagged to SolARObject

• Then you just have to choose the pipeline to use in the inspector of your SolARPipelineLoader. You can directly edit parameters of your pipeline (in this case PipelineNaturalImageMarker.xml) from the inspector.

• Click on Unity Editor Play button or build the application

ℹ️ You can find all of this workflow in video, watch SolAR Framework Overview (timecode 2min20).

How to build with pre-compiled

• Install Remaken (a meta dependencies management tool).

• Download Swig (use for wrapping), unzip archive and add an environment variable to Path for the swig.exe.

• Open a terminal and execute Install.bat to download module, wrap to C# and import DLLs in Unity.

• Every module should be imported in ./Assets/Plugins and wrapped C# in ./Assets/SolAR/Swig.

• For SLAM add the fbow vocabularies unzip this archive and put the akaze.fbow in your ./Assets/StreamingAssets/SolAR/FBOW.

How to build with source

1° Build xpcf & SolARFramework.

2° Execute the file ./core/SolARFramework/SolARWrapper/_build.bat.

3° Build SolARWrapper & SolARPipelineManager.

4° Build necessary module (OpenCV, Tools, FBOW... depending on pipelines you want to use).

5° Build Pipelines (Fiducial, Natural Image, SLAM ...) ❗ as plugin ❗.

6° Execute Bundle.bat to import libraries and modules in your ./Assets/Plugins and C# wrapped in your Unity project ./Assets/SolAR/Swig.

7° For SLAM add the fbow vocabularies unzip this archive and put the akaze.fbow in your ./Assets/StreamingAssets/SolAR/FBOW.

We follow this hierarchy (Unity) (only folders)

Assets
==> Objects                (3D models)
            
==> Plugins                (Our DLLs)

==> Scenes                 (Samples Scenes)

==> SolAR                  (everything else)
    --> Editor             (scripts User Interface in Editor)
    
    --> Materials          (our Unity Materials)
    
    --> Pipelines          (our pipelines descriptions - Novice version only)
    
    --> Scripts            (all our scripts Novice and Expert version)
    
        *NoviceVersion
        
        *ExpertVersion
           
    --> Shaders             (our shaders)
    
    
==> StreamingAssets
    -->Android              (files relative to Android support)
    -->CameraCalibration    (our calibration files)
    -->FBOW                 (include .fbow)
    -->Markers              (our markers)
    -->Pipelines            (our .xml files to configure our pipelines)

Contact

Website https://solarframework.github.io/

Contact framework.solar@b-com.com