How to publish an asset to the AssetStore as a custom package?

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Hello there,

I am working on a tool that I want to now publish to the AssetStore. However, I ran into an issue. I want my tool to be imported into a ‘Packages’ folder. I have a root folder where in that folder there is a package.json file and another folder where inside there are all the tool files. These files are some images and precompiled dll files.
I also have a special folder ‘Editor Default Resources’ folder, where inside I have a sub folder where I store some easy to access editor resources.

So my question would be how do I ensure that the root folder would be imported to a ‘Packages’ folder when imported from the AssetStore? Because in order to upload it to the AssetStore I need this root folder to be within the Assets folder.

I am a bit confused as to how this all works and would really appreciate the help.

Thank you

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I’m pretty sure you don’t. In fact, I’m not sure why you’d want to. If you want to release a package, that’s a job for a github repo or the like, not the Asset Store.

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Thank you for the reply. I am sorry but I do not understand what you meant. I want to sell the tool on the AssetStore. I want to upload it to the AssetStore and for it to be imported to Unity by the user as a custom package. There are various assets on the AssetStore that do that, I am not sure how tho.

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They are getting there.

Disclaimer: I read it here , I’m not an asset store developer, so it’s not first hand experience.

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I’ll post this here since I keep coming back to this every few months and keep getting stuck with the same problem. Copy paste UNITY_ASTOOLS_EXPERIMENTAL in Edit / Project Settings / Player / Script Compilation / Scripting Define Symbols. Do not include the # character in the symbol. That’s what kept messing me up. If you did it right the “Upload type” dropdown should now have a 3rd option named “Local UPM Package”.