Posts Tagged ‘Web Player’
Unity: displaying the video input from multiple webcams
Posted by Dimitri | Filed under Programming
This post explains how to capture the images from a web camera connected to the computer and use them as a texture in Unity. However, this tutorial focuses on switching between the video inputs from different webcams attached to desktop computers (PC and Mac). However it should work on Android with some minor modifications. The code featured in this article has been developed and tested using a free license of Unity 3.5.3f3. As usual an example project with all the code featured in this article is available for download at the end of the post.
Before explaining how to choose from a list of multiple connected webcams to render from, let’s see how to preview the captured images from a single camera. Doing that in Unity is very simple and it can be achieved with just a few lines of code. Take a look at this C# script: (more…)
Embedding the Unity Web Player with jQuery
Posted by Dimitri | Filed under Programming
This post explains how to use jQuery to embed the Unity Web Player on a page. This post was inspired by GFX47, after reading this tweet. Here, you will find a step-by-step explanation on how to load the script on a HTML file. This will be achieved by using a jQuery plugin.
Unity3D already comes the tools to export a HTML file with all the code needed to embed the player. With that, one might be wondering what are the advantages of using jQuery to embed the Web Player. Here’s a list of advantages: