Unity NaCl question

I have a couple very simple questions about Native Client support for unity3d. From the demos on the chrome webstore i played and from what i have heard it looks very good.

1-Will NaCl support be free? Is it just an option on the webplayer like i see currently?

2-Is it easy to integrate unity projects into the chrome webstore?

3-Does NaCl Support have any major limitations?

Thanks for your help

 

Thanks for the really quick answer. It sounds great and i will look at the local docs.

 

One last simple question.

When deploying the project, i build and run and it opens in chrome and is on the chrome app part of chrome. I can launch it from there. When i try to launch it from the nacl html file, it throws an error. This is supposed to happen and how you are suppose to launch it?

Also the local documentation for unity. On a windows machine what is the directory? At one point i could of sworn i knew it but now when i use mono dev to go to help it sends me online.

Thanks

 

Is it possible to share the NaCL installs with other, non-unity based machines? We're doing some testing internally and we've been unsuccessful in getting the app to run in test machines that do not have unity installed but do have chrome installed. After installing the app on the extensions page we get this error when we run..

NaCl module load failed: could not load nexe url.

is it possible that, since the path's are 100% the same its simply not finding the application? Right now we're only able to build and review on physical build machines but not on any other machines. Is there a step i'm missing? I've yet to place it on a web server for testing as we don't want to externalize any of it, just want to run it through some internal test scenarios.

Cheers
Bryan

 

@Jonas,

correct. Initially we did that, and it obviously didn't work correctly but we've actually installed the app (as you mentioned above) via chrome://extensions and thats where we are getting that issue. It shows the app installed (the icon is there on the launch page) but when we run it we get that above noted error. We are building it w/these flags...

offline deployment - on
enable NaCL support - on

Again, i can run it fine (either build and run via unity or installing it via chrome and running it there) locally on a machine that has unity and has previously built the app, but not able to run it on a clean machine w/o unity.

 

@jonas,

Still not sure why it won't run locally, but placing it on our web server and accessing it that way works perfectly fine... which (ultimately) is a better test of the process. I would still like to figure out why its not running locally on other machines but its a less of a priority.

 

Does chrome cache anything? ie if the player visits the same game can it cache the whole thing?
Also, I find it very weird that NaCl is chrome 'apps' only. In fact, I find it really annoying since chrome 'apps' are just an extremely clumsy way of having bookmarks that you 'install' as far as I can tell.
If any website could use it, it'd be brilliant and we might see other browsers incorporating it

 

NaCl isn't Chrome Apps only, but finding info on how to get it running in other browsers is nigh impossible. Aparently there's plugins that will let it run in Firefox, IE, Opera and Safari on Windows as wells as FF and Camino on Linux and OSX - but I don't think this so called plugin is publically avaliable anywhere, I think you need to download the NaCl SDK and have to install it manually from that so really not very useful at the moment.

From Google Code page:

Tested Platforms - nativeclient - Platforms on which Native Client has been tested

Would really like more info on this, probably have to dig though the NaCl SDK docs to get it though - anything you search for on google will just be random blogs talking generally about what the tech can do without going into any useful details.

 

Arr bummer, oh well.

Thanks for all the info and replies in here though. Saved me and probably a lot of others a few hours of web hopping.

 

I am having a render problem with Native Client. I have tried turning off fog and removed specularity from the material. However, Chrome renders the ground plane incorrectly when I turn at certain angles. Flash, web and application Unity files are fine, just NaCl has the problem.

This is Chrome NaCl render showing the problem:


This is the same when I turn the camera slightly (now the way it is supposed to render):


Does anyone know how to get NaCl to render properly?

 

Read whole topic, but couldn't find the answer - how to make NACl app run locally on clean machine?
We need to deploy our app to Linux machines as web player. We can specify Chrome browser as a requirement for running it, but it should be run locally on computer with Linux. Right now when i try to run it locally it gives an error "Can't load manifest file".