Can Unity Web Player be installed on websites?

What I mean is, can I place an installation of the web player on my website so each individual user who wants to play my game doesn't have to download the unity web player to play it.

I suspect that having to download the web player to access the game will be enough hassle for many people to not bother trying the game out.

Can someone offer me a solution to this or some form of workaround?

Appreciate any responses.

 

Your game players will need to use the features that cause the web player to be downloaded and installed for them. The download-and-install is only one of 3 methods, and is the one that the install process switches to if the automated ones don't work.

In the future, making a build using WebGL will be the solution.

 

@Graham Dunnett , I know I'm not the OP, but I had been wondering a similar thing, since at the moment I place my games on my portfolio site. Is WebGL available in the free version, or only in the Pro version in Unity 5?

 

I assume it'll be in the free version as well as the Pro version. The exact free/Pro split isn't decided yet.[/user]

 

Thanks, Graham! We'll just have to wait and see, then Looking forward to Unity 5!

 

Can you give me some more information on WebGL. What is it exactly and are there any tutorials on how to set that up?

While I'm here can I ask what the best method is to save a data file from the web player. I want to setup a global leaderboard but don't know how.

 

Well, do some searching on WebGL. Then, building to WebGL from Unity basically creates a massive javascript version of your game, which a browser can playback without a plugin. The details are more related to asm.js, which is an extremely fast subset of Javascript.

Use WWW and WWWPost to send the data to your server. Maybe the second example here:

http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/WWWForm.html

which shows how to do a high score table is close to what you want.

 

The Save script is in JS and has a yield function on the download. Can someone please explain to me what the equivolent way to wait for the download to complete is in c# I've searched but can't find anything that does that simply.

With the .pl scripts do I need two. One for highscores.pl and one to hold the script given in the above link? If so, what should I name the second one?

I'm very new to this and the tutorials on these topics assume a lot of knowledge which I don't have.

Appreciate any help you can give me.

 

See: http://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/Coroutines.html to read up on coroutines in c#.

One script will run inside your game and be written in c# or JS. The other script will be perl, or php, or whatever you choose and will run on your server.

 

I know what coroutines are. I'm asking what the yield function in JS does. I assume it waits for the file to download then continues with the code. All I need is the syntax which does that.

Surely someone before me has wanted to save some data from a unity game to their website and then reference it. Surely someone has already created a perl or php script which I could look at to do this? I am searching for this on the internet but all the examples are not what I'm looking for. I looked at some basic perl tutorials and they are teaching me how to do "Hello World" I don't need to know that syntax.

So frustrating. What I'm also getting from Unity is that they don't have a way of doing this yet using commands inside unity? That seems like a major limitation. I mean, I chose Unity in the first place because its very easy to learn and does simple things really well but this seems to be a major road bump which does not have a simple solution.

 

Doesn't the WWW documentation help you?

c#: yield return www;
JS: yield www;

That is what is shown on the WWW documentation page, at least. Does that not work for you? You want to convert a JS script into c#. On the documentation page you can see the c# and JS versions of the examples by using the buttons top right.

And yes, someone has created a perl script, it is here:

http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/WWWForm.html

Does this perl script not work for you? Put it on your server and try it out.