WebGL for Mobile Devices

Hi Community,

does anybody know when it will possible to export WebGL with Unity5.0 for Mobile Devices like e.g. in CopperCube? A customer asks for it and unfortunately we have to constantly deny him again and again.

Thanks,
Matthias

 

It's not supported for Unity 5.0. Mobile support for WebGL isn't really advanced enough yet.

--Eric

 

It's strange, is WebGL Browser, or Unity use something extra?

 

So it is in development now?
When do the UnityCommunity get profit of it?

 

That's definitly wrong! You are able to get quite good VR solutions in WebGL from other Authoring Tools than Unity3D. Even the low cost Tool "Coppercube" is able to do so! But Unity3D is awesome (inclusive a very good community) and we don't want to change because of the not running WebGL export.

 

Hi Jonas,

yes I understand. But why isn't running WebGL at all on Mobile Devices exported from Unity3D?
We just would like to explore a technical device (little more than a cube).
It should run on a LMS,without any plugin and not as an app (so WebGL is the only option).

 

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Abbrechen OK


My mobile: Samsung Galaxy S5
So anybody has done something ...
We not at least (I hope so ;-)

 

Yes, we did --- crashed in Firefox App on the mobile.
Abbrechen (Abort) loads the player and chrashes afterwards.

Using the default Chrome Browser the WebGL is starting and does nothing.

 

We would like to download 5.0b19.
But here:
http://unity3d.com/unity/beta/5.0
the latest full tested version is the 18.

 

Hi Jonas,

below you find a CubeTestProject.zip where a little scene with a rotating cube is inside.
The Project was made new with b20.
Maybe you look inside and give a hint which export settings are wrong.
The WebGL Export does not work on my Samsung Galaxy s5.

BTW: Why is a WebGL demo of a rotating cube such big (30 MB)?

 

Danke Jonas,

einmal in deutsch ;-)
Werde dann in englisch weiterschreiben, damit alle es lesen können.

Viele Grüße aus Bremen,
lg Matthias

 

Sorry, but I have decreased the 256 to 128 and it did not work on Samsung Galaxy 5S and also not on iPhone.
Would you please send an Internet URL where you have published the WebGL out of my Project I sent you?
And would you please send me back the project with the right settings?

Thank you. You are very pleased!

That was really good ;-) I have deleted the Data Folder and the WebGL ran. So the compressed folder was used. Very good issue because of the package width.

 

May you give me the Internet URL where you have published the Test WebGL?

 

I've ran Unity WebGL projects on iPhone5S and iPad 2 by changing the memory size. Maybe your web host settings are wrong so it does not serve all the required file types?

 

Oh, nice hint. The memory size I have changed allready to 128. Which web host settings could be wrong in your opinion?

 

Here are some of them

http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/how-to-properly-host-webgl-content.282364/#post-1863565

You could just try each file with direct url and see if one of them can't be downloaded.

 

I've just figured out that Chrome Beta does his job on my Samsung Galaxy S5 and Chrome does not.

 

Yeah then it's probably just that the normal version does not support everything properly that Unity WebGL does or the version has bugs that were fixed in beta.

 

If Unity WebGL work in mobile device, anyone could make a list of mobile device that support WebGL Unity?

 

Hi Jonas!

Unfortunately, the exported WebGL by us does not work on any iOS platform and the Androids only in the Chrome beta.
We are wondering that it is run running on your iPhone 5s as we even have tested an iPhone 6.

Would you please send us a tested web link with the rotating cube?

The whole thing is incomprehensible to us.
A ZIP version of the project we would like to have where we can see the settings again.

Regards, Matthias

 

Very good idea Onsterion.
Sure WebGL from Unity is in beta, but basically it should work without such an enormous effort, right?

 

And the tested web link?
May we get this at least?

 

Matthias,

As said, webgl on mobiles is not a use case we'll be supporting, nor really able to support at this point in time. As mobile platforms, webgl and javascript evolves, feasibility will increase and we might change this. For 5.0 that is not the case and support is as far as you can get it to work yourself.

However, to show you what Jonas is talking about, here's a link;
http://tinyurl.com/mh7tkx7

As I'm hosting this from dropbox, download time will take longer as it doesn't support the gzip compressed folder & configuration (for apache) we provide; a proper setup hosting solution will do so.

And here are the important settings;

The build window:


Player settings:


WebGL player settings

 

I can understand Matthias's frustration. Its hard to propose a website for a client that only works in desktop, especially these days when people browse on mobile devices more than desktop. Suggesting a separate iOS and Android app would more than double the cost. At this stage it pretty much rules out webGL websites as a viable option for clients. However, this isn't Unity's fault. Its the fault of the devices. iPhones could only run webGL since October last year and it is still very buggy. I have tried three.js and babylon.js. They will all crash the iPhone browser once you get to a certain poly count. Getting animation to work on mobile is nearly impossible. We can only hope that mobiles become powerful enough to handle webGL better