Can I do these things in Unity web player?

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Hello fellow Unity community users!

FIrst post. I couldn’t find any definitive answers for these questions from a Google search so I thought I’ll ask here. I’m currently in the process of creating a MMO virtual world. Does anyone know if these features are possible to do within the Unity web player?

  1. Does the Unity web player support drag n’ drop of pdf/doc/ppt files from a user’s desktop onto the web player? Can it at least support pdf files or similar?

  2. If Unity doesn’t support drag n’ drop in this way, how easy or hard would it be to implement a Flash interface to do the same? For example, can a user click on a GameObject to load a “upload” screen and then uploading the document would in turn show it on the web player?

  3. In terms of video support, the MovieTexture feature of Unity only supports play and pause. I would really want to be able to seek within a video in the form of a slider. If this is not possible in Unity, is it possible to click on a GameObject and then load a Flash player to play this video instead? (Flash window displayed over the Unity web player)

I’m fairly new to Unity and is still learning the ropes so any advice will be greatly appreciated! I’m using Unity Pro. Not sure if this changes anything.

Thanks!

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  1. I am not sure Unity Standalone or other types of interfaces support the OLE automation required for Drag and Drop of objects. For that point, I am not sure that Unity, which stops when not active will support any external drag and drop

  2. Unity communicates through Web javascript with other applications, so this is totally possible. Using JQuery (standard javascript) to hide and show the unity application is also possible.

  3. Full video support for seeking is possible but requires Unity Pro. It operates much the same as music and animation does.

Look into the documentation. That is a great place to start:

Examples:
http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/examples