So, like… this is really annoying, and I apologize in advance for the negative tone.
This is really fro the Unity devs.
I’m on a Mac Book Pro running Leopard and cannot install the Web Player.
I’ve tried installing the .dmg and installer like 10 times and every time my browser (Safari and Firefox) tell me I have to install the Unity player…
So, I can’t find anywhere on the Unity website that addresses possible web player issues for a non-developer. So, I’m posting here.
What’s the deal? What am I doing wrong?
I do have a case-sensitive file system. If that’s the problem I swear I’m going to be pissed (sorry).
Again, sorry I’m angry, but this is really annoying that I have to sign up to a form and have my e-mail address on yet another forum and have my passwords sent un-encrypted over an e-mail to try to resolve an installation issue.
Thanks =D.
(again, I’m really sorry for the angryness, when I reply later, I will be nice again.)
What content are you viewing that is producing this error? Does that content point you to an installer directly? If so, are you using the installer it’s directing you to or are you manually looking for and downloading the installer from our website?
I ask all of the above for a specific reason, and that’s the fact that you may be hitting Unity 1.x authored content yet you keep installing the Unity 2.x player from our site. Depending on how the content page is authored it may detect that you only have the v2 player and error out. There are ways to implement smoother/better solutions but that crops up as an initial guess as to what might be going on.
Can you point us to the content causing this behavior? If so I can take a closer look myself.
I have exactly the same problem (Mac Version 10.5.7).
Since I thought the problem might come from our html i went to the unity website to check the island demo.
same problem: always telling me to install the player plugin. even though the installation seemed to be successful i cant even find the unity plugin under Mozilla Firefox (Tools/Add-ons/Plugins).
what can i do now?
p.d.:
Now i tried installing the unity editor (standard trial) to see whether the plugin comes along with it and works - when i start unity i get:
“Fatal error! This project is on a case sensitive file system…”
I’m not sure exactly what’s going on for you but one step would be to verify whether or not the plugin is installed into the proper location. Do you see this file:
HD/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Unity Web Player.plugin
Hi HiggyB, thanks for the reply.
For some reason (maybe u can tell me) I found the plugin
under HD/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Unused/Unity Web Player.plugin.
After shifting it to the parent folder, things were fine.
The plugin is recognized by Firefox now and the Island Demo works.
Now my problem with the Editor installation still remains. Here’s the error message that I get from Unity after a successful installation when I start the Editor. Since it is a Unity error message I believe u can help me. Though I dont think the message itself makes sense.
If it helps: I have worked on this mac before and neither of those problems occured (web player installation worked fine as well as editor). That time I was using unity version 2.1.
While I’m glad it’s all working I’m puzzled as to how/why the plugin ever found its way into that “unused” folder.
As the error indicates you seem to be running Unity, or you have the project folder itself, on a case sensitive file system. If that’s truly the case then you need to resolve that (use a case in-sensitive system) before proceeding.
When things worked before, were you using Unity and opening projects from the exact same drives you’re using now? Or have you changed things in any way (like using a different drive now for project file storage)?
