I aim to set up a site with fast loading web players. They’ll have mostly procedural content so will be a very small download, I’m hoping for no more than a couple hundred kilobytes. In my tests so far they load in about 1-2 seconds. Therefore I figure I don’t need the webplayer’s progress bar or loading image. Is it possible to set the progress bar to all white with no border, and use a white image for the logo, so that it appears there is no progress screen/bar at all?
Why would you remove the progress bar ? By seeing it, you know the game isn’t freezing, even for a while (and in cases of long loading, it is good to see it).
Indeed, the loading bar doesn’t hurt anything, and there are people with slow internet connections (and even fast connections can be slow sometimes for various reasons), so removing it is bad UI design.
–Eric
I don’t agree. With about 1 second to download the content on an average connection, the bar goes immediately to the full completed position which renders it useless and meaningless. Some people will have slower connections, yes, but even on a slow connection it’ll only take a few seconds to download. By the time the user has noticed a delay the presentation will start.
A progress bar is only needed to indicate to the user that they have to wait a while and things aren’t done yet. A progress bar removes the sense of immediacy and allows the user to evaluate an estimate of how long they have to wait. They create boredom and break the seamless experience. Ideally the user should never ever be kept waiting and things like streaming/downloading/loading should be invisible - otherwise THAT is poor user interface design.
I’m deliberately going for extremely fast loading content, which will be a selling point, and putting a bar in there for half a second, which will likely show as completed right away (it does for me), the bar is really useless. There isn’t enough time for it to be useful to the most users.
IF the download were to be, like several seconds, then I’d use it.
In fact, you just gave me an idea… to download and start the webplayer invisibly and distract the user with something else for a moment and then make the player visible.
So back to my question, which is whether/how it is possible to remove the appearance of the bar completely?
Look for
“Customizing the Unity Web Player loading screen” in the unity manual you can set your own load bar images, so just make them all white too same as the logo.
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I don’t have the answer but whenever I see a fast loading, it gives me the feeling my computer is good, so loading bar do not disturb me personally.
Yah I found the section in the user manual, thanks 
Turns out the image can only be changed with Unity Pro so I guess I’ll have to leave it there for now or find some other trickery to deal with it.