importing video into unity 3d gui?

Unity Engine
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may i ask how to import/embed video into unity 3d gui? it seems i am unable to do so.

Appreciate if anyone would be able to help!!! :slight_smile:

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I know for a fact that you can use Quicktime movies as textures on 3D objects but I’m not too sure about using them in the GUI. You could always place a plane in front of the camera and place the movie on that.

As for importing, you just go to Assets/Import New Asset

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I know you won’t be able to do it unless you have Unity Pro. (I don’t have Unity Pro myself, so I have no idea if it works on GUIs.)

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Someone else mentioned no movies in indie, but I thought that it was only render to texture that wasn’t available in indie, not movietexture too?

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There are no movies in the free unity, its unity pro, cause MovieTextures are a pro only feature and thats the only form of movie support

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Ahh, you’re right. My bad! I could have sworn the indie version could do it, something I read on the answers board I think. Ah well, it’s early, not had my coffee yet. :slight_smile:

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Do these movie textures work for unity ios pro too?

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No, mobile has no movietexture support only fullscreen movie (iOS only supports hw accelerated movies with its player, not general playback acceleration and without it you won’t have much game left running as the cpu has to handle the movie especially with theora movie format)