I’m in the making of a wrapper for the awesomium library. So far I’m getting decent perfomance results and I think this wrapper could be useful in creating an in-game browser for Unity.
The project is still under development but so far the following is working.
I think there is already a showcase thread about integrating Awesomium into Unity. The big problem is the licensing on it is not very friendly to Indy shops, so a wrapper for Berkelium (http://www.sirikata.com/blog/?p=115) was being worked on. It seems to work pretty well, except for handling dirty rects and scrolling (last time I looked anyways).
If you are pretty proficient, you may want to search for the Berkelium thread and see if you can move that project forward.
I would also encourage this approach, unless there’s really an advantage to using this commercial library over the existing Berkelium integration project. I would personally prefer to use a free and open source library than a commercial one, assuming their feature set is comparable.
You’re going to hell, just like the guy that immediately suggesting this upon seeing the Berkellium browser in Unity. Is this really the first thing you think of when you see something as awesome as an in-game browser? If so, there are much easier ways to do this than embedding an entire HTTP rendering engine inside a game.
Considering my admob game is financing my real game and its free, well… yeah I advocate ingame advertising. I think its pretty cool. The problem is people don’t want to pay for jack. Where does that leave food on my table?
Flash is good and all, but I would live to see the Unity in game browser support Unity as well =P
(just imaging, a game in side of a game in side of a game)
Haha someone had to think of it. But chrome isn’t far away from supporting native unity… We could end up with a 2 mirror effect endlessly repeating unity till it crashes.
Or perhaps make a game where the point is to get as many games within a game opened before your browsers (or computer) crashes. It could be a new standard to test computer power!
Sounds like an OS conflict.
Back to the browser, I could see some great use for this, perhaps allowing the player to have a game guide (or console codes for the modders out there) open in their game. I know quite a few people who could use this (including myself)
Make a good game and people will pay for it. I can’t imagine that shoving adverts into a poor game is a good way to fund yourself, but if it’s working for you then hey, that’s great.
And of course the game itself would be running inside a virtual machine inside a virtual machine inside a virtual machine inside YOUR MIND ARGH!
You could do all sorts of “fourth wall” breaking stuff with this (or the free and open source version that’s already been mentioned), such as having account management and news for your game in there, or create some kind of puzzle game involving following a trail through web sites, or the sort of metagame mentioned above, or even just a fancy web browser in a virtual office, etc. Any kind of craziness you can dream up.
Or yeah, you could spam adverts and popups with it.
Are there any known osx options available?
I know there is one for the iPhone and a few for Windows, but the OSX one stopped working in U3 so now I am wondering:
“How can we do this on a Mac?”
p.s. the whole copy pixels thing, fine, but clickable… oh the drooling mouth that is mine…
Any ideas?
I am not 100% positive this is what is wrong, but if you are running windows xp, and the code was written on windows vista, then some directory conflicts could be present.
If this is the case, some code that detects the os will fix the problem (I think).
This complicates things a little bit. I do not know if the same method used at this time would work on a mac, or if it needs to be recoded.
Licensing is the reason I abandoned my Awesomium integration.
Check out the Berkelium thread as it does the same thing (built on same platform, Chromium wrapper) and does not have the same limiting license.
Someone implemented the mac version of the Berkelium wrapper. Just have a look at the end of the thread. I still don’t have even the slightest amount of time to spare working on the project, but it is supposed to work great. Thanks for anyone putting their effort in it. If I can remember correctly, someone even implemented scrolling support too.
By the way, I have to admit that Awesomium is a much cleaner library than Berkelium; which is not that weird since the guy creating it makes a living out of it. Especially the javascript integration works very well. I only implemented basic javascript integration into the Berkelium wrapper, but it does work. I worked with Awesomium at my day job until they decided to commercialize it (which, don’t get me wrong, can be a good choice if that means that the quality improves a lot). Berkelium is just another option for projects that need a more open license.
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